Category: Reviews

By Gordon Edgar WITH this book Gordon Edgar continues his growing series of pictorial studies that record myriad industrial railway systems of all gauges that were once so common in Great Britain. This latest volume

PASSENGERS No More has been used as the definitive reference guide to closed lines and stations for many years, but for the first time, comprehensive maps, along with the list of closed passenger stations and

By Chris Booth THIS excellent publication is Volume 2 of a projected comprehensive three-volume work on the LD & ECR. Volume 1 was published in 2017 and the third volume will focus mainly on The

By Tim Hillier-Graves THE latest in Pen & Sword’s Locomotive Portfolios series takes an in-depth look at one of the more successful experimental steam locomotives seen on British metals – the LMS ‘Turbomotive’. Unlike the

by Pip Dunn OVER the years there have been many reference books listing locomotive and rolling stock fleets, starting most famously with Ian Allan’s ‘ABC’ guides. Crecy Publishing, which now owns the former Ian Allan

BOOKS Southern Steam Days Remembered II By Kevin Derrick IT SEEMS hard to believe it is now half a century since steam operations ceased on British Railway’s Southern Region. This lavishly produced limited edition photographic

By B W L Brooksbank and Peter Tuffrey THIS is a condensed softback version of a book produced by Ben Brooksbank 20 years ago, and has the added attraction of several new photographs. As an

IN PASSENGER terms, Britain has the fastest-growing railway in Europe, and although the damage caused to the physical network by the Beeching cuts of the 1960s can never be rectified, huge strides have been made