This is the story of the Great Central Railway, the only double track preserved steam railway in Britain, and which is now embarking on a major project to become the world's only inter city heritage line. The bookazine looks at the formation of the original Great Central Railway, which in1899 built the last major trunk railway in Britain before the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. The Great Central connected the cities of Manchester, Sheffield and London, with a terminus at Marylebone. It was part of a grand scheme to link late Victorian Britain with the continent.
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This comprehensive 132 page full colour, perfect bound 'bookazine' is the third in the popular British Steam series. It contains an evocative mix of specially commissioned modern steam images and steam era archive pictures, the majority of which have...
The complete story of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's great railway workshops from the first steam locomotive to be built at Swindon to the last to leave. Swindon became the centre of world transport technology for several decades and helped shaped modern Britain...
Here is the story not only of Britain's worst railway disasters, from the dawn of the steam age to the present, but how many vital lessons were learned from each of them.Harrow & Wealdstone, Hither Green, Ladbroke Grove, Southall, Quintinshill, the Tay...
