By Gordon Edgar GORDON Edgar’s series exploring the nation’s industrial railways and systems of Britain continues with this latest volume focusing on the region often
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Category: Reviews
Narrow Gauge In The Somme Sector before, during and after the First World War
By Martin JB Farebrother & Joan S Farebrother (hardback, Pen & Sword, 256pp £40, ISBN 1473887631). A timely publication indeed in view of the debut
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Leicestershire’s Lost Railways
By Neil Burgess A NUMBER of rail routes and stations throughout Leicestershire were lost to the ‘Beeching Axe’, but some of the more rural lines
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Unboxing of Hornby’s King George VI and Duchess of Hamilton
Here’s the latest unboxing of Hornby’s LMS Princess Class Locomotives, the Duchess of Hamilton and King George VI.
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THE KING’S CROSS STORY 200 YEARS OF HISTORY IN THE RAILWAY LANDS
By Peter Darley THIS is a superb book. Peter Darley tells the story of the Great Northern’s King’s Cross station and the extensive nearby ‘Railway
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Cohen’s: A Northamptonshire railway graveyard
The volume looks at one of the scrapyards which, sadly, locomotives did not get away to start a new life.
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Specialist in model railways: Frome Model Centre
Specialist in Model railways from N to Garden Rail, We have you covered. Frome Model centre was established in 1986 run by the same family
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FLYING SCOTSMAN Print
There are many superb images of Flying Scotsman, be they watercolours, photographs or models, but this one is special. Painted in 1975 by renowned artist
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Grouping Britain’s Railways: Creating the ‘Big Four’ in 1923
By A J Mullay DESPITE being one of the most significant events in the history of Britain’s railways, surprisingly little has been written about the
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