Railways & Trains

Scottish Scenic Routes - An illustrated 1985 Ian Allan railway publication by Michael Harris exploring Scotland's spectacular scenic railway routes. Featuring the beautiful Highland railway landscape, British Rail-era diesel traction and historic…

How to Drive a Steam Locomotive - A fascinating illustrated guide to operating steam locomotives by renowned railway author Brian Hollingsworth. This vintage Penguin paperback explains locomotive controls, steam power, railway signalling…

Steam in the Western Highlands - A beautifully illustrated 1978 first edition hardcover edited by Jack Kernahan, documenting steam locomotives and historic railway operations in Scotland's Western Highlands. Features approximately 120 black-and-white…

The Deltic Locomotives of British Rail - An illustrated 1982 study of the legendary British Rail Deltic diesel-electric locomotives by renowned railway historian Brian Webb. Covers the pioneering DP1 prototype, Class 23…

Yesterday’s Railways – Peter Herring’s nostalgic look back at Britain’s age of steam, from the great express trains and grand stations to the trainspotters, holiday crowds and country branch lines. A large-format…

The Scottish Railway Book – John Thomas’s 1977 hardcover from David & Charles, a readable history of railways north of the border, from the early steam companies to the electric era. Pictorial…

Two Miles a Minute – O. S. Nock’s 1980 hardcover from Patrick Stephens, telling the story behind British Rail’s High Speed Train (HST) and Advanced Passenger Train (APT), with a foreword by…

Gretna: Britain’s Worst Railway Disaster (1915) – John Thomas’s 1969 David & Charles hardcover, the first full-length account of the Quintinshill collision, in which a troop train carrying men of the 7th…

London’s Underground – H. F. Howson’s history of the London Underground, in the 1986 Ian Allan edition, tracing the network from the smoky steam days of the first lines to the electric…

A collectable 1945 first edition of O. S. Nock's first published book, examining the legendary steam locomotive designs of Sir Nigel Gresley. Illustrated with historical railway photographs and technical drawings, and featuring…

British Railway Signalling – The fourth edition (1978) of G. M. Kichenside and Alan Williams’s standard Ian Allan guide to how British railway signalling works, from semaphores and signalboxes to colour-light signals,…

Steam Supreme – R. D. Stephen’s first-hand recollections of Scottish railways in the 1920s, published by D. Bradford Barton of Truro. Covers the Caledonian, Highland, Great North of Scotland and Glasgow &…

The Last Days of Steam in the Scottish Highlands – D. Fereday Glenn’s 1991 Alan Sutton hardcover, a photographic album capturing the final years of steam on the Highland lines, from the…

Profile of the Deltics – A 1980 Oxford Publishing Co. hardcover in the OPC Profile Series by J. S. Whiteley and G. W. Morrison, a photographic album of the famous Class 55…

Trains Around the World - A richly illustrated 1972 hardcover exploring the history and development of trains and railways around the world. Featuring steam, diesel and electric locomotives, international railway history and…

The Steam Locomotive - A beautifully illustrated 1980 first English edition exploring the history and development of steam locomotives worldwide. Written by Luciano Greggio, with approximately 300 colour drawings and an extensive…

LNER Locomotive Development - A fascinating 1974 first edition hardcover exploring the development of London and North Eastern Railway steam locomotives from 1911 to 1947, with earlier historical background dating to 1850.…

ABC of LMS Locomotives 1943 - A collectible 1983 reprint of the classic 1943 ABC of LMS Locomotives by Ian Allan and A. B. MacLeod, extensively illustrated with locomotive photographs, diagrams and…

The British Railway Locomotive - Attractive 1962 reprint of G. F. Westcott’s pictorial history of the first fifty years of the British steam railway locomotive. Features 14 pages of historical text followed…

A superior-condition South African Railways Handbook from the steam era, complete with acknowledgement page and clean covers—an increasingly scarce survival from the working railway environment.