Rail Atlas 1939-1945 is designed to provide a guide to the impact of the Second World War on the railway industry, illustrating the evolution of the railway network during these years. The various lines are differentiated between those that had…
Speedlink by freight traffic expert Paul Shannon is a pictorial history of the background to the service, its development and operation before 1991, and an overview of the survival of wagon-load freight since Speedlink ceased operation. Gloriously illustrated throughout by…
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David Ratcliffe has produced an excellent reference book for modellers of the rail blue and sectorisation periods. Freight Train Formations is a well produced volume detailing trains from the mid 1970’s up to the early 1990’s. There are lots of…
Launched in 1964, with the XP64 rake of Class 48 and coaches, the era of Rail Blue was to dominate Britain’s main-line railways for almost two decades until the sectorisation of the 1980s. By the end of steam in August…
Principles of Railway Operations by John Glover is essential reading for the modeller of today’s railways and provides a first rate insight into the workings of the post privatisation railway network in Britain. Unless the modeller has a thorough understanding…