Book Reviews - RailAdvent

Book Review: Devon Metro: The County’s Railways Since 2011 by Andrew Bartlett

This book examines how Devon’s main and branch lines could become a rapid-transit-style rail network, as envisaged by Devon County Council in 2011.

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This book covers a wide variety of steam and heritage railway sites and museums throughout the western USA and Connecticut in the east.

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Class 43 Locomotives in Scotland illustrates their use on services throughout the country since their debut in the late 1970s.

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This book presents stunning photographs and informative captions of the parts of the Tanfield Waggonway preserved as a heritage railway.

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This book describes the rise of the area alongside the Metropolitan Railway known as Metro-land, which was made famous by Sir John Betjeman.

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Express Diesel Trains describes the evolution of Britain’s high-speed trains from 1968, when a prototype of the familiar Class 43 HST was developed.

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This book illustrates the first ten years of the Greater Anglia franchise.

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This book describes one of Yorkshire's less desirable claims to fame, that of being the scene of more accidents than any other county in the UK.

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This book describes the many piers that could once be seen around the coast of Britain, most of which have been consigned to history.

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This book illustrates the railway between London Euston and Birmingham, from its 19th-century beginnings to the British Rail era of Rail Blue.

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