Highland Railways
Highland Railways

Author: Mike Wedgewood

Publisher: Britain's Railways

Published: 2022-05-30

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781913870942

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Set against a backdrop of Scotland's Highlands, this book illustrates the area's fascinating passenger and freight trains, railway infrastructure, stations and signalling over a 40-year period. This volume includes over 180 historic photographs, most of which have never been published before.

The Oxford Companion to British Railway History from 1603 to the 1990s
The Oxford Companion to British Railway History from 1603 to the 1990s

Author: Jack Simmons

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13:

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This is the first encyclopedia to chart the progress of Britain's railway development. It begins with primitive 17th-century wagonways, fully considers the eras of horse, steam, diesel, and electric traction, and then charts the change from private to public ownership. Finally, it describes in detail the privatizations of the late 1990s. Over six hundred entries by eighty-eight expert contributors provide a comprehensive and unique reference to all aspects of railways.

Scottish Region
Scottish Region

Author: A. J. Mullay

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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For half a century from 1948, Scotland's railway system was operated, for the first time, as a complete administrative unit - but also as part of a nationalised system for the whole of the UK. Scottish Region soon developed its own character, with its own problems and potential. Yet it suffered the same fate as the rest of the system - lack of modernisation in the first ten years, the later supply of Diesel and electric traction equipment which was not properly tested, the Beeching axe and the asset stripping prior to privitisation. This is the first ever history of Scotland's BR.