General Histories & Descriptions
AWDRY, Christopher
Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies
Invaluable reference work listing all railway companies with brief details of their history. Four chapters deal with each Big Four group constituent and a final chapter covers independents and other companies. Includes time charts for amalgamations.
BANKS, John
Railway Portraits - 90 Years of British Railway Development in Contemporary Photographs by G H F Atkins
BARMAN, Christian
Public Transport
The Things We See No. 5
Images of varied aspects of road and rail travel, produced in 1949 by the Council of Industrial Design, an entity set-up to promote British design. Interesting selection of contemporary photographs.
BARTHOLOMEW, Ed & BLAKEMORE, Michael
Railways in Focus - Photographs from the National Railway Museum Collections
Superb selection of photographs from the NRM featuring all aspects of the railways and their operation. From pre-grouping to modern times.
BIDDLE, Gordon
The Railway Surveyors
The Story of Railway Property Management 1800 - 1990
BODY, Geoffrey
The Railway Language
A collection of railway terms and expressions
Booklet of railway terminology assembled by Geoffrey Body and published by him in 1972.