The first steam locomotives used on any British railway, worked in industry. The use of new and second hand former main line locomotives, was once a widespread

The author, Fred Kerr, was introduced to the world of industrial railways in 1956 when his parents moved from Edinburgh to Corby in Northamptonshire, where the

A pictorial history of the many producers of industrial steam locomotives in Great Britain, from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The

A stunning collection of rare photographs documenting the last years of industrial steam around the world. This first volume focuses on scenes captured in the t

After WWII the existing railway companies were all put into the control of the newly formed British Transport Commission and that government organization spawne