Trains & Railways

Discover 200 amazing train journeys around the world to inspire your next big adventure! 

From Adventures on Trains author and British Book Award winner Sam Sedgman comes a beautiful and fact-filled book encapsulating the excitement and wonder of adventure and travel – all seen through the world's most epic train journeys. AGE 7+

This wonderful publication provides a unique visual and historical record of the West Cork Railway as rail enthusiast and historian Chris Larkin warmly remembers the lifetime of the rail system in a travelogue which allows readers to hop onto a West Cork train and savour the journey of a bygone era.

We take it for granted that the streets outside out homes are designed for movement from A to B, nothing more. But what happens if we radically rethink how we use these public spaces? 

Discover More Than 100 Historic Lines

Journeys Along Britain's Heritage Railways. After the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, many railways were gradually shut down.

Celebrating the greatest journeys from the BBC's beloved railway travel series

Living in the middle of the country enabled young Alan to visit a number of British Railways regions.

It is now over a decade since the much-loved Great British Railway Journeys series set off on its incredible run discovering the cultural, social and engineering landscape of the United Kingdom through the prism of George Bradshaw's Handbook to rail travel.

Discover how to explore our beautiful world sustainably and responsibly with this trailblazing guide to flight-free travel. Seeking options that are enjoyable and kind to the planet, award-winning travel writer Emma Gregg shows you how to get a no-fly holiday off the ground. The Flightless Traveller presents 50 inspirational, life-affirming trip ideas for those who would like to fly less, or not at all.

Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes.

The Guinness brewery in Dublin expanded rapidly in the 1870s as the world couldn’t get enough of its ruby red gold (it might look black but that’s an illusion).

This glorious visual celebration of train travel keeps you on the right track with stop-offs at the most important and incredible rail routes from all over the world. More than 400 of the world's best, greatest and latest trains. A perfect gift for train enthusiasts of all ages.

A new edition of Dr EM Patterson's first volume on the history of the narrow-gauge railways of North-West Ireland, originally published in 1962

During Father Browne's long life a revolution took place in the realm of transportation. After ships, his preference was for trains. Most of the photographs in this book were taken in Ireland during the 1930s.

Featuring hundreds of previously unpublished photographs, this book covers the main-line steam locos of BR and the 'Big Four' - GWR, SR, LMS and LNER - and their predecessors.

A fascinating account of how the Great Southern Railways was the main transport provider during the Emergency. It challenges the notion that the system was in a state of chaos.

2010 1st Edition Hardback

The Great Northern Railway maintained an independent existence for 77 years, much of that time prosperously established as the second largest and certainly most enterprising of the Irish railways.

A fascinating diversity characterises the railways of the Irish South Western region.

The remote and beautiful county of Donegal provides the back-drop for this history of railway building and decline in the late 19th and early 20th centuries