The Longacre book of Trains.

Contents: Early Iron Railways; Colliery Railways; The Stockton and Darlington Railway; Early Railways in Europe; Pioneers in the New World; The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; The Rainhill Trials; The Liverpool and Manchester Railway; Locomotive and Carriage Design; The Great Trunk Lines; The Royal Mail; London’s First Railway; Brunel and the G.W.R.; Royal Travel; Railway Mania; New Lines and Locomotives; American Railways Expand; A Trans-continental Railway; Underground and Electric Railways; Great Steam Locomotives; The Railway Across Canada; The Electric Tube; The Golden Age of Steam; The Railway Races; The Trans-Siberian Railway; Railways in Wartime; The Big Four in Britain; Southern Electric; Between the Wars; High Speed Records; The Passing of Steam; Diesel and Electric Trains; Modern Underground Railways; Freight Trains; Mountain Railways; Railway Architecture; Signalling and Track Control; Modern Railways; The Future for Railways;