Railways

Julian Holland is passionate about railways and has expressed this as a photographer, author and creative book director. Julian has written a number of bestselling railway books. Julian lives in Glastonbury in Somerset.

1 Introduction 7

2 Crash! 'A Local Train of Thought' by Siegfried Sassoon 12

3 'A Local Train of Thought' by Siegfried Sassoon 15

4 An Eccentric Railway Empire 16

5 'To a Great Western Broad Gauge Engine and its Stoker' by Horatio Brown 21

6 A Bridge Too Far 22

7 How Rats Ruined a Railway 24

8 Birth and Death of a Railway 26

9 'The Railway Junction' by Walter de la Mare 29

10 Find Your Local Shed Code! 30

11 Battle of the Gauges 34

12 Famous Locomotive Engineers 36

13 'From a Railway Carriage' by Robert Louis Stevenson 37

14 Famous Locomotive Engineers 38

15 Faster and Faster 42

16 British Rail Speed Records 43

17 The Last Main Line 44

18 Famous Locomotive Designers 46

19 Warships and Westerns 48

20 Dr Beeching, I Presume! 52

21 On Shed, 7th April 1963 54

22 Fair Exchange 56

23 Small is Beautiful 60

24 Up in the Clouds 62

25 We Never Closed 64

26 British Standard Gauge Passenger-Carrying Heritage Railways 66

27 120 Into 4 = The Big Four 70

28 4 Into 1 = BR 74

29 Narrow Gauge Adventure 76

30 A Right Royal Railway 80

31 The Dockers' Umbrella 82

32 The Streakers 84

33 'King's Cross Station' by GK Chesterton 87

34 Mr Bradshaw - Friend of the Railway Traveller 88

35 A Quick Snog in the Back Row 90

36 What a Wind-up! 92

37 Island Railways 94

38 'The Send-off' by Wilfred Owen 101

39 A Railway Institution 102

40 Once There Were Only Fields 104

41 Working for 'The Firm' 106

42 What a Bore! 108

43 From Gunboats to Corpses 110

44 Gee up! 112

45 Along Strange Lines 114

46 Cliffhangers 118

47 Smile Please! 120

48 What's in a Name? 124

49 Index 126