History Books and Publications

Coming in 2025 Swanage Railway (Heritage Guide) provides a guide to the heritage railway and the history of the region, highlighting attractions and destinations for railway visitors to explore nearby.

Available now: The Wantage Tramway (Pen and Sword Books).    

This compelling new history of the unique Wantage Tramway delves into company archives and uncovers the story of the company, its people and its close relationship with the Great Western Railway. 

Available now: A History of British Rail Engineering Limited (Pen and Sword Books).  A new book on one of Britain's biggest and shortest-lived engineering companies.  Provides new insights from recently released official documents and company records. 

Mud! The common perception of the First World War is of mud, foetid shell holes, broken remains of trees and villages, soldiers wading up to their knees in water in trenches, or climbing out to go ‘over the top’ and walk into hails of machine gun fire. If this was true, how did ‘Tommy’ get time to play football?  

Avro Lancaster (2015) Osprey Publishing.  This book tells the story of the iconic Lancaster in full, providing a comprehensive account of the design, development and operational history of the aircraft and its evolution into successor aircraft.