Locomotion
a pocketbook celebration of 200 years of modern rail travel
Published on 21. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
108 pages
978-1-915067-75-3 (ISBN)
Description
On 27 September 1825, the steam engine known as Locomotion No.1 hauled the first passenger train on the opening day of the Stockton & Darlington Railway - paving the way for modern rail travel and reshaping the British landscape for ever.
Celebrating 200 years of railway journeys, sixteen authors take a journey through personal memories, history and poetry. Join them on an adventure into the past glory of steam and engine sheds, along heritage lines and 21st century main lines, through feats of British engineering, the rise of diesel and electric, and aboard the famed Orient Express.
A glorious pocketbook of 200 years of rail travel told through memoir and verse, with photographs
'The constant clatter, a manmade steel lullaby
A gentle sway of carriages as changing landscapes rattle by ...'
Featuring Diana Alexander, James Armstrong, Caroline
Bradley, Myles Cutler, Bronwen R. Evans, Asma Khan, Rebecca McDowall, Sally Mills,
Jeff Nicholls, F. David Potter, Graham Powell, Margaret Royall, Stuart Samuel,
Anne Swan, Tim Taylor and Julie Wiltshire
Celebrating 200 years of railway journeys, sixteen authors take a journey through personal memories, history and poetry. Join them on an adventure into the past glory of steam and engine sheds, along heritage lines and 21st century main lines, through feats of British engineering, the rise of diesel and electric, and aboard the famed Orient Express.
A glorious pocketbook of 200 years of rail travel told through memoir and verse, with photographs
'The constant clatter, a manmade steel lullaby
A gentle sway of carriages as changing landscapes rattle by ...'
Featuring Diana Alexander, James Armstrong, Caroline
Bradley, Myles Cutler, Bronwen R. Evans, Asma Khan, Rebecca McDowall, Sally Mills,
Jeff Nicholls, F. David Potter, Graham Powell, Margaret Royall, Stuart Samuel,
Anne Swan, Tim Taylor and Julie Wiltshire
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
With flaps
Illustrations
12 black and white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 169 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
116 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915067-75-3 (9781915067753)
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Persons
An anthology by sixteen authors: Diana Alexander, James Armstrong, Caroline Bradley, Myles Cutler, Bronwen R. Evans, Asma Khan, Rebecca McDowall, Sally Mills, Jeff Nicholls, F. David Potter, Graham Powell, Margaret Royall, Stuart Samuel, Anne Swan, Tim Taylor, Julie Wiltshire