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‘The Trains Now Departed’. Thrilled with title of my latest book to be published by @PenguinRandomUK on May 7 2015

My article in the Daily Mail, October 9 2014   THE crush is suffocating. All five of my senses are being bombarded, from the overpowering stench of my fellow commuter’s breath barely inches away (chicken balti was on the menu last night, I deduce) to the tannoy announcements, played on a torturous endless loop, urging […]

See me talking about my research for Steaming to Victory on a super new DVD free with the new October issue of the Railway Magazine and filmed at the Great Central Railway.

    On this week’s 75th anniversary of the start of WW2, let’s not forget the words of Winston Churchill, as victory neared, about the “grim determination, unwavering courage and constant resourcefulness of the railwaymen of all ranks” – without whom the war could not have been won. This great story of heroism in my […]

Here, without comment, is a lovely recent review of Steaming to Victory on Amazon:http://amzn.to/1gTNP3B 5.0 out of 5 stars A Riveting Read, 9 July 2014 By Imelda “Imelda” (a village in Berkshire) – See all my reviews Verified Purchase(What is this?) This review is from: Steaming to Victory: How Britain’s Railways Won the War (Kindle Edition) How I loved this […]

I’m just back from writing the latest chapter for my new book on the cherished icons of our railways and why they run so deep in the British psyche. It’s to be published by Penguin Random House in Spring 2015. Yesterday I was on the legendary Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, closed in the 1930s, but […]

Filming this week with Michael Portillo for his new BBC2 series of Great British Railway Journeys, to be screened in the spring. We’re at Knottingley in Yorkshire here, where we took one of the very rare trains from Leeds to Goole http://bit.ly/1tlZEPZ

“Fresh and accessible. Make you feel you were there”. Another nice review – from the  railways and war commemorative issue of the Railway Magazine – Britain’s best-selling railway publication