"Overall, this is a decent introduction..."
Friends of the National Railway Museum Review - Spring 2026
"Overall, this is a decent introduction..."
Friends of the National Railway Museum Review - Spring 2026
"This bumper guide by Richard Marks takes you on a different journey, incorporating many of the books written into one..."
Branch Line News
"This bumper guide by Richard Marks takes you on a different journey, incorporating many of the books written into one..."
Branch Line News
I am pleased to review this book because it embraces an aspect of railway history and development which has often been ignored by other railway authors. The style of stations often reflected local architecture or, as railways developed, a particular Company style and wealth. Or in some cases a Company's relative poverty resulting in very modest stations.
Railway stations have a story to tell and Richard Marks has used his book to tell that story. Indeed, Richard's book includes a variety of stories ranging from the architectural majesty of terminal stations, often combined with a splendid hotel, to the very basic "halt" on some branch railways.
I hope Richard's book, and its many illustrations, will encourage travellers to look around them when waiting for a train!
Rob Shorland-Ball - Author
I am pleased to review this book because it embraces an aspect of railway history and development which has often been ignored by other railway authors. The style of stations often reflected local architecture or, as railways developed, a particular Company style and wealth. Or in some cases a Company's relative poverty resulting in very modest stations.
Railway stations have a story to tell and Richard Marks has used his book to tell that story. Indeed, Richard's book includes a variety of stories ranging from the architectural majesty of terminal stations, often combined with a splendid hotel, to the very basic "halt" on some branch railways.
I hope Richard's book, and its many illustrations, will encourage travellers to look around them when waiting for a train!
Rob Shorland-Ball - Author
"An excellent book reviewing the passing railway scene and its operations through many, sometimes difficult, periods."
The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society, The Railway Observer - February 2026, Volume 96, Number 1164
"An excellent book reviewing the passing railway scene and its operations through many, sometimes difficult, periods."
The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society, The Railway Observer - February 2026, Volume 96, Number 1164
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A Postcard History of the Passenger Liner
From around 1880 for almost 100 years shipowners commissioned a wealth of paintings that depicted, as well as their magnificent liners, the routes they travelled, their exotic destinations, and life on board. These paintings, rich in imagination and atmosphere, appeared on posters and postcards to advertise the companies and their ships; and so was… Read more...
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A Century of Sea Travel
This book is a voyage through the life of the passenger steamship, a voyage described by travellers who sailed on these vessels, and it carries within it their thoughts and experiences, mirrored here in words and pictures. The pictures are memories of ships and places in times gone by, glimpses of steamship travel through the years. In memoirs and… Read more...
