Michael Portillo has now made two series of 'Great British Railway Journeys', which have aired to great acclaim in BBC2's early-evening slot. In each episode Portillo takes a train journey, looking at places along the route, and he uses as his guide 'Bradshaw's Tourist Handbook', a pioneering guidebook for travellers published in 1866.

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The sequel to 'On the Slow Train', Michael Williams takes the reader back to another era, when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next. He again demonstrates that there are still places in Britain where we can stop, stare and appreciate the romance of rail travel.

Taking the reader back to another era, when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, 'On the Slow Train' demonstrates that there are still places in Britain where we can stop, stare and appreciate the romance of rail travel.

Paul Atterbury has a wealth of memories and stories about the many railway journeys he has taken in Britain, which are shared in this wonderfully nostalgic book. The text and captions will provide Paul's personal response to the wide range of photographs and ephemera that make Paul's titles so popular.

Michael Portillo has presented ten seasons of this ever-popular show on BBC Two, covering every part of the existing train network in Britain, as well as others that were closed as a result of the Beeching Report in 1963. Across a decade of these journeys, Michael has discovered the historical and cultural past of every corner of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, giving railway fans a unique insight into our shared past of train travel...

Set in the 1850s when rail travel took off, this title, written by Edward Marston, also chronicles the new crimes it inspired.

The year is 1855, and on the LNWR train to London, a criminal is being escorted to his appointment with the hangman. But the wily Jeremy Oxley, conman, thief and murderer, has one last ace up his sleeve: a beautiful and ruthless accomplice willing to do anything to save her lover, including committing cold-blooded murder ... When Inspector Robert Colbeck learns that Oxley, his nemesis, has once again escaped, black memories of their shared past leave...

1858. The driver and fireman of a goods train are speeding along near the Scottish border. As they take a sharp bend, they can see that the track ahead has been ripped up. There is no way to avert disaster. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are sent north to investigate.

Young Imogen Burnhope and her maid Rhoda board a non-stop train to Oxford to visit her Aunt Cassandra, who waits on the platform at Oxford station where the train terminates, to greet them. Only they never arrive. The train is searched and the coachman swears he saw them board a first-class carriage, but they seem to have vanished into thin air. When he learns his daughter is missing, Sir Marcus Burnhope contacts Scotland Yard for help and Inspector...