100 selected walks across the length and breadth of Britain's lost railway lines. Each walk includes a short history of the railway before it closed, a descript

The beautifully restored St Pancras Station is a magisterial example of Britain’s finest Victorian architecture. Like the viaducts at Belah and Crumlin, cathe

The drastic railway closures of the 1960s led to the slow decay and re-purposing of hundreds of miles of railway infrastructure. Though these buildings and appa

In the preface the authors describe their approach, 'In examining the social history of railway stations we were concerned to treat them not as inanimate object