Gordon Edgar explores the industrial and minor railways of the Midlands.

Gordon Edgar explores the industrial and minor railways of London and Eastern England.

Primarily utilising previously unpublished photographs, Gordon Edgar explores the industrial and minor railways of North East England.

Rob Shorland-Ball's researches for this book, and several visits, convinced him that he was putting together a jigsaw of facts. No previously published account of the area have brought together these stories of iron & steel making, limestone quarrying, coal mining, terra cotta, lead mining, and the railway systems they all needed to move their products to market. There were narrow and standard gauge railways – 80 miles of tracks in the Shotton Steel Works; industrial sites like Brymbo Iron and Steel Works; and since 2003 the Airbus factory which makes 100ft long wings for Airbus 380s that are too long to be moved by rail! A jigsaw indeed and this books puts together the pieces.

Gordon Edgar explores the industrial and minor railways of Cumberland and Westmorland.

The very first railways were built by British industry, and at their height private industrial railways could be found all over Britain, moving mined and quarried raw materials, finished goods and much else. This is their story.