Mortons Media Group is delighted to announce its acquisition of renowned rail, maritime, road transport and biography book publisher Silver Link Publishing.
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Category: Reviews
VIDEO: Unboxing Hornby’s Harry Potter modelling collection
Harry Potter continues to captivate one generation after another and now Hornby has created its own little piece of magic for fans.
Read moreNarrow Gauge In The Somme Sector before, during and after the First World War
By Martin JB Farebrother & Joan S Farebrother (hardback, Pen & Sword, 256pp £40, ISBN 1473887631). A timely publication indeed in view of the debut of a restored First World War Baldwin 4-6-0T and a
Read moreUnboxing of Hornby’s King George VI and Duchess of Hamilton
Here’s the latest unboxing of Hornby’s LMS Princess Class Locomotives, the Duchess of Hamilton and King George VI.
Read moreCohen’s: A Northamptonshire railway graveyard
The volume looks at one of the scrapyards which, sadly, locomotives did not get away to start a new life.
Read moreBritain’s Railways in Wartime:The Nation’s Lifeline
By Anthony Lambert (hardback, Historic England/The Railway Heritage Trust, 216pp, £25, ISBN 978 1 84802 482 3) Here is a seminal reference work documenting one of the major, yet often overlooked tools of modern warfare,
Read moreEngland’s Railway Heritage from the Air
By Peter Waller (hardback, Historic England, 302pp, £35, ISBN 978 1 84802 4762). BACK in the steam era, it was often said that the stationmaster of a city’s main railway station was as important as
Read moreBarry: Its Railway & Port before and after Woodham’s scrapyard
By John Hodge (hardback, Pen & Sword, 200pp, £30, ISBN 1526723832 The name Barry is synonymous with railway preservation. It was the home of the world’s most famous railway scrapyard, where owner Dai Woodham, unique
Read moreOn the Iron Road to the Isles: The story of the ‘Jacobite’ steam service on the West Highland Line
By John Hunt and James Shuttleworth (hardback, The Nostalgia Collection, The Trundle, Ringstead Road, Great Addington, Kettering, Northants NN14 4BW, tel: 01536 330588, 208pp, £45, ISBN 978 1 85794 536 2). When it comes to
Read moreThe decline and fall of the Westerham Railway: A Prelude to Beeching
By Ron Strutt (hardback, Crecy, 208pp, £24.95, ISBN 978 1 90932 847 1). Here is a railway book that in so many ways is unlike anything that has gone before. It is now nearly 70
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