Author: Ken Gibbs

The nineteenth century was a time of innovation and expansion across the industrial landscape, and nowhere more so than on the railways, as the new age of iron, steel and steam, literally, gathered p …

Self-propelled carriages were a major innovation at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the GWR was quick to develop a large number of steam motor cars to link farms and scattered villages ac …

Books on railway history invariably start with the Stephenson’s or with Richard Trevithick’s locomotive of 1804., but the story begins much earlier with the development of steam engines for pumping o …

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was founded in 1833 and would connect London to the West. It was engineered by the famous Isambard Kingdom Brunel and was known to many as ‘God’s Wonderful Railway’. H …