The preserved Dean Forest Railway, occupying 4 miles of the once extensive railway network in the Forest, celebrates 40 years of operation in 2010, & to mark the event this copiously illustrated souvenir volume has been compiled by the DFR Museum Trust. ...

Examines the technological systems & nation building in railway history, as well as themes such as mobility & identity, design & marketing, & ecology, heritage & sustainability. This title focuses on how the railway carries meaning for all of us. It sees railways as central to our understanding modern everyday life. ...

Made-for-television film adaptation of Edith Nesbit' s classic novel. When their father (Michael Kitchen) is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying, young Bobbie, Peter & Phyllis are forced to move to Yorkshire with their mother (Jenny Agutter, who played Bobbie in the 1971 film version). The local railway provides a useful focus for them, & they strike up a friendship with an elderly gentleman (Richard Attenborough) who vows to help them prove their father's innocence. ...

This adaptation of E. Nesbit's children's classic follows the fortunes of a group of Edwardian children whose father is wrongly jailed for treason. Exiled with their mother to a life of genteel poverty on the Yorkshire Moors, they are soon drawn to the railway at the bottom of the garden, & all kinds of adventures. ...