📚 Railways

The spine of the steam age: engines, lines and the companies that shrank distance, and why the railway shaped modern time and travel.

Below are the 20 works carrying the subject railroads in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Railroad accident report	United States. National Transportation Safety Board.	1975	136
	You Never Can Tell	George Bernard Shaw	1906	36
	The Great Railway Bazaar	Paul Theroux	1975	35
	Ghost Train to the Eastern Star	Paul Theroux	2007	13
	Nothing Like It In The World	Stephen E. Ambrose	2000	11
	Trains	Gail Gibbons	1987	6
	Little engines and big men	Gilbert A. Lathrop	1954	3
	Track planning for realistic operation	John H. Armstrong	1963	3
	Around India in 80 trains	Monisha Rajesh	2012	3
	Indian Railways, transportation management	Vinod Pal	2000	2
	Fifty years of railways in Malaya, 1885-1935	Federated Malay States Railways.	1935	1
	Kereta api Indonesia	Indonesia. Departemen Penerangan	1978	1
	The railroad, what it is, what it does	John H. Armstrong	1978	1
	Building an HO model railroad with personality	Olson, John	1983	1
	Sejarah Keretapi di Malaysia	M. A. Fawzi Mohd. Basri	1985	1
	Repair manual for Marx "O" gauge electric locomotives and accessories	Julio del Castillo	1994	1
	The Directory of Railway Stations	R. V. J. Butt	1995	1
	Railway signalling & interlocking	Enrico Anders	2009	1
	Trains	Lynn Curlee	2009	1
	Q & A basic concepts in railway signalling	Unknown author	2010	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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