Explore richly rewarding and nostalgic photographs of the heyday of steam on Britain's industrial railways.

The first steam locomotives used on any British railway, worked in industry. The use of new and second hand former main line locomotives, was once a widespread

The author, Fred Kerr, was introduced to the world of industrial railways in 1956 when his parents moved from Edinburgh to Corby in Northamptonshire, where the

"The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire I

Over the last 2,000 years, critical innovations have transformed small regions into global powers. But these powers have faded when they did not embrace the nex