On 27 September 1825, the steam engine known as Locomotion No.1 hauled the first passenger train on the opening day of the Stockton & Darlington Railway - paving the way for modern rail travel and reshaping the British landscape for ever.

Celebrating 200 years of railway journeys, sixteen authors take a journey through personal memories, history and poetry. Join them on an adventure into the past glory of steam and engine sheds, along heritage lines and 21st century main lines, through feats of British engineering, the rise of diesel and electric, and aboard the famed Orient Express.

A glorious pocketbook of 200 years of rail travel told through memoir and verse, with photographs

'The constant clatter, a manmade steel lullaby
A gentle sway of carriages as changing landscapes rattle by ...'

Featuring Diana Alexander, James Armstrong, Caroline Bradley, Myles Cutler, Bronwen R. Evans, Asma Khan, Rebecca McDowall, Sally Mills, Jeff Nicholls, F. David Potter, Graham Powell, Margaret Royall, Stuart Samuel, Anne Swan, Tim Taylor and Julie Wiltshire