A wide-ranging collection of essays from new and established voices writing about nature, environment, conservation, biodiversity and the challenges that London faces to protect green spaces from urban development as well as the drive towards rewilding.
Fascinating previously unpublished images of railways built by British companies with British locomotives, rolling stock and other infrastructure. This volume focuses on Africa.
Examining the tremendous influence of Great Britain on the railways of the Middle East, with a wealth of unpublished images.
Marking the fortieth anniversary of the Tyne & Wear Metro, an icon of Newcastle and Tyneside's railway and public transport network, Colin Alexander celebrates its fascinating past, present and future.
Colin Alexander looks at the interwar period, a high-water mark in industrial design as the benefits of streamlining were realised.
We English, supposedly cold and unemotional, are helplessly in love with nature. We fell in love two hundred years ago and, since then, have been on a wild roller-coaster ride through escapism, romanticism, art, animal cruelty, conservation, birdwatching, the back-to-nature movement and much more. Today we live with pets, gardening, wildlife documentaries and smartphone apps. The English Love Affair with Nature tells the story of this extraordinarily long, tangled and passionate romance, how we fell in love, and why we are still mad about nature.
A pictorial tour of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
Colin Alexander examines the variety of stock on Tyneside's railways during the 1970s and 1980s. Including the railways and trains of Newcastle.
A wonderful collection of photographs showing the last years of the Deltics, their retirement from service and preservation.
Colin Alexander takes the reader on a delightfully nostalgic cross-country trip by rail in the 1980s.