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The Original Stories Part 1: An Inside Look

Following on from the success of the first two books, the Tale of the Unnamed Engine and Great Western Glory, we journey back to the late 1940's to experience Britain's steam railways like never before...

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The Third Book Is Here! Get Your Copy Now For This Christmas

 We are thrilled to announce that the third book in the British Railway Stories series is OUT NOW!Just in time for Christmas and the perfect gift for railway enthusiasts of any age and expertise, hurry...

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An Inside Look at the Reprinted Hardback Books

The reprinted versions of the popular British Railway Stories books really do credit to Dean Walker’s fantastic illustrations.Check out these excerpts from the two titles currently released in the...

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British Railway Stories Now On Amazon

We are excited to announce that the first two books in the British Railway Stories series are now available in revised hardback edition on Amazon with more books to follow in 2022!Both titles are...

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"The British Railway Stories returns...with new books!"

The new hardback books are now available for purchase. Tale of the Unnamed Engine and Great Western Glory.Tale of the Unnamed EngineGreat Western GloryEach book run is 5000 books. Kindle editions to...

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The End, and The Beginning: These are the stories we tell...

Major announcement:From the end of September, The British Railway Stories Ltd will begin shutting down its operations: the Facebook page and the associated group will be closed down, the original...

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Past projects - The LNER Silver Jubilee Set

I thought it would be a nice start to 2021 by looking at a past project, which was a conversion of some Hornby coaches and a Railroad Silver Fox model into a working set of the LNER's Silver Jubilee...

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"Updates in progress...2"

 Hi all,Just a heads up that we will be updating the BRWS site (finally!) over the next three months.Dean, our artist, has been full steam ahead with the illustrations for Great Western Glory, and we...

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"Updates in progress"

We're currently in the process of re-designing www.britishrailwaystories.com including a new shop in which to purchase books 1 and 2.Please bear with us as this may take a few days.Best wishesSimon...

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The Biggest Little Railway - Simon's view behind the camera! Part 1

It started with a tweet. "Simon, have you seen this? It was on an advert at Model Rail Scotland".I was in an industry I didn't believe in (financial services), every day was the same, and there was...

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The British Railway Stories - Green Harvest (Test Footage Dec 2017)

Some test footage showcasing a few of the new faces for The British Railway Stories on YouTube. Three of our favourite characters feature. One smug, one green, one very tired!Simon

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"The big 3-0"

So today was my thirtieth birthday. It was superb. Full of lovely messages from old and new friends, family and followers.I'm so grateful for the people in my life. One thing I can say categorically is...

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Charlton Athletic: 25 years

Today I stopped in at the Valley, home of my football love of my life, Charlton Athletic.Regular readers to these pages and to my twitter feed will know I have not been happy at the Valley for the last...

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"Of model railways and petrolheads"

Life really does throw some curve balls at you some times. Like leaving a job and finding yourself unemployed...and the opportunity of a lifetime coming along very shortly afterwards.I said yes to that...

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"Where has the time gone?"

It's May. How did that happen?"I apologise for the lack of updates this year. I've been really busy trying to sort a few things out behind the scenes for the upcoming return of BRWS to YouTube. Then...

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"The British Railway Stories: Allen comes home"

I've finally been able to do some test footage for an upcoming film, to be made during the course of 2017. I am not putting any release date on it: it could be as far away as 2018.However I couldn't...

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"Hornby's new B12: the wandering 1500 comes home"

My life long love affair with the London & North Eastern Railway's B12/3 started with a trip to the North Norfolk Railway with my father and late grandfather in 1994. The locomotive had just been...

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"The Legend of the Flying Scotsman"

Llangollen, March 15 1994. Flying Scotsman.It backs towards us slowly, clanking as it moves across rails and making hissing sounds as it passes under a bridge. Click click click go cameras from all...

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"Hornby King review"

This is a little different from the norm on this blog! Instead of locomotives from the Late and Never Early Railway (L.N.E.R.) we see one from the Gresley Was Right line, or as we really know it, the...

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"Oxford Rail LNER Cattle Wagon review"

I've been looking forward to the release of Oxford Rail's cattle wagon for some time, and had intended to write a review of it: however this blog also looks a little at why the Oxford Rail cattle wagon...

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