Train book?

[Lord Riot]

Apologies if this is in the wrong section. I'm afraid I know very little about trains but my mate's son loves them and we wanted to get him a train book for his 11th birthday.

 

Any suggestions!? He's pretty knowledgeable so nothing too childish, but plenty of nice photos, line drawings/profiles etc like you can get for aircraft. 

 

Any books with the diesels and electric ones in rather than history or steam engines, maybe like 80s, 90s onward?

 

Thanks!

[Bonhoff]

Try Here

 

KR's IanJ

[cmatthewbacon]

You can’t go wrong with DK books for that age group:

https://www.dk.com/uk/book/9781409347965-the-train-book

 

And while you’re at it, set him on the right path with this:

https://www.dk.com/uk/book/9780241298824-engineers/
 

Or this:

https://www.dk.com/uk/book/9781465490001-stephen-biestys-incredible-cross-sections-of-everything/

 

best,

M.

 

 

[Black Knight]

'The Works' sometimes has Haynes Manuals on different locos.

[bentwaters81tfw]

If he has computer access, point him at Railcam.uk

As a non subscriber he can access trackside cameras in the UK and abroad 24/7. Full subscribers get to see about 114 cameras with more to come post covid.

Track diagrams, timings and routings are all to be had

It's £23 a year or about 7p per day.

Worth a look, even for free.

[Des]

Not into rail but lately I have been buying a lot of aviation titles published by Amberley at reduced prices from www.Booksetc.co.uk and have noticed that they have a wide selection of rail titles both modern and historical available , usually under a tenner each and if he likes the style a good way to build up a library and at A5 size are shelf friendly.