Transport books are a bit like heavy metal music. They are “specialist”, so much so that there are specialist transport bookshops, where browsers can be assured that they won’t have to look at such nonsense as fiction or biography, but can just stick with Branch Lines to East Grinstead or Vintage Tractors in Colour. As a consequence, there are specialist transport publishers, such as Ian Allan or David and Charles, to cater to their needs
From a review of Battle for the North by Charles McKean.
