Stunning photos give a sense of awe at the achievements of those involved in developing the railways throughout the world. The pictures of beautiful bridges, viaducts and carefully constructed tracks in precarious places, across all kinds of terrain, are impressive. Equally impressive are the wonderful and vast variety of railway stations. I enjoyed reading about the history of railways. A thoroughly enjoyable look at railways around the world. Thank you to David Ross, Net Galley and Amber Books for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

My entire family really enjoyed this book’ it was beautiful. We will likely be purchasing the hard copy.

I really enjoyed reading and looking at this book. The book is filled with wonderful photographs of train journeys, trains and train stations around the world. There is a little text but the photographs are the focus. Enjoy the armchair travel.

I have always loved trains, and when I saw the cover of this book, I knew I had to request to review it. The book combines artistic photography (the perspectives are especially interesting) and educational information about all sorts of trains from historic to modern. There are also many photographs of rail stations around the world. The book has enough detail on the locomotives for the train buff, but not so much as to overwhelm those who simply like the views and architecture. After going through this book, I feel like I've traveled the world!

Rail Journeys by David Ross is currently scheduled for release on March 14 2020. There is always a sense of adventure when going on a railway journey. Whether it is aboard the Orient Express from London to Istanbul, or travelling the Transcontinental railroad through the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific coast, or riding the Serra Verde Express through the Brazilian rainforest, With 200 outstanding colour photographs, Rail Journeys takes the reader on a journey through some of the most unusual, romantic and remarkable landscapes in the world. Places where trains still offer romantic and astounding experiences of rail travel at its best.

Rail Journeys offers readers a combination of accessible text and stunning images of railroads and trains. Readers can glimpse the Coast Starlight, which carries passengers from Los Angeles along the Pacific coast to Seattle and all points in between. Then there is the 7,000 kilometre Trans-Siberian, crossing the entirety of Mongolia and Russia from Beijing to Moscow. Some many unique and fascinating images and details about train travel around the world. I found myself studying the images of landscapes, stations, tunnels, and trains more intensely that I thought I would. I was captivated by the images more than anything else, but when I took the time to read the text I found it to be interesting and informative. I am very much a homebody, but think train travel would be one of the few ways I would be glad to travel. I just loved the photography so much that it over-shadowed the work that must have gone into that text even though it was well done.

Rail Journeys is a book that I could see as a great gift for train and travel lovers alike. I know a could people that are train enthusiasts that I think would fully appreciate this book.

Get an introduction to the different continent. Basically photographs with a caption of some sort. A full two page image or up to 3 images per page. Train interior or out and images relating to the track.

"Rail Journeys" is packed with stunning photography of trains throughout the world. It is perfect for rail enthusiasts of any age. I found my bucket list growing and ideas for my model train layout coming rapidly as I flipped through the pages.

They archived the book the day they approved . What was the point? I am giving a benefit of doubt and giving it 3 stars

What a glorious book! With stunning pictures, Ross celebrates train travel throughout the world. Each chapter focuses on a continent (Australis is in the Asia chapter) with a one-page introduction. The come the pictures with engaging captions. You'll see everything: scenery, stations, equipment, interiors, and more.

After reading this book, the first thing I wanted was to run out and book several train trips.

As someone who rides crummy commuter light rail every day, I dream of someday getting to ride a train like the ones featured in this book – luxury trains, with fancy dining cars and beautiful suites, watching some of the most beautiful scenery in the world roll by…instead of just staring at my phone for an hour waiting to get to work. Rail Journeys has definitely given me train envy – these aren’t your average commuter trains, no. If you’re a fan of railroads, railroad history, or just cool trains, then this book is definitely for you – but it is also for anyone fond of travel – if you’ve ever dreamed of riding the Orient Express or journeying through Patagonia by train, then you will enjoy this book.

I can imagine this would be a beautiful coffee table book. The photographs are beautiful and so very interesting. Given the quality of the photos in the book I was surprised at the picture chosen for the back cover....it seems very mundane for the back cover......

It all started in the 1820s and 1830s, with a few short lines in Britain, the United States, France and Germany. By the early 1900s the combined systems totalled over half a million miles. This book is a celebration of what I believe to be one of the most relaxing and pleasurable means of travel, featuring routes in North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. It consists mainly of a series of photographs, covering more than two hundred pages. The accompanying text is simply a very brief commentary on each photograph.

Some of the images are stunning. My favourites include:

- Some truly magnificent station buildings such as: Chicago’s Union Station, Antwerp’s Central Station and, of course, Grand Central in New York. But also some much smaller constructions such as Skagway Station in Alaska with impressive mountains climbing in the background and with its buildings a reminder of the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th Century.

- The world’s highest railway viaduct at La Polvorilla, Argentina and another wonderful, but significantly smaller version, at Ribblehead, North Yorkshire in England.

- Some extravagantly appointed trains, such as Hiram Bingham, Cuzco-Machu Picchu, Peru and the Serra Verde Express, Curitiba, Brazil.

- And the view available from the train journeys are varied and, sometimes, breathtaking – like the close-up view of the Matterhorn available from the Zermatt-Gornergrat Railway in Switzerland.

All in all, there are way too many memorable images for me to do justice to here. This book is a must for lovers of train travel or for anyone seeking a memorable travel experience.

The photography is exquisite.  Anyone who likes castles would be thrilled to have a copy of this book.  The book is divided into chapters on North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia.  This book is the epitome of "a picture is worth a thousand words".  I have enjoyed a few trips on Amtrak here in the midwest, but fell in love with train journeys while on vacation in Europe .... traversing Glenfinnan Viaduct, arriving at Waverly Station in Edinburgh, following the arrivals/departures board in St Pancras Station and Gare du Nord, grabbing a pastie in Marylebone Station in London ....  I loved this book and have added multiple rail journeys to my own bucket list.

An absolutely beautiful homage to trains across the world. I highly recommend this book to all train and photography lovers. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this ARC copy.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this book in exchange for an honest review.
Take a journey around the world with this beautiful book. Each chapter gives a brief description for the continent and each picture gas a short description. I enjoyed seeing not only the scenery pictures from the trains but also the inside of a few trains and the architecture of some of the train stations.

I say well done to the people behind this book, for the simplicity and appeal is just right. There's very little text – each continent gets a short page of introduction, and each image gets a sentence of reasonable length to tell us what we're looking at – but this is on the whole a pictorial survey of the world's train routes. I don't think the expert, mind filled with 2-8-2s and 4-10-0s and so on, would object to the wonderful representations of stations, engines and carriages that range from shaky old wooden ones to high-tech ones with balcony-styled upstairs caboose viewing platforms. And I don't think the casual browser will object to getting a nudge into the history of all the station signs we see, nor the slightly scattershot way we, for example, build and build into the Alaskan heights only to be in New Mexico overleaf, or cover one Brazil line before returning to it after an extended ride through Peru. You'll never get a book that completely matches your editorial choice – some of the images here that were shunted onto a third of the page I'd have had as double-page spreads and vice versa – but this is a really impressive global purview. A delight to pore over.

I love train and I found this book fascinating. The pictures are gorgeous and it was like travelling all over the world.
I love trains and I think this a perfect book for train lovers.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.