The winners of the 2023 RCHS Transport History Book of the Year Awards were announced and the authors presented with their awards on 27th May at The Church at Carrs Lane, Birmingham prior to the Society’s AGM.

For the Judges’ Report please click here.

The seven books shortlisted for the awards were:

The Chester & Holyhead Railway: a new history. Philip M Lloyd. Pen & Sword Transport

Alfred Raworth’s Electric Southern Railway. Peter Steers. Pen & Sword Transport

No Way Through: Great Glen railway schemes. John McGregor. Highland Railway Society

Birmingham & West Midlands Railway Atlas. Joe Brown. Crecy Publishing

Scottish Railway Atlas Then & Now. Paul Smith & Paul Jordan. Crecy Publishing

Waterways & Means: power, money and folly in Irish waterways history. Brian J Goggin

Birmingham Canal Navigations: a history. Phil Clayton. Crowood Press