This was an informative book, with a lot of interesting news, bits of info, and anecdotes about the story of the railways and trains.
Not all the chapters were interesting in the same ways, some of them were a bit boring, but it is more a thing about personal tastes and interest than a fault of the books. For example, I didn't really care a lot about the chapter in which he talks about traveling by train with children. The chapter wasn't so interesting for me, because it is not something I am interested in at the moment, but I am sure that if you are a parent in need of ideas this would be useful.
I appreciated a lot the more historical ones because we can know more about faraway places and things that are part of our imagination (like the far west, for example!).