Wer als Anfänger eine Sammlung aufbauen will, für den empfehlen sich neben den Kataloginformationen die folgenden Schriften:

• A.M. Goodbody and C.A. Hart: Railway on Stamps, Volume 1: Eastern Europe (I), 1974, ISBN 0 90263325 2, [GO]
• A.M. Goodbody and C.A. Hart: Railway on Stamps, Volume 1: Eastern Europe (II), 1975, ISBN 0 90263326 0, [GO]
• A.M. Goodbody and C.A. Hart: Railway on Stamps, Volume 2: Western Europe (III), 1975, ISBN 0 90263328 7, [GO]
• A.M. Goodbody and C.A. Hart: Railway on Stamps, Volume 2: Western Europe (IV), 1975, ISBN 0 90263334 1, [GO]
• A.M. Goodbody and C.A. Hart: Railway on Stamps, Volume 2: Western Europe (V), 1979, ISBN 0 902 633 54 6, [GO]
• A.M. Goodbody and C.A. Hart: Railway on Stamps, Volume 3: Africa (VI), 1983, ISBN 0 902633 88 0, [GO]
• A.M. Goodbody and C.A. Hart: Railway on Stamps, Volume 3: Africa (VII), 1985, ISBN 0 948251 04 2, [GO]
• C. A. Hart: The Railway Theme - A study of Railways on stamps published by the Railway Philatelic Group 1970
• Jean-Jaques Leblache: Les Chemins de Fer Racontes par un siecle de timbres-poste Paris 1972
• Hans D. Reichardt: Eisenbahn auf Briefmarken, Alba Verlag Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-87094-048-4
• James Watson: Stamps and Railways published by Faber London 1960