[314] | | MID-OCTOBER 2008 NEW TITLES/RELEASES | |
Aviation (newly released, available now):| The legend of the squadron is so well known that most are fooled into believing that they already know the full story. This is far from the truth. German researcher Andreas Wachtel has lead investigations at the scenes of the many Lancaster crash sites, not only of the dams raid itself, but also ... | |
Buses (newly released, available now):| The fascinating and complex story of a famous Glasgow independent company's growth, innovations, problems and changes in direction over its' eventful 37 years is told, together with the impact they had in the coach industry at the time. From its' early activities hiring in vehicles for military ... From the series Super Prestige | |
| Peter Cardno looks at the myriad of independent operators providing services in this part of West Yorkshire. 96 pages including 8 pages of colour. | |
| The first Barton Bus Company service from Long Eaton to Nottingham ran in 1908 and this publication celebrates the one hundred years since this historic event. A concise history of the company is included followed by a collection of photographs featuring the distinctive Barton buses that have seen ... | |
| The 2008 Go-Ahead Bus Handbook is the Fifth edition of this volume dedicated the bus operations of the group. The Bus Handbook series is published by British Bus Publishing, an independent publisher of quality books for the industry and bus enthusiasts. From the series Bus Handbooks | Request notification when available  |
| In the first book in this series, Midlands Bus Memories in Colour (Irwell Press, 2007) the author mentioned that he was brought up in Doncaster in the West Riding of Yorkshire, before moving to the West Midlands. Just over twenty bus companies operated stage carriage services into the town where ... | |
Maritime (newly released, available now):| Aquitania entered service two months before the start of World War One and was scrapped six years after World War Two ended. For two wars she spent much time transporting troops but for the rest of her career she travelled the North Atlantic as one of the most famous liners afloat. Holding many ... | |
| Fast and graceful, reefer ships have always stood out from the other cargo ships plying the world's sea lanes. This magnificently illustrated book looks at the evolution of pure refrigerated ships and fruit ships, and at the histories and fleets of the major owners involved in the reefer trades, ... | |
Various (newly released, available now):| They were scruffy, typified a dying era and were about to close when most of the photographs in this book were taken, but the sheds at Tyne Dock, Blyth, West Hartlepool and Sunderland had a definite charm about them, of not-too genteel decay. They housed the remaining BR steam locomotives employed ... | |
| The County Press archive is and always will be one of the best sources of Island history. It is only newspapers that can afford the luxury of reporting life in all its day-to-day detail and the back issues of the County Press are full of the facts, events and miscellany of everyday life that goes ... | |
Railways & Tramways (newly released, available now):| Diesel & Electric power from the 1960s to the early 1980s in the North & North West. The programme comprises: Diesel & Electric Traction in the North West during the 1960s including Electrics at Crewe and Diesels over Shap. The Calder Valley Line in the 1970s including ‘Peaks', Class 40s, Class ... | |
| Tank Engines B4 0-4-0 Dock Tanks on shunting duties. Beattie 0298 Well Tanks in Cornwall and working specials. Terrier A1X 0-6-0 Tanks on the Hayling Island branch and at Newhaven. 02 4-4-0 Tanks at Wadebridge and on the Isle of Wight. USA 0-6-0 Tanks at Guildford, at Southampton Docks and on ... | |
| The widespread availability of trainspotting books in the aftermath of World War II saw a huge surge of interest in trainspotting. Groups of young spotters were a common sight at many stations throughout the country from the late 1940s onwards. To become an engine driver was the dream of many a ... | |
| The series Yeadon's Register Of LNER Locomotives lists, in chronological order, details such as building and shopping dates, major and minor events, modifications, alterations, boiler and tender numbers, allocations and dates, renumberings, namings and finally the disposal of each locomotive. ... From the series Yeadon`s Register of LNER Locomotives | |
| This publication consists of extracts from The Rowsley Association Newsletters. As you will note it covers a wide variety of subjects. However as not all readers will be fully acquainted with Rowsley or railway operations of yesteryear it has been necessary to slightly modify some items, and/or ... | |
| Recently revitalized with new investment, the central and Southern railways had their beginnings in Henry Meigg's time in the late 1860's. These two systems along with a number of lesser known public and private lines, many of them now closed, form the basis for Volume 2 | |
| The Duchesses completes a trilogy of railway books from Aurum, the first two volumes of which have been significant successes. Mallard was the story of the world's fastest steam locomotive. Flying Scotsman was the story of the world's most famous steam locomotive. Now The Duchesses tells the story ... | |
| The Wigan Branch Railway was a relatively short branch line from Parkside, where a connection was made with the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, to Wigan and, was the final link in a system of early standard gauge railways which connected all the major industrial towns of North-West England, ... | |
| The North Eastern Railway came into being a little over 150 years ago on 31st July 1854 by the amalgamation of three railways in the North East of England, namely the York, Newcastle and Berwick, York & North Midland and Leeds Northern Railway. Statistics place the North Eastern as the fourth ... | |
| A brilliantly revised and extended edition of a legendary book on the Welsh railway system which captured the imagination of enthusiasts around the country, The Railways of Pembrokeshire was originally published in 1981 and was the work of the late John Morris, a professional railwayman. His ... | |
| Carry on Clagging 3 features 130-plus locos from 23 different classes, all of them hard at work on Britain's private railways. This time we visit a number of lines and locations that haven't appeared before in the Clagging series, alongside the established favourites. So sit backand enjoy ... | |
| Although located within an area dominated by the Great Western Railway, the majority of the line was under the control of the London & North Western Railway and its successor the London, Midland & Scottish. As a consequence, the motive power requirements were always to be provided by the ... From the series Country Railway Routes | |
| For nearly 46 years, apart from a few gaps in the early stages, the Mexborough and Swinton trolleybuses served the South Yorkshire industrial towns of Rawmarsh, Swinton, Mexborough and Conisbrough plus access into Rotherham. This publication provides a photographic record of these silent fume free ... From the series Trolleybus Classics | |
| This ‘Book Of' varies somewhat from others in that it omits the usual works histories. A lot of the information survives of course through not from the engines' days abroad. But the plain fact of the matter is lack of space. We hope readers will be content with the allocations and that this will be ... | |
| The years now leave few memories of the 'North Cornwall', a meandering railway from Halwill Junction in West Devon to the River Camel Estuary at Padstow on the Cornish Coast. Some may recall a West Country Pacific edging its way round Slaughterbridge, by Brown Willy, with two or three coaches from ... | |
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