[214] | | MID-NOVEMBER 2008 NEW TITLES/RELEASES | |
Aviation (newly released, available now):| This program features half of our 3 programs released in 1995 and 1996 as well as the entire Final Year Program released in 1997 and entire Final Day program released in 1998 for a total of 6 hours. | |
| White Eagle Aviation operates a modern fleet of Boeing 737-400s and 737-800s on charter flights to resort destinations in Europe, Africa and Asia. The Airline also operates a fleet of Let 410s and Helicopters on cargo flights. | |
Buses (newly released, available now):| This important title looks at the design of buses over the past half-century, describing the various influences on bus design – legislation, advances in technology, modern materials and operators demanding more distinctive buses – against the background of social change. Included are historical ... | |
Various (newly released, available now):| London Transport Posters celebrates a century of outstanding graphic design commissioned by the Underground, London Transport, and its present-day successor, Transport for London. The book explores the organisation's pioneering role as Britain's greatest patron of poster art, a unique role ... | |
| This book offers a unique insight into Games's working methods and shows rarely seen progressive sketches from his archive and a dialogue of letters. Join him on his fascinating journey as he creates his London Transport posters from conception and follow the paring down of his initial ideas to ... | |
| The buses and bus services provided by the Great Northern Railway of Ireland are the focus of this publication tracing the history of this highly efficient part of the railway company from 1925 through to 1958 when the GNR became part of the CIE. Packed with information and with many previously ... | |
Railways & Tramways (new to the shop, available now):| Welcome to Model Rail Scotland 2008 from the SECC. This year we proudly present:?Alburne Park - modern image OO with fantastic architecture, Alloa from the Scottish Region Study Group - finescale OO layout based on a real station and its surroundings in the 1950s to 1960s. Blackston junction an ... From the series Ticket To Ride | |
| We are in a DB class 605 also known as an ICE TD - the TD stands for turbo-diesel. 19 sets were built for Die Bahn Ferhnverker in 1998/1999 by a consortium of Siemens, Duewag and SGP. This is a new service, new in 2008. It was a trialled in 2007 with the DB's partners the Danish railways with the ... From the series Ticket To Ride | |
| We are making a journey with ICE 386 from Hamburg Hauptbahnhof to Padborg just over the Danish border half way up the Jutland peninsular. We're now at Neumünster 73 kilometres from the Hauptbahnhof. The journey has so far has taken 50 minutes. ?About ICE 386. This service is really a shake down ... From the series Ticket To Ride | |
| Have a look at Hamburg with us before catching ICE 33 to Copenhagen. DB and DSB have come together to improve their services between Berlin, Hamburg and Copenhagen /Århus and the result of much hard work by both railways is the new ICE service. The high tech trains are routed over the ... From the series Ticket To Ride | |
| This is a run that's quite different from anything else in the area. It's the only mainline in northern Germany to receive the prestigious Thomas Cook scenic railway accreditation. You will see why! From the Lübecker Bucht, the dunes north of the small city, through the low lying countryside to ... From the series Ticket To Ride | |
| Time to explore the vessel while our ICE TD has a welcome rest on the deck below. It's a 40 minute sailing so we have a bite to eat and some fresh Danish air before rejoining our train at Rødby Færge and continue north east towards Nykøbing just over the bridge that separates Lolland and Falster. ... From the series Ticket To Ride | |
| Our Danish crew pilot their new charge north from Næstved to the junction station at Ringsted. Suddenly the rural railway changes into a modern international multi track main line. From Ringsted to Copenhagen we are constantly passing trains: ICs to Århus and Odense, commuter trains of different ... From the series Ticket To Ride | |
Railways & Tramways (newly released, available now):| If you have an ambition to build a small live steam locomotive, but are daunted by the skills required, then this book is for you. Written in his clear and encouraging style, Peter Jones demystifies the whole process for those with little or no previous experience. Contents include:· An ... | |
| This series of programmes will take us to classic stations, depots and other railway locations around Britain, where the locomotives, liveries and rolling stock are from an era that is now long gone. Loco-hauled passenger and freight trains are in abundance, but we will see shunters and multiple ... | |
| This series of programmes will take us to classic stations, depots and other railway locations around Britain, where the locomotives, liveries and rolling stock are from an era that is now long gone. Loco-hauled passenger and freight trains are in abundance, but we will see shunters and multiple ... | |
| The Semmeringbahn links Vienna with Italy and Slovenia. Our journey starts at the Südbahnhof for passenger trains, and Kledering -Austria's most important classification yard for freight. At Wiener Neustadt there is a secondary freight yard where trains can be held and prepared, if necessary, ... From the series Ticket To Ride | |
| First JT1 takes in the highlights of two days at Würzburg, a delightful medieval city in Bavaria where two major routes cross: from Vienna via Regensburg and from Italy via Munich - both to the northern ports and Scandinavia through Kassel. These routes are highly competitive so you will see many ... | |
| The changes in the motive power and infrastructure of the East Coast Main Line is recorded in this programme from the days when the express passenger services were in the hands of diesel power, with the 'Deltics' being the front line locomotives, through to the electrified route as it is today. ... | |
| Come with station master Chris Wood, for a trip down the line, to enjoy the views of this attractive rural branch line passing over bridges following the river Rother. We pass Hop fields, the old Cray Fish Farm, pleasant countryside, wooden stations, quiet villages and finally ending up at Bodiam ... | |
| This DVD Celebrates the West Coast Railways & The Railway Magazine's successful open days at Carnforth in July 2008. Introduced by The Railway Magazine's editor Nick Pigott this specially commissioned programme has been produced by Tele Rail – your guarantee of quality. Highlights Include: - ... | |
| Designed as a companion volume to the author's similar work on the AC Electrics, this new and informative book is an illustrated history of all dc electric locomotives and EMUs. It includes the two Woodhead classes (76 and 77), the Southern locomotives types (Classes 70/71/73/74), Class 92 (in dc ... | |
| This title features over 220 superb and previously unpublished black and white photographs of steam locomotive action across the old West Riding of Yorkshire which in those days extended far beyond today's West Yorkshire. This book features steam locomotives at work in such places as Leeds, ... From the series Railway Memories | |
| Aimed at Railway Enthusiasts, Historians and Modellers, the purpose of this series of books is to list every locomotive acquired and built by British Railways, and to show where they were allocted during their working lives. From the series British Railway Locomotive Allocations | |
| The powerful and very successful class 9F 2-10-0s were designed to reduce transit times of heavy coal and mineral trains. They soon put in sterling work on passenger turns too. 251 were built to a 45-year design life between 1954 and 1960 but it seems a shame that many were scrapped within a ... | |
| Magazine about model railways, with an emphasis on handicraft and miniature engineering. | |
| A second volume for those who like their entertainment dirty, loud & steamy features the very best action from around the country, with a cast ranging from the humble tank to the mighty Pacific and lots more in between. Over 85 locos from more than 60 different classes working flat out on the ... | |
| Today the North Yorkshire Moors Railway is the most popular of Britain's preserved railways, carrying over 300,000 passengers a year. The line can trace its roots back to the earliest days of railways when, in 1835, the horse drawn Whitby & Pickering Railway first started operations. Despite many ... From the series Illustrated History of … | |
| A top quality detailed history of the lesser known railways of Kent. Over 250 illustrations including photographs, memorabilia and line drawings reveal the history of lines as diverse at the Canterbury and Whitstable, East Kent, Sheppey Light Railway, Kent & East Sussex, plus the Westerham, ... | |
| Part of the historic London & Birmingham Railway route, the main line has been subjected to many changes, particularly in motive power. Also shown in transition are the closed routes from Rugby and from Weedon to Leamington Spa, plus the link to Coventry through Kenilworth. From the series Midland Main Lines | |
| Considering the terrain with its attendant civil engineering problems, it seems an incredible feat that the Eritrean Railway should exist at all. It is just as unbelievable that the section of this marvellous railway from Massawa to Asmara, rising from sea level to nearly 8,000 feet in just over 73 ... From the series Narrow Gauge Branch Lines | |
| The firm of Alan Keef Ltd, Locomotive Builders & Light Railway Engineers, based at The Lea near Ross-on-Wye in rural Herefordshire, is well known to narrow gauge and industrial railway enthusiasts all over the world but few know much of its origins and history. Now, as the founder of the company ... | |
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