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Aviation (newly released, available now):| X-Plane Crashes - Exploring Experimental Rocket Plane and Spy craft Incidents, Accidents and Crash Sites” is a hard cover glossy publication printed in A4 format by Speciality Press of the USA. The book is written by Peter W. Merlin who worked is an archivist and historian at NASA Dryden Flight ... | |
| The He177 was a formidable warplane with the potential to have been a lethal weapon for the Nazis. Unfortunately, it was ill-fated and suffered from serious problems such as an inherently poor engine design and ‘knee-jerk' role diversification by the commanders in charge. Nevertheless, the He177 ... | |
| As a companion to the successful Luftwaffe Colours ‘Sea Eagles' titles, this bright new book offers the reader a more detailed and varied study of the maritime aircraft and operations conducted by the Luftwaffe against the Allies in World War 2. The Luftwaffe committed a wide range of aircraft to ... | |
| The Handley-Page Victor was third and final aircraft in Britain's V-bomber fleet, built to carry the nuclear deterrent during the Cold War. Built during the 1950s and 1960s, the bomber was designed to fly higher and faster than contemporary fighter aircraft so that it could penetrate Soviet ... | |
Aviation (expected within the next two months, may be ordered now):| This is a lavishly illustrated and highly detailed account of one of the most elegant and deadly aircraft to see service during World War 2. Designed and built in the late 1930s, originally as a civilian airliner to compete with the American DC-2 and DC-3, the Fw 200 grabbed the international stage ... | |
| Princes of Darkness is a unique illustrated account of the careers of Heinrich Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and Egmont Prince zur Lippe-Weissenfeld - two aristocrats who served with the Luftwaffe's night fighter force and whose lives were often inter-connected. The book is the result of many years ... | |
| 2009 marks the 25th anniversary of Virgin Atlantic's maiden flight from Gatwick to Newark in the USA, although the origins of the company are slightly older, dating back to the formation of British Atlantic Airways in 1982. BAA was originally conceived as a an airline flying between Britain and the ... | |
| The He 162 represented an unprecedented aeronautical and engineering achievement. Embracing revolutionary jet engine technology, the aircraft went from drawing board to prototype flight in just three months, at a time when Nazi Germany was on the brink of defeat. For the first time, this book will ... | |
| In 1940 the Luftwaffe fitted bombs to their Messerschmitt 109s and Messerschmitt 110s, thus creating the Jagdbomber or Jabo. Jabos played a key role in the Battle of Britain, but then appeared to be forgotten until early 1942 when two fighter Staffeln were formed on the Western Front and carried ... | |
| The Wimpey, as the Wellington was known, was a bomber designed by the legendary Barnes Wallace before the war. In the early years of World War Two it was the mainstay of Bomber command – taking the Blitz back to Germany. It was still in service after the war, having served all over the world. The ... | |
Buses (newly released, available now):| Staffordshire is well known for many things, but for the transport enthusiast it was undoubtedly the number of Independent bus operators that enhanced its interest. Neville Mercer's second Super Prestige title deals with over 30 operators covering their early history and in most cases their ... From the series Super Prestige | |
| This is a book about a period seen by many as a golden age of London buses. Those who have worked on it have been fortunate to find a good number of colour photographs from the 1950s, which we present here along with some recollections of the time from people who worked for London Transport as ... | |
| The 2009 First Bus Handbook is a special edition of the bus handbook series which contains the various fleets of First plc. The Bus Handbook series is published by British Bus Publishing an independent publisher of quality books for the industry and bus enthusiasts. Further information on these may ... From the series Bus Handbooks | |
| As a result of changes in the provision of funding for new bus acquisitions in the late 1960s, the production of traditional half-cab double-deckers ceased in 1970. By the late 1970s these buses were becoming increasingly rare, with the exception of the long-lived Routemaster in the Greater London ... | |
| Southdown, based in Brighton, was one of the most important bus operators in southern England. Formed in 1915 from an amalgamation of three earlier operators, the company became a subsidiary of BET and survived as a separate operator until all of BET's subsidiaries were nationalised as part of the ... | |
Cars (expected within the next two months, may be ordered now):| An explosive new book exploring Germany's proud motor-racing legacy, producing world-famous names such as Porsche alongside spectacular drivers including the legendary Michael Schumacher. In these pages Porsche accelerates from plucky underdog to dominant power with its 917, ‘Turbo-Panzer' of the ... | |
| Not only the birthplace of motor racing, France also nurtured the sport in its early years. Blue became the French racing colour when the marques Mors and Panhard contested the early town-to-town races. France created Grand Prix racing in 1906 when a triumphant Renault prevailed. In the years ... | |
Maritime (newly released, available now):| The White Star Line was one of the most illustrious and controversial names in the history of passenger shipping. Its origins lay in Liverpool in the early 19th century, chartering sailing ships to Australia, but financial difficulties led to its takeover by Thomas Ismay in the 1860s. He was the ... | |
| At one time, Liverpool's landing stage was so busy that ships would be literally queuing in the Mersey to discharge and embark passengers. However, the period from the late 1940s saw both the golden age of Liverpool shipping as well as the decline of its passenger trade. From the early 1960s, ... | |
Maritime (expected within the next two months, may be ordered now):| First published over 40 years ago, ‘Ocean Ships' has become the bible to maritime enthusiasts, providing authoritative and detailed information on all the world's ocean-going passenger and cargo ships. The total number of ships in the last edition, published 2006 was some 5,000, and such has been ... | |
Miscellaneous (newly released, available now):| History,Operations & Railways | |
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| It has often been said that the Midlands is at the 'hub' of the motorway network. As the region, with Birmingham at its centre, is exactly halfway between the London and Manchester conurbations, and is similarly situated between Bristol in the South West and the rest of the country, this is, of ... | |
Miscellaneous (expected within the next two months, may be ordered now):| The 1920s were a decade of considerable change in London and in particular for transport in the Capital. It was an age when the bus started to grow in importance as vast number of army surplus vehicles became available. These were easily converted and with people moving to the suburbs bus transport ... | |
| Halfway up Commercial Street, one block away from Spitalfields Market, lies an anonymous service road. The average pedestrian wouldn't even notice it existed. But unlikely though it may seem, this characterless, 400ft strip of tarmac was once Dorset Street – the most notorious thoroughfare in the ... | |
| This is the first in a new series entitled ‘Transport and Industrial Heritage' that will provide readers with unique and well-researched histories exploring the true historical heritage of the country on a region by region basis. Cornwall is the first county under the spotlight and is an obvious ... | |
Railways & Tramways (newly released, available now):| This volume is intended to fill the void created when the old all line timetable ceased to be printed. The format is largely the same as the old volume although the tables have to be printed at 80% of the size in order to meet the volume size. | |
| The GWR lines serving this rural part of Warwickshire took a long time to arrive. Opening in 1852, was a line from Birmingham to Oxford and the capital, and hard on its heels was a line to serve the small market town of Stratford-upon-Avon. Opening to passengers in 1908 was a third line creating ... | |
| Martin Atock served as locomotive, carriage and wagon superintendent of the Waterford & Limerick Railway from 1861 until 1872 and of the Midland Great Western Railway for the next 28 years up until 1900. Eminent author on Irish railway matters, Ernie Shepherd, discovered that Martin Atock had ... | |
| Late into the railway scene, this 20th century railway backwater lasted only a little over 50 years, but less than 30 for passengers. Sadly lost for ever was the line through the streets of Welshpool and so a large part of this album is devoted to this unusual and long lost byway. From the series Narrow Gauge Branch Lines | |
| At the head of the Rhymney Valley were two almost parallel lines, only one of which is illustrated in detail. Maps of various scales help to tell their story and the ways in which they served the community. From the series Welsh Valleys | |
| Interest in micro-sized layouts has been around since the days of A. R. Walkley's Inglenook Sidings in the 1920s, it has become increasingly popular in recent times. In this new book he turns traditional layout design on its head and through his stunning 3-D graphic artwork presents a whole range ... | |
| In some ways, thanks mainly to nostalgic archive programmes, it seems like only yesterday when steam was an everyday sight. Although we are indeed lucky to be able to enjoy so much cine film from the days of working steam, up until now recording the more social side of everyday life for the ... | |
| An all new 96 page colour photograph album depicting the designs of both Robin Riddles C.B.E. and Henry George Ivatt. Covered within 190 colour photographs are all of the British Railways Standard Classes, the Austerity designs including the J94s, Ivatt's own designs and the amendments he made to ... | |
| Well known railway writer Adrian Vaughan, and author of the very successful title Railway Blunders, now turns his attention to what he considers to be the greatest blunder the railway industry has ever perpetrated, the privatisation of the 1990s. A personal polemic, he first gives a history from ... | |
| Britain's leading railway historian provides a critical examination of the Blair governments' involvement in the rail industry from 1997 as they attempted to deal with the UK's fragmented, privatized railways. The book focuses particularly on the work of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA), and ... | |
| An all new 96 page colour photograph album depicting the 1960s with coverage of both steam and diesels from that great period of change on our railways. The captions include items of news, culture, music and personalities of the era to bring back the memories of youth and that final year of real ... | |
| As America's first common-carrier railroad--a railroad mandated to operate for the public and for commerce--the Baltimore & Ohio set the stage for North American railway development. And as such, the railroad racked up a remarkable list of firsts--first to offer scheduled passenger service, first ... | |
| This DVD features a cab ride aboard D1015 ‘Western Champion' between Exeter and Plymouth on 5th April 2008 when D1015 worked Past-time Railways ‘Royal Duchy' railtour from Paddington to Penzance. Highlights include the famous stretch along the Dawlish sea-wall and over the Devon Banks. Additional ... | |
| The Carriage Works at Lancing have rarely been recorded in detail in the past and we are delighted that this can now be remedied aided by a number of unseen photographs and first hand accounts from former employees. Also scheduled for inclusion is a photo feature on the Plymouth, Devonport and ... | |
| A chance opportunity in late 2008 provided the opportunity to access several hundred hitherto unseen views of the Southern Railway in the period 1939-45. A collection which taken as a whole reveals damage and destruction on a scale it is hard to imagine. Yet through all this the railway continued ... | |
| This was our very first ‘Wired for Sound' cab ride, and such was its popularity that it started a whole series of programmes! At the time of the original release of this programme on VHS, time constraints meant that its running time was limited to just 60 minutes. The forthcoming digitally ... | |
| This video concentrates on the northern area of Wales and its borders from the North Wales coast through Chester to Gobowen. Branch lines visited are the Conway Valley to Blaenau Ffestiniog and, by way of a rail tour, the Wrexham, Mold and Connahs Quay route ending at Wrexham. North to Chester ... From the series Along LMS Lines | |
| The Purpose of this book is to assist the average enthusiast be he modeller, relic collector or historian, with his search for information on Motive Power Depots - the home of the steam locomotive. For Reasons of space the depots covered by this work have been restricted to those which possessed a ... | |
| The Purpose of this book is to assist the average enthusiast be he modeller, relic collector or historian, with his search for information on Motive Power Depots - the home of the steam locomotive. For Reasons of space the depots covered by this work have been restricted to those which possessed a ... | |
| The Purpose of this book is to assist the average enthusiast be he modeller, relic collector or historian, with his search for information on Motive Power Depots - the home of the steam locomotive. For Reasons of space the depots covered by this work have been restricted to those which possessed a ... | |
| The Purpose of this book is to assist the average enthusiast be he modeller, relic collector or historian, with his search for information on Motive Power Depots - the home of the steam locomotive. For Reasons of space the depots covered by this work have been restricted to those which possessed a ... | |
| The Purpose of this book is to assist the average enthusiast be he modeller, relic collector or historian, with his search for information on Motive Power Depots - the home of the steam locomotive. For Reasons of space the depots covered by this work have been restricted to those which possessed a ... | |
| The Purpose of this book is to assist the average enthusiast be he modeller, relic collector or historian, with his search for information on Motive Power Depots - the home of the steam locomotive. For Reasons of space the depots covered by this work have been restricted to those which possessed a ... | |
| The social, political, military and cultural history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is broadly encapsulated in the names given to British steam locomotives. To understand the origins, significance and meanings of those names is to understand much about the fabric and development of ... | |
| Hardback (also available as Softback ). This is the 15th in a line of EL (Existing Locomotive information as opposed to historical) Handbooks. The lists include all known existing locomotives of 1ft 3in gauge and above, but excluding the capital stock of London Transport and the Train Operating ... | |
| Softback (also available as Hardback ). This is the 15th in a line of EL (Existing Locomotive information as opposed to historical) Handbooks. The lists include all known existing locomotives of 1ft 3in gauge and above, but excluding the capital stock of London Transport and the Train Operating ... | Request notification when available  |
| Off the beaten track,this book is a sequel to the other two volumes,this third volume is an attempt to complete the picture and widen the study to all rail transport in Nottingham,irrespective of ownership,purpose or gauge width. | |
| In his new book David Packer takes us on a journey along the route of one of the world's most famous trains - the Royal Scot, which through most of its history was hauled by one of the fastest locomotives available. From Euston, near the site of one of the earliest experiments with steam ... | |
| More plans, ideas and inspiration from Ian Futers. | |
| The first edition of this book sold extremely well when first published in 1987, reprinting twice during the 1990s. Written by a professional model-maker, this is a fascinating insight into high-end railway modelling and a great source of inspiration for beginners and experts alike. The second ... | |
| Modelling a colliery can be an enjoyable part of creating a model railway and this publication points the modeller towards achieving this goal. | |
| When the Great Western Railway was formed as part of the 'Big Four' under the 1921 Grouping of the Railways Act, it had a massive advantage over its neighbours, as the GWR was already an existing company, and thus quite unlike its three new contemporaries. The GWR therefore merely 'took-over' the ... From the series Famous Fleets | |
Railways & Tramways (expected within the next two months, may be ordered now):| Mail was first sorted on a moving train in a converted horse box on the Grand Junction Railway, between Liverpool and Manchester, in January 1838 at the suggestion of Frederick Karstadt, a Post Office surveyor. Karstadt's son was one of two mail clerks who did the sorting. In 1845 the service was ... From the series Illustrated History of … | |
| Beginning in the mid 1970s, when the TOPS numbering system was first introduced, David Ratcliffe now takes readers on a new journey through the private owner wagon era, bringing the story of this important part of the railways up to date. With an informative introduction which puts the modern ... | |
| The Welsh Highland Railway was the longest of the Welsh narrow gauge railways, running all the way from Dinas Junction to Porthmadog. The line's origins dated back to the 1870s when the first section of the line was opened as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway. The route's completion throughout ... From the series Illustrated History of … | |
| The West Somerset Railway, from Bishops Lydeard to Minehead, is the country's longest standard-gauge preserved railways. Originally a GWR branch line that linked to the main network just to the west of Taunton, the line was closed on 4 January 1971. The line was subsequently acquired for ... | |
| This book is a graphic reminder of the scale of the railway network in the period before Nationalisation. As well as the Big Four, a number of minor railways are mapped - those which had managed to maintain their independence after the Grouping of 1923, but which were to disappear along with their ... | |
| In this practical manual former BR steam engineman Brian Topping reveals the traditional learning path from cleaner to fireman to driver, showing that for all the glamour of the footplate, there is also a great deal of dirty and strenuous work involved! With nearly 300 illustrations, including ... | |
| Seen in the often spectacular scenery are some very lengthy freight trains often hauled by impressive Garratts. Some are also shown in 'retirement' in Britain. | |
| The author lived and worked on the route and thus gives us an insight into the operation of the line and dwells on the fascinating architectural details. Much of the traffic was local produce, but there was one regular long distance express, which also receives detailed attention. | |
| David Larkin continues his comprehensive survey of freight wagons by turning to the British Rail era. 1969 has been chosen as the starting point for this volume as it was the first full year of non-steam operation. At this time, orders were placed for the first air-braked general purpose open and ... | |
| Most of the narrow gauge railways in North Wales were built primarily to transport slate within the quarries and to ports for transhipment to other parts of the UK and overseas. A few were built for the carriage of general merchandise and passengers, and two were built solely for tourists- a ... | |
| This book, another title in the hugely successful ‘Modeller and Historian' series, is a detailed illustrated account of the development of architecture on the Underground from the earliest stations on the Metropolitan in the 1860s through to the most recent work on the Jubilee Line and Docklands ... | |
| 150 years ago, in 1859, the first train departed from the new Fisherton Station in Salisbury for Gillingham on the initial stretch of the Salisbury & Yeovil Railway line. This was later incorporated into the Southern Railway, and eventually connected to Exeter. Sadly, the stations at Wilton, ... | |
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