[306] | | MID-MAY 2009 NEW TITLES/RELEASES | |
Aviation (newly released, available now):| NEW YORK! One of the most interesting Aviation Cities in the world! This 6 Hour program Double DVD was filmed during 5 years (2000 to 2004) to bring you an incredible variety of airlines with more than 150. The Big Apple takes you to areas in and around the airport where you get the very best ... | |
| Kingfisher has become the airline with the biggest market share in India and now operates more then 400 flights a day to 77 destinations. It is also India's most awarded airline and one of only 6 in the world to have received a five-star rating from Skytrax. We welcome Kingfisher as the 207th ... | |
| 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 ... | |
| The book is intended to enhance the enjoyment in listening to civil, military and government aircraft on short wave throughout the world.The book has been re titled as 'Listen to the Birds' does not translate effectively into languages other than English. In addition to an extensive frequency list, ... | |
Buses (newly released, available now):| This book provides a detailed history of Midland General from early 19th century origins through to 1972 and NBC amalgamations. The text is very readable and detailed and is supplemented with some excellent historical photographs. Vehicles, services, garages, acquisitions – all are covered – and ... | |
| This book fills a long standing need for an informative book describing the buses and trams which have run in Paris since 1662 - yes the 17th century. However buses as we might recognise them started in 1828, the year before George Shillibeer started his service in London. Berlin was not to have a ... | |
| A year-by-year comprehensive study of the Thames Valley bus company and its fleet which operated services in the Reading and Maidenhead areas and northwards to Oxford and Aylesbury, as well as south to Guildford and Basingstoke. From 1946 to 1960, the events and fleet changes are all recorded, ... | |
Maritime (newly released, available 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 ... | |
| This exciting story encompasses triumph and disaster as well as intrigue and financial trickery. The key players including the General Steam Navigation Company, The New medway Steam Packet Company and the London Steamboat Company are all looked at in detail. Nick Robins uses period photographs, ... | |
Maritime (new to the shop, available now):Miscellaneous (newly released, available now):| 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 ... | |
Railways & Tramways (newly released, available now):| 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 ... | |
| David Larkin is well known for his extensive collection of over 17,500 black and white photographs of the B.R. wagon fleet taken over a period of some 25 years. David commence his photographic mission in the late 1960s having at first been inspired by the work of Don Rowland, now president of the ... From the series Pictorial Review Of Freight Stock | |
| This book examines the railway 'control interface' between the driver on his footplate and the signalling systems designed to ensure the safety of him and his passengers. | |
| George Toms has worked at Brush in Loughborough for almost 50 years and in his latest book he chronicles, in great detail and with first-hand knowledge, the factory's output of diesel and diesel electric locomotives. His book has been written to portray the historical side of Brush locomotives ... | |
| 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 ... | |
| 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 … | |
Railways & Tramways (new to the shop, available now):| This is the final chapter in our run over the Südbahn with OEC 531 from the Südbahnhof in Vienna to Lienz in the Tyrol. We have reached Klagenfurt, the largest town and administrative centre of Carinthia, and are about to depart for Villach. We run alongside the Wörthersee, a holiday destination ... From the series Ticket To Ride | |
| The locomotive shed at Rose Grove, Burnley, was one of the three last depots to operate steam locomotives at the end of steam on British Railways in August 1968, earning itself a place in railway history. This publication looks at the railways around Rose Grove, including the goods yards, station ... | |
| By the time it was merged into the Union Pacific in 1995, the Chicago & North Western was one of the nation's oldest surviving railroads, a testament to the Midwestern stoicism with which it had gone about its business since 1859. This illustrated history chronicles how C&NW emerged from a ... | |
| ‘British Railways Past and Present' is a nationwide series of books featuring photographs of railway locations taken several decades ago and comparing them with the same scene today. Such is the current pace of change on our railway system that even a few years can reduce a busy and vibrant railway ... From the series British Railways Past and Present | |
| ‘British Railways Past and Present' is a nationwide series of books featuring photographs of railway locations taken several decades ago and comparing them with the same scene today. Such is the current pace of change on our railway system that even a few years can reduce a busy and vibrant railway ... From the series British Railways Past and Present | |
| This book re-tells the story of the design, construction, operation and fall of the Tay Bridge through edited accounts of evidence given by witnesses to the Court. Those witnesses included the men who built the bridge, from moulders working the foundry at Wormit to the designer Sirt Thomas Bouch, ... | |
| In his first autobiographical volume, Dean Forest Footplate Memories, Bob Barnett described his footplate career in the Forest of Dean, In this second volume the job takes him to Gloucester Horton Road loco shed, where he worked on preparation and disposal of steam locos before becoming a regular ... | |
| Steam on British Railways finaly came to an end officially on 4 August 1968. However, this was not the whole story, as by that time steam locomotives in day to day operations were focused in the North West of the UK. Steam in other areas of the country had been consigned to history over the ... | |
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