[440] | | ADDENDUM TO NOVEMBER 2009 NEW TITLES/RELEASES | |
Aviation (newly released, available now):| Scarcity of information over the years has meant that secret Japanese planes of World War 2 remain an area of aviation history that is largely undiscovered. Despite this, they have a large base of interest as unlike the majority of secret Luftwaffe programs that were resigned to the drawing board, ... | Request notification when available  |
Buses (newly released, available now):| The Little Red Book has long been regarded as Britain's leading directory to the road passenger transport industry with a new edition being published every Autumn. As always it has been fully updated to provide detailed information on bus and coach operators throughout Britain. It also includes ... | |
| Originally established in late 1969 and combining the municipal fleets of Birmingham, Walsall and Wolverhampton, West Midlands PTE was extended in 1974 to include the neighbouring fleet of Coventry Corporation. Further integration saw the PTE absorb some of the local operations of other local NBC ... | |
Railways Modelling (newly released, available now):| A new addition to Ian Allan Publishing's highly popular practical modelling series, this title introduces the concepts and practice of wiring model railway layouts from start to finish. Beginning with the basics the book will cover cab control, point control, signalling, train detection and ... From the series Aspects of Modelling | |
Railways & Tramways (newly released, available now):| From hauling the first non-stop express from London to Edinburgh in 1928 and breaking the 100mph barrier in 1934, to being sold in 1963, and to its final home at the York National Railway Centre, The Flying Scotsman has a rich and, at times, controversial history. It has travelled across the USA ... | |
| Fifty years ago, on 18 August 1959, Burton-upon-Trent schoolboys Richard Inwood and Mike Smith met on a train. Subsequently, as members of the school's Locospotters' Club, they and their enthusiast colleagues, then in their late teens and early twenties, attempted to see, record and ride behind as ... | |
| This book tells for the first time the definitive history of this innovative 15-inch-gauge railway on the Blakesley estate in rural Northamptonshire and the Victorian transport engineering family that created it. The Bartholomew family, although almost unknown today, represented a waterway and ... | |
| Few counties in Britain could claim to pay host to the locomotives of the GWR, the LNER and the LMS, but engines from all these companies not only regularly worked in Cheshire, but were also based in the county. This continued right up until the end of the steam era. Cheshire's railway history goes ... | |
| The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times. They carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed, transforming the pace and style of everyday life. We owe them to two men who, father and son, can lay claim to be the most important engineers of their time, George ... | |
| The original Great Western Way (published in 1978) soon gained a reputation as the standard reference work on the way the Great Western and its constituent companies created their impression on the travel market through their house livery style. In light of new research the opportunity has been ... | |
| An all new 96 page colour photograph album depicting the various classes on British Railways that enjoyed Hydrualic transmission. Inside we cover classes 14, 22, 35, 41, 42, 43 and Westerns. Coverage is from their earliest days up to the scrap yard. Additional chapters show various hydraulic types ... From the series Looking Back At … | |
| The objective of this book is to give the reader the clearest possible impression of how the post-war M&GN operated on a typical 1950s day, using the medium of illustrative narrative together with the various operating components – engine diagrams, working timetables, carriage workings. Etc – with ... From the series B.R. Steam Operating | |
| Official railway publications tended to use the term ‘Wells Branch' to refer to the GWR route between Yatton and Witham. In fact, the line originated as two entirely separate branches, both terminating at Wells and ultimately joined by a short length of Somerset & Dorset Railway metals. At one ... | |
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