[415] | | MID-DECEMBER 2009 NEW TITLES/RELEASES | |
Aviation (newly released, available now):| This program takes you in the cockpit of Dubrovnik Airline MD80s for flights from 3 Destinations in Croatia to 7 Destinations in Europe | |
| This is the first part in an exhaustive two volume reference set on all the Luftwaffe's dive-bomber and ground attack units, including information on all their operations throughout the war. All 16 Stuka Geschwader, 17 ground-attack and 20 night-harassment units are covered, along with their ... | |
Buses (newly released, available now):| The humble omnibus has been seen on the UK's highways and byways for many decades, not least the era before car ownership reached its zenith. These motorised workhouses clocked up thousands of miles and carried tens of thousands of people, but what happens when an operator decides his vehicles have ... | |
| This illustrated history charts the development of the open-top bus, from the early 1900s when buses were built with no roofs to the bustling sightseeing operations so popular around the world today. Following the trends around the UK, from London and the south coast to the north and Scotland, ... | |
| Sunderland Transport takes the reader on a ride back in time on the trams and buses that once plied the city's streets. Put together by local transport enthusiast John Carlson, this book is packed with photos, illustrations and diagrams that depict the growth and change in public transport when ... | |
| This is the story of Walsall's trolleybus system, from its opening in 1931 through to its eventual closure in October 1970, presented in a fascinating collection of photographs. David Harvey takes us through the geography of the area, social change, development, expansion and the effects of demands ... | |
| This fascinating collection of archive photographs takes the reader on a nostalgic Bus and Tram ride through the north-west of Birmingham, from the city centre along the A41 to Hockley, taking in the famous Jewellery Quarter and the many Victorian housing developments around Handsworth Travelling ... | |
| The archetypal Routemaster is arguably the most recognised vehicle in the world, as witnessed at the recent Beijing Olympic handover ceremony. Buses have been operating on London's streets since 1829, originally with horse-drawn omnibuses, and the London Omnibus Company was founded in 1855 to ... | |
| This full colour production has been compiled by Scott Hellewell, formerly Chief Planning Officer with GMPTE and later Operations Director at Metrolink. It covers the establishment of the PTE and the transition from municipal to PTE operation. It contains an overview of the operation of both the ... | |
Maritime (newly released, available now):| QE2 STORY (Book) by Chris Frame & Rachelle Cross |
| There is no more famous ship in recent history than Queen Elizabeth 2. The flagship of the Cunard Line for most of her life, this legendary vessel wandered the world's oceans for almost forty years. The QE2 Story offers a concise history of this, the greatest ocean liner of our time, from her ... | |
| This valuable book covers the losses of ships around the world larger than 500 gross tons. Beginning in the 1840s during the birth of the steam age, and continuing up to the present day all passenger losses during both wartime and peacetime are recorded. Also included is a useful dictionary section ... | |
| A periodical offering a broad coverage of shipping history built around well-produced photographs. Contains excellent data on shipping fleets, their operation and vessels. From the series Ships in Focus Record | |
Miscellaneous (newly released, available now):| This book – the sixth in the Dam Builders in the Age of Steam series – Recalls the stirring tales of men and machines engaged in the construction of the dams and reservoirs for the growing communities of South Wales. Many were sited in some of the more remote areas of the Brecon Beacons and Black ... | |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel had strong associations with South Wales; chief engineer of the GWR at just 27, he was the same for the South Wales Railway Co., taking the railways across South Wales. This illustrated history focuses on Brunel's contribution to the maritime world, from his work on dry ... | |
| With a foreword by Rt. Hon. Ann Widdecombe, this is a thought-provoking analysis of the history, ethics, and methods of capital punishment in Britain. Capital punishment has played its part as the ultimate judicial penalty in the UK for centuries. Often a graphic exercise in physical mutilation, it ... | |
Modelling (newly released, available now):| Building on the huge success and popularity of the Aspects of Modelling series designed primarily for railway modellers, Ian Allan Publishing is now extending the coverage of the series to encompass some of the other most popular hobby modelling areas. The first of these titles looks in detail at ... From the series Aspects of Modelling | |
Motors & Motoring (newly released, available now):| It was code-named X100 and it was to be Jaguar's latest sports cars, featuring both coupe and convertible coachwork. It was to have an all-new V8 engine and it was to replace the XJS. It would also ultimately have the most powerful forced-induction engine of any production Jaguar road card and it ... | |
| Dormobile, a name inescapably linked with camper vans, grew out of a Folkestone coachbuilding company called Martin Walter's. In 1957, the first really affordable camper van , the Dormobile, was introduced. It was a great success and within a couple of years, over 10,000 had been sold. The factory ... | |
| Morgan, Malvern & Motoring tells the story of Harry Morgan and his first forays into motoring and car manufacture. Impeccably researched over twenty years, it is illustrated by a wealth of rare and superb photographs. Few large companies have survived a century in family ownership but one, Morgan, ... | |
| This richly-illustrated book tells the story of the FX4 over five decades and also features many of the special versions ordered by the rich and famous, details of many versions sold abroad, other bodies built on its chassis and technical specifications of every major model. | |
| In his new book, well-known London cabbie Alf Townsend tells us the complete story of the black cab, from its origins at the time of Oliver Cromwell to the brand new taxis which now grace the capital's streets. This light-hearted romp through the world of 'the knowledge', the vehicles, the streets ... | |
| As the 1990s began, competition from rivals was threatening the Mercedes-Benz marque's position at the top of the automotive tree. Through a combination of audacious diversification and sometimes less-than-successful cost-cutting, Mercedes began a turnaround that would not achieve final sucess ... | |
| The V W Golf was planned to be a worthy successor to the venerable Beetle, a move that required dynamic thinking and a clean drawing board if Volkswagen was to continue to hold its position at the nucleus of top motor manufacturers. Where the Golf differed from the crowd was in the out-sourced ... | |
| Development of Aston Martin's V8 engine began in 1963 as a replacement for the six cylinder engines which had powered every model of Aston Martin since the 1950 DB2. In 1966 design work began on a new GT model and both car and engine were to be unleashed on the public in October 1967. With barely ... | |
Railways & Tramways (newly released, available now):| John Young and David Tyreman the coauthors have produced a book covering all the 285 locomotives that comprised these classes of engines based on their personal involvement and research. One co-author worked in the CME's office on technical matters and was therefore in direct contact with Stanier ... | |
| In this final volume of his ‘Memories' trilogy, Mike Esau once again evokes that increasingly remote era, the steam age, with a further selection of wonderfully nostalgic photographs of everyday passenger and freight trains on main lines, secondary lines and branch lines, together with views of ... | |
| Railways were one of Great Britain's Gifts to the world. No one and no place in this island made a greater contribution than the people and City of Glasgow. At St Rollox, the Caledonian Railway had its principal locomotive and carriage works which it established in 1856; so the year 2006 saw its ... | |
| An all new 96 page colour photograph album depicting the various classes on British Railways that were attributed to Sir William Stanier F.R.S. Inside we cover Duchesses, Lizzies, Rebuilt Royal Scots, Jubilees, Black Fives, 8Fs and the variety of tank designs. Coverage is from the 1950s and 1960s ... From the series Looking Back At … | |
| Our Photographic review of the railways around Retford covers the period when British Railways steam reached its zenith before its rapid decline into the diesel era. Keith Pirt had lineside passes for both the former Great Central route and the Great Northern route, besides umpteen other locations ... From the series Steam Memories | |
| Keith Pirt visited South Africa five times, in the winter months of 1980-1984. This was rather late on in steam days in the Republic, because compared with only a year or two before, traction modernisation had considerably limited the locations where steam could be seen in any quantity and also, ... From the series Steam Memories | |
| Like many British enthusiasts in the mid- 1970s, Keith Pirt was attracted to the railways of Portugal by stories of immaculately kept, ancient locomotives, running on 5'-6” and Metre gauges, hauling generally aged stock, mainly by then, through the marvellous scenery of Northern Portugal. This was ... From the series Steam Memories | |
| The Corris started as a tramroad, mostly adjacent to the highway and mainly for the conveyance of slate. It evolved into an unusual passenger railway with great charm and part of it is being lovingly restored. The Vale of Rheidol route to Devil's Bridge has equally attractive environs and survived ... From the series Narrow Gauge Branch Lines | |
| An all new 160 page colour photographic album depicting the British railway's Steam era with coverage of many classes of steam locomotives from that great period of change on our railways. This is a limited edition of only 1000 copies. The selection includes many of the regular performers on the ... | |
| With 980 million passengers a year, more than 250 miles of track, literally hundreds of different stations and a history stretching back nearly 150 years, the world's oldest underground railway might seem familiar, but actually, how well do you know it? Do you know, for example, who the Queen sat ... | |
| Join Rex Conway on a remarkable steam-hauled journey on the Eastern Region. Starting at Liverpool Street in the capital during the golden age of steam, we encounter places such as Stratford, Colchester, Ipswich, Cambridge, Norwich and Peterborough, with many diversions along the way. Seen here ... From the series Rex Conway`s … | |
| Presents the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's railways, stimulating economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. This title reveals that the global expansion of the railways was key to the spread of modernity and the making of the modern world | |
| This new book examines the changing railway network in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, as well as north Essex, and parts of Hertfordshire. Each line is covered in detail, with an outline of its history, as well as detailed information on its services, both passenger and goods, on local and ... | |
| The fourth volume in this well-received series based on the original cartography from Colonel Cobb's famous two volume atlas examines the complex railway history of London north of the Thames. With brilliant new maps cleverly combining the current road network to show the inter-relationship of road ... From the series Railways of Britain | |
| The Trackatlas of Mainland Britain is based on industry sources and puts today's national rail network into its geographic context. 131 detailed diagrams describe a National Network Map showing the extent of the operating network and its infrastructure. The maps show track level detail in a ... | |
| The second book in the series is a fully illustrated, full colour, guide to the different Departmental Wagons and On Track Plant vehicles running on the UK rail network. Volume 2 features Carkinds YDA to ZZA Here's what's included for each 'Carkind' ... -a photograph of the wagon, in its current ... From the series Wagon Recognition | |
| The railways of Europe and the Far East played a vital role in periods of war. In the 20th.Century there were two World Wars and this production portrays most of the locomotive types that were built for service in both conflicts, primarily for the Allies. We include the ROD types from WW1 such as ... From the series Along LMS Lines | |
| Twenty-Eighth edition of the magazine, LMS Journal, containing drawings enabling accurate models to be built and articles about how the railway was operated. An all-embracing journal that will appeal to the historian, modeller and reader with a general interest in steam railway From the series LMS Journal | |
| Volume 1 traces the history of the Severn & Wye and Severn Bridge Railway, the major independent concern in the Forest of Dean, and illustrates its 'main line' from Lydney, on the South Wales Railway, northwards to the former industrial centre of Parkend. Vol. 2 continues this coverage from ... | |
| The Complete Guide to all Diesel & Electric Locomotives which operate on the Railtrack and Eurotunnel Networks. From the series British Railways Pocket Books | |
| The Complete Guide to all Electric Multiple Units which operate on the Railtrack & Eurotunnel Networks. From the series British Railways Pocket Books | |
| This new volume in the Platform 5 European Handbook series is the complete guide to all locomotives, multiple units & trams operating in Switzerland. It has been completely revised and updated since the second edition was published in 1997. It includes: A General overview of the Swiss railway ... From the series European Handbooks | |
| The Wirral peninsula, which forms the top north west corner of Cheshire and sits between the rivers Dee and Mersey, is almost an island and, in many respects, exhibits the characteristics of a region isolated from other influences. This was undoubtedly even more pronounced in times gone past and is ... | |
| The former London Tilbury and Southend Railway is a largely self-contained network. At one end is the easternmost outpost of Shoeburyness in Essex, providing a surprisingly intensive passenger service for such a small community. At the London end, c2c becomes an intensive suburban and commuter line ... | |
| Welcome to the ninth edition of our magazine for European rail enthusiasts. In this issue we : Visit Bratislava -the capital of Slovakia. An interesting city with a well used tram network. It has an unreformed main station – it still looks as if it's 1969 not 2009! There is also a modern ... From the series Between The Lines | |
| D600s and D800s versions; over 70 locos. Successor to The Book of the Deltics; the full story of the concept and development, rivalries, internal struggles, politics, Germany and Der Englishe; demise, defeat, industrial last throws of the dice, recriminations. Unprecedented detail of every Warship ... From the series Book Of The | |
| Usual ‘Book Of' format, with comprehensive history, photographs, every detail variation and change, works histories. The nation's favourite 4-4-0, a splendid Victorian design modernised by the Southern and best remembered for a protracted final fling on the ‘Withered Arm' west of Exeter, out across ... From the series Book Of The | |
| A secondary line wandering through rolling countryside bordered by brooding hills; obscure to modern minds but a substantial double track railway nonetheless, curving and twisting through the pleasant, rural, Alyn and Wheeler valleys, linking the Welsh county towns of Flintshire and Denbighshire ... | |
| A complex story that begins before the Battle of Trafalgar; the canals, industries, railways, political and commercial struggles and rivalries of this little known but fascinating corner of a little known but fascinating county, Staffordshire. | |
| Although railway privatisation is only just over a decade old, there have been a great variety of liveries that have been introduced since then that have, for a variety of reasons, disappeared. This has resulted, for example, in the disappearance most recently of Central Trains, Midland Main Line ... | |
| This book gives a good overview of some of the very many different narrow gauge railways that have served British industry over the last century or so. The narrow gauge railway was born within the mining and quarrying industry but despite the huge interest in such railways worldwide the number of ... | |
| The success of the six systems is emphasised using 20 colour photographs in each case. The album illustrates the remarkable compatibility of trams within the communities and is intended as, an important historical record, as well as a stimulus to other towns and cities. | |
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