Shop News - Postal charges
Later this month we will have to revise our shipping prices to reflect the large increase in postage charges being implemented by Royal Mail (or rather, by the Government as they attempt to make it more attractive to buyers for the intended privatisation!). The increase range from 5% for large packages overseas (and 23% for UK!) through to 72% for small, single items overseas (and 48% for UK). As always we will do our best to ensure our pricing only reflects the actual cost of packaging and postage.
Title News
Just Planes Sale
 We are pleased to be able offer a 10% discount on all Just Planes titles in our catalogue (155 in total). For more details click here.
Just Planes titles cover passenger and freight carriers across the globe many featuring cockpit rides and others the world's aiports. Pick your favourite airline or airport and chances are it's covered in this great series. Let's take a look at a couple of these:
In Air Canada 777-300ER Just Planes brings you their first program on the B777-300ER and also a rare opportunity to go along on a roundtrip over the Pacific Ocean as we fly nonstop from Toronto to Tokyo Narita Airport and back. Our crew goes through all the flight preparations, briefings, checklists and take their time presenting the 777-300 cockpit in detail. They also go over how Trans Pacific routes operate, where suitable diversion airports are located, the flight bag that Air Canada equips its 777 with, the Date Line and much more.
 If action is what you like in an Airport DVD then Las Vegas Mccarren International - US Airports - 58 a 3 hour program is for you! A total of 340 takeoffs & landings are part of our 1st McCarran DVD which features nearly 50 airlines from the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe and Asia. In addition the program is packed with special livery aircraft from airlines such as Alaska Airlines, America West, Southwest and US Airways.
Capital Transport Publications Sale
We are also please to be able to offer selected Capital Transport Publications titles at 20% off rrp. These include:
OtherThis 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 ... | |
BusesCapital Transport's very well received Colours series visits The South Downs in this new book, which covers Southdown, Portsmouth, Brighton Corporation, BH&D and Eastbourne in a beautiful selection of over 120 colour pictures taken in the late 1950s and 1960s. Detailed captions complete the ... | |
RailwaysThis book celebrates the many styles of station building on the London Underground. None of the original station buildings from 1863 remains, but there are nevertheless some survivors from the time of the opening of the District Railway in 1868, such as Gloucester Road and Bayswater. The tremendous ... | |
RailwaysUsing top quality colour images, this book chronicles the Bluebell Railway's development and progress from humble beginnings to the world-renowned tourist attraction it is today. It will rekindle cherished memories of the Bluebell's early years for older people and provide a fascinating insight ... | |
RailwaysThese brief histories of each Underground line are written by the leading authorities on the history of the system. Each uses photographs, many in colour, from the London Transport Museum archive collection. From the series Illustrated History | |
BusesThe best bus books are like a good novel, a good play or a good film. They should draw you in and take you away to another time and another place and make you feel you are there, experiencing it for real. This book does that. It deals with a period now long gone but, as you turn the pages, the ... | |
Buses, Road VehiclesFrom the first horse-drawn London Bus in 1829, the first double-decker in 1847, the first motor buses at the beginning of the 20th century, the first covered top buses in 1925, the birth of the classic RT and Routemaster buses, and the introduction of low-floor buses in recent times, this small ... | |
RailwaysIn comparison with the posters of London Transport and its predecessors, those of the London County Council Tramways, which date from the twelve years 1922-1933, have had little exposure since they were first displayed at the time of their publication. This book puts matters right, as the LCC ... | |
BusesFrom the author of international best-seller “Metro maps of the world” comes a work so thorough, it is both a gripping read and a thing of beauty. With lush photos and hundreds of beautiful, rare and unusual maps, some seen for the first time since their original publication, this book is a ... | |
TramsThe London United Electric Tramways had style. The system reflected the panache and flamboyance of Sir James Clifton Robinson (1848-1910), its General Manager and guiding light. In the first decade of the twentieth century ‘Robinson's Empire', as it was known colloquially, brought the benefits of ... | |
Railways'It's Quicker By Rail' is probably the most memorable catchphrase coined by the LNER advertising department. This lavishly illustrated books has examples of LNER poster and publicity from 1923 until 1947. | |
RailwaysLondon's underground railways began life as independent companies, built on the money of private investors and banks. The Metropolitan Railway, opened in 1863, was followed by the Hammersmith & City in 1864 and the Metropolitan District Railway in 1868. The first deep-level tube electric railway ... | |
Buses, Road VehiclesRod Lucas is by profession an electronics engineer and has been in bus preservation for many years. Some years earlier and before his entry into preservation, he spent two periods as a full time bus driver and during these times, at the suggestion of his wife, he recorded many of the daily events ... | |
TramsA new history of the MET tram system in north London. Acknowledged tram authority Dr Robert Harley has produced a very readable and paced account which covers details of vehicle design and the tramwayman's life that have not been dealt with elsewhere. Almost all of the accompanying photos are ... | |
RailwaysHow Underground stations might develop and look in the future. | |
BusesCharlie Wyatt began as a conductor on London's trolleybuses in 1951 and became a driver in 1955. He worked throughout his trolleybus career at Finchley depot in north London, here he was on trolleybuses until their last day there. With an exceptional memory, backed up by official documents from the ... | |
Buses, Road VehiclesA Review of the Final Years | |
RailwaysA history of the District Line, this book contains the following chapters: The Beginnings Of The District; The District Looks West; The District In The East; Trains And Services In Steam Days; Moves To Electric Power; Resignalling; Exhibitions; Electrification; Expansion; The Great War; A Balancing ... From the series Illustrated History | |
Trams, Road VehiclesA History Of Trams In The Croydon Area From 1879 To 1951 | |
New Arrivals this week
Buses
Buses, Road VehiclesThe 2012 Stagecoach Bus Handbook is the Nineteenth edition of this volume dedicated to the various bus fleets of Stagecoach Holdings. Although this book has been produced with the encouragement of, and in co-operation with, Stagecoach management, it is not an official Stagecoach fleet list and the ... From the series Bus Handbooks | |
Buses, Road VehiclesBy popular demand we have updated the Notable Independents volume of our English Bus handbooks. The impressive list of fleets included in this 208 page volume includes the former municial operators along with all those popular independent fleets. Updated to late March 2012 | |
BusesThis album shows the progress in London Transport bus and coach design from the vehicles being operated at the time the organisation came into being up to the time its Country Buses were transferred away. Perhaps surprisingly this is the first book to do this in album form. The progress in designs ... | |
Railways
RailwaysThirty-Sixth 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 | |
Bargain Box
For a complete list of bargains in our list of damaged publications click here.
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