Transportation

Second Generation DMUs in Scotland covers the modern diesel multiple units introduced by BR from 1981. It features locations from across Scotland, and also looks at Carlisle. This book covers units from the experimental Class 140s, introduced in 1981, to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997432220Author Christin ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Bunch PublishingPublisher Bunch PublishingWeight(grams) 240g

Bon vivant, railroad historian, photographer, pioneering food critic, chronicler of New York's cafe society, and noted newspaperman, Lucius Beebe (1902-1966) was an American original. In 1938, with the publication of High Iron: A Book of Trains, he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943825Author Philip HortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858951638Author Paul ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901706093Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911703136Author Gavin GlenisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 297Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 328gDimensions(mm)...

A commemorative history of the railways of the beautiful Oxfordshire district 'Vale of the White Horse', running twenty-seven miles from Steventon to Wootton Bassett. The book spans the history of the route from the opening in 1840 until 1965, when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423641889Author Paul LacitinolaFormat HardbackPage Count 199Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith IncWeight(grams) 1111gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557885685Author Mark WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint H.P.Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 498g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906008338Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Since the 1860s trains have conveyed crushed limestone from Derbyshire to the soda ash and chemicals works in mid-Cheshire. By the 1930s a new higher capacity design of wagon was needed, and so the 'Hoppers' were built by Charles Roberts for Imperial...

This book covers United States presidential aircraft including Boeing Clippers, DC-6s, C-54s, Constellations, 707s and 747s, as well as a variety of Air Force and Marine Corps support aircraft.Book InformationISBN 9780764311871Author Bill HolderFormat...

This collection of 168 colour photographs, which date from 1958 to 1967, features the Western Region of B.R., formerly the territory of the Great Western Railway, and its motive power. Bill Reed took the pictures during a number of visits to stations,...

Starting in 1965, when Swift found success with its early models, this book follows the development of Swift Caravans to the present day, where it has grown into a multi-brand leisure vehicle producer. The author describes the early models, which became...

Commercial flying in Britain began after the First World War, but Croydon Aerodome had been in use since December 1915 when it was established as part of London's air defences; aircraft from Croydon attacked Zeppelins in 1916. The aerodrome was west of...

The first book to provide a historical overview and stunning photography of train stations on five continents: Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand, and The Americas! A lot has happened in the world of railroads since the...

Midland Red Style is the first book in a new series looking at design in all its aspects in some of Britain's best loved bus companies. The reader is able to follow the visual developments in vehicle, infrastructure and printed publicity design up to the...

The bus scene around Southampton and its surrounding towns in the 1970s and early 1980s was one of change. The National Bus Company had been set up in 1970 as part of the 1968 Transport Act. This brought together the former nationalised Transport Holding...

Following the monograph devoted to the Lui, this latest volume focuses on another iconic Lambretta the TV-LI Series I. In the history of the Lambretta, the TV and LI Series I laid the foundations of a new engineering concept that revolutionised the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858951126Author Chris MilnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Past & Present Publishing LtdPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 373g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944570Author Henry ConnFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Rex Conway's first book, Rex Conway's Steam Album, was a wonderful miscellany of images that introduced a remarkable archive of railway photographs. This book takes the reader on a steam-hauled journey on the Southern Region throughout its journey around...

Before Amelia is the remarkable story of the world's women pioneer aviators who braved the skies during the early days of flight. While most books have only examined the women aviators of a single country, Eileen Lebow looks at an international spectrum...

The Coupe d'Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider (commonly called the Schneider Trophy, or prize or cup) was a prize competition for seaplanes. Announced by Jacques Schneider, a financier, balloonist and aircraft enthusiast, in 1911, it offered a prize of...

The West Coast Main Line, which runs from London Euston to Glasgow Central with branches to Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool, has historically been Britain's most important trunk route, giving it a rich and interesting history, not just in terms of...

London City Airport was first conceived as part of the regeneration of the London Docklands at the start of the 1980s, a pilot landing on Heron Quays to prove it could be done. Built on the land between the Royal Albert Dock and the King George V Dock,...

By the turn of the 1960s, steam traction on Britain's railways was within its last decade and for a group of young enthusiasts living in Carlisle, there was always the urge to travel to other parts of the country to photograph steam locomotives, which in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620923177Author Editors of Haynes ManualsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Haynes Manuals IncPublisher Haynes Manuals Inc

Every manual is written from hands-on experience gained from stripping down and rebuilding each vehicle in the Haynes Project Workshop. The practical step-by-step instructions and clear photos are easy to follow and provide information on maintenance,...

The Great Western Railway at Swindon, with its highly skilled craftsmen, is world-famous. It has been written about and filmed countless times, and many of its old steam locomotives have been saved from the scrapyards and lovingly rebuilt to run again on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857041975Author Roger FoggFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Yerkes' impact upon London was seismic and his legacy controversial. He made his fortune in the Chicago Street railways but his shady deals and turbulent private life led him to London seeking a new playground, having married his latest mistress, 40...

The city of Peterborough stands about 75 miles north of London on the East Coast Main Line (ECML). It is one of the railway's most important interchanges for both passenger and freight traffic; the services north and south are complemented by one of the...

Croydon Airport, opened as a Royal Flying Corps aerodrome in 1916, had a short but important history before closing in 1959 after being replaced by Heathrow as London's main airport. One of Europe's most important airports in the inter-war period,...

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...

With photographs supported by introductory text, track layouts, operating instructions and timetables brought to life by the reminiscences of people who worked in the area, "Railway Memories No 15" recalls the busy railway network serving the...

The nineteenth century was a time of innovation and expansion across the industrial landscape, and nowhere more so than on the railways, as the new age of iron, steel and steam, literally, gathered pace. At the head of the race up was the iconic Great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906919733Author Ian SixsmithFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Irwell PressPublisher Irwell Press

New additions to the automotive market are judged primarily by efficiency or fuel consumption. Things are quite different for historical cars. Major car shows, from Pebble Beach to Villa d'Este, feature classic cars, which, although they may not achieve...