Transportation

Canals reached their zenith in the eighteenth century during the Industrial Revolution, before the arrival of the railways usurped their position, whereupon a number of them fell into disrepair and disuse. For many years forgotten, canals and waterways...

The drama of the Cumbrian countryside combined with some of the most powerful diesel and electric locomotives to be found anywhere in Britain. Gordon Edgar's photographs cover every aspect of diesel and electric traction in Cumbria, hauling both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932146229Author Oscar Bryan WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Peninsula PublishingPublisher Peninsula PublishingWeight(grams) 290g

Blackfriars: Theater, Church, and Neighborhood in Early Modern London is a cultural history of an urban enclave best known in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for the incongruous juxtaposition of playing and godly preaching. As the former...

The book covers the history of municipal transport in Luton from the first horse-drawn buses and the town's electric trams, through to the sale of the undertaking in 1970 to United Counties, the bus company which dominated services in the rest of...

The rapid disappearance of steam from British Railways in the late 1960s was a bitter blow for the thousands of railway enthusiasts who had been brought up with the sounds, smells and sheer excitement of steam power. The industrial railways of Britain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620922880Author Editors of Haynes ManualsFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Haynes Manuals IncPublisher Haynes Manuals IncWeight(grams)...

Since the dawn of aviation at the start of the twentieth century, men and aircraft have been falling out of the sky, sometimes with comical results and sometimes with tragic endings. In Wight Air Wrecks Andrew Gilliam tells the story of every crash on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901703221Author Roy FentonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Ships in Focus PublicationsPublisher Ships in Focus PublicationsWeight(grams) 1140g

AUTHOR OF SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, LIFE TO THE LIMITIn his 17 years as a Formula 1 driver, Jenson Button has picked up a thing or two about how to do the job properly. Sure, you need to be able to drive a car fast - and Jenson is on hand to pass on a few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850109211Author Haynes PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Haynes Manuals IncPublisher Haynes Manuals IncWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588345615Author Samme ChittumFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228815006Author Rorke BryanFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985035303Author William PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Old Machine PressPublisher Old Machine PressWeight(grams) 178g

Over the course of several volumes, Allen Jackson uses an array of photographs to lavishly illustrate the story of signalling in the principal constituents of the LNER - continuing here with the first volume of the story of the North Eastern Railway in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900340465Author Michael ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Mainline & MaritimePublisher Mainline & Maritime

Renowned throughout the world as a centre for engineering excellence, the Swindon Works of the former Great Western Railway hold a special place in the affections of rail enthusiasts. Former Swindon apprentice Ken Gibbs remembers the sights, sounds,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858952413Author Paul ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupDimensions(mm) 238mm * 172mm * 8mm

Comprehensively revised and updated, the second edition of this widely regarded text reflects the changing environment within international airline training. With particular emphasis on human factors, crew resource management (CRM), crew and...

Volume II covers: JG 53 Pik-As, JG 54 Grunherz, JG 77 Herz-As, JG 300, JG 301, JG 302 Wilde Sau, and JG 400.Book InformationISBN 9780887407529Author Bernd BarbasFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing...

Driven by the sudden realisation that steam had all but disappeared on his 'local' GE line, David Christie set about initially recording the London termini, but was then spurred on to record as much as possible on the whole of BR before it was too late. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780141001821Author Nathaniel PhilbrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

This practical book presents fundamental principles and identifies the separate systems (fuel, cooling, etc.). In this revision, current information is supplied for electronic diesel engines. It presents the conventional Mechanical Fuel Injection...

Western SMT became the dominant bus operator in Renfrewshire after the Second World War, buying out competitors, but they never had a monopoly, with independents and other operators still running services. Independents such as Cunningham's, Graham's,...

'Stations and Lineside Views in and Around London' features photographs taken by retired British Medical Council researcher/author Dr B. W. L. Brooksbank and captions by railway author Peter Tuffrey. The photographs span the last years of steam traction...

"The photographs and artwork will enable readers to grasp the magnificence of the transoceanic flying boats...The accurate, authoritative text will provide information that is new to all but the exceptionally well-informed aviation buff and nonspecialist...

With photos taken in Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, the West Country, London and beyond, Peter Horrex takes the reader on an illuminating tour around England's modern bus scene, covering a period of almost thirty years. During this time there has not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604520460Author James Patrick BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bluewaterpress LLCPublisher Bluewaterpress LLCWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our...

A rare and enjoyable sight, double-headed trains are always guaranteed to delight any lineside enthusiast. With nearly two hundred stunning images, published here for the first time, Dave Smith offers a fascinating collection of photographs capturing...

This book covers every aspect of the dry docking of sea going vessels. It provides a guide to industry for the different dock types and docking procedures inclusive of material management, steelwork operations and dry dock legislation. Many thousands of...

With off-road driving becoming more and more popular and taking drivers to ever more challenging destinations, the time has never been better for this essential guide to surviving the many challenges come across during these adventures. Covering areas...

A trip across the Pacific turns into a life or death scenario when the crew of the HMS Bounty stages a revolt against their commander. The Bounty Mutiny tells the controversial story of the mutineers and the acting lieutenant who sparked a movement. ...

In the age of steam it seemed that every little boy had an ambition to be an engine driver - even the notoriously anti-railway Charles Dickens thought there was something alluring about the role. Becoming an engine driver is still an ambition of many,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620923429Author Haynes PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Haynes Manuals IncPublisher Haynes Manuals Inc

Between 1982 and 2015, Showbus, Britain's largest bus rally, was, with the exception of 2013, held at two sites. The first was the stately home of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, but in 1993 the rally moved to IWM Duxford near Cambridge. Modern and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627008617Author Art PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Kalmbach MediaPublisher Kalmbach MediaWeight(grams) 898gDimensions(mm) 278mm * 212mm *...

In the late 1950s and '60s, steam motive power depots attracted railway enthusiasts like pins to a magnet. There was no need to wait on a platform for something to turn up; particularly at weekends and evenings, sheds would be packed with machines...

Motorcycle riders from all walks of life-from Main Street to Wall Street, Hollywood to Washington, D.C.-are invited to peel back their "badass" masks and answer one simple question: What is the meaning of life? Their answers expose the motorcycle...

In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider's account of the rapid transit system's inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operations, "warts and all." Written with a master...