Public Transportation

The world's railways were almost entirely created by capital and empire for extraction and exploitation, so what right do they have to exist and how can they be harnessed for good? Railway engineer and writer Gareth Dennis builds a case not simply for...

The adventure filled memoir from the world's most beloved trainspotter, TikTok sensation Francis Bourgeois.'Francis is one of the kindest, most genuine people I've met in a long time. His passion and unadulterated happiness is inspiring. I can't wait for...

A BOOK TO BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY - A GIFT OF HOPE, COMFORT, POSITIVITY, OPENNESS AND LOVE FOR ANY OCCASION - INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM THE TFL UNDERGOUND DUOTransport for London employees and dynamic masked duo, All on the Board (aka Jeremy and Ian), made it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906512712Author Harry JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint SwordWorks BooksPublisher SwordWorks BooksWeight(grams) 190gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Madeira Bus & Touring Map - 8th Edition. Madeira's most popular map has been updated for its 8th edition. Madeira Island road map, at 60k scale, based on our latest Madeira Tour & Trail Map (40k scale) is combined with a Greater Funchal Street Plan...

Who travelling through Totteridge and Whetstone is aware that the station got its name from the medieval soldiers who sharpened their swords at the whetstone before the bloody Battle of Barnet? Or that Canary Wharf was built for importing fruit from the...

Transit Maps of the World is the first, comprehensive collection of every rapid-transit system on earth. Using glorious, colourful graphics, Mark Ovenden traces the history of urban transport systems, including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and...

Few transportation maps can boast the pedigree that London's iconic Tube' map can. Sported on t-shirts, keyrings, duvet covers, and most recently, downloaded an astonishing twenty million times in app form, the map remains a long-standing icon of...

The origins of Leyland lorries are found in steam wagon manufacture in the town of Leyland, Lancashire. The manufacturer, then known as the Lancashire Steam Motor Company, was established in 1884. By 1904 the first petrol-engined lorry was built and in...

The Plaxton Supreme was the epitome of classic British coachbuilding and was the most popular British-built coach body of the 1970s and 1980s. Its high-floor cousin, the Viewmaster, was the first high-floor coach produced by a British coachbuilder and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902953786Author Andrew WiltshireFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bernard McCallPublisher Bernard McCall

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144669Author Malcolm Keeley Roger TorodeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144249Author Peter AvesFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Living in a 1966 Albion Chieftain lorry, converted to a home, Traveller Dave has spent much of the past two decades in Europe, working on farms and travelling around, all the time taking photographs of the other interesting traveller homes he has seen...

London's traditional Night Bus network was once small, infrequent and little used. That changed from April 1984 when London Transport expanded the network to serve more districts and increased service frequencies. Subsequent social changes increased...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913555139Author Peter WallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Unique BooksPublisher Unique Publishing Services Ltd

UPDATED 2018. This wonderfully illustrated book begins with a history of the truck, covering its origins, evolution, and the early pioneers of truck design and engineering. A wide variety of trucks are featured, with more than 700 photographs, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943337Author Alan J. HaighFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789557084Author John NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 457g

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERS, ALL ON THE BOARD, COMES YOUR DAILY COMPANION - BRINGING YOU COMFORT AND INSPIRATION FROM MORNING THROUGH TO NIGHT, FOR YOUR EVERY MOOD, EMOTION AND EVENTUALITY.All On The Board are continuing on their mission to lift...

Arriva Merseyside was created in 2000, when Arriva purchased MTL Trust Holdings, becoming and remaining the largest operator in the Liverpool City region and providing approximately 70 per cent of the bus services in the area. The acquisition moved...

Merseyside can claim, with some justification, to have provided the transport enthusiast with a greater variety of transport modes than anywhere else in Britain. By the 1950s, with many long-standing scenes about to disappear, photographers began...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913870881Author Matthew WharmbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Key Publishing LtdPublisher Key Publishing Ltd

Edinburgh is reputed to have more buildings designated as of 'special architectural or historic interest' than any other city in the world. These range from rows of Georgian terraced houses and individual Victorian tenement blocks to such diverse...

For many years, Plaxton of Scarborough has been at the forefront of British coachbuilding and has been the leading light in design and technological advancement on numerous occasions. During the 1960s, the Panorama was the best-selling British-built...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144485Author Malcolm Keeley Roger TorodeFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Having inherited various fleets in Essex and Kent, Arriva serve a number of locations throughout these two counties. They also operate out of the former London Transport garage in Harlow and own the former municipal businesses of Colchester and Southend...

Formed in 1969, four years later in 1972 the state-owned National Bus Company introduced a corporate livery and identity for all its subsidiary companies and continued as such until the early 1980s, except within the Tyne & Wear and West Yorkshire PTEs...

Peter Tucker presents a photographic survey of London's red buses from his teenage years in the 1990s to the present day. Buses featured in this colourful publication include the classic AEC Routemaster, the sophisticated Leyland Titan, the sturdy MCW...

Launched by Transbus in 2004, the original Enviro 200 mode was not a success. The Enviro 200 was relaunched in 2006, this new model becoming more successful. The new model was taken into stock by many London operators, replacing older single-deckers in...

It will make you laugh and it will make you cry: Felix The Railway Cat is the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling, extraordinary tale of a close-knit community and its amazing bond with a very special cat. 'The global sensation' Daily Telegraph________ When Felix...

From author David Christie's home town in Essex, the Green Line route 721 (by RCL) was the usual way of getting to London - into Aldgate, one of his haunts as a young spotter in the '50s. From there a walk along to Bank, Aldwych, Trafalgar Square then...

London Passenger Transport Board inherited a number of small buses from various independent operators during the early 1930s, followed by the introduction of the Leyland Cub around the same period. The introduction of the big-bus policy saw many of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916517035Author Don RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers LtdPublisher Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers Ltd

As capital of Scotland, Edinburgh has always boasted a bus service to be proud of. The municipal operator survived deregulation and avoided becoming part of the big bus groups that expanded rapidly throughout the UK. The company transformed from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789556674Author John NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 298g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802582253Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

Moquette is the carpet-like fabric covering the seats we sit on in London's Tubes, buses, trams and Overground trains - and here is a brilliantly colourful guide to all its patterns. London Transport has always wanted the best design, be it Charles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898758198Author Chris CheekFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Passenger Transport MonitorPublisher Passenger Transport MonitorWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609499150Author Kevin PharrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 152mm *...