Public Transportation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338935Author Stuart EmmettFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The 1980s was a decade of change in the bus industry. 1980 itself saw the Market Analysis Project (MAP), which, although primarily aimed at subsidiary companies of the NBC in an attempt to recast local bus networks and identify which services would...

This book takes a look at the most popular type of bus - the open-top bus. Although most often associated with the seaside and summer holidays, they often turn up further inland, on tourist services around towns - London being the obvious example. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908347305Author Martin S. CurtisFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Nostalgia Road Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338348Author John SinclairFormat PaperbackImprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945133Author David ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupDimensions(mm) 169mm * 238mm * 5mm

Dumfries and Galloway - the historic counties of Dumfriesshire, the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright and Wigtownshire - is a largely rural area of south-west Scotland. The main operator in the area since the 1950s was the nationalised Western SMT company but a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144140Author Peter AvesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

As trams and other light rapid transit systems make a comeback in many British cities this volume, the second of three, looks at all the tramways that have operated in the towns and cities of central England, Wales and Ireland, with lines as far apart as...

Advertising on public transport in the UK has been common practice since the early days of the horse-drawn bus. Vehicle sides were a good means of advertisers' products being seen across cities and towns and brought in additional income to operators. The...

David Devoy was first introduced to many of the independent Lanarkshire bus fleets back in the 1960s when he saw many of them on football hires to Glasgow, and on a school trip to visit a railway signal box in Motherwell which produced a street full of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912654338Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

Ernest Sheasby arrived in the small village of Corfe Castle in Dorset around 1896. After ten years in employment, he set up shop with a horse and carriage business. During the next few years, the business grew, Sheasby purchased motor vehicles and two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338607Author Stuart EmmettFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 176mm * 235mm * 4mm

The start of the twenty-first century saw a flurry of bus activity at Stratford in East London to provide services to the Millennium Dome - this proved to be largely unneeded. Far more significant was the award of the Olympic Games to London in 2012,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144065Author Malcolm KeeleyFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338614Author Stuart EmmettFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 176mm * 235mm * 4mm

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,...

Since 1990, there have been a number of major changes to bus operations in the East Anglia region. Major operators have continued to grow, while some independent operators that had come into existence as a result of deregulation in 1986 have since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338836Author John SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337730Author John SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Cities across the globe have been designed with a primary goal of moving people around quickly--and the costs are becoming ever more apparent. The consequences are measured in smoggy air basins, sprawling suburbs, unsafe pedestrian environments, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617563Author J.H. McGuiganFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The London to Brighton run, held each year by the Historic Commercial Vehicle Society, is a key date in the diary of any vintage vehicle enthusiast or member of the preservation community. David Christie attended the run on a number of occasions between...

Transport managers perform an essential and rewarding function in society, controlling the infrastructure that allows people and goods to move around conveniently and swiftly. However, it is also highly demanding work. In clear, jargon-free language,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711037175Author Mike GreenwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

The Enviro400 was introduced in 2005 and has become a popular model among bus operators around the UK, as well as in Hong Kong. Initially available as a diesel, the model was adapted to a hybrid example known as the Enviro400 H. With a small change in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854143792Author Mick WebberFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338850Author Stuart EmmettFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 176mm * 235mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854143808Author Brian TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903016220Author Dr. Alan EarnshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Trans-Pennine Publishing LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995749320Author Peter WallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Unique BooksPublisher Unique Publishing Services Ltd

This book covers many variants of the long-lived Leyland PD marque, photographed throughout Britain from 1967 into the seventies. Coming from the south, the author was more familiar with the AEC and the more throaty sound of a PD2, even from London's...

Author Stan Yorke takes a look at the story of public transport, explaining how services developed into the system we are familiar with today. From horse-drawn coaches and trams to trains and buses, with stops on the way to take in the genius of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944501Author Henry ConnFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Kelvin Central Buses came together as a result of a merger between Kelvin Scottish and Central Scottish, both companies created by the Scottish Bus Group in 1985 as it prepared for deregulation in 1989. In 1991 ownership of Kelvin Scottish passed to its...

Transit and cities grow together. As cities work to become more compact, sustainable, and healthy, their work is paying dividends: in 2014, Americans took 10.8 billion trips on public transit, the highest since the dawn of the highway era. But most of...

The McKindless bus company started off as a small operation of a few buses, a lorry and two coaches in 1987, and traded under the name of Chartered Coaches. Its aim was to provide school contracts and private hires, but it quickly moved into local bus...

Shuttle Buses, based in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, celebrates thirty years in business in 2020. During that time it has grown from running two Ford Transit minibuses to a modern fleet of fifty-five buses and coaches operating throughout south-west Scotland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854143389Author Robert J. HarleyFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing