Books

Main Line Passenger Trains: In and Around London A complex web of train tracks weave through and around the capital city, transporting people and g...

Finland’s Air Forces: From Neutral to NATO Sharing a 1,340km-long land border with Russia, and with an uneasy history between the countries, Finlan...

French Naval Aviation Over the last two decades, the Aéronautique Navale, French Naval Aviation, has grown into a powerful and battle-hardened forc...

The Paras in Afghanistan In 2021, the British Army’s 20-year engagement in Afghanistan ended with chaotic scenes at Kabul International Airport. Th...

British Interwar Aircraft When the RAF was formed in 1918, Great Britain boasted the largest air force in the world, but it was not to last. As soo...

London Bus Routes One by One: 301–969 In times of old, the numbers 300–499 were restricted to the green buses of the London Transport Country Area,...

Water Bombers Combatting the world’s forest fires from the air is the remit of water bomber aircraft. This book reviews the past and the current se...

Turkish Airlines: The Istanbul Superconnector Turkish Airlines’ origins go back to 1933, when the Turkish government established the State Airlines...

Rail Freight: Scotland In the early 1980s, Ravenscraig steel works was the biggest source of rail freight north of the border. Wagonload freight st...

West Coast Main Line Locomotive Haulage The West Coast Main Line (WCML), which runs from London Euston to Glasgow Central with branches to Manchest...

Class 59s In the mid-1980s, one of British Rail’s major customers of heavy block trains, Foster Yeoman, suggested the unusual arrangement of runnin...

British Midland Airways British Midland Airways existed under different identities for more than 70 years, during which time it grew from a flying ...