Books

Brush Type 4 to Class 47s – The First 20 Years It is 60 years since the first Class 47, No D1500, entered service with British Railways (BR). For m...

Rail Freight: The Midlands From the busy West Coast and Midland main lines to the thriving quarries of Leicestershire and intermodal terminals in a...

Bradford Trolleybuses: The Later Years and Closure After every rise, there comes a fall, and for Bradford’s trolleybuses their demise began soon a...

Lines of the West Highlands The lines to the West Highlands start their journey in the heart of Central Scotland and were built to link up with por...

Bradford Trolleybuses: The Early Years and Jubilee Celebrations Bradford trolleybuses were the first and the last of their kind in the UK – introdu...

Railways in Northern Lincolnshire: Four Decades of Change Set against the contrasting rural and industrial scenery of northern Lincolnshire, this b...

Class 47s: Inverness to Newquay 1986–87 In the mid-1980s, the winds of change were blowing through British Rail and often not for the good; the pac...

LOT Polish Airlines: Wings of Central Europe The first traces of Polish aviation can be found in 1910. However, one of the first fully domestic air...

Royal Navy and Army Helicopters of the 1970s and ’80s In the 1970s and ’80s, helicopters provided immeasurable support to the Royal Navy and the Ar...

Class 50s During the mid-1960s, British Rail (BR) was looking to introduce a high-powered diesel locomotive to improve services on the West Coast M...

Strategic Air Command The end of World War Two brought new challenges for US homeland security. The advent of the nuclear age and the changing worl...

Class 66: 3/4/7/8 In the late 1990s, English, Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS) had led the way with its Class 66s. As other operators followed suit...

Class 66/0 In the late 1990s, most of the current locomotives in use on the national network were becoming very tired and evermore unreliable. It w...

Varig Star of Brazil Founded in 1927 by German immigrant Otto Ernst Meyer, Varig was one of Brazil’s earliest airlines. Serving a domestic network ...

HSTs: Around Britain: From 1990 to the Present Day For almost 50 years, High Speed Trains (HSTs) have been the mainstay for express services for ma...