Books

RAF Transport Aircraft From their modest origins with BE.2c and Vickers Victoria biplanes delivering food and ammunition in the Mesopotamian desert...

London Bus Routes One by One: A10–X140 This fifth and final London bus routes volume looks at the route numbers with letter prefixes. They derive f...

Class 442: The Wessex Electrics First introduced in the late 1980s, the Class 442s were like nothing that had been seen before in terms of Southern...

Irish Railways: The Last 60 Years By the end of the 1950s, steam had already mostly disappeared from passenger work in the Republic of Ireland, yet...

Surviving World War Two Tanks in the Ardennes There are more than 40 surviving World War Two tanks, self-propelled guns, tank destroyers, tank hunt...

Soviet-Era Airliners When the Soviet Union fell in December 1991, there were close to 3,500 assorted Soviet-built airliners that could be deemed o...

Class 47s: From Inverness to Penzance 1982–85 The Class 47 diesel locomotives were a mainstay of British Rail with 512 built in the 1960s. They wer...

Cornish Rail: St Austell to Penzance This, the second of two volumes covering the railways of Cornwall, follows the railway through the beautiful ...

The Railways and Britain’s Nuclear Industry This book is about the important role played by the nation’s railways in Britain’s nuclear industry and...

Bristol Lodekka NOTE: This book is a re-issue of the much-loved title Bristol Lodekka in colour. Lodekka buses first appeared in service in the l...

The Last of the Welsh Coal Trains Despite the substantial decline of coal mining in the UK over the last three decades, until recently, coal was s...

London Transport 1949–74 NOTE: This is a paperback reissue of the much-loved Twenty-Five Years of London Transport: 1949–74. London Transport was f...

Su-57 Felon In December 2020, the first Sukhoi Su-57, codenamed Felon by NATO, entered service with the Aerospace Forces, making it Russia’s most ...

Britain’s Military Helicopters A key component in any armed force, helicopters operate in a range of roles. Thanks to their ability to go anywhere...

Rail Freight: Wales and the Borders The changes to rail freight in Wales and the Borders since the 1980s have been dramatic and often the result o...

Surviving D-Day Tanks in Normandy This guide examines the surviving World War Two tanks, tank turrets and other armoured fighting vehicles current...

Avro 748 The 748 was a highly successful commercial airliner, and since the 1960s had been the go-to aircraft to open new air routes in many corner...

Classic British Motorcycles: An Illustrated History From its origins at the turn of the 20th century, British motorcycle manufacturing developed to...

The Go-Ahead Group: The First 25 Years NOTE: This is a paperback reissue of the much-loved The Go-Ahead Group. Go-Ahead began life as the Gateshea...

Canadian Pacific in the Rockies The Canadian Pacific Railway was built to unite all the Canadian Provinces with a transcontinental line running fro...

Railways of Central Scotland 2016–20 The last two decades have seen many changes to the railways of Central Scotland with different ownership of p...

Western Class Locomotives Unusually for a large class of locomotives, all Western Class locomotives had the same prefix. They were designed by and...

Class 70s In the late 2000s, Freightliner was looking to expand its locomotive fleet towards more powerful and fuel-efficient locomotives. The new...

Land Rover Series One 1948–58 The Land Rover was a post-war marvel, a vehicle that helped change the face of motoring on and off-road around the w...