Books

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

Railways of South West Scotland: Two Generations of Photography Two generations of railway photography of the southwest of Scotland from 1960–80 an...

US Air Forces in Europe: The 1980s The US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) rapidly expanded its presence in the 1980s, as it became the most dangerous ...

Military Jeeps In 2021, the Jeep celebrated its 80th anniversary. Without doubt it is one of the world’s most famous automobiles. The utility 4x4 m...

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...

Low-Floor Double-Deckers In just under 25 years, double-deck buses in the UK have undergone a transformation. Every double-decker in standard servi...

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

North Korean Aviation: An Eyewitness Account In 2016, North Korea hosted its first airshow and invited foreign visitors to watch. Unlike most airsh...

The US military stores more than 3,000 aircraft in the Arizona desert at AMARG, the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group facility. Ho...

707: Boeing’s First Jetliner The first widely used commercial jet, the Boeing 707, brought America into the ‘Jet Age’ of the late 1950s and created...

Hornby Magazine Yearbook No. 14 - 2022 Hardback Collector s EditionThe fourteenth edition of the Hornby Magazine Yearbook features 128 pages of mod...

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...