Key Books

British Rail Shunters: From Corporate Blue to Sectorisation The role of British Rail’s (BR) diesel shunters was increasingly threatened by the la...

Class 73s Built in the 1960s, the Class 73s were primarily used on the Southern Region, owing to their ability to operate from either a diesel engi...

British Rail Shunters: The Final Years By the beginning of the 1990s, the variety that once characterised British Rail’s (BR) shunter fleet had all...

Class 68s In 2009, Direct Rail Services (DRS) ordered a small fleet of locos designed to remain in service until at least 2036 to futureproof its c...

Class 31s Perhaps overshadowed by more ‘exotic’ locomotives, the Class 31s played a significant part in British Railways’ Modernisation Plan. Inten...

Class 57s The Class 57 diesel locomotive was an outgrowth of the tremendously successful and iconic Class 47. Rebuilt from redundant Class 47s by B...

Class 56s and 58s Designed specifically for heavy freight operations in the UK, British Rail’s Class 56 was introduced in 1976–84. The first 30 of ...

Class 37s, vol 2 The Class 37s have been in service for six decades and can still be seen in a variety of places. Most notable for the Class is the...

Electrostar: Capital Commuter At the turn of the millennium, a large percentage of the passenger services around London and the south-east were ope...

Heritage DMUs: The Final Years At the beginning of the privatisation era of Britain’s railways, there was a pause in new rolling stock deliveries. ...

Greater Manchester Transport: A Darker Shade of Orange Great change was afoot for Manchester’s buses in the 1970s. The region’s long-established mu...

Irish Railways: 100 Years The 100 years since the Irish Free State was set up in 1923 has seen enormous change, both in society and on the railways...

London’s Advert Buses A fixture of London Transport in the 1970s, the all-over advert bus was relaunched by the modern Transport for London (TfL) a...

Classic American Sedans of the 1950s: The Four-Doors In the new ‘baby boomer’ era of postwar North America, newly prosperous young families in the ...

Rossendale Transport to Rosso: The Last 10 Years of Municipal Buses Motor bus operation in the Rossendale Valley boroughs of Haslingden and Rawtens...

London Buses: Review of 1998 A quarter of a century ago, the red bus fleets of the former London Buses Ltd (LBL) were privatised. By 1998, the resu...

AC Electrics: 86, 87, 90 and DVTs Built in 1965–66, the 100 Class 86 electric locomotives worked passenger and freight trains on the newly electrif...

AC Electrics: 91, 92 and DVTs Following the electrification of the East Coast Main Line (ECML) between London King’s Cross and Edinburgh, 31 Class ...

Metroline: After London Transport When London Buses Ltd.'s subsidiary companies were privatised in the autumn of 1994, Metroline, serving a large s...

Buses Yearbook 2025 follows a proven format with a mixture of articles on current and historic developments, strictly factual ones and others of a ...

Classes 20-27 Britain's Railways Series; By far the most reliable of the many types of early British Railways diesel locomotives, the Class 20s (or...

The Car: A History of the World in 150 Cars; Non Series; Where might we have been for the last century without the car? Henry Ford saw the potentia...

London Buses: Review of 2023 2023 proved to be a much more stable year than its predecessor. Although cuts continued to sweep through a perennially...

Armoured Vehicles of the Iraq War More than a decade after the end of the Gulf War, the US, supported by the UK, invaded Iraq, rationalising this d...