Here’s to a New Year of Great Reading

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

Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines is one of the world’s longest serving and most successful carriers. With a fleet of more than 900 aircraft serving ...

East Coast Main Line Locomotive Haulage The East Coast Main Line (ECML) runs from London King’s Cross to Edinburgh Waverley, with branches to Leeds...

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...

American Aviation: The First Half Century The story of American aviation in the first half of the 20th century is one of innovation, industry, comm...

KA-52 Hokum The Ka-50 (NATO reporting name: Hokum A) helicopter made its maiden flight on 17 June 1982. After undergoing extensive tests and tweaks...

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...

Douglas DC-3 NOTE: Previously published as Aeroplane Classic Airliner: The Douglas DC-3. Although many early aircraft were designed to carry passen...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Rail Freight: Yorkshire and North East England In the early 1980s, coal was the lifeblood of many rail lines in Yorkshire and the North East, with...

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

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

London Bus Routes One by One: 101–200 Following on from London Bus Routes One by One: 1–100, this volume takes a look at the next 100 routes in Tra...

British Fighters of the 1970s and ’80s Two of the RAF s most memorable aircraft are the English Electric Lightning and the McDonnell Phantom. The ...

Fairey 1915–60 NOTE: This is a new edition of Fairey Company Profile 1915–1960. One of the many ingredients required for creating a great aircraft ...

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 ...

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

Class 47s: Jack Of All Trades In 1962, construction of the first Class 47 began – the first of many. These ubiquitous locomotives were very popular...