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First published for Christmas 1963, the Buses Yearbook offers a mix of chapters and photo features on matters topical and nostalgic. These include ...

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

British Buses Since 1950: Trendsetting Designs Bus design has certainly evolved in the seven decades since 1950, but it has not been a steady proc...

Alexander Dennis Buses Three of the best-known names in the history of British bus building, Alexander, Dennis and Plaxton, have survived the uncer...

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...

London Bus Routes One by One: 1 100 Though they seem as immutable and traditional as the city they serve, London’s bus routes are always changing....

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

London Bus Routes One by One: 301–969 In times of old, the numbers 300–499 were restricted to the green buses of the London Transport Country Area,...

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...

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

Low-Floor Single-Deckers In the 1980s, a new breed of accessible bus was being developed, with stepless entrances and flat floors. These were firs...

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...

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

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...

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...

London Bus Routes One by One: 201–300 Following on from London Bus Routes One by One: 101–200, this volume looks at the highest numbers of the bloc...

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...

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...

Yorkshire Dales Buses The West Yorkshire Road Car Company’s routes from Skipton and Ilkley up into Wharfedale, Wensleydale and Swaledale are some ...

The Leyland Atlantean NOTE: This is a paperback reissue of the much-loved The Leyland Atlantean. The Leyland Atlantean revolutionised bus layouts ...

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

Buses and Coaches 1945–70: From Contemporary Adverts From 1945 to 1970, trade press advertisements for buses and coaches changed considerably, as t...