Transport Books

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

The privatisation experiment on Britain’s railways will soon be largely over as a new government takes passenger franchises in house – but there re...

Southern Slammers,  Britain's Railways Series Vol 64, The third-rail-powered Southern Region slam-door trains had been operational in one form or a...

Edinburgh's New Trams, Transport Systems Series Vol 14, Towards the end of the last millennium, Edinburgh Council proposed the introduction of a tr...

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...

Stagecoach Transport Systems Series Vol 15; In 1994, the growing Stagecoach group purchased two former London Buses Ltd (LBL) companies, East Lond...

Classes 142, 143, 144, Britain's Railways Series Vol 65, In the 1980s, British Rail introduced a new train type that could operate on local network...

Croydon Transport Transport Systems Series Vol. 13; Today an unprepossessing suburb of London, Croydon has always marked the gateway to the south o...

Steam Trains of the World The Modernisation Plan brought about the demise of steam-powered traction in the United Kingdom, with the last locomotive...

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...

HSTs: London Paddington to Bristol and Cardiff;   Britain's Railways Series Vol. 68;   It is almost 50 years since High Speed Trains (HSTs) were in...