Transport Books

Class 47s Inverness to Dover Western Docks, 1985–86 The mid-1980s brought about a period of change on the rail network, as the first Class 47s to ...

London Transport 1970–84 NOTE: This is a paperback reissue of the much-loved London Transport: 1970–84. London Transport 1970–84 tells the story o...

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...

Merseyside Transport NOTE: This book is a re-issue of the much-loved title, Merseyside Transport Recalled Merseyside can claim, with some justific...

Ledgard of Leeds Buses Focusing on the 1950s and ’60s, this nostalgic look at the iconic Ledgard buses takes the reader on a trip down memory lane...

Daimler Coaches in Colour The Daimler Company was one of the oldest established builders of PSV chassis in the United Kingdom and enjoyed a reputat...

Cornish Railways: Saltash to St Austell This, the first of two volumes covering the railways of Cornwall, follows the railway through the changing ...

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...

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

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...

York Independents: Western Operators This book tells the story of York’s local bus companies including Hopes’ Motor Services, Hutchinson Brothers, ...

Diesels in East Yorkshire This photographic journey illustrates East Yorkshire’s fascinating passenger and freight trains, railway infrastructure,...

Buses Yearbook 2021 Buses Yearbook is an annual publication linked to the monthly Buses Magazine and has been published in various guises every yea...

York Independents Eastern Operators This book, containing over 150 photographs, many in colour, tells the story of stage bus companies, including ...

Class 70s In the late 2000s, Freightliner was looking to expand its locomotive fleet towards more powerful and fuel-efficient locomotives. The new...

Buses Yearbook Published annually since the early 1960s, the 2017 edition of the Buses Yearbook is packed with a varied mix of articles and pho...

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 ...

International Passenger Locomotives Since 1980 As traditional locomotive haulage declined in the UK and many enthusiasts’ favourite classes were wi...

British Sports Cars Britain has been responsible for some of the greatest sports cars ever built – the ‘Blower’ Bentleys of the 1920s, diminutive M...

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...

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

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...

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...

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