Transport Books

HSTs: The Western Region From the late 1970s, for more than 40 years, the High-Speed Train (HST) was the mainstay of express services for many tra...

British Multiple Units Multiple units are the unsung heroes of the modern railway system. Their many advantages include higher capacity, less trac...

Germany’s Railways Germany was re-unified in 1990. For the country’s rail system, the complex task of unifying two networks with very different rol...

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 ...

Class 60s The Class 60 was the last British-built diesel locomotive design and 100, in total, went to Railfreight. Privatisation saw the class bei...

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...

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...

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...

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

Highland Railways: Four Decades of Diesel Traction North of Perth Set against a backdrop of Scotland’s Highlands, this book illustrates the area’s ...

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

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. ...

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

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...

Making the Range Rover Legend: The 1971–72 British Trans-Americas Expedition In 1971, a British Army team undertook the challenge of driving the Pa...

Class 67s In the late 1990s, English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) ordered a large fleet of 250 Class 66 locomotives to replace a variety of ...

Class 159s: 30 Years’ Service By the late 1980s, the Class 50 and Class 47 locomotives working Network SouthEast’s West of England line from London...

Canals and Railways of Wiltshire A network of inland waterways criss-cross the length and breadth of the country. Constructed in the late 18th cent...

Class 59s In the mid-1980s, one of British Rail’s major customers of heavy block trains, Foster Yeoman, suggested the unusual arrangement of runnin...

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 ...

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...

Cornish Rail: St Austell to Penzance This, the second of two volumes covering the railways of Cornwall, follows the railway through the beautiful ...