Transport Industries

Covering the period from 1948 to 1996, The Times End of the Line chronologically traces the history of more than 400 long forgotten railway lines, ...

What are the best transit cities in the US? The best Bus Rapid Transit lines? The most useless rail transit lines? The missed opportunities? In ...

Have you ever watched wagon after wagon of a goods train thunder past and wondered where it is heading, what it is carrying, and how it works its w...

NAVIGATING AND ENGINEERING OFFICERS REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY FOR VERY LARGE CRUDE OIL CARRIER. TANKER EXPERIENCE PREFERRED. - Lloyds List and Shipping ...

Conspiracy theories of sabotage, murder and even UFOs flourish around the greatest unsolved mysteries of aviation from the twentieth century. This ...

The end of the Second World War not only brought peace to a war-weary population but also delivered a plethora of surplus transport aircraft, crew ...

Stephen Poole joined British Rail in 1973, working for three of its Regions and then for three of its Business Sectors in the run-up to privatisati...

In a similar style to Comet!: The World's First Jet Airliner and Boeing Group: A History, Graham Simons presents us with a colourful, thoroughly en...

The Olympic Airways story has fascinated Graham M. Simons for many years. This new book represents the culmination of decades spent researching the...

In 1977, the iconic Swindon Works was building locomotives. By 1986, it was shut down. In The End of the Line, Ron Bateman recounts the fight to sa...

Founded in 1961 as Euravia by British businessman Ted Langton and aviation consultant J.E.D. Walker, at a time of considerable turmoil for the inde...

Seek and Strike - RAF Br ggen in War and Peace is an anecdotal history of the largest RAF station in Germany. Optimised for a new breed of aircraft...

This book provides an in-depth history of the Metropolitan-Vickers diesel-electric Type 2 locomotives, more frequently known collectively as the C...

The book investigates the vast number of locomotives that came to the London Midland Region in 1948 at Nationalisation. This is a class by class s...

Designed and manufactured by the men who would make Concorde, the Rolls-Royce powered Vickers VC10, and its larger variant, the Super VC10, represe...

A new, comprehensive guide to motoring and transport museums offering a fresh conversation on their role and the portrayal of our motoring history....

During World War II women took on railway roles which were completely new to females. They worked as porters and guards, on the permanent way, and ...