Transport

Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railr...

When one thinks of public transport in the south west over the years, two names tend to dominate; Western National and Devon General. But as this b...

The Post Office Railway, when it started running in 1927, was the first fully automated driverless railway in the world, a full forty years before ...

Unusually among Welsh narrow-gauge railways, the 2ft 6in gauge Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway was built to benefit agriculture, not mineral...

Neville Florian Usborne entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1897. In the years between him joining up and the outbreak of the First World War, he ...

In many ways this title featuring the evolution of cross-channel boat trains and the many dedicated services responsible for moving international p...

The first steam locomotives used on any British railway, worked in industry. The use of new and second hand former main line locomotives, was once...

Porsche, the great Stuttgart-based manufacturer, certainly needs no introduction. In over 60 years, it has built unforgettable road and racing cars...

This book is one of the Pen & Sword Locomotive Portfolio series and covers the rebuilding by Richard Maunsell of the South Eastern & Chatha...

This book tells the story of one of Britain's most successful heritage railway projects. Formed in 1960, The Great western Society was founded by a...

By the late 1920s the existing trams operated by both the Metropolitan Electric Tramways and the London United Tramways were increasingly aged. Alt...

Oliver Bulleid's Pacifics were perhaps the most controversial steam locomotives ever built in Britain. They seem to been loved and loathed in equal...

The book begins with a history of the industrial development of the Tondu Valleys, including the succession of great industrialists who led the way...

A volume of a new and exciting series illustrating one of the country's best loved railway companies in the days of steam.It consists of maps, char...

A Privileged Journey is a personal and individual account of the author's youthful enthusiasm for trains and the travels he undertook in Great Brit...

This book in Pen & Sword's Gallery' series starts with a brief history of the Cambrian Railways' early years, followed by a magnificent compre...

Steam on the Southern and Western is a personal record of railway views that were captured on black and white film in the late 1950s and 1960s, unt...

This book covers the history of the early diesel classes 21 and 29, which were constructed by the North British Locomotive Company in the early 196...

This is a book about the transition from steam to diesel and electric traction on British Railways, covering a period from 1960-1970. The author Ji...

Many railway historians and enthusiasts only know about the railways in the Barry area, because of Woodham Brothers scrap yard, where so many locom...

In 1904, when Leicester Corporation opened its state-of-the-art electric tram network, it enjoyed a monopoly on routes and convenient central termi...

A Pageant of British Steam is a book honouring the position to which Britain's Heritage Steam Railways has now arrived. Preservation has become th...

Very few diaries of directors and senior managers of the Big Four railways have survived to enter the public domain. There are, however, two notabl...

Which racing motorcycles or sidecar outfits have made the strongest contributions to the Isle of Man TT over the last century? If you had to choose...

This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal. At times the journey took the author out into the beautiful countryside, an...

For this second book in the Transport Philately series on public transport issues featured on postage stamps, once again the author will combine tw...

British Steam Locomotives Before Preservation, covers the history in pictorial form of steam locomotives that are now preserved as part of the nati...

After the end of steam on the Southern in July 1967, the author concentrated primarily on recording the Southern scene, to start with in black and ...

Some aircraft inspire passion, others nostalgia, but others, often the unsung heroes, are more of a connoisseur's choice. The Handley Page Victor e...

The story of the Supermarine Spitfire has been told across many years and the debate about it is enduring, yet the Spitfire remains a true icon. Fo...

After the successful six-year production run of its B7TL low-floor double-decker had been curtailed in London by increasing noise problems, Volvo d...

This book examines in words and pictures the huge changes that have taken place in the last 50 years on the British railway network. We see how ste...

Southern Maunsell Moguls and Tank Engines is a volume in the series of Locomotive Profiles being published by Pen & Sword. It describes the con...

It is possible that in the history of British steam locomotives no class of engine was ever more universally popular than the Stanier '5MT' 4-6-0 c...