Transport

Fishing the Severn Sea From Hartland Point to St Anns Head. The Bristol Channel, once one of the busiest fishing lanes in Great Britain, is a comp...

Today pollution-free transport is high on the political agenda yet it is sometimes forgotten that electric vehicles ran on the streets of London fr...

Discovering Britains First Railways is devoted to the history, rediscovery and exploration of Britains first railways, examining its network of ove...

The Clyde submarine base was officially commissioned in 1967. The Faslane site had originally been used as a military port during the Second World ...

Although the saying, Pigs might fly may bring a smile to ones lips, even stranger things have been reported as appearing in Britains skies over the...

In 1903 the Wright Brothers achieved their dream of powered flight and from then on mans domination of the skies became a reality. The military pot...

For generations, people the world over have been intrigued by the magic of the hand-built motor cars created by the world's most skilled craftsmen ...

At the nationalisation of Britians railways in 1948, the Scottish Region inherited 1,400 locomotives which had been constructed by the pre-grouping...

The steam locomotive was a British invention and even today, the world speed record for steam remains with a British locomotive, Mallard. Steams fi...

The F/A-18 evolved from Northrops YF-17 in the late 1970s. Production aircraft reached the Navy in May 1980 and the Marine Corps two years later. M...

In the 1950s and 1960s south Lancashire and Cheshire was criss-crossed by a web of railway lines, servicing the various needs of local industries. ...

At the forefront of innovation and development in the rail world, the Southern Railway was the only main-line railway to embrace electrification wh...

The Gatwick story really began when two young men purchased a plot of land near Gatwick Racecourse to develop as a flying field. From these humble ...

The London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) claimed to be the largest private enterprise concern in the British Empire. It was Britains larges...

The steam locomotive is a machine that has inspired imagination, innovation and invention from the time of its origination and continues to evoke p...

The British battleship is one of the most intensely studied of all naval topics, but it is also among the most popular. Norman Friedman is one of t...

What Europe needed after the Second World War was an ultra-reliable workhorse to get small businesses on the move again. And, with a little nudge f...

This beautifully illustrated history portrays two of the French fleets most glamorous liners in their post-war heyday. Île de France was a ship wit...

Whether living in an urban sprawl, a sunny suburb or rolling countryside, the taxi is a mode of transport that no doubt every resident of the UK wi...

Today, we are familiar with the motorcycle in many forms; it ranges from the low-powered pizza delivery moped, to scooters, small commuter bikes, p...

In the nineteenth century, Jules Verne imagined a journey round the world. At the start of the twentieth century, an American millionaire, Charles ...

The very first Land Rover, launched in 1948, owed its low-key existence to shoestring British ingenuity and literally odds and ends left over fro...

The book covers over 100 years of tractor development and features more than 100 different tractors. The first steam engines on wheels which used b...

The lifeboats of Valentia have been in service since 1946, when the volunteer crew were summoned to action by the firing of maroon flares. Dick Rob...