Transport

On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster aircraft from the RAFs 617 Squadron set off to attack the great dams in the industrial heart of Germany. Flying ...

Marine Cargo Operations clearly spells out the basic principles of cargo operations and acquaints merchant officers with the techniques of stowage ...

The history of commercial railway locomotive manufacture in the Leeds is a fascinating story, covering a period of nearly two centuries, which comm...

Have you ever wondered about the people who lived and worked along the canals? Have you ever caught a glimpse of something they might have seen or ...

One of Britains most loved cruise ships, Aurora was built by Meyer Werft and entered service in 2000. Named by HRH The Princess Royal, she was spec...

From 1972 onwards, Andy Sparks sought to capture the different scenes unfolding on the railways of Britain. With his camera at the ready, he travel...

The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. Railway Empire tells the story of how...

The London Underground has always been key to the lives of Londoners, from when its stations and stairwells offered refuge from the barrage of the ...

The Great Western Railway, had two classes of tender locomotives named after counties, the first class of two cylinder 4-4-0 tender locomotives, de...

The Hawker Hunter is one of Britain's classic post-war jet aircraft. Initially introduced in 1954 as a swept-wing, transonic, single-seat day inter...

In the 1980s British Railways sought a cheap replacement for the ailing Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) trainsets which saw the introduction of the Clas...

Can air power alone win a war? That has been the question since the Second World War. Air attacks failed miserably in Vietnam; Operation Linebacker...

Why did London have to wait so long for a main-line railway beneath its streets? For a few years in the mid-nineteenth century, Isambard Kingdom Br...

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This book is the tale of a small boy from Surrey who had a fascination with anything on wheels and, also, loved to learn about people and what moti...

The books in the Everyday Modifications series from Crowood are designed to guide classic car owners through the workshop skills needed to make the...

Motorcycle riders from all walks of lifefrom Main Street to Wall Street, Hollywood to Washington, D.C.are invited to peel back their badass masks a...

In 1840, Sir Samuel Cunard set sail aboard Britannia and inaugurated the first regular transatlantic steamship service. From that time forward, the...

When Jim Body joined Great Northern Railway in 1916, he could never have imagined that it would become ''the family business'', with both his son G...

The Jaguar name is synonymous with style, power, performance, luxury and an intangible element of Britishness. Its hard to imagine its humble origi...

Early Railways A Modellers Guide will encourage and support the modelling of the earliest period of railway history, from the very beginnings of st...

The third hard copy Summer Special from our Narrow Gauge Net imprint, the book features articles and photo features on: Four Englands Then & N...

All civilisations have faced the challenges of trading by sea: storms, bad weather, and the hazards of cliffs and other natural landmarks that thre...

The Grumman F6F Hellcat formed the backbone of Americas carrier-based fighter force as the Allies pressed the war toward Japan. Powered by a massiv...