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The first title in this new Recolleections theme looking at preserved locomotives
The friendly signalman in Birdswood box, near Weaver Junction, introduced the author, a young trainspotter, to the mysteries of mechanical signalling on a busy main line. This work includes a detailed description of the railways of the area, maps, track diagrams and photographs.
In this the 76th Recollections series title we travel back to 1962 to recall the street scenes of that year, its buses, coaches and trolleybuses.
The 56th volume in this growing series taking a nostalgic look at Britain's road transport heritage... In this volume: We travel back to the year 1971: * BBC Open University broadcasts begin * End of Morris Minor production * Daily Sketch ceases publication * Spaghetti Junction opens * Terms of British membership of the EEC agreed
This photographic album captures the essence of the Welshpool & Llanfair Railway which whilst having a decidedly foreign feel to it, continues to retain the traditional atmosphere of a Welsh rural light railway.
Containing pictures selected from the company archives, this work talks about Saxby's, the renowned Northamptonshire baker of savoury filled pastries and renowned Melton Mowbray pork pies. It is described by Anthony Saxby, the fourth generation of this family-owned business.
Focuses on the flying boat operations of Aquila Airways between Southampton and Madeira between 1949 and 1958 and includes photographs and items of ephemera.
Running from Bishops Lydeard to Minehead, at over 21 miles the WSR is the longest preserved line in the UK, so deserves to be classed among the premier heritage railways. It incorporates many classic ingredients of a traditional GWR branch line: steam-hauled trains and beautiful stations set in a countryside of rolling hills and seaside resorts.
For this new book Mike Heath has, from his own catalogue and that of his son Karl, compiled a collection of stunning night-time steam railway photographs to create an album that reflects the broad spectrum of steam railway preservation.
Features over 175 photographs that recall an era when an almost constant procession of trams clattered over the junction of Fitzalan Square, High Street, Commercial Street and Haymarket, and flanges squealed as cars to Walkley and Crookes rounded the curves on their way to the higher parts of the city, prior to the closure of the system in 1960.
The 42 mile long line between Fort William and Mallaig is one of the greatest railway journeys in the world. As it weaves its way through the beauty of the West Highlands, skirting lochs, clinging to hillsides, crossing over rivers and glens, through cuttings and tunnels
For the younger reader there are wonderful pictures of buses and coaches that they will never have seen. There will, for example, be half-cab single and double deckers the like of which are no longerin production. Some will be recognised from models and books, while others will be seen for the first time.
This is the 49th volume in the Recollectios series and the second title published by Silver Link to celebrate the Talyllyn Railway. As with all the titles in the recollections series this volume is aimed at the general market as much as the enthusiast - designed for easy reading and enjoyment rather than a 'rivet counting' approach!
John Corkill and Peter Hanson were both working railwaymen during the closing years of steam traction, including a time in Liverpool. Their photography of the disappearing steam locomotives and the changing scene of the period provides a remarkable and unique record of this fascinating time in the history of British Railways.
With its lake and coastal steamer fleet and its branches forming the ideal 'Gateway to Lakeland', this book shows how the Furness Railway is remembered with affection by both local people and holidaymakers.
The KWVR preservation scheme was ideally placed to attract large numbers of visitors eager to witness steam's return to this 5 mile line set in the heart of the Pennines, running as it does on steep gradients from industrial Keighley to the moorland towns of Haworth, home of the Brontes, and nearby Oxenhope.
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