Transport: general interest

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The railroad photographer presents original images from the steam era across all the former British Railways regions.

The railroad photographer presents original images from the steam era across all the former British Railways regions.

Verkehrssünden und Ordnungswidrigkeiten im Straßenverkehr können richtig teuer werden.

Mercedes G-Klasse: Warten, Reparieren und Optimieren leicht gemacht Dieses umfangreiche Handbuch erläutert in ausführlich beschriebenen und bebilderten Schritt für Schritt Anleitungen alle wichtigen Reparatur- und Instandhaltungsarbeiten an einem der beliebtesten Fahrzeuge der Offroad Szene.

Haben Sie sich schon einmal gefragt, warum Ihr Flugzeugfenster ein kleines Loch hat?

"So wird´s gemacht" zeigt technisch interessierten Neu- und Gebrauchtwagenbesitzern, wie ihr Fahrzeug funktioniert und welche Wartungs- und Reparaturarbeiten sie selbst durchführen können.

Entwicklung und Projekte bei der IG Hirzbergbahn.

Through the years, the challenge of powered transportation in the snow has been met with ideas from explorers, creative inventors and small companies, all with new ideas - often unique and sometimes successful.

Join me on a trip to Mackinac Island's past, from the late 1940s to the present day.

Since Dave Hewitt's first road trip to the United States in 2006 he has always tried to return to North America at least once a year to photograph trains.

The last of a line of illustrious 1970s Carreras to evolve from the revered 1973 RS model, the Carrera 3.

The principal bus operator on the Isle of Wight is Southern Vectis, the name a nod to the Romans who once inhabited the island.

Essex held great fascination for bus enthusiasts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Railways have been around for about 200 years and while the majority have flourished and are still in existence today, many no longer remain.

The Mersey Docks & Harbour Board was created in 1858, becoming a limited company in 1972.

A key part of the Great Western Railway's network was the main line to the North through Birmingham.

This important stretch of railway line through the Midlands connects England's second city with the strategically important railway centre of Derby.

The Western Region of today is not without its modern followers, but four to five decades ago it was a very different story.

The Leyland Atlantean was in production from 1958 until 1986 and around 15,300 buses of the type were built over this period.

The first trams ran in Bournemouth in 1902 but the efforts to introduce trams into the Bournemouth and Poole area began in the 1880s.

Dating back to the 1720s and still partly in use today as the preserved Tanfield Railway, the line has a justifiable claim to be the world's oldest railway, running on the track bed that 300 years ago was travelled over by horse-drawn coal waggons on wooden rails.

Designed to provide a greater load capacity within the successful Land Rover range, the Forward Control models were also adapted for a variety of other uses, including for the emergency services and the military.

On the night of 14-15 April 1912 RMS Titanic sank with the loss of around 1,500 people after hitting an iceberg.

Class 126 diesel multiple units were introduced to Scotland from 1956.

While bus services in Britain have generally been in decline since the heady days of the early 1950s, there has been one area of bus operation that has seen significant growth.

The London & Birmingham Railway was the first intercity line in Britain to travel from London.

The nineteenth-century craze for building pleasure piers around the coast of Britain has left a legacy of seaside fun unmatched around the world.

Scottish railway history began in 1722 when William Dickson commenced work on the Tranent-Cockenzie Waggonway.

The Rover P5 and P5B were the flagship Rover models throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.

Traffic congestion has become a major problem in many of England's towns and cities.

Ranging from the monoplanes and biplanes of the early twentieth century to the hi-tech supersonic jet fighters used by air forces across the world today, the vast range of military aircraft that have been and are still in use today are documented here.

In this companion volume to Northern Electrics: EMUs in the North of England, Martyn Hilbert showcases the huge variety and types of first- and second-generation Diesel Multiple Units that have operated in the North of England, including many items of rolling stock that have passed into history.

Railway disasters were a new phenomenon in early Victorian England.

Launched in 1960 with design by Pininfarina, the Peugeot 404 proved to be a highly successful model that helped to enhance Peugeot's reputation for building durable cars.

The period 2010-2019 was one of change and colour in Reading's bus services.

In 2011, Devon County Council outlined plans for a rapid-transit-style rail network, the Devon Metro, to be achieved through improvements to services and facilities, including the opening of new stations.

Few people would have envisaged that when the fledgling D&G Bus commenced operations in April 1998 with four vehicles that twenty-five years later it would become larger than its neighbour, First Potteries.

Glasgow Harbour, the port and shipbuilding centre along the River Clyde from Glasgow Green to the River Kelvin and beyond to Clydebank, became the greatest seaport in Scotland and one of the largest in Britain.

The railway route between Settle and Carlisle in the North West of England is one of the most scenic lines in Britain.

The Triumph Razoredge cars were the last of the traditionally styled British coach-built cars to be produced in the post-war period.

As a conclusion to his popular series of industrial railways in the regions around the UK, as well two volumes examining steam locomotives at work in industry around the world, here Gordon Edgar looks at the vanishing steam era worldwide.

Worksop has until recent times been at the heart of the East Midlands coal-mining and power industries, creating a vital rail hub linking the numerous Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire collieries with the power stations along the Trent Valley that formed the backbone of the UK's electricity generation capability.

Dave Hewitt has made many trips to the United States and Canada over the last twenty years, including visits to thirty-five of the fifty US states.

French Rail (SNCF) has always been a magnet for British rail enthusiasts to enjoy workshop, depot and yard visits together with travel by locomotive-hauled passenger trains.

The pre-Grouping Companies were fiercely competitive and would defend any incursion by another company penetrating what they considered to be their 'territories'.

Coastal fishing is a way of life within an industry that has provided a living for communities up and down England's east coast for generations.

On 10 June 1986 the image of the rail network of London and the South East of England was overhauled, officially launched by Chris Green in a blaze of publicity at Waterloo station.

Over the past hundred years, the scrapping of life-expired buses has changed in numerous ways.

Railway wagons were first used by the British to carry sick and wounded members of the military during the Crimean War in 1855.