Transport: general interest

The Scarborough & Whitby Railway was opened in July 1885.

In the 1940s, Doris Day had a No.

With today's constant stream of busy traffic, it's hard to imagine a time when Plymouth had no cars, lorries or buses.

Pembroke Dock Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country.

The railway came to Oxfordshire during the 1840s, the core of the present-day local railway network being completed by 1853.

This book records the vehicles and services operated by Maidstone Borough Council from its creation with the local government reorganisation in 1974, through coordination with Maidstone & District in 1981, to the rapid growth following bus deregulation in 1986 and to its demise in 1992.

From humble beginnings as a 1970s motoring show, Top Gear has gone on to achieve diesel-powered world domination.

London owes its origins to being a suitable site for settlement close to what was then the lowest bridging point of the Thames.

From humble beginnings, Wolverhampton grew to become a significant railway town.

Wings Over Meir is a highly readable and meticulously researched account of the Potteries' now largely forgotten aerodrome.

The traditional Yorkshire fishing town of Whitby was transformed by the development of the railways in the nineteenth century.

Joseph John William Gaster (Jack), was born within the chimes of the Bow Bells in August 1923.

The Cromford Canal ran 14.

In the years immediately following the First World War, motoring and the motor car came to play an increasingly important part in everyday social life; at the same time, the automobile itself embarked upon a period of great technical improvement.

The Swindon to Gloucester Line is a new edition of the classic authoritative account of the history of the railway line between Swindon and Cheltenham.

The Royal Military Canal was one of only two waterways built in Great Britain by the Government.

The Severn Bridge Railway was more than once linked with that of its contemporary, the first Tay bridge: but whereas the Tay failed structially and quickly, the subject of this book failed commercially and protractedly.

This is a photographic record of the railways of Gloucestershire during a revolutionary period between 1959 and 1966.

Although diesel traction had been introduced to the county of Somerset as early as 1958 it was not until 1966, and the closure of the Somerset and Dorset Railway, that steam finally disappeared from the county.

Sorely neglected by railway authors, the line between Bristol and Taunton was part of the Bristol & Exeter Railway.

It was a railway just waiting to be made.

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was founded in 1833 and would connect London to the West.

Despite being a relative newcomer to the preserved railways of Great Britain, the East Lancashire Railway has rapidly grown into a major tourist attraction.

The advent of the charabanc to the working classes - especially those slaving in the cotton mills in the North - seemed to evoke a special kind of freedom that not many had ever experienced before.

The branch lines of Worcestershire are especially interesting because of their variety, ranging from parts of the Severn Valley Railway, one of the country's largest preserved main lines, to former main lines, right down to lines which have always been branches.

The branch lines of Warwickshire had unusually interesting and evocative station names, from the pleasant and graceful Henley-in-Arden and Salford Priors to Maxstoke, which suggests a particularly efficient locomotive fireman.

The Branch Lines of Somerset offers a wide-ranging view of 160 years of rail travel.

The branch lines of Oxfordshire were not so numerous as those of some other counties, but they carried a wide variety of locomotives and rolling stock, and included specialist lines such as those for Morris Cowley, as well as branches of the Great Western Railway.

Although the majority of the branch lines of Hampshire belonged to the London & South Western Railway, they offered the opportunity to see a wide variety of locomotives serving both rural outposts and the major towns.

The range and number of lines in Gloucestershire, and the type and diversity of the locomotives operating both branch and main lines, make it a particularly interesting railway county.

The branch lines of Devon were particularly numerous and this second volume on the county covers Plymouth, west and north Devon.

The branch lines of Devon were particularly numerous and this volume covers those in Exeter and the south, central and eastern parts of the county.

The Branch Lines of Buckinghamshire gives the reader a marvellous wide-ranging view of over 100 years of rail travel in this area of Britain during an era of rapid change.

Most of the branch lines of Berkshire were offshoots of the Great Western Railway, although the company was not without its competitors: both the South Eastern Railway and the London and South Western Railway gave alternative routes to London.

Steam Around Sheffield, the latest work by prolific railway author Mike Hitches, documents how Yorkshire's 'Steel City' and its environs were faithfully served by steam locomotion for many years.

Having been established as a seaside resort since the seventeenth century, Scarborough was an attractive destination for the new railways of the mid nineteenth century, and the town became part of George Hudson's empire by the late 1840s.

The wartime airfi eld at Rivenhall is typical of the many airbases that were hastily built in Britain following the entry of the US into the Second World War.

The Great Western Railway route from Paddington to Fishguard was the company's attempt to compete with the London & North Western Railway's Irish route between Euston and Holyhead and to compete for mail traffic to Dublin.

Following on the success of the first The Last Days of Steam in Gloucestershire, here is a second superb collection of photographs depicting the railways of Gloucestershire during the revolutionary period of 1959 to 1966.

This is the story of Detling airfield, from its earliest days through its role in the Second World War - when several dramatic and tragic events occurred - and finally to more peaceful times, when the airfield became a popular base for recreational gliding.

The railway network within Birmingham has long been important for the movement of passengers and freight to serve the centre and its suburbs, and as the road network around Birmingham has become more congested, the railways in the city have, once more, taken on an important role.

A History of Aviation in Alderney takes a brisk and affectionate look at a previously neglected topic: the lifetime of powered flight on this Channel Island.

This is the second half of a detailed history of sand dredging in the Bristol Channel - the result of over thirty years' research.

The railway at Ipswich dates from 1846 and that at Felixstowe from May 1877.

The railway at Broxbourne dates from 1840, and that at Bishop's Stortford from 1843; the rest of the line was running by 1845.

The Indian Scout motorcycle is the favoured mount for Wall of Death riders all over the world.

All too often, air crews have been forced to rely upon dead reckoning for their navigation, particularly when flying through cloud or bad weather.

Unlike in the rest of the United Kingdom the pier in Scotland has always seen as functional rather than as a pleasure pier.

Wessex - for our purposes Dorset and Wiltshire, along with the western parts of Hampshire and Berkshire - has been part of Britain's aviation industry for over a hundred years.

In commemoration of Preston Guild 2012, David Hindle takes a journey into history to explore the social, cultural and economic background to Preston during the Industrial Revolution, primarily to see if life in Preston then lived up to the affectionate claim to be the 'good old days' and at the same time takes a nostalgic look at the foundations of the music hall industry.