Transport: general interest

Victoria Station is the second in the Through Time series on London's famous railway termini.

It was one of the most important British liner routes of all - the express run from Southampton to the South African Cape.

The RB211 gas turbine engine was to be the biggest engineering project in Britain, and the world's fi rst three-spool turbofan.

In this pictorial journey, Barry Marsden takes us through the history of trams and trolleybuses in Chesterfield, from the inauguration of a horse tram service by the Chesterfield and District Tramways Company in the 1880s to the last run by the Chesterfield Corporation trolleybuses in 1938.

To Western Scottish Waters: By Rail & Steamer to the Isles is a pictorial tour through the decades and a peek into how both people and goods have travelled to the Isles over the years.

The Waverley Route ran from Edinburgh, through the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle.

Books on railway history invariably start with the Stephenson's or with Richard Trevithick's locomotive of 1804.

ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL is famous for the engineering wonders he left behind - from the SS Great Britain to the delights of Paddington and Temple Meads stations, but much of what he designed has been lost.

For the past two hundred years, lifeboats have been stationed around the coasts of Britain and Ireland, ready to rescue the shipwrecked.

It was a golden age of travel.

Telling the story of the once-ubiquitous Lancashire Nobby, a handsome sailing trawler that was once found in every harbour from West Wales to the West Coast of Scotland.

Sailing, boat owning and living on a Thames spritsail barge have coursed through the veins of the skipper's family since the early 1930s, and it instilled in him a profound love for salt, marsh and mud.

Wessex Coaches of Bristol was certainly a company with two faces.

The Great Western Railway's main line from London to Bristol, opened throughout in 1841, passed by the ancient market town of Faringdon at a distance of 3A miles to the south.

At different times of the year, herring were found in commercial numbers in the North Sea, the Moray Firth, the Minches, the Firth of Clyde, the Irish Sea and the English Channel.

Flat-bottom craft have always been fascinating, largely because they appear so simple in their construction at first glance, made by the farmers and fishermen who used them.

If you mention the subject of pleasure steamers on the rivers Thames and Medway, you can be certain that most people will remember with fond nostalgia the well-loved steamers Royal Daffodil, Royal Sovereign and Queen of the Channel.

The Stour Valley line dates from 1849 and has had a long and turbulent history.

This part of the Stour Valley line dates from 1865 and survived for 102 years; the Saffron Walden branch followed a few months later.

With its famous hotel, St Pancras is now the London terminus of the Eurostar, with a high speed rail link to the Kent coast and the Channel Tunnel.

Entering service in 1938, the Nieuw Amsterdam was the Holland America Line flagship until the construction of the Rotterdam in the late 1950s.

Southend Airport, one of the six main airports serving London, began life as a landing strip for pleasure flying.

Overshadowing the port of Chester, Liverpool grew in size from the 1800s on sugar and slavery.

No other moving object has carried as many people in one voyage (over 16,000).

Queen Elizabeth 2: The Last Great Liner tells the story of the Cunard liner.

On October 20, 1910, RMS Olympic was launched at Belfast.

Many people remember with great fondness the pleasure steamers that plied the River Thames in the years after the end of the Second World War.

When Titanic sailed on her maiden voyage she carried two cousins.

The Port of Southampton saw many changes in the 1960s and 1970s.

'Port of Southampton' is the story of the Hampshire port from Roman times to the present day, illustrated by a colelction of images showing everything from seaman's strikes to shipwrecks, the Titanic and Queen Mary, as well as the other famous ocean liners that have called at the port since the 1840s.

Until the middle of the twentieth century, the Port of London was the busiest in the world.

This book describes the heritage and development of the entire Piper Cherokee family; its safety and ownership characteristics; internal and external details; and a range of special variants from STOL modifications and new engines to seaplanes and tailwheel conversions.

Wales is known for its green hills and valleys, narrow gauge steam railways and medieval castles, but not, it appears, for its pleasure piers.

From Gigha in the south to Lewis in the north and St Kilda in the west, Alistair Deayton covers the piers of the Hebrides and other outlying islands in the companion volume to his West Highland Piers.

Despite their popular association with fun and frivolity, the function of piers as both an amusement centre and landing stage was varied, and nowhere was this better illustrated than on the coasts of Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and east Dorset.

Paddington is part of a hub of underground stations and is home to the world's most famous bear, named after the station.

In 1837, P&O, or the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, won a lucrative mail contract to the Iberian peninsula.

In 1995, P&O introduced the 70,000grt Oriana into service.

Pleasure steamer cruises along the scenic North Wales coast from Liverpool disappeared some fifty years ago.

For well over a hundred years all around the coast of Britain there were located a series of nautical training ships.

Built in 1949 in Southampton for the Southampton, Isle of Wight & South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.

In this charming sequel to the successful local best-seller Salt Marsh & Mud, the skipper and his mate meander gently around the coastline of East Anglia, exploring the marshland from North Kent to Suffolk in their tan-sailed, wooden clinker sloop, Whimbrel.

The very first issue of the - still current - magazine, The Autocar was on 2 November 1895.

Intended for the British Army as a contract for a small, Jeep-like, air-portable vehicle, the Mini Moke was a failure at this role and found its success as a fun, sunshine toy, equally at home on the beach as in the mountains.

From Whitstable, with its oyster beds and fishing fleet, to Chatham and Rochester, the Medway and Swale areas have seen a diverse variety of shipping over the years, from the fishing smacks to men of war, Thames barges, sailing vessels, submarines, pleasure steamers, ferries and cargo ships.

Maidstone Corporation fi rst began operating trams on 14 July 1904, in conjunction with the municipal electricity supply.

It is now just over a century since Lusitania made her maiden crossing of the North Atlantic.

London City Airport was first conceived as part of the regeneration of the London Docklands at the start of the 1980s, a pilot landing on Heron Quays to prove it could be done.

The Pier Head and landing stages have been places where the people of Liverpool have been able to view, participate in and enjoy many of the major maritime celebrations and events of the last hundred years.

The Port of Liverpool handles more container trade with the United States than any other port in the UK and now also serves more than 100 other non-EU destinations, from China to Africa and the Middle East, and from Australia to South America.