Transport: general interest

Dumfries and Galloway - the historic counties of Dumfriesshire, the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright and Wigtownshire - is a largely rural area of south-west Scotland.

Birmingham Airport has a history stretching back to the Second World War, when it was requisitioned for use by the military.

Many audacious and improbable schemes for new railways were dreamed up in the nineteenth century, but surely none matched the plan to link the Cromford Canal with the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire using a series of rope-worked inclines.

The Bristol Channel has an incredibly rich maritime history, reaching back to when men first went to sea in ships powered by the wind.

The Woodhead Route from Manchester to Sheffield has achieved almost mythical status, not only thanks to the Woodhead Tunnels, but also because of the unique EM1 and EM2 electric locomotives.

Basingstoke and Salisbury are important rail centres on what was originally the London & South Western Railway, and later the Southern Railway and finally the South Western Section of the Southern Region.

Manchester Airport (EGCC) is a Category 10 international passenger airport located in Lancashire, UK, comprising three passenger terminals and a world freight terminal.

The East Midlands is rich in railway history and heritage.

Steam's final fling was almost over.

Andrew Mead offers a pictorial history of the Grey-Green company, who operated vehicles from the First World War until 2000.

This book gives a detailed account of the Zeppelin raids on Bolton and Rossendale in late September 1916, setting them in the context of wider events at home and abroad.

The British & Colonial Aeroplane Company was established in 1910 at Filton on a site that is now an Airbus design and engineering centre.

The construction of the Merthyr, Tredegar & Abergavenny Railway was a remarkable engineering achievement.

Although Daimler is one of the most famous names in motoring, very few books have covered the models produced between the end of the Second World War and the takeover by Jaguar in 1960.

The de Havilland DH 98 Mosquito was one of the fastest and most versatile aircraft of the Second World War.

Packed with rare and unpublished images, Sussex Steam takes the reader on a journey around picturesque Sussex and the steam trains that used to call it home.

Before Southdown became part of the National Bus Company, it was a well respected organisation.

AEC Lorries explores the story of lorry use in the last fifty years, showing the diverse use of the vehicles and their configurations for many different types of work, with a focus on one of the great British manufacturers - AEC.

Strathclyde Traction covers the former Strathclyde Region Council area of the west of Scotland, stretching from the southern end of the Western Highlands to the Southern Uplands, which was formed by merging the city of Glasgow with the counties of Ayr, Bute, Dumbarton, Lanark, Renfrew, Stirling and parts of Argyll.

Leith has been Edinburgh's main port since the Middle Ages.

Tyneside is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of the railway.

The Class 58s were introduced in 1983, and were a significant departure from normal build standards.

This class of AC electric locomotive comprised 100 members, built from 1965 onwards.

Steam Nostalgia in the North of England is a pictorial story of British railways in the north of England, in those heady days when steam ruled the rails.

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is Britain's most popular heritage railway, and runs for 18 miles through the national park of the same name.

All too often, when observing our railways, focus falls entirely on the locomotives or multiple units that haul the many services that travel on them.

Coaches have long been a part of life in Britain, from the days of eighteenth-century stage coaches galloping along muddied tracks to air-conditioned fleets cruising the motorways of the modern day.

The Class 56 heavy freight locos were first introduced in the late 1970s.

Thirty Class 67 locomotives were ordered by EWS for use on parcels traffic to help replace the Class 47s that they had inherited.

It's a journey through historical and social events that have shaped a county and made a significant impact locally, nationally and, in some instances, internationally.

This book illustrates the history of modern diesel and electric traction in Hampshire over recent decades.

When the King's Flight was officially formed in 1936, passenger flying was very much in its infancy.

The National Bus Company was the creation of the 1968 Transport Act, which merged the bus operations of the Tilling Group and the British Electric Traction Company.

This is a pictorial tribute to the Class 20 locomotive.

Starting in 1965, when Swift found success with its early models, this book follows the development of Swift Caravans to the present day, where it has grown into a multi-brand leisure vehicle producer.

Founded in 1873, the Holland America Line provided services carrying passengers and freight between the Netherlands and North America.

This book sets out to illustrate locomotive-hauled passenger stock in the twenty-first century.

The Class 47 was built between 1962 and 67 as the Brush Type 4 by both Brush Traction and British Railways Crewe works, eventually numbering 512 examples.

In 1977, the remote British island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, host to Napoleon and Captain Bligh, and Boer War prisoner-of-war camp, was first served by a lifeline motorship dedicated to the purpose.

Cars and vans in high-vis livery, racing to incidents with pulsating lights and blaring sirens are part of the everyday scene in our towns and on our highways.

This is a pictorial tribute to the British Rail workhorse, the Class 31.

This is the fascinating story of the development of early British steam fire engines by a renowned expert on emergency services vehicles and equipment.

Well-proportioned, versatile, aesthetic, durable - the English Electric Class 37, the great survivor of the modernisation-plan diesel fleet, deserves all of these accolades and more.

In this book Stuart McKay tells the story of the achievements of the de Havilland DH.

In the 1970s, Honda broke the mould again by creating a series of motorcycles that would rule the road for over forty years: the Gold Wing, Honda's premier touring motorcycle.

Named after the Napier Deltic diesel engines that powered them, the Class 55 Deltic locomotives served on Britain's railways from the early 1960s until the last examples were retired at the beginning of 1982.

John Law has been photographing Britain's buses since the early 1970s.

The Alvis company of Coventry were motor and aero engineers who made some of the finest motor cars during the period 1920 to 1967, when car production stopped.

Adrian Vaughan, born in Reading in January 1941, fell in love with the entire spectacle of the steam railway.

Mechanical signal boxes and semaphore signals are the last vestige of Victorian technology still to be found on Britain's railways.