Transport: general interest

The origins of Leyland lorries are found in steam wagon manufacture in the town of Leyland, Lancashire.

P&O was established in 1837 and maintained a schedule of routes to India, the Far East and Australia, being the first choice for the majority of passengers travelling to that part of the world.

Tipper lorries have been part and parcel of road transport since the beginnings of the age of motor vehicles.

Take a look at East Anglia's rail map and it's obvious that one line dominates.

Lee-on-the-Solent is synonymous with planes and seaplanes, but it is also the home of another, slightly more unusual form of transport - the hovercraft.

The Port of Dover is Europe's busiest ferry port and is situated in south-east England.

In late 2007 Freightliner placed its order for twenty Class 70 locomotives.

The Darlington Transport Company came about as the result of deregulation, eventually becoming the subject of the infamous Darlington Bus War.

Anyone who has tried to watch freight moving on UK rails in the last few years will realise these are challenging times for the rail freight industry.

While many films have attempted to convey the experience of the Second World War European battlefield, none adequately portray the mayhem and suffering that befell untold thousands of horses, their bodies impacted by bullet, flame and bomb as well as disease, starvation and backbreaking toil in the searing heat of summer and the freezing winds and snows of winter.

Almost the entire network of the former Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway system closed at the end of February 1959.

No other combatant nation employed motorcycles on the scale produced by the Third Reich.

For over a hundred years there have been sleeper trains running to a variety of destinations around the British Isles.

When British Rail was formed in 1948, it inherited a large number of workshops that were used by the Big Four railway companies.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, paddle steamers in Britain initially did rather well, with four new ones built between 1946 and 1953 and about sixty still in service nationwide.

For Britain's railways, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when gallows humour about British Rail sandwiches and delayed trains often overshadowed real achievement, like 'parkway' stations and high-speed travel.

Long before motorised transport, movement of animals was by means of walking individual beasts, or by herding or droving.

Whether your interest is police, fire, ambulance, or associated emergency and rescue services, this fully illustrated book of nearly 200 images captures central London's many 999 services going about their daily business.

The main route to Devon and Cornwall passes through Somerset, with routes from Bristol and Westbury converging at Cogload Junction - 5 miles east of Taunton.

Bounded by the counties of Hampshire, Somerset, Berkshire, Dorset, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, the county of Wiltshire has several significant main line railway routes passing through it: to the north is the Great Western Main Line from London Paddington to South Wales; the Berks & Hants route from Reading to Westbury runs through the heart of the county, and westwards to Taunton; and to the south of the county the former London & South Western Railway route runs from London Waterloo to Exeter, while the cross-country route from Southampton to Bath cuts across the county from the south-east to the north-west.

Featuring an array of previously unpublished images, Royston Morris documents the fascinating world of the vehicles and equipment that keep the nation's railways on track and on time.

Dorset - where the South Coast meets the West Country.

As in many countries in the 1970s, South Africa's railways were making the change over from steam to diesel and electric traction at an ever-increasing pace.

The Class 156 (Super Sprinter) is a Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) ordered by British Rail and built between 1987 and 1989 by Metro-Cammell to replace the aging first-generation 'Heritage' DMUs.

The story of today's Jeep Wrangler has an intriguing and unusual beginning, when the demands of the American army during the Second World War led to the production of a simple, yet multi-purpose, go-anywhere vehicle that could easily (and cheaply) be mass-produced.

During the 1970s steam locomotives still played a big part in the operation of train services on the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the German Democratic Republic.

The years 1966 and 1967 saw many steam enthusiasts heading north to photograph and record the last steam-worked trains on the Midland Region of British Rail.

For almost as long as there have been railways, there has been 'departmental' rolling stock.

The Pennine ridge - 'England's backbone' - has provided a dramatic backdrop to the steam locomotive for nearly 180 years.

John Dedman first started to take photos of coaches in the late 1970s, mainly as references for modelling purposes.

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Walsall's bus fleet was always idiosyncratic, reflecting particularly the ideas of their General Managers.

From the mid-1930s, many of the Birmingham City Transport bus fleet were stored pending disposal.

At the start of the 1980s, George Fairbairn took up employment in Rochdale, in the North West of England.

Andrew Cole takes us on a journey looking at West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive, or WMPTE, buses, and those used by its successors.

Which was the first railway in Great Britain?

The 1980s and 1990s were exciting times for British Rail.

Perhaps more has been written about the Great Western Railway than any other, and the company is regarded with the most affection.

Published on the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Dominion of Canada and the 70th anniversary of Canadian citizenship.

The 1980s and 1990s were exciting times for British Rail.

On 26 October 1986 Britain's bus services were deregulated.

The traditional cargo-carrying narrowboat - recently voted one of the 100 icons of England - emerged with the construction of the narrow canal network and lasted in until 1970 when the last regular long-distance contract was lost.

Kent is strategically located, lying on the approach to London and being the shortest route to and from continental Europe.

Continuing the Steam Days Remembered series with Eastern Steam Days Remembered, Kevin Derrick takes us on a leisurely ramble back around both the Eastern and North Eastern regions during the 1950s and 1960s in this volume.

First launched in 1976, the Lotus Esprit was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro and based on a Lotus Europa chassis.

Western Steam Days Remembered takes a pictorial tour of the Western Region through the 1950s and into the early 1960s to enjoy the splendour of steam across both mainlines and branches alike.

London Midland Steam Days Remembered offers the very best quality colour photographs of steam from the 1950s and 1960s across the region, with not only Stanier's fabulous Duchesses but a full supporting cast of steam from the lower ranks to be enjoyed.

A fine collection of colour photographs from the 1950s and 1960s around the British Railways Southern Region.

During seven days in October 1829 world history was made and travel would never be the same again.

From 1933 to the end of the 1960s, most of the bus services in Hertfordshire were in the hands of London Transport's country services, with standardised green buses.