Transport: general interest

Strathtay Scottish was a product of the state-owned Scottish Bus Group's attempts to prepare for deregulation and possible privatisation in the mid-1980s.

The McKindless bus company started off as a small operation of a few buses, a lorry and two coaches in 1987, and traded under the name of Chartered Coaches.

Stationary steam engines were the quiet powerhouses of the Industrial Revolution.

The bright red double-decker bus has become an icon of London.

The railways of France present a uniquely interesting picture, consisting as they once did of two entirely separate but overlapping systems: the standard-gauge network of the great railway companies and the mostly metre-gauge network of the local rural railways.

The Gilbern motorcar was the only motorcar to ever be produced in Wales and made use of the iconic Welsh Dragon for a badge.

Take a look at the River Thames in East London now and you would think that it is commercially dead.

London buses are red and have been for over a hundred years.

The North East is a region of great geographic, economic and social contrast.

The railway lines of London and the South East include tracks from all four of the constituent companies that made up British Railways and subsequently became the Eastern, Midland, Southern and Western regions.

In The End of the Woodhead Route: Electric Trains Stop Here, transport historian Stephen Heginbotham takes a fresh look at this famous and much mourned route.

Covering industrial steam throughout the British Isles over several decades, the terrific photographs featured here, captured by David Letcher, document a period of our industrial development that is now long gone.

Among the many lines that branch all around the East of England, there are some that can be seen diverging from stations that are never used by the train operating companies.

Take a look at the River Thames in East London now and you would think that it is commercially dead.

In addition to the major operators such as National Welsh, South Wales Transport, First Group and Stagecoach, South Wales boasted a number of municipal bus operators, most of which have since been acquired by the major groups.

Following the deregulation of bus services in 1986, West Yorkshire became flooded by small independent operators, some of whom survived while others were swallowed up by larger companies.

CSX Transportation came to being in 1980 with the merger of Seaboard Coast Lines and the Chessie System, producing a system of over 21,000 route miles in twenty-four states, with incursions into two Canadian provinces.

The transport scene in the historic city of York has seen numerous changes since 1986, with the breakup of the National Bus Company into a number of separate units whose ownership have since changed several times.

Bus builder Optare was formed by some of its employees in 1984 after the closure of old-established coachbuilder Chas H.

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On 1 April 1974, the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive was created by merging the municipal bus fleets of Bradford City Transport, Halifax Corporation with Calderdale Joint Omnibus Committee, Huddersfield Joint Omnibus Committee and Leeds City Transport.

Around the early 2000s, there was a concern among transport enthusiasts that variety in terms of vehicle type and livery in the passenger transport industry in and around the South Wales Valleys would decline.

Hobbs of Henley is not only one of the best-known businesses in Henley-on-Thames, it also boasts one of the most exclusive and recognisable fleets of boats plying the river today.

Following the deregulation of bus services in the United Kingdom in 1986, it did not take long for many distinctive local liveries to disappear.

The exact definition of east Scotland can be difficult to define due to its wide geographical areas, but for the purpose of this book the bus services covered are from a wide range of destinations including Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Perth, Fife, the Borders and the Lothians.

Southern California Railways looks at the operations of some of the many railroads that serve the southern half of the Golden State.

Though there were airfields in Shropshire during the First World War, at Shawbury, Tern Hill and Monkmoor, it was in the late 1930s that a massive building programme began to dot the county with new RAF airfields, mostly for training purposes, until there were over sixteen - in some cases they were so close together that their circuits overlapped.

With the effects of the Beeching Axe beginning to be felt, British Railways employee Keith Widdowson set out to photograph as many scenes and locations as he could before they slipped away into the history books.

In 1961 the maximum length of single-deckers was increased to 36 feet.

The South Wales Division was one of the three operating divisions of the Western Region.

Golden Miller was a rare bus operator permitted to run bus services within London Transport's vast monopoly area.

Though British Rail had dispensed with steam locomotives by 1968, the greatest changes to the capital's railways occurred afterwards.

Two large bus companies once ruled this rural part of the United Kingdom.

Britain's biggest county, Yorkshire, was particularly affected by the period of deregulation.

Edinburgh did not adopt electric traction until the early 1920s when the Corporation took over from the Edinburgh & District Tramway Co.

The boundaries of the current county of Lancashire were established in 1974 when the Furness district was lost to the newly formed Cumbria.

Since the 1860s trains have conveyed crushed limestone from Derbyshire to the soda ash and chemicals works in mid-Cheshire.

The Manningtree to Harwich railway branch linked the Great Eastern Main line to the ports of Harwich and, later, Harwich Parkeston Quay.

From its formation in 1919 in Wigan, Lancashire, Northern Counties Motor & Engineering Company Limited grew to become one of Britain's most prominent bus builders.

The bus scene around Southampton and its surrounding towns in the 1970s and early 1980s was one of change.

The bus scene around Southampton and its surrounding towns in the 1970s and early 1980s was one of change.

Essex is not known for being the cradle of British aviation, but perhaps it should be.

Bradford had the distinction of running its trolleybus system for over sixty years, being, along with Leeds, the first to operate in Britain.

Starting in the late 1970s when the High Speed Trains (HSTs) were first introduced on services out of London Paddington, this book covers approximately forty years of change to the railways of Berkshire.

To many, the narrow gauge belongs entirely to the past; to others it runs a poor second to the glamour and action of main line standard gauge steam.

Wallace Arnold was founded in 1912 and was named after its founders Wallace Cunningham and Arnold Crowe.

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The buses on Britain's roads went through a period of great change between 1950 and 1986.

One of the great names of the British bus and coach industry was Royal Blue, whose vehicles were a familiar sight on the express routes between London and the West Country.

Glory Days: Western Region Steam Around London is a photographic tribute to the former Great Western Railway (GWR) in the post-war years up to the end of Western Region (WR) steam on 31 December 1965.