Transport

  1. Freight Trains of the Western Region in the 1980s by Kevin Redwood

    I think my interest in freight trains stems from a very early age, as the house in Exeter where I was born was within sight and sound of Exmouth Junction. The marshalling yards there were still busy round the clock, and we could hear the clanging and clashing of buffers and couplings as the shunting took place. When I was...
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  2. Bristol RE Buses and Coaches by Robert Appleton

    In 1961 the maximum length of single-deckers was increased to 36 feet. Bristol Commercial Vehicles and Eastern Coach Works designed their first rear engined single-decker to take advantage of this new length. Two prototypes were tested in service in 1962. Production started in 1963, with two versions, RELL6G with a low frame for bus service work, and RELH6G with a...
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  3. The North Yorkshire Moors Railway in the 1970s by Bernard Warr

    Many of you may have watched the Channel 5 television series ‘The Yorkshire Steam Railway – All Aboard’. It is one of the most watched programmes on the channel, averaging more than a million viewers for each episode. 2020 saw a third series commissioned by Channel 5 which aired in February and March. Several characters have emerged as viewer’s favourites...
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  4. Showbus by Gary Seamarks

    For almost 50 years one of the main events on the UK bus rally calendar has been the ‘SHOWBUS’ event, which between 1982 and 2015, except for 2013, was held at either Woburn Abbey or the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. These years were to see major changes in the UK bus and coach industry, which was reflected in the...
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  5. Triumph Trident by Roy Maddox

    Around three years ago I awaited (as I do every month) the delivery of my Nacelle (The national magazine of the Triumph Owners Motorcycle Club). As I had anticipated it slipped though my letter box and the cover to cover read began. When reading my copy of Nacelle, I use the tried and tested flick-spot-cover to cover system which I...
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  6. Crewe in the Days of BR Blue by Michael Hitchen

    Crewe as everyone knows is a major railway centre and has had its fair share of published works covering the subject, both general and historical studies. I wanted a pictorial study of a particular period, that of the much-maligned British Rail corporate blue, which existed between the late 1960s and mid-1980s. 1588 Crewe Works. (Crewe in the Days of BR...
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  7. Elegance in Engineering by Colin Alexander

    I blame my Dad. He instilled in me a love of the British steam locomotive and a suspicion of its overseas equivalent, with (as he put it) a load of dustbins and plumbing hanging on the outside. It certainly seemed to an impressionable, youthful me that continental locomotives did carry a lot of ugly protuberances which the engineers of the LNER...
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  8. The Victorian and Edwardian Railway in Old Photographs by Anthony Dawson

    I’ve been collecting Victorian and Edwardian railway photographs for several years, primarily those issued by the London & North Western Railway. Many of them are presented here in this book ‘The Victorian and Edwardian Railway in Old Photographs.’ This French photograph c. 1850 sums up the early nineteenth-century railway: an impeccably turned out locomotive with the driver wearing top hat...
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  9. Second Generation EMUs by John Jackson

    As a youngster in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, my earliest memories of watching trains were at a time when diesel locos were replacing their steam predecessors. As a Northampton lad, those ‘spotting’ days involved regular sessions at the likes of Peterborough, Wellingborough and the West Coast Main Line station at Roade, just south of Northampton. It was not...
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  10. Shropshire Airfields Through Time by Alec Brew

    Wander nowadays down many Shropshire country lanes near small villages like Atcham, Condover, Montford Bridge or Rednal, and you will come across silent, sightless sentinels, looking out across empty fields of corn or cows, derelict control towers watching over long forgotten airfields. High above, only soaring skylarks can be heard, where once aircraft engines filled the heavens with noise, as...
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