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This book covers the different types and applications of 15" gauge railways from the Duffield Bank Railway of the 1870s (and its antecedents) to the modern pleasure park lines and sites. David Jones has made contact with a number of enthusiasts, some associated with the Miniature Railway Museum Trust, who have contributed illustrations.

The author writes: This little book is my way of saying thank you to the moor and hopefully showing others some of its beauty. I am not a professional photographer and make no apologies for the rawness of my photos. I go on Dartmoor to walk and enjoy.

This book contains images taken between 1951 and 1978, the majority are in colour and have never before been published. Covering all the major bus and trolleybus operators in the area, together with a few smaller but well-known companies, most of the pictures show the buses in pre-National Bus Company and Passenger Transport Executive liveries.

2013 marks 150 years of steam on the Ffestiniog and this book focuses on the locomotives, as well as showing a comparative views through the years. What the book does show is both progress in the past by the railway and the health of current operations to take them into the next 150 years!

For the younger reader there are wonderful pictures of trains, real trains. There will, for example, be tank engines, engines, electric trains and multiple units and many more varieties besides! Some will be recognised from train sets, model railways and books, while others will be seen for the first time. in this volume we travel back to 1970.

This book looks back over the railways 60 years in preservation through the authors own experiences and with memories and illustrations drawn from many of todays volunteers. The variety of work with which volunteers have been involved over these many years is considerable and the progress resulting enormous!

Aveling & Porter as a firm are justly famed for their steam road rollers, the basic design continuing for 50 years, & whilst other manufacturers made rollers, some in high numbers,it is the Aveling with which the public identify as the humble road making steam engine which came down every road & street,until superseded by modern technology.

The long campaign of the Cotswold Line Promotion Group, has borne fruit, with an increase in the numbers of trains servicing this route, further enhancing the traveling experience and giving the line a long term future. This book looks at these newer works against a backdrop of past operations, including views of the engineering works involved.

Covering all the major bus and trolleybus operators in the South East and Anglian area, together with a few smaller companies, most of the pictures show the buses in pre-National Bus Company and Passenger Transport Executive liveries. The more than 150 photographs were taken between 1951 and 1978 and mostly have never been published.

'British Railways Past and Present' is a nationwide series of books featuring photographs of railway locations taken several decades ago and comparing them with the same scene today. In this volume covering South Gloucestershire are over 175 photographs featuring a wealth of locations.

The aim of this series is to appeal to readers of all ages, perhaps for different reasons... In this volume: We travel back to the year 1958

This is the second of three special titles being published by Silver Link to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Talyllyn Railway in 2011.

Back in 1985 the first 'British Railways Past and Present' was published, it has only taken 25 years for us to start the same treatment for Britain's road transport scene. There is perhaps no better place to start than in the Capital City.

A railway enthusiast from the age of 5, Frank Hornby started loco-spotting while at school, and began to travel around the UK by train from about 1941. This title describes his journeys made throughout Great Britain and Northern Ireland during the 1950s, providing a first-hand picture of what was on offer to railway enthusiasts in those days.

An autobiography chronicling the author's maritime career. It offers an account of what life in Merchant Navy was really like and the conditions in the countries visited, and contains many anecdotes.

Examines the railway 'control interface' between the driver on his footplate and the signalling systems designed to ensure the safety of him and his passengers.

2006 was a landmark year in the history of the Dean Forest Railway, with the opening of the extension to Parkend by HRH Princess Anne. This title presents a selection of 'past' views' and contrasts them with developments on the railway, which took place since the publication of the earlier volume in 2002.

In its more than 50 route miles the Central Line provides a wide variety of locations both in 'tube' and in the open air, and after more than a century of operation not surprisingly there are many 'past and present' contrasts. This title includes the preserved section now operated by the Epping Ongar railway.

Describes the Birkenhead side, with its docks and ferries.

The Isle of Man enjoys a wide variety of railed transport. This book features comparative views of various routes, including the Isle of Man Railway, the Manx Electric Railway, the Snaefell Mountain Railway and the Groudie Glen Railway.

The post of Station Master, like others on the modern railway, has disappeared, and details of the many and varied responsibilities and everyday jobs that went with it will disappear too if they are not recorded. This work describes the development and duties of this once very prestigious grade.