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The 56th volume in this growing series taking a nostalgic look at Britain's road transport heritage... In this volume: We travel back to the year 1971: * BBC Open University broadcasts begin * End of Morris Minor production * Daily Sketch ceases publication * Spaghetti Junction opens * Terms of British membership of the EEC agreed
This photographic album captures the essence of the Welshpool & Llanfair Railway which whilst having a decidedly foreign feel to it, continues to retain the traditional atmosphere of a Welsh rural light railway.
Focuses on the flying boat operations of Aquila Airways between Southampton and Madeira between 1949 and 1958 and includes photographs and items of ephemera.
The 42 mile long line between Fort William and Mallaig is one of the greatest railway journeys in the world. As it weaves its way through the beauty of the West Highlands, skirting lochs, clinging to hillsides, crossing over rivers and glens, through cuttings and tunnels
For the younger reader there are wonderful pictures of buses and coaches that they will never have seen. There will, for example, be half-cab single and double deckers the like of which are no longerin production. Some will be recognised from models and books, while others will be seen for the first time.
This is the 49th volume in the Recollectios series and the second title published by Silver Link to celebrate the Talyllyn Railway. As with all the titles in the recollections series this volume is aimed at the general market as much as the enthusiast - designed for easy reading and enjoyment rather than a 'rivet counting' approach!
With its lake and coastal steamer fleet and its branches forming the ideal 'Gateway to Lakeland', this book shows how the Furness Railway is remembered with affection by both local people and holidaymakers.
The KWVR preservation scheme was ideally placed to attract large numbers of visitors eager to witness steam's return to this 5 mile line set in the heart of the Pennines, running as it does on steep gradients from industrial Keighley to the moorland towns of Haworth, home of the Brontes, and nearby Oxenhope.
From the BRITISH RAILWAYS PAST AND PRESENT series, a collection of archive railway photographs from Avon, the Cotswolds and the Malverns, together with recent photographs of the same views.
Takes readers on the 8-mile ride along the Bristol Road to the Lickey Hills, Rubery and Rednall, and to Cotteridge, Moseley and Alcester Lanes End. This title also gives the opportunity of sampling the maze of routes in Balsall Heath known as 'The Chinese Railway'.
Talks about: Sheffield and Rotherham; Pennine routes from Penistone; lines around Barnsley; Wakefield, Castleford and Knottingley; the railway town of Doncaster; and Goole and Selby.
Takes in the routes to the north-east and east of the town, together with the trolleybus route west to Whitmore Reans and the bus services beyond to Pendeford and Codsall. This work also talks about services to Bushbury Hill, Pear Tree (Low Hill), Amos Lane, Wednesfield Road and beyond, Willenhall Road, Walsall, Bilston and Darlaston.
This 47th volume in the growing Recollections series takes us to the edge of Fenland Britain for a visit to the Nene Valley Railway the only preserved line in the country to have been restored to the European Berne loading gauge. This enables the line to run a wide variety of trains made up of both British and European rolling stock.
For the younger reader there are wonderful pictures of buses and coaches that they will never have seen. There will, for example, be half-cab single and double deckers the like of which are no longerin production. Some will be recognised from models and books, while others will be seen for the first time.
Explore the Lake District with the Furness Railway Tours
The 'Golden Valley Line' - is so called due to the descent from the summit of the line at Sapperton Tunnel to Gloucester being cut through a yellow/golden limestone ridge - between Swindon, on the Great Western main line and Standish Junction, on the Birmingham-Bristol main line
The second Silver Link Silk Edition takes us to the major northern railway city of York. David Mather takes us on a journey through time from the early steam age to the high speed trains of today.
Railways and the cinema have a long association, from early silent films to "Harry Potter". This guide lists more than 700 feature films that have British railway content, and offers details of when and where the sequences were filmed, whether on the contemporary railway or using the facilities of the preserved lines.
Features a pictorial survey of the ports on both sides of the sea and the varied traffic between them - including that to and from the Isle of Man. This work covers ferries, mail ships, local services, cargo and cattle ships, tourism, cruising, and more.
The stations of the West Somerset Railway provide an excellent 'stepping off point' to explore the wonderful Somerset countryside and villages therin.
The official West Somerset Railway Guide Book, one of a set of three comprehensive books that Silver Link are pleased to produce for the railway. These beutifully illustrated, high quality full colour books make for interesting and informative reading.
'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.This volume covers all the lines within and passing through the North and East of the County of Northamptonshire
This story is unusual, it documents both the restoration & reinstatement of both platforms of the former GWR country station and the building of a new standard gauge running line with its own private station and rolling stock. Even more remarkable is that all of this was achieved on a tiny budget and by the toil and dedication of a tiny workforce.
This book looks at the rail-connected quarries of Bardon Aggregates, a company that started from small beginnings to become the country's largest rail-operated stone extractive company with four 'super-sized' quarries. The histories of the various quarries, internal railways, connections with the main-line and stock are described.
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