'Gradient Profiles' illustrates the nature of the main railway lines in Great Britain as they existed in the era before the demise of main line steam in 1968.

BR Main Line Gradient Profiles : The Age of Steam

Ian Allan Publishing

Aerofilms Guide: Football Grounds (Aerofilms Guide)

Football Grounds (Aerofilms Guide)

Sports & Outdoors

Football (American)

Ian Allan, Ltd

This long-unavailable facsimile reprint of the Autumn 1964 edition is in the famous and by now very familiar Ian Allan abc series of locomotive and other motive power reference books. It lists the remaining pre-nationalisation locomotives along with the BR-built steam locomotives. The modernisation of the railway motive power scene can clearly be seen with the inclusion of the 'new era ' diesels, electrics and multiple-units. Perfect nostalgia for those lucky enough to be around at the time - and an informative slice of railway history for everyone else.

ABC British Railways Locomotives and Other Motive Power

History

Ian Allan Pub

The Beeching Report 'The Reshaping of British Railways' was first published in 1963. This seminal document, about which much has been written and which remains highly controversial to this day, was one of the major influences in the creation of the railway industry in Britain today. The original report was produced in two parts: the first incorporated all the statistical analysis along with the schedule of stations and lines to close, whilst the second incorporated about a dozen maps that supplemented the information imparted by the written report.  The original maps were relatively basic and designed to offer little more than a visual aide memoire to the actual report. These included maps recording the passenger lines destined to close in whole or in part, the coal freight flows not already carried by rail, the density of freight tonnage from each individual station and the freightliner routes and terminals then under construction. However, the combination of these two elements in conjunction with the cartographic database that has been the foundation of a number of railway atlases (including the recently reprinted 1955 volume), create a new, highly informative addition to the railway atlas series.

Rail Atlas The Beeching Era

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As in every year, The Little Red Book has been fully updated to provide detailed information on bus and coach operators throughout Britain. It also includes information on suppliers, societies, licensing bodies, and many other topics and subjects-essential information for all those working in the industry. The Little Red Book is greatly respected by those involved in the bus and coach industry, as it has been published annually now for more than sixty years. A copy of the new 2012 edition of The Little Red Book is an essential reference tool for anyone interested, either professionally or as an enthusiast, in the road passenger transport industry in the British Isles.

The Little Red Book 2012

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Ian Allen Pub

ABC British Railway Locomotives Combined Volume Summer 1958

Handbook for Railway Steam Locomotive Enginemen

Crecy Publishing

Rail Atlas Europe

In the 1950s and early 1960s Ian Allan Publishing produced a number of 'abc' books on motor cars of the era - abc British Cars, abc Sports Cars, abc Continental Cars, abc Historic Cars and abc American Cars, as well as more general books on motoring - abc Spotting the Numberplate and abc British Roads. Many of these were produced annually and today provide a nostalgic window into an age when motoring first came into reach of the majority of the population and British car manufacturers still dominated. Three of these volumes from the 1950s are being reproduced in this facsimile abc of British Motor Cars 1950s - abc British Cars 1958, abc Sports Cars 1957 and abc British Roads (first published June 1956). All the British car manufacturers of 1957 are included with details of the individual car makes that each offered at the time, from the humble Ford Popular built at Dagenham and available to the purchaser for 413 17s 0d to the sporty new Triumph TR3, the plastic-bodied Jensen Interceptor, the Vauxhall Wyvern, the Humber Super Snipe, the Singer Gazelle and many others. So many of the manufacturers' names, such as Alvis, Humber, Singer and Sunbeam, have disappeared, leaving the manufacturing heartlands in Coventry and Birmingham devastated, but the luxury marques of Rolls Royce, Daimler and Bentley are still famous today. Along with abc British Roads, this interesting compilation provides a nostalgic glimpse of motoring in Britain in the 1950s and will bring back memories of childhood days for many readers.

ABC British Motor Cars 1950s

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