Pen And Sword Transport imprint: 108 books
by Kevin McCormack
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This is a colour album of London Buses concentrating mainly on the 1970s which was the first decade since London Transport's inception in 1933 to feature a large number of buses on London streets which were not painted in the mainly all-red (or in a few c
Lawrie Bond Microcar Man
An Illustrated History of Bond Cars
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Once a common sight on Britain's roads, few people today seem to have heard of the Bond Minicar not a diminutive, gadget laden conveyance for the fictional 007 character, but a popular, practical, motorcycle-engined, three-wheeler that in the post-war austerity period, gave tens of thousands of people...
by Reiss ONeill
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Underground network in London has always held a fascination for historians and transport enthusiasts, from the early days of the steam operated system in the 1860s. Today's London Underground covers the network as it is today, with features on the different lines across the capital and the modern...
Railway Empire
How the British Gave Railways to the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century.
Railway Empire tells the story of how the British gave railways to the world, not only in the empire, but also in other countries outside areas of direct influence.
It is often...
Steam Traction on the Road
From Trevithick to Sentinel: 150 Years of Design and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and in the early part of the nineteenth century...
British Type 3 Diesel Locomotives
Classes 33, 35, 37 and upgraded 31
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The Type 3 Diesel Locomotive album comprises over 200, mainly unpublished, full sized colour photographs of four classes of British engines, developed in the earlier years of the Modernisation Plan.
The Type 3 included four classes of locomotive of medium power output, which undertook a wide...
The London Leylands
The Last Years of RTL and RTW Operation in London
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
LONDON'S FAMOUS RT-TYPE BUSES were an iconic symbol of our Capital city in the 1950s, before being superseded by the Routemasters. Most were built between 1947 and 1954 to replace worn-out pre-war and wartime buses, as well as our remaining trams. More than 7,000 were built in all and although London...
Great Western, Grange Class Locomotives
Their Design and Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Churchward proposed a 5ft 8in wheeled 4-6-0 for mixed traffic duties in 1901 and it was seriously considered in 1905, but it took until 1936 before his successor, Charles Collett, realized the plan by persuading the GWR Board to replace many of the 43XX moguls with modern standard mixed traffic engines...
by David Maidment
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
This book is one of the Pen & Sword Locomotive Portfolio series and covers the rebuilding by Richard Maunsell of the South Eastern & Chatham Railway ‘D’ and ‘E’ 4-4-0s as ‘D1’ and ‘E1’ locomotives with higher pressure boilers and long-travel valve events following the Churchward...
Rails in the Road
A History of Tramways in Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
There have been passenger tramways in Britain for 150 years, but it is a rollercoaster story of rise, decline and a steady return. Trams have come and gone, been loved and hated, popular and derided, considered both wildly futuristic and hopelessly outdated by politicians, planners and the public...
by David Maidment
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
The German Pacific Locomotive (Its Design and Development) is David Maidments fourth book in the series of Locomotive Profiles published by Pen & Sword. It is the first in the series to tackle an important range of overseas steam locomotives, the German pacific locomotives, which, with the Paris-Orleans...
Southern Railway
Maunsell Moguls and Tank Locomotive Classes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Southern Maunsell Moguls and Tank Engines is a volume in the series of Locomotive Profiles being published by Pen & Sword. It describes the conception, design and construction of the two- and three-cylinder 2-6-0s initially the ‘Ns’ constructed at the end of the First World War, many at government...
by David Maidment
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Great Western Moguls & Prairies is a volume in Pen & Sword’s series, ‘Locomotive Profiles’. It describes the conception, design, building and operation of the fleet of Prairie 2-6-2 tank engines and the Mogul 2-6-0s designed by Churchward in the early part of the twentieth century and...
by Laurence Waters
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Churchward’s 2 cylinder Saint Class 4-6-0s were arguably one of the most important locomotive developments of the twentieth century. The seventy-seven members of the class were so successful that most of the other railway companies in this country used the same 2 cylinder 4-6-0 formula in the design...