Pen And Sword Transport imprint: 108 books
Trolleybus Twilight
Britain's Last Trolleybus Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
In this new photographic album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a fascinating selection of pictures of a form of public transport now sadly missing from Britain's streets – trolleybuses.
British Steam Sunset
A Vision of the Final Years 1965–1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
In this new album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a selection of pictures he took around the country in British steam's final years.
British Railways withdrew their last steam engines with almost indecent haste in the mid- to late-1960s, many having...
Return to Isle of Man Transport
Manx Electric, Snaefell & the Buses and Trams of Douglas Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
This is the second book by Martin Jenkins and Charles Roberts, about transport in the Isle of Man.
The first volume covered the railway network, where as this new volume covers all other forms, road, rail, sea and air operations.
The book is illustrated, using previously unpublished...
London Buses in the 1970s
1970–1974: From Division to Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Using photographs from Jim Blake's extensive archives, this book examines the turbulent period in the history of London's buses immediately after London Transport lost its Country Buses and Green Line Coaches to the recently-formed National Bus Company, under their new subsidiary company, London Country...
The British Transport Commission Group
Former Thomas Tilling Companies in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This fascinating and informative book looks at the Tilling Group of bus companies during the 1960s. These operated approximately half of the inter-urban and rural bus services in England and Wales, and were nationalized by Clement Attlee's Labour Government in 1948 under the control of the British...
Festiniog Railway. Volume 2
From Slate Railway to Heritage Operation 1921 - 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Opened in 1836 as a horse tramway using gravity to carry slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog, by the 1920s the Festiniog Railway had left its years of technical innovation and high profits long behind. After the First World War, the railway’s path led inexorably to closure, to passengers...
by Matthew (Matt) Wharmby
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Vilified as the great failure of all London Transport bus classes, the DMS family of Daimler Fleetline was more like an unlucky victim of straitened times. Desperate to match staff shortages with falling demand for its services during the late 1960s, London Transport was just one organization to see...
Isle of Man Transport: A Colour Journey in Time
Steam Railways, Ships, and Road Services Buses
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This stunning selection of color views, dating from the period 1953-1980, includes most of the vessels operated during this period by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company and The Ramsey Steamship Company. Passenger boats and freighters are seen at ports on the island and on the mainland. There is...
London Transport's Last Buses
Leyland Olympian L1-263
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The Olympian was Leyland's answer to the competition that was threatening to take custom away from its second-generation OMO double-deck products. Simpler than the London Transportcentric Titan but, unlike that integral model, able to respond to the market by being offered as a chassis for bodying...
Eric Bottomley's Transport Gallery
A Journey Across the Canvas
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
This is Eric Bottomley's second art book, in which he has varied both his transport themes and the mediums in which he works. The majority of paintings are in oils but also included are gouache (watercolor) and pencil sketches. However, some paintings are both gouache and pencil, together known as...
The London Bendy Bus
The Bus We Hated
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Between 2002 and 2006 six of London’s bus companies put into service 390 articulated ‘bendy’ buses on twelve routes for transport in London.rnrnDuring what turned out to be a foreshortened nine years in service, the Mercedes-Benz Citaro G buses familiar on the continent and worldwide earned...
Steam in Scotland
A Portrait of the 1950s and 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Kevin McCormack has written a large number of transport books mainly using previously unpublished material, much of it sourced from the Online Transport Archive. This, his latest colour album, covers the railways of Scotland in steam days and concentrates as much as possible on depicting older types...
Narrow Gauge Railway Stamps
A Collector's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This, the first of four books, looks at the treatment of varying aspects of public transport with the aid of postage stamps, either issued by the postal authorities of most of the worlds nations, or some of the railway companies themselves, especially heritage operators.
It has long intrigued...
The Canal Pioneers
Canal Construction from 2,500 BC to the Early 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the ninteenth century. This is a very long history: stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand...