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With over 200 images, this is a visual journey around the Emerald Isle over 100 years, moving through to modern times, showing the various traction, locomotives and stations that have made Ireland's railways what they are today.

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With over 200 images, this is a visual journey around the Emerald Isle, starting in the 1960s and moving through to modern times, showing the various traction, locomotives and stations that have made Ireland's railways what they are today.

When this story begins passengers then as now were the main business of the railways in southern England. Since then electrification has been the priority. Diesels appeared in the 1950s, steam ended in 1967, branch lines closed with Beeching, but in compensation the south has a remarkable network of preserved steam and diesel operated railways.

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Paddington is one of the great railway stations. Temporary buildings were opened in 1838 as the London terminus. The present station was designed and built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel who considered that nothing less than a grand terminus to the GWR would be acceptable. The first service from the new station departed on 16 January 1854.

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

A wonderfully entertaining narrative revealing the life and times of those who worked and travelled on London's trams, with evocative and nostalgic photos.

London Transport was created in 1933 to coordinate the shambolic, overlapping transport systems of the capital, and for decades has striven to meet the challenges of organising London travel. This book presents the story of the organisation from its origins, through the upheavals of the Second World War, to TfL's biggest project - Crossrail.

From the 1930s onwards three companies dominated its bus and coach services, East Kent, Maidstone and District and London Transport. There had once been trams, in Margate and Dartford for example, and trolleybuses also in Dartford and well as in the county town of Maidstone.

Up until the twentieth century, wars were fought on the battlefield, it rarely impacted the civilian population. All this changed with the development of aircraft, suddenly there was an additional dimension to warfare. World War 1 saw the first limited raids on urban areas, but it was World War 2 that forced Britain's towns and cities onto the front line. While many town and cities suffered severe damage, it was the greater London area that su...

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.