Paul Jackson 
little book of smart 

As environmental concerns increasingly dominate public consciousness, businesses are called upon to incorporate green methods and processes into their operations strategy. The aviation industry is no …

A fascinating array of operators and vehicles are portrayed in the years leading up to 1972, when National Bus Company amalgamations changed so much. Starting in Oxford, characterised by City of …

London’s docks were once the busiest in Britain. They had developed piecemeal from the beginning of the nineteenth century as the existing riverside wharves became too congested and pilfering became …

The erstwhile National Bus Company was the largest bus company in the world and like any large organisation, it required auxiliary vehicles to support its core activities.Formed of around thirty-six …

Lancashire and its neighbours Greater Manchester and Merseyside form one of the most populated parts of England. In this book Peter Tucker takes us on a lively photographic tour of the region’s …

The North Western Railway of India (NWR) was one of British India’s largest railway systems. Created out of the merger of several local Indian lines, the NWR was gradually extended and charged with …

These locomotives were introduced to British Rail in 1956 and were initially allocated to Eastfield Depot in Glasgow and Haymarket Depot in Edinburgh. They became known as Type 2s and were used for …

The 1980s was a decade of change for British Rail as the BR regions began to be replaced by sectorisation. The BR Blue livery, however, lived on through the decade, gradually being replaced by new …

Rail Freight in the North West depicts the changing scene of rail freight traffic in this region of England in recent years. The huge variety of workings in this area are represented, including the …

When London Transport was formed in 1933 it became the world’s largest municipal transport undertaking, peaking at some 9, 000 buses, trams and trolleybuses. London Transport inherited a small …