The Wharncliffe Transport imprint has been designed to encourage readers to remember the classic days of British transport. Covering all periods of railways, buses, trams, cars, canals and bikes, these books provide a nostalgic look back at classic engines and vehicles. Some titles will be illustration led, whilst others will concentrate on the memories such classic machines evoke. All will inspire anyone with an interest in British transport history.
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A book worth having, primarily for the visual reference, and secondarily for the model-related sections.
A Question Of Scale, Seb Palmer
A book worth having, primarily for the visual reference, and secondarily for the model-related sections.
A Question Of Scale, Seb Palmer
Like many young lads born in the early post-war years, Jim soon developed a passionate interest in railways including the myriad steam engines that were still the norm on the rail network in those days.
The results are all here in this nostalgic coffee table book, a steam enthusiast’s dream if I ever saw one. Here we have engines imbued with personality.
Unintentional religious imagery abounds; thus we have the “last days” and “death” of steam, even purgatory – if the famous Barry scrapyard counts as that – and resurrection (steam on preserved lines). An evocative piece of railway history.
Yes, those were the days …
Methodist Recorder
Like many young lads born in the early post-war years, Jim soon developed a passionate interest in railways including the myriad steam engines that were still the norm on the rail network in those days.
The results are all here in this nostalgic coffee table book, a steam enthusiast’s dream if I ever saw one. Here we have engines imbued with personality.
Unintentional religious imagery abounds; thus we have the “last days” and “death” of steam, even purgatory – if the famous Barry scrapyard counts as that – and resurrection (steam on preserved lines). An evocative piece of railway history.
Yes, those were the days …
Methodist Recorder
In five thoroughly researched chapters, he [the author] describes the arrival and departure of its electric trams, the long saga leading to the construction of St Margaret's bus station, and the uneasy relationship with Midland Red and its successors both over the 13 years after it arrived in the city in 1919 and the deregulated battles that ran for 14 years until Leicester CityBus was privatised in 1944.
Buses, April 2019 – reviewed by Alan Millar
In five thoroughly researched chapters, he [the author] describes the arrival and departure of its electric trams, the long saga leading to the construction of St Margaret's bus station, and the uneasy relationship with Midland Red and its successors both over the 13 years after it arrived in the city in 1919 and the deregulated battles that ran for 14 years until Leicester CityBus was privatised in 1944.
Buses, April 2019 – reviewed by Alan Millar
Beautiful & inspiring book on a fascinating under-explored era for model railway enthusiasts. A very handsome A4 hardback, of approx 120 pages, filled with great pictures in both colour and black and white. Authors Peter Chatham and Stephen Weston, themselves manufacturers of high end trains etc, have produced a book to inspire and inform railway modellers with the earlier period, pre-1880, of steam. One minor gripe is that the book assumes a knowledge of the subject I don't as yet have, and there's no glossary, so it's a bit opaque in places for an interested layman like me. After a decent introduction to the subject, there's a chapter on a pioneer of modelling this period, Mike Sharman, followed by chapters whose titles - Infrastructure, Locomotives, Carriages, Wagons, Layouts and Models - tell you what to expect. There's an appendix listing sources of model suppliers, and a bibliography. The chief attraction, however, are the copious and very attractive illustrations, which range from.. Read more
Sebastian Palmer (Amazon Review)
Beautiful & inspiring book on a fascinating under-explored era for model railway enthusiasts. A very handsome A4 hardback, of approx 120 pages, filled with great pictures in both colour and black and white. Authors Peter Chatham and Stephen Weston, themselves manufacturers of high end trains etc, have produced a book to inspire and inform railway modellers with the earlier period, pre-1880, of steam. One minor gripe is that the book assumes a knowledge of the subject I don't as yet have, and there's no glossary, so it's a bit opaque in places for an interested layman like me. After a decent introduction to the subject, there's a chapter on a pioneer of modelling this period, Mike Sharman, followed by chapters whose titles - Infrastructure, Locomotives, Carriages, Wagons, Layouts and Models - tell you what to expect. There's an appendix listing sources of model suppliers, and a bibliography. The chief attraction, however, are the copious and very attractive illustrations, which range from.. Read more
Sebastian Palmer (Amazon Review)
This is quite a detailed book... It will appeal to those who work or worked on the railways.
Branch Line Britain
This is quite a detailed book... It will appeal to those who work or worked on the railways.
Branch Line Britain
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Locomotive Portraits
Whilst ever there have been railways there have been artists keen to paint them. Many famous names have included aspects of the railways in their paintings, including most notably Claude Monet and J M W Turner. This enthusiasm has been kept alive by the formation in the UK of the Guild of Railway Artists, of which there are over two hundred members… Read more...
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Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford's life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most revered engineer in the world, known punningly as “The Colossus of Roads”. He was responsible for some of the great works of the age, such as the suspension bridge across the Menai Straits and the mighty… Read more...
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Flying Scotsman
From hauling the first non-stop express from London to Edinburgh in 1928 and breaking the 100mph barrier in 1934, to being sold in 1963, and to its final home at the York National Railway Centre, The Flying Scotsman has a rich and, at times, controversial history. It has travelled across the USA and steamed across Australia, changed owners and colour… Read more...
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Fred Dibnah
Mid-Cheshire based heritage transportation specialist photographer and feature writer Keith Langston travelled extensively with Fred Dibnah during the filming of his last TV series, 'Made in Britain.' Following Fred's untimely death, Keith embarked upon the creation of a book, drawing not only on his experiences with the Bolton born steeplejack and… Read more...
