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  • Rails Around Preston

    by Mike Rhodes ...
    The first railway to reach Preston was the North Union (NU), with a line from Wigan in October 1838. By the turn of the nineteenth century there were some seventy stations within a 15-mile radius of Preston, with approximately half of these still in use in 2022. The variety of motive power to be seen at Preston over the years would rival any station in the entire UK railway network.Mike Rhodes has ... Read more

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  • The Art of Richard Thompson

    A tribute to the cartoonist known as "Michelangelo with a sense of humor," the creator of the beloved comic strip Cul de Sac (Pat Oliphant, editorial cartoonist).Richard Thompson is renowned among cartoonists as an "artist's" cartoonist. Little known to all but those close to him is the extent of his art talent. This is the book that will enlighten the rest of us and delight us with the sheer ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Steam Across Four Continents

    by Mike Rhodes ...
    When mainline steam finished in the UK in 1968 many rail enthusiasts put their cameras away. A few dedicated followers continued to record the industrial scene as many small tank engines of various builds could still be found at work in collieries and the like.There was, however, another alternative. Steam was still very active in many countries around the world and could be seen in great numbers ... Read more

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  • A History of Bus Operators in Preston

    by Mike Rhodes ...
    The earliest recorded operators of buses in Preston were pioneers who provided services from nearby surrounding villages in the 1910s. The local town services were initially provided by the Corporation’s tramway system with buses only being introduced in 1922. From 1919, Ribble Motor Services gradually became the dominant operator connecting the town to the rest of Lancashire and beyond. Other ... Read more

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  • Rails Around Manchester

    by Mike Rhodes ...
    Manchester is steeped in railway history going back almost 200 years to the opening of Liverpool Road station in September 1830. The line from Liverpool was widely regarded as the first ever inter-city railway in the world. The railway network around the city greatly expanded in the second half of the nineteenth century with new lines opening to the surrounding Lancashire towns and beyond. At one ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • British Bus Stations

    North West England

    by Mike Rhodes ...
    Covering Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire and the Isle of Man, this book showcases the eighty functioning bus stations in the North West, as well as many more long-lost stations. Bus stations, comprising at least two bus stands where buses start, end or pause their journey, first appeared in the 1920s. In the ensuing decades through to the 1970s many buses had rear ... Read more

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  • Daimler Fleetlines

    by Mike Rhodes ...
    The Daimler Motor Co. Ltd and the Lancashire Steam Motor Co. (Leyland Motors Ltd from 1907) were formed in 1896 and produced motor vehicles in the early twentieth century. Daimler established works in Radford, Coventry, where a range of high-end cars and buses were assembled.Leyland introduced the revolutionary Atlantean in late 1958 and in August 1960 Daimler’s equivalent, the Fleetline, appeared ... Read more

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  • British Atlanteans

    by Mike Rhodes ...
    The Leyland Atlantean was in production from 1958 until 1986 and around 15,300 buses of the type were built over this period. Whilst over 3,500 were exported abroad, the remainder gave sterling service to over a hundred different operators in the UK. These ranged from the transport authorities of Glasgow and Liverpool, both of which accumulated large numbers of the type, to the small independent ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Art of Richard Thompson

    A tribute to the cartoonist known as "Michelangelo with a sense of humor," the creator of the beloved comic strip Cul de Sac (Pat Oliphant, editorial cartoonist).Richard Thompson is renowned among cartoonists as an "artist's" cartoonist. Little known to all but those close to him is the extent of his art talent. This is the book that will enlighten the rest of us and delight us with the sheer ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Midlands Half-cab Buses

    The Twilight Years

    by Mike Rhodes ...
    A visitor to one of the principal cities of the East or West Midlands during the 1970s would not have failed to notice that all the incumbent local bus operators were still running buses that still resembled types which could be seen throughout Britain between the two world wars – that is double-deck buses with the driver seated in his own cab area with an open space over the adjacent engine ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Lothian Buses in Historic Edinburgh

    by Mike Rhodes ...
    Edinburgh is reputed to have more buildings designated as of ‘special architectural or historic interest’ than any other city in the world. These range from rows of Georgian terraced houses and individual Victorian tenement blocks to such diverse structures as the diminutive Greyfriars Bobby sculpture and the Forth Rail Bridge. Many of the buildings were constructed from sandstone, from a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • MGR Coal Trains

    by Mike Rhodes ...
    As electricity became more widely used to power and light Britain’s towns and cities a number of municipal boroughs built their own power stations. In the early years these were inevitably fed by coal, of which the UK had a plentiful supply. In the 1960s and early 1970s the government embarked on a programme of constructing new power stations. The majority of these were constructed with direct ... Read more

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