Transport Digest Magazine

161 Winter 2025/26

2025 Awards Presentations - This year’s Personal Award winners and Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
Red Wheels – the latest The Boat Building Academy; Boat of Garten; Glasdon Lighthouse.
A day at Crofton- Members’ visit to Crofton Pumping Station on the Kennet & Avon Canal.
Monumental Moments - An unremarkable road bridge in Liphook with a wartime history.
Off to Boston Lodge Works - Another Members’ visit, this time to the workshops of the Ffestiniog Railway at Porthmadog in north Wales.
A brief look at Chiltern Railways - How a railway company has developed over the years.
An hour or two in Pewsey - A look at transport in a quiet Wiltshire town.

160 Autumn 2025

2025 Awards Presentations - This year’s Restoration Awards winners
On the day at Fawley Hill. - Pictures from the Awards presentations.
Introducing the Friends of King Alfred’s Buses - The story of an NTT Affiliate Member.
‘It ain’t half ’ot, Mum’ Members’ visit to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway on a very hot day.
Aberdeen’s Ferryhill Railway Heritage Trust looking after a former major steam depot.
A day at Shuttleworth - The NTT stand attends an event at Old Warden.
Excerpts from our History – Part Two
Spithead Review, Coronation of King George VI, 1937 - When the fleet gathered in the Solent before WW2.

159 Summer 2025

2025 Annual General Meeting, Reporting on the AGM weekend
NTT Winter Zoom programme, Mobile cinema lost
Latest Red Wheels Hovertravel & Rothesay’s Victorian Toilets.
Visit to Croydon Airport Members look around this iconic former site.
A tale of two Tram Shelters One in Glasgow, the other in Edinburgh.
Looking around Birmingham Museum’s reserve Collection. Rarely seen artefacts in museum store.
Sunbeam Trolleybuses, Works photos of a few Sunbeam vehicles.
A wander around Lostwithiel. Changing times at a Cornish railway station and more.
Visit to Greenham Common Tower. A look at what is left of a once major USAF base.

158 Spring 2025

Brighton Belle takes to the rails; more Red Wheels
Fuel for Thought - A treatise on various fuels for engines.
Preservation at Cotswold Airport - Boeing 747 & Bristol Britannia at Kemble.
A Manifesto for Mobile Heritage - A look at photos from the late David Elliot.
Visit to Liverpool Street Station - Members look around a London terminus.
National Transport Trust Accounts
The Waverley Route - A look at The Borders Railway past and present.
My little ‘Deutsche’ car Part 1 - A ‘model’ car to help with charity work.
Visit to the TfL Control Centre – visit to Hammersmith.
Alternative Fuels – a brief history – The trials and tribulations of different fuel type.

157 Winter 2024/25

Kingswear Castle at 100; 2025 Members Visits.
On the Veteran Car Run at last! Our President manages to get a ride to Brighton.
Celebrating London’s United Service Transport . How repairing a damaged mosaic led to an interesting history.
The Talyllyn Railway 75 years ago. A look at photos from the late David Elliot.
A Spectacular Day at St James’s. The Chairman and Editor took the NTT stand to London.
The NTT visits Tyseley Loco Works. A members’ visit with a railway theme.
The NTT Awards 2023/24. Once again, HRH The Princess Royal graced the Award presentations at Fawley Hill.

156 Autumn Digest 2024

A look at the Bennerley Viaduct - A close look at this well known viaduct.
The Ford Motor Heritage Collection - A NTT visit to the new home of the Ford collection.
Kent & East Sussex celebrates 50 years Progress at both ends of the line is celebrated.

Princes Risborough Signalbox - Another NTT visit, this time to a railway site.
Paddling to Ilfracombe - The editor enjoys a short trip on the PS Waverley
Latest Red Wheels - Victoria Swing Bridge; Edinburgh; Annandale Street Bus Garage; 165A Leith Walk; Sir George Cayley’s Workshop; Dundee & Newtyle Railway;
                                  Scarborough Central Tramway.
Braunston Marina - Red Wheel & Festival - Unveiling a Red Wheel during a canal festival.
The Motor Car becomes Electric - A look at the design of electric cars.

155 Summer Digest 2024

AGM Weekend 2024 – visits around the Nottingham Area.
A Day at Fawley Hill - the last Festival of Transport.
Pioneers of Difficult Preservation – Maritime Part Three.
Visit to the Helicopter Museum.

Latest Red Wheels - Leith Tramway Depot; Inchinnan Bascule Bridge; Kelvin Aqueduct; Volks Electric Railway; A82 Tyndrum to Glencoe Village.
London’s Canals - London Canal Museum and environs.
Ilford Train Maintenance Depot.
Book Reviews.

154 Spring digest 2024

Pioneers of Difficult Preservation – Maritime Part Two
Metroland Revisited - A London Station tour.
National Transport Trust Accounts Nov 2022-Oct 2023
A Pyrenean Station Reborn Canfranc Station is now a hotel.
Visiting Milestones Museum - Basingstoke’s indoor transport attraction.
Latest Red Wheels - East Fortune Airfield; Abbey Station, Shrewsbury; Blackbushe Airport and Union Chain Bridge.
Bluebird K7 returns to Coniston
GCR to move locomotive shed.

153 winter digest 2023/24

Aviation Heritage awards; Plates reunited with LBR loco; book reviews.
NTT Awards 2022/23 - September’s NTT Awards ceremony at Fawley Hill.
Pioneers of Difficult Preservation – Maritime Part One
Chesham Bus Running Day - Heritage London Transport and London Country bus services
Latest Red Wheels - Three in Edinburgh; Marshall & Co., Gainsborough, Glenelg Ferry; Haymarket Train Shed at Bo’ness.
Ruston Excavators - A look at how Rustons became involved with excavators and some survivors in Cumbria.
Manx Steam over the years - Snapshots of the IoM Railways from 1967, 1991, 2015 and 2023.

152 Autumn Digest 2023

Award winning amphibians meet at 1940s event; Relaunch of Britannia; Wemyss station crowned.
NTT 2023 - Members’ Weekend at Ipswich
Haven Ports Tour - Harwich, Mistley, Ipswich & Felixstowe.
Branch Line Society - ‘Merry Wherry’ Railtour
In search of Staffa - The Staffa mobile cranes
A taste of Fawley Hill 2023
A visit to the Dunsfold Collection
A surprise at the Old Station - Petworth’s old railway station.
(Re)visit to the Leighton Buzzard Railway
China Clay by Rail
Visit to Hollycombe Steam Museum

151 Summer Digest 2023

Rose-Toop Collection planning approved; Sail Trade ethical produce;
National recognition for Red Wheel programme.
Latest Red Wheels - Churchill Barriers / Denny Tank / Crinan Canal /
Caledonian Canal / Wigan Lock Flight / Wings over Windemere.
Saving ‘Charlie November’ – The unveiling of a Britten Norman Islander.
Coal Trains – Disappearing from the landscape
London Bus Museum Running Day - Ex-LT buses have a day out.
The Crowle Peatland Railway - A short line in north Lincolnshire on former peat workings, now a nature reserve.
A weekend in north Devon - A variety of finds (and fun!) – rail, road and maritime.

150 Spring Digest 2023

Freshspring revisited
Trains by a snowy Crofton
Latest Red Wheels - Kingsway Tunnel / Troon Harbour / Granton Gasworks Station /
White Cross Aircraft Factory/ Windermere / Blackpool Tram Shed.
The National Transport Trust Accounts 2021/2

Cunarder’s Story - Rescuing a Hunslet industrial locomotive.
Vraux Aviation Museum - A WW2 museum in France.
The Two Tunnels Walk - On the old S&D line south of Bath.
Davidstow Airfield & Cornwall at War Museum - Commemorating WW2 on the edge of Bodmin Moor.

149 Winter Digest 2022/3

Brooklands restores 1922 record breaking bike
New fuels pioneered on Brighton Run.
NTT 2022 AGM weekend
The National Transport Trust Awards 2021/2
The Junior Weights Controller - Wartime days at Short Brothers for a young employee.
Members’ Visits - Darlington & Fifield.
Lancia Lambda Centenary - Celebrating by a trip to Italy for the event.
Waterbird - The first flight of a replica 1911 seaplane.

148 Autumn Digest 2022

Red Wheels for Bell Rock Lighthouse and Talyllyn Railway.

Duxford Aviation Society – A museum within a museum

Members’ Visits - Aston Martin Heritage, Ipswich Transport Museum, Buckinghamshire, Railway Centre, Scunthorpe, Steelworks,

St Albans South Signal Box, Roger Burdett, Bus Collection.

Didcot shed by Night - Evocative railway pictures.

90 Years of Victoria Coach Station - Classic buses return for a day to celebrate.

Heritage in Marston Vale - A look at the local railway centring on Ridgmont Station’s heritage.

A right Royal day out - Participating in the Diamond Jubilee Parade.

147 Summer Digest 2022

New Vice President

NTT future visits

Red Wheel Round Up

Members’ Visits

Sunbeam Land Speed Record Centenary

A visit to the Musée Dufresne, Loire, France

A Bluebell Cameo

Tiverton’s Old Links, all now gone

146 Spring Digest 2022

Centenary of the land speed record; Austin 12 centenary; Captain Smith’s papers.

NTT Grant helps Gwili Railway

The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway

1932 Fraser Nash replica that won the Coupe des Glacier Trophy in 1932

National Transport Trust accounts

The car that was ‘alive’ The Sunbeam 350 record breaker story

Red Wheel for East Fortune airfield

Two events to enjoy

Spanners and Threads: The nuts and bolts of life

145 Winter Digest 2021/2

Securing LT Museum; Future for Coal discussed; Vale of Rheidol Book.

Personal Awards plus Young Preservationist of the Year.

May NTT outing

NTT Awards Presentations

Latest Red Wheel unveilings Five in Scotland, two in Lincoln plus Shoreham Airport.

The life & Times of Hull & Barnsley Carriage No.1.

East Anglian Transport Museum visit.

The 24 Steps – a (Tall) Tale from the Railway.

Advances Reunited Steam rollers back together after 85 years apart.

144 Autumn Digest 2021

NTT tests QR codes; Mosquito to the skies; Kingsway Tunnel.
Personal Awards ; Preservationist of the Year; Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Latest Red Wheel unveilings: Four in Scotland; Micheldever Station.
The Glenelg-Skye Ferry, The narrow crossing from the mainland to Skye.
Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway, a Members’
Whitewebbs Museum of Transport, Another members’ visit.
First Randall MkII meets current Randall MkII, a tale of two Aston Martins.
Tradition on the Thames, This year’s Boat Festival

143 Summer Digest 2021

New restorations on show at Wythall open day.
Driving the Big Ones – The Napier Railton
The Morris Minor - An affectionate look at this popular family car of the 1950s and 60s.
From the Editor’s Archive - colour slides of early 20th Century road steam
Snow and the Railway - A signalman’s tale
Redevelopment of Pritsch’s Patent Mantle Lamp
VIVAT! Rebuilding a BBC outside broadcast van.
Members’ Visits

142 Spring Digest 2021

Scottish Red Wheel at Burntisland, Fife
Heritage Fuels
National Transport Trust Restoration Awards 2020/21
The Midland Pullman is back
In the Pipeline - story of the Government Pipeline Storage System
A Rural Surprise - work of the Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group