Transport Digest Magazine

Published four times a year since 1983, Transport Digest is the official journal of National Transport Trust. It gives members a wide-ranging view of our transport heritage, embracing historical reminiscences, restoration projects and current operations in all transport modes. The following gives an overview of the breadth of content...

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141 Winter 2020/21

BA Jumbo for preservation
Lincoln Red Wheels
Brooklands commemorates WW2 air raid
Transport Trust old magazines – found and lost
Preservationist of the Year, Young Preservationist of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Awards
Heritage Skills Academy
National Historic Vehicle Survey
British Buses & Coaches of the fifties & sixties
Latest Red Wheels

140 Autumn Digest 2020

PS Waverley incident;
Lottery funding for camping coaches
Steamship Freshspring
Covid-19 its effect on Transport Heritage – and how Transport Heritage is fighting back
Bristol to St Helens; Silver SS Great Britain has a refit
Beagle Pup prototype files again
Green Public Transport
Project 58 becomes Project 58 + 1
Members’ benefits

139 Summer Digest 2020

New Council members
5-BEL progress
2020 AGM & more
Restoration Awards 2020
Carriage Shed for the Talyllyn - 1950s/60s
Rediscovering Scotland’s first Railway – the Cockenzie Waggonway
MG LE (Limited Edition) Sports Cars
Members’ benefits

138 Spring Digest 2020

Transport Trust becomes National Transport Trust and has a new Patron
Transport Trust Visit to the RAF Museum Hendon
Sunderlands on Windermere & more
Transport by the Torridge
Judging for the National Railway Heritage Awards
Launceston Steam Railway & Museum
Reviews
Seaside Trolleybus Celebrations
Members’ benefits

137 Winter Digest 2019/2020

Red Wheel round up!
TT Visit to Morris Lubricants
TT Visit to the de Havilland Museum
Pallot Steam Museum
From OO to 1:1 via G Gauge
Peterborough Lift Lock
Mildenhall Madness
Members’ benefits

136 Autumn Digest 2019

Bentley Centenary, Rescue Boat that couldn’t be saved
My Signal Box Adventures –conclusion
Red Wheel round up!
A Tale of Two Trains
Steam & Smuts
First weekend visits by HRCT Friends
2019 TT Personal Awards
Members’ benefits

135 Summer Digest 2019

Work at Newark Air Museum
Lifeline for ps Waverley
Kingswear Castle – Historic Ships flagship for 2019
‘Flying Banana’ restoration begins
Transport Trust Awards Presentations
Vale of Rheidol celebrates new station
2019 Members’ Weekend
Further Signal Box Adventures
Morebath’s strange bridge
Day out at Didcot
2019 Transport Trust visits
Members’ benefits

134 Spring Digest 2019

2019 Visits

The R34 Adventure

Morgan Motors hands control to the Italians

Pioneer train runs after 88 years

Red Wheels for ‘Ratty’ and Hartlepool

The RLH buses of London Transport

2019 Annual General Meeting & Accounts

For the love of Tugs – Part 3

Heritage Skills Training

Enfield Chase & Grange Park

Hounslow Heath 25th August 1919

The Chilworth Gunpowder Mills

133 Winter Digest 2018/2019

Roade cutting Red Wheel
The 15 Guinea special
Red Wheels at Farnborough and Tyseley
A Midland Meander
War memorial at St Pancras International
Visit to Beeches Light Railwaty

For the Love of tugs - part two

Welsh Highland Railway Super Power Wekend

132 Autumn Digest 2018

Introducing our new President
Members benefits
Restoration of 'Burbles'
From the Workshop
Lost Museums
Bus driving in 1956

Terry's scrapbook

Lynton and Barnstaple railway
For the Love of tugs - part one

Pottering around the Peaks

Warmley signal box

131 Summer Digest 2018

Sir William McAlpine Bt
2018 Transport Trust Awards Presentations
2018 Annual General Meeting Weekend
Fedecrail in Scotland
Letter to the Editor
Two interesting European Railway Museums
Latest Red Wheels

130 spring digest 2018

Some memories of Transport in the Dulwich area of South London 1903-1916+

TT visit to the Beeches Light Railway

Visit to the Metropolitan Line Signal Cabins

2018 Accounts

British Motor Museum Visited

From the Workshop

Centro Storico Fiat

129 Winter Digest 2017/18

More 2017 Red Wheels

AGM Weekend 2018

Brooklands - Opening the new Aircraft Factory

Monarch goes to the Show

From The Workshop

Incident on a German Heritage Railway

From the Workshop

Dennis of Guildford – a new Beginning

Commercial Traffic on the River Severn

Visit to the Shuttleworth Collection

128 Autumn Digest 2017

2017 Red Wheels

The 20th Hertford Bus Rally

Rebuilding Grandad’s Aircraft

Irish Oddities

Some Norwegian Survivals

Some memories of transport in the Dulwich

Area of South London 1902-1916

Duxford Visit

From The Workshop

Dennis of Guildford – the Hestair Years

127 Summer Digest 2017

2017 Transport Trust Awards

Mineral Railways of Purbeck

2017 AGM Llangollen

Boscombe Down Aviation Collection

Are you up for a challenge?

Aveling & Porter and the first practical steam road roller

126 Spring Digest 2017

Annual General Meeting 2017

Rebuilding Grandad's Jaguar S Type (part 2)

Dennis of Guildford - post World War 2

A trip to Madiera

Brooklands finishing straight

Station statuary

Bath Green Park remembered

125 Winter Digest 2016/17

Red Wheels for Bath and Barton

Rebuilding Grandad's Jaguar S Type

Dennis of Guildford - the post Great War years

Papa Westray Motor Roller

The Cavell Van

Working on Classic Cars

Motor Racing Curiosities

124 Autumn Digest 2016

Ala Recherche du vapeur

Dennis of Guildford – the early years

Steamship “Freshspring” heads off

Rebuilding Grandad’s aircraft

One day on Exmoor

123 Summer Digest 2016

Transport Trust Awards 2016

Fawley Hill& Billsdays II

Members weekend 2016

Transport Trust Awards designs

Editors Travels

An innovative raise – or not?

Sad story of a Motor Enthusiast

122 Spring Digest 2016

Transport Trust visits 2016

Members weekend/AGM 2016

Transport Trust Accounts 2014/15

Morecambe’s White Marvel

Atalantic Passage, 1943

Still trading after all these years

Terry Blackman’s scrapbook