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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101 Winter Digest 2010/11

British Steam Trams
Traveller's Tales - Belle Epoque Cruises
Stumbling on a Steam Shoot
Birmingham Museums' Reserve Collection
R100 & R101 Airship Exhibition
Lowestoft Tram Back to Life

100 Autumn Digest 2010

Erwood Station - 25 Years of Crafts
Visit to Rendcombe Airfield
Wallingford 'Bunkfest'
Traveller's Tales - Spitzbergen
The Great McLaren Gathering
Lancaster Station
Nord Compound 4-6-0

99 Summer Digest 2010

Transport Trust Awards Presentations
Insight - Jet Engines vs the Propellor
The Spirit of Gondola
The Shillingstone Connection
Traveller's Tales - Ecuador & the Galapagos
Visiting the Hovercraft Museum

98 Spring Digest 2010

A National Archive of Transport, Travel & Trade
Insight - AC and DC on the Railway
An Aircraft Wonderland - Tucson Arizona
Trains, Boats & Trams in Belgium
Kop Hill Climb 2009
Bristol Aircraft Company 1952-1959
Traveller's Tales - Riding to the West

97 Winter Digest 2009/10

Tornado over the Cotswolds
From a Farm Wagon to the Royal Mews
What Next for Darjeeling's World Heritage Railway?
The Bermuda Sloop
Reflections on Two Great Engineers
Engaging Young People with our Transport Interests

96 Autumn Digest 2009

Launch of Brighton Belle Appeal
Full Sized Mechanical Elephants
Restoration of Droitwich Canals
The Scania Transport Trust Awards
de Havilland Moth Club Tour de France
Sailing on the 'Clyde Banana Boat'

95 Summer Digest 2009

Northstead Manor Gardens Railway
Imperial Airways to Karachi
The course of the Chauncy Maples
Lots of 'Stars' for 9 day Gala
HMS Gay Archer (P1041)
Corris Railway 150th Anniversary

94 Spring Digest 2009

The Day I Stopped The Thames
Postcards from the Peloponnese
Palestine 1947/48 and the Hejaz Railway
Trinity House
MSA Classic Run 2008
Memories of Maud
General Strike
Perrygrove Railway
When the World was Black & White

93 Winter Digest 2008/9

Electric train preservation among the spoil heaps

Transport Trust Restoration Awards 2008

Leylands at the 2008 Bus & Coach Show

Putting the Stirling engine to work

Off to the racecourse

National Association of Road Transport Museums

HLF funding for Heritage

92 Autumn Digest 2008

Transport Trust Awards Ceremony

Red Wheel in Leeds Centre

Restoring a mobile cinema

Flavouring the 40th

40 Years Ago - a middle Eastern expedition

Fraser Nash 75 - a brief history

South Devon Railway & More

Off to Shropshire

Leylands at Crich

Seaplane Sortie

The Return of Secundus

91 Summer Digest 2008

Consuelo Allen sold to Long Shop Museum

Transport Trust AGM

South Shropshire's Place in Aviation History

Fedecrail in Austria

Let's Save Eiffel's Bridge

Severn Valley Railway Restored

Steamy Recovery

The Things You See from a Train

Railway Preservation in Japan

Spotted on the Dart

Invicta

90 Spring Digest 2008

Falklands Suprise

The car that thought it was an airship

Bring back the Brighton Belle

The Berlin Airlift

Life with an Alvis 12/75

Transatlantic Leopard Moth

Manchester Horse Tram Returns

89 Winter Digest 2007/8

2007 Restoration Awards

Swiss Adventure - A Woman's View

The International 14 at 80

1948-2008: The British Transport Commission & Preservation

Shetland Surprises

Cuneo Centenary

Rogny les Sept Ecluses - a very early lock system under restoration

Stainmore Railway

A Week at the Choo Choo

Irish Interlude

Welsh Steam Coal Mining Resumes

An Essex Event

88 Autumn Digest 2007

2007 Awards Presentations

Transport Heritage in Mid-Wales

Transport Trust at the Great Dorset Steam Fair

The Heritage Railway Association

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch - 80 years on

Two Days Before the Floods - a Visit To Toddington

Auf Widersehen? - not yet pet!

Kemble Trio

87 Summer Digest 2007

Transport Trust visits Norfolk

One Day in June

Veterans and Newcomers in South Hampshire

100 Years of Brooklands

Fedecrail AGM & Conference - Denmark

A Hard Labour of Love - SL Sabrina

The Creation of Railway Museums

Steaming to Good Use

86 Spring Digest 2007

Roy Richards - Founder & Owner of the National Motorcycle Museum

Heritage Transport in San Francisco

Richard Wheatland - Transport Artist

Transport Reminders in London

85 Winter Digest 2006/7

Transport Trust Restoration Awards 2006

A Second Look at Ireland

TT Royal Patron Names a 'railway engine'

100 Years of Lancia

Flights of Fantasy

Messing About on the River

84 Autumn Digest 2006

Awards Ceremony 2006

On the Welsh Highland

By the Old Toll Bridge

Medway Queen Dismantled

Alan Keef 2006 Open Day

Steaming Along the Cambrian Coast

The Airplane and the Inclined Plane

Windemere Steamboat Museum

83 Summer Digest 2006

AGM weekend 2006

Maid of the Loch

Sir William McAlpine - 70th Birthday

Steam Festival in Picardy

Milk Floats, Buses and Motorbikes

Wisley Airfield - an Aviation Pioneer

Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum

82 Spring Digest 2006

Brunel 200

The National Railway Heritage Awards

Visit to Rolls Royce at Goodwood

Applied and Passive Restoration

British in South Africa

The Railway that Built a Country - Kenya's Railway Heritage