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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81 Winter Digest 2005

2005 Restoration Awards

Aviation Focus

City of Truro Returning to Toddington

Thoughts on Preserved French Railways

Dieseling by the Dart

Passing Through Evesham

By Rail Along the Silk Road

80 Autumn Digest 2005

The Early Days

Awarding Times

Roaming the North West

Rail Ramblings in Central Europe

Steam and Campanology

2005 Great Dorset Steam Fair

Manchester Horse Tram L53

Visit to Air Atlantique & Gaydon Mpotor Museum

The Route West

79 Summer digest 2005

2005 AGM - Chairman's Report

Fedec Rail in France

2005 TT Award presentations

AGM Weekend 2005, Derby

Applied Preservation in Sussex

Silver Gondola

78 Spring Digest 2005

Changes at Covent Garden

European Aviation Preservation Council Conference

Sirapite Being Dismantled

BAPC 150th Meeting

A Year of Travels

A Personal Railway

A Midlands visit

A Railway Timetable as an Archive of Social History

Change of Use in Spain

77 Autumn Digest 2004

2004 TT Restoration Wards

A Day of Aircraft & Bubble Cars

Applied & Pure Preservation

Narrow Gauge Rejuvenation

The Greatest Steam Fair on Earth

Driving History

A Day In Derbyshire

Out on the Airfield

High Above the River

76 Summer Digest 2004

TT Awards 2004

TT AGM 2004

A Look at Ireland

Applied & Passive Preservation in Scandanavia

Railfest 2004 at the National Railway Museum

Lunch at Glenlivet

Fedecrail in the Netherlands

Barry Heritage Skills centre

Cruising to Dordrecht

75 Spring Digest 2004

Concorde

What's It Worth?

The Steam Tug Portwey

Six-Coupled Times Four

Great central Railway War Memorial

Glasgow's Transport Museum

Trust Visit to Wroughton

Changing Gauges in Spain

Penydarren Bicentenary

74 Autumn Digest 2003

Restoration Awards 2003

Applied Preservation

A Quick Look at Latvia

Leyland Motors Started Earlier

A Busy Summer

Black Country Memories

Square Sail

Railway Carriage Significance

The Lartigue Monorail

73 Summer Digest 2003

TT AGM Visdit to Coalbrookdale

American Visitor in Oxfordshire

The Wey & Godalming Navigation

South Wales Revival

Unfit for a Queen

Lakeland Motor Museum

30 Years & Going Strong

100 Years From Welshpool

72 Spring Digest 2003

Restoration Awards 2002

On The Santa Fe Trail

Tangmere Military Aviation Museum

Merseybeat 2

Steamy Days

Cravens Cravings

Classic Speed on Suffolk Waters

71 Autumn Digest 2002

Yorkshire Cable Tramway Reprieved At Last Minute

Museum With A Mission - Grampian Transport Museum

Preservation In The Baltic States

An Afternoon At The Longshop

Vintage Transport Day

Merseybeat

Breaking New Ground Again At Eurotunnel

Cart Marking In The City

Crowd Pullers (And How To Look After Them)

70 Summer Digest 2002

Rewley Road Renaissance

de Haviland Heritage

France v. England

The Turn Of The Ton

Glorious Gloustershire

On Their Way Out

A Very Special Ship

Railway Preservation in Northern Ireland

Brighton Belles

Beamish Revisited

69 Spring Digest 2002

TT Restoration Awards 2001

Walton Hall Farm

She's Had Her Feet Up Since 1839

On The Road

A Steamy Affair

Hovercraft - Its All Hot Air!

An Irish Miscellany

A Question Of Scale

68 Autumn Digest 2001

The Trust Afloat

Vintage Transport Day At Old Warden

FEDECRAIL In Italy

St Louis Blues

Slow Train Coming

Southampton Hall of Aviation

Commuterland Survivor

Mayday! Mayday!

Remembering the Titans

67 Summer Digest 2001

Preservationist Of The Year 2001

TT AGM Vsiti To Scotland

The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum

The Falkirk Wheel

Nine Locomotives On One Train...

Revisiting Beamish

By Train & Plane To Victoria Falls

The Bass Museum

66 Spring Digest 2001

TT Restoration Awards 2000

Catch Them If You Can - Malta's Legendary Buses

Icons Gallery At Museum Of British Road Transport

Variety Among The South Downs

The Birthplace of Railways

Living History at Milestones

To Darjeeling By Train

Mayday Call For Fire Engines

65 Autumn Digest 2000

A Memorable Vintage Transport Day At Old Warden

Interlude At Pereslavl

The Isle Of Man In August

TT Restoration Awards

A Railway Perspeective From The North East

Fleetwood Tram Sunday 2000

Down Below At Grand Central

Brooklands Museum

The Charles Burrell Museum

64 Summer Digest 2000

Star Turn

Achievement In Silver

FEDECRAIL Conference 2000

Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner

Lake Windermere Transport Interchange

A Train Ride Through The Orange Groves

Preview Of Vintage Transport Day, Shuttleworth

Britain's Historic Vehicles Under Scrutiny

Tunnel Vision

63 Spring Digest 2000

TT Restoration Awards 1999

Great North Eastern Railway

Mixed Gauge Autumn

Lessons From The Ruhr

Not Just Buses

London Transport Acton Town Depot

British Railway Survivals in South America

Round Wales By Rail

62 Autumn Winter Digest 1999

Goodwood Revisited

The Railway Wagon Survey

Sharpness

Winners All

Vintage Transport Day 1999

Bishopsgate Goods Station

A Day In The Black Country

Chatham Dockyard

Canal Restoration at Whitchurch, Shropshire