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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38-39 Summer Autumn Digest 1992

Ten-Wheelers

A Welsh Railway Artist

New Exhibition At The RAF Museum

A Treasure Hunt For Old Wrecks

Vintage Cars In Jersey

Steam Heritage 1992 Awards

Sir Vincent Steams Again

New Museum Of Science & Industry

37 Spring Digest 1992

Winners of 1991 Scania Awards

On-Line For Preservation

Trolleys In Detroit

Angels Oberammagau

Spitfires In Essex

Sotheby's Sale Of Mint & Boxed

B12 Progress Report

Big Boy In Britain

Blast From The Past

Stoomcentrum Maldegem, Belgium

Transport On Stamps

Shipbuilding In Jersey

35-36 Autumn - Winter Digest 1991

Busy Day For The Transport Trust At Old Warden

Latest Scania Transport Trust Award Winners

Sheffield 74

Operation Market Garden At The Museum Of Army Flying

Schneider's Successors

Centenary Of Guernsey Yacht Club

Dudley Tunnel's Re-Opening

The Basingstoke Canal

Midland Railway Trust

34 Summer Digest 1991

Yesteryear & Vintage Transport Day

Rhine Reise

Transport Trust AGM, Gloucester

Scania Transport Trust Awards

British Watwrways News

Cambrian Railway Society & Oswestry Bicycle Museum

Midland Railway Centre

Scottish Railway Preservation Society

Blue Anchor Railway Museum

32-33 Spring Digest 1991

Japanese Railways In The Meiji Period

Our Queen For A Day

Full Steam Ahead For Ship's Facelift

Birmingham's Electric Dustcarts

Ian Allen Heritage Awards 1990

Bodmin Steam Railway

AGM Report

Ffestiniog Railway

47401 Project Update

The South Western Circle

47 Autumn / Winter Digest 1994

The Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle

TT Art Award Winner

Transport Artists - Bob Murray

Pictures On The Wall?

Close Encounters With The Third Rail

Obituary - Dai Woodham MBE

The Queen Mary - Then And Now

The Vintage Carriages Trust

Mersey Tunnel Diamond Jubilee

31 Winter Digest 1990

Transport on Postcards

Obituary - Duke Of Richmond & Gordon

Yesteryear & Vintage Transport Day

Time To Visit The Transport Trust Library

Scania Winners Visit Sweeden

Chairman's Review

Jersey Aviation History

The Berlin Airlift's British Base

Preparing the Memorial Flypast

Steamer Spotting

21 Years Of The Midland Railway Centre

29/30 Summer/Autumn Digest 1990

Transport Trust AGM Weekend, Ironbridge George Museum

Richard's Railton Returns

75th Anniversary of Southdown Motor Services Ltd

National Motorcycle Museum's Bread And Butter Racer

Portguese Textile Museum

St John's Barge

Royal Opening Of Kennet & Avon Canal

£2M Plan For London Transport Museum

A Pair Of North American Museums

Visit To The Waterloo & City Railway

28 Spring Digest 1990

Obituary - David Lindsay-Bethune, Earl of Lindsay

Transport Tust Library At Brunel University

Trans European Trimotors

Isle Of Man Interlude

Standedge Tunnel

Saving A Symbol Of The Past

Dunkirk

NVR Arrange A Passenger Train Crash

Watercress Line - Mid Hants 125

New Track Machine For Midland Railway Centre

Great North London Electric Tour

26-27 Summer Autumn Digest 1989

Catching The Younger Generation

Irish Mail Coach 1789

The Railway Steamers

HMS Warrior

Behind The Scenes At The Museum Of London

Oswestry Bicycle Museum

Preserving Blackpool Tram 298

Dopravni Podnik Mesta BRNA

Two Stockholm Museums

Bridge With A Future

Great Yorkshire RPS - A Railway On The Move

25 Spring Digest 1989

Sir Peter Allen - An Appreciation

1989 Scania Transport Trust Awards

ARPS Annual Award For National Railway Museum

News From Nene Valley

Midland Railway Trust

Severn Valley Railway Association

Steam In Autralia 1987-88

Irish Motoring Classics

LFB Fire Boat Massey Shaw

National Waterways Museum

23-24 Autumn Winter Digest 1988

The Federation Of British Historic vehicle Clubs

HRH Prince Philip At The National Motorcycle Museum

The Michael Sedgwick Memorial Trust

Seats On Top

The Tramcar Sponsorship Organisation

National Waterways Opened By The Prince Of Wales

Matchless Motor Boats

New Life For Old Warehouse

MAESTEG's Linda Back In Steam

Magnificent Men

22 Summer Digest 1988

First Flights

To New York By Flying Boat

The First Atlantic Steam Voyage

Armada Exhibition

The Vintage Toy & Train Museum

Steam Heritage Awards

Chairman's Review

21 Spring Digest 1988

Transport On Stamps

75 Years Of Aircraft Manufacture In Kingston

Kew Bridge 150

National Waterways Museum, Gloucester

Medway Queen Sails Again

The Railway Races - The 88

Russell's Return

Mail By Raiul Exhibition

The Transport Trust Collection At Brunel

19-20 Autumn Winter Digest 1987

A Model Locomotive Made In 1833

The Firefly Project - Part 1

Dean Forest Railway Company Ltd

Royal Highland Fusilier At The Midland Railway

The Vienna Simplon Orient Express

Plym Valley Railway

Swindon Patterns Salvaged

Watercress Line, Midhants Railway Anniversary

East Anglia Transport Museum

18 Summer Digest 1987

The Wells and Walsingham Light Railway

The Combe's Bitter Lorry

Public Appeal To Safeguard Britain's Oldest Racing Car

Interplanetary Origins

Camping Boats

Transport Trust Awards 1986

Transport Trust AGN 1987

Psychographics & Marketing Preserved Railways

Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Museum

17 Spring Digest 1987

Achieving The Impossible

Grand Duke

The Peter Allen Pullman

Welcome To The Oldest Railway In The World

Beaulieu Pit Stop For 1904 Napier

Narrow Boat Histories

They Were Different Then - Austin Healey Sprite

Royal Mail Stamp Book For P&O

15-16 Autumn Winter Digest 1986

Wanted - A Queen's Champion

Canal Chronicle

Horses At Work

The TRamcar In Russia

Eleventh Steam Model Event At Kew

Anti-Motoring Lobby Nearly Wins At Beaulieu

Bussing Down Tbe Autobahn

New Look Waterloo East Link

14 Summer Digest 1986

Electric Orphans

Terminal Railroads

Army Transports - An Unusual Delight

Thames Ferry At Shepperton Re-Opened

150 Years Of The Ffestiniog Railway

Library Moves To Brunel University

Hovercraft Museum

The Peterborough Connection

Major Develoment Of Gloucester Docks

13 Spring Digest 1986

Battle Of Britain Locomotive Society

The Steam Tardis

Steamport Southport

Our Roving Reporter In Malaysia

Antique Car Clubs In The USSR

West Yorskshire Transport Museum

They Were Different Then - Singer Gazelle

The Anderton Lift

Paddle Steamer To Be Preserved

Aiming To Find A 1779 Wreck