Meet the author: Meet Andrew Bartlett, author of Western National - A Journey in Colour, 1983–2003, out now from P&S Transport. This book concentrates Western National’s operations during an interesting period, when liveries were changing and the company's corporate identity was moving on from a nationalised concern to that of a newly privatised group member. 🚎 You’ll find an interview with Andrew on the P&S blog (link in bio). • #MeetTheAuthor #AuthorInterview #TransportHistory #History #WesternNational #20thCentury #Photography #ColourPhotography #PenAndSwordTransport #LockDown #PenAndSword #PenAndSwordBooks #IsolationInspiration #NewBook #Blog https://www.instagram.com/p/B_ctnVPn6Vp/?igshid=o2yhas30b4i5

Just because we can’t use public transport at the moment doesn’t mean we can’t read about it! You’ll find a category under the Transport section on our website dedicated to London Transport, along with a host of books about buses, trains and trams - oh my! 🚃🚇📚 • #StayHome #StayHomeStaySafe #LondonTransport #LondonBus #TransportForLondon #History #LondonsRailways #Railway #Trains #TrainsAndRailways #Transport #TransportHistory #Bookstagram #BooksToRead #PenAndSword #PenAndSwordBooks #Books #PenAndSwordTransport #MakeTimeToRead #TimeToRead https://www.instagram.com/p/B_A8ItsHNts/?igshid=1f0ww72qwu2zc

As today would be the birthday of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (b. on this day 1806) we thought we’d share a snap from a [past] trip to the lovely city of Bristol and the site of @ssgreatbritain. 🌉 Find out more about Isambard Kingdom Brunel in the biography by Robin Jones, available now for Kindle and ePub download. 📚 • #OnThisDay #Bristol #Brunel #IsambardKingdomBrunel #Biography #Kindle #ePub #eBook #19thCentury #PenAndSwordTransport #History #Engineering #OTDIH #IndustrialRevolution #Brizzle #BritishHistory #BritishBridge #PenAndSword #Recommended #PenAndSwordBooks #StayHome #StayHomeStaySafe (at Brunel's SS Great Britain) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-xarCrJLOv/?igshid=19s25f0qwd5uy

Thursday shelfie time and it’s all about the Great Western collection from Pen & Sword Transport’s Locomotive Portfolios series 😍📚🚂 • #GreatWestern #Transport #Books #LocomotivePortfolios #Shelfie #Thursday #Trains #BooksToRead #Bookstagram #Railways #History #Series #BooksWeLove #HistoryBooks #ThursdayShelfie #Collection #PenAndSword #RailwayBooks #PenAndSwordTransport #PenAndSwordBooks #TrainProfiles #Locomotive (at Pen and Sword Books) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-NccqyJJJf/?igshid=auiufqncgrhw

Here’s author Dr Susan Major with a copy of her P&S Transport book, Female Railway Workers in World War II - included in our 3 for 2 Women of History special offer for Women’s History Month 🚂👩🏻‍✈️📚 • #SpecialOffer #WW2 #History #RailwayWorkers #WomenOfHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #Books #Bookstagram #RailwayHistory #WomenInWW2 #FemaleAuthors #PenAndSwordTransport #3for2 #PenAndSword #Recommended #PenAndSwordBooks #Books #BooksToRead #York #YorkStation #RailwayStation (at York Train Station) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9hxBYNnwKV/?igshid=rys0u6jk9swb

Meet the author: Here’s Bob Pixton with his newly published book, Great Central Railway - Main Line Operations Around Manchester and the MSW Electrification 🚂📚👓 • #MeetTheAuthor #NewBook #TransportHistory #History #HistoryBooks #RailwayHistory #TrainsAndRailways #ProudAuthor #GreatCentralRailway #Manchester #MSWElectrification #PenAndSword #PenAndSwordBooks #MainLine #PenAndSwordTransport https://www.instagram.com/p/B8gHjT3HkKH/?igshid=eu5wbigvvf8f

We’ve kicked off February with a bumper batch of new books including these two beauties from the P&S Transport imprint 😍🚂🌉 • #HistoryBooks #NewBooks Transport #History #TransportHistory #Bookstagram #BooksToRead #Trains #Railways #NewReleases #GreatCentralRailway #Manchester #MSWElectrification #February2020 #TransporterBridges #Bookworms #IllustratedHistory #PenAndSword #PenAndSwordBooks #PenAndSwordTransport (at Pen and Sword Books) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Qo5KlngPS/?igshid=117arcbn7f5ga

📢 Awards nomination klaxon! 📢 We are thrilled to announce that these two rather terrific books have been shortlisted for the Railway and Canal Historical Society’s Transport History Book of the Year Awards! 👏🏻 🤩🏆 • #AwardsSeason #BookOfTheYear #BookAwards #Shortlist #TransportHistory #HistoryBooks #Tram #Tramways #SteamTraction #TrainsAndRailways #History #Canal #RCHS #HistoricalSociety #PenAndSwordTransport #PenAndSword #PenAndSwordBooks (at Pen and Sword Books) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Ya_FEnXjn/?igshid=r1o3bt5tdwvd

#MeetTheAuthor Here’s Paul Carpenter, one of the authors of Cambrian Railways Gallery - A Pictorial Journey Through Time, which includes more than 250 photographs 🚂📚😍 • #Bookstagram #BooksToRead #TransportHistory #TrainsAndRailways #RailwayHistory #CambrianRailways #Gallery #PhotoGallery #History #HeritageRailway #PenAndSword #PenAndSwordBooks #PenAndSwordTransport #AuthorsOfInstagram #NewBooks #HistoryBooks https://www.instagram.com/p/B7WlKckHxCR/?igshid=1rrxborj6a5tz

Meet the author: here’s David Maidment, one of the authors of Cambrian Railways Gallery - A Pictorial Journey Through Time, out now from P&S Transport’s ‘Gallery’ series 🚂📚👀 • #MeetTheAuthor #AuthorsOfInstagram #Bookstagram #CambrianRailways #Oswestry #OstwestryWorks #TransportHistory #RailwayHistory #History #Railwaymen #CambrianHeritageRailways #HeritageRailways #PenAndSwordTransport #PenAndSwordBooks #PenAndSword https://www.instagram.com/p/B60ngh-nPY-/?igshid=y9eeyupwto5g

The latest release from the P&S Transport imprint’s popular Locomotive Portfolios series is out now, with 10% off RRP: Gresley and his Locomotives - L & N E R Design History by Tim Hillier-Graves 📚🤓🚂 • #NewBook #NewRelease #Bookstagram #Transport #History #Railways #RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #RailwayHistory #LocomotivePortfolios #Gresley #LNER #Design #DesignHistory #HistoricTrains #BooksToRead #PenAndSwordBooks #PenAndSword #PenAndSwordTransport (at Pen and Sword Books) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5963XxAj39/?igshid=1p7qy8c96kaib

Is it even possible to pass an information plaque on a building or structure without stopping to take it in? We spotted this one on the way out of London Bridge railway station last weekend, describing the origins of the components of Southwark’s Joiner Street Bridge, erected in 1849. We’ll put the info from the plaque in a comment below, in case the writing is too small to read! If you’re as interested in bridges as we are, you should check out ‘An Encyclopaedia of British Bridges’, out now by David McFetrich 🤓🌉📚 • #LondonBridge #JoinerStreetBridge #Southwark #London #RailwayBridge #GradeII #Listed #ListedStructure #BritishBridges #Architecture #LondonCroydonRailway #PenAndSwordTransport (at Joiner Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/B54y5xnnQ7v/?igshid=j18jtbfedq4i

Checking out some of the set ups at Warley National Model Railway Exhibition, this weekend at the NEC, Birmingham. • #Warley #WarleyNationalModelRailwayExhibition #ModelRailway #ModelTrain #Railway #Modelling #TrainsAndRailways #PenAndSword #PenAndSwordBooks #PenAndSwordTransport (at NECBirmingham) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5QM5hKnHrr/?igshid=1d5b48ej3ajoh

If you’re heading to Warley National Model Railway Exhibition at the NEC this weekend, come by stand A27 and check out our huge selection of #Transport, #Railways and #Modelling books. See you there! 👀📚🚂 • #Warley #Warley2019 #ModelRailway #ModelRailwayExhibition #WarleyNationalModelRailwayExhibition #BirminghamNEC #Trains #Railway #Modelling #NewBooks #Bookstagram #PenAndSword #PenAndSwordBooks #PenAndSwordTransport (at NECBirmingham) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5NBuOHgDM-/?igshid=1pei7qyccvx6w

It’s showtime! We’re all set up and ready to go at Warley National Model Railway Exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham and we have more books than you can shake a stick at! See you there - find us on stand A27! 🚂🚇📚 • #Warley #ModelRailway #ModelRailwayShow #Warley2019 #ModelRailwayExhibition #Railway #RailwayBooks #NewBooks #BooksForSale #Modelling #RailwayModelling #HeritageRailway #Bookstagram #PenAndSword #PenAndSwordBooks #PenAndSwordTransport (at NECBirmingham) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5LYV-xAeCR/?igshid=mioq4t2iqh16

Meet the author: here’s Paul Shannon with the first copy of his brand new book, British Railway Infrastructure Since 1970 - An Historical Overview. This book examines in words and pictures the huge changes that have taken place in the last 50 years on the British railway network. 👀🚊📚 • #MeetTheAuthor #NewBook #Bookstagram #History #AuthorsOfInstagram #HistoryBooks #BooksToRead #Railway #RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #PenAndSword #PenAndSwordBooks #PenAndSwordTransport https://www.instagram.com/p/B5FiyewA-1s/?igshid=myq3kllroelv