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FLYING SCOTSMAN TRAVELOGUE
132 Pages | Robin Jones | £6.99
 he East Coast Main Line between London King’s Cross and Edinburgh Waverley is also known as the route of the Flying Scotsman.
The famous train started out as the Special Scotch Express’ in the 1860s and became the ‘Flying Scotsman’ in 1924. The world’s most famous steam locomotive, Sir Nigel Gresley’s A3 Pacific No. 4472 Flying Scotsman, was named after it, and went on to become the first steam engine to be officially timed at 100mph.
Author Robin Jones said: “The East Coast Main Line is famous as being the route on which the record was set for the fastest run by a steam locomotive, Mallard, in 1938, but it is so much more than that.
“It is also a dazzling cross-section of British landscape, history, society and culture, with so much waiting to be seen from the unique position of the elevated height of a train carriage window. There are surprises as every turn if you care to look.”
The story of the places along the railway is accompanied by classic pictures of the line and its stations both in the steam era and today.
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Homegrown 2012
132 Pages | Written by Steve Ott & Emma Rawlings | £5.99
 ‘Home Grown 2012 is a brand new 132-page growing, planting and A-Z guide offering detailed advice for growing many different crops, including all the major fruit, veg and herbs. The publication is designed to provide the novice gardener with all the advice and know-how they need to begin growing their own fresh produce whether they have an allotment, small veg patch in the back garden or no more than a sunny patio with a few containers.
The expanded 'What to Sow and when' section gives detailed advice on planting, feeding and watering, as well as advice on growing in different environments. This book also focuses more on growing in containers, preparing your plot/soil and where and when to sow for the best results.
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The New Motorcyclist Handbook
132 Pages | Written by Steve Rose | £5.49
 ‘New Motorcyclist’s Handbook’ is a comprehensive 132 page full colour, perfect bound ‘bookazine’, it is a unique, definitive guide to your first year as a motorcyclist. Written and compiled by Steve Rose, Mortons motorcycle group editor and previously editor of RiDE magazine. Steve includes features looking at what you need to know about motorcycles - buying advice, motorcycle maintenance, how to ride one safely, what to wear and the test itself. All the ins and outs clearly explained in one publication. Features include:
• What has biking ever done for us? — riders (ordinary and celebrity) talk about the joys, thrills and freedom that only motorcycling gives
• Motorbikes for dummies — a quick run through the types of bikes and what they mostly do well and not so well
• How to ride a motorbike — all the controls, what they do, how to use them best
• The kit needed — honest down to earth, real world advice on the clothing available
• Getting ready for the test, what you'll be asked to do and how to do it properly
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World's Fastest Steam Railway
132 Pages | Written by Robin Jones | £7.99
 The bookazine tells the story of the East Coast Main Line, the great British trunk route which links London king’s Cross to Leeds and Edinburgh, and which produced the fastest steam locomotives in the world. It includes the exploits of Flying Scotsman, the world’s most famous steam locomotive, and Mallard, which set an all-time steam locomotive record of 126mph on Stoke Bank in Lincolnshire.
The story starts before the dawn of railways, when stagecoaches took four days to link the two capitals, running along the Great North Road what is now the old A1, and where travellers had to run the risk of being robbed by highwaymen like Dick Turpin. It looks at the coming together of the East Coast rail route section by section, the first being built from Edinburgh into England, and requiring the demolition of one of Britain’s great historic fortresses in the process. Illustrated with classic scenes from several of Britain’s top railway photographers.
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BEECHING - 50 Years of the axeman
132 Pages | Written by Robin Jones | £6.99
 Described as the most hated civil servant in Britain, it was half a century ago that Dr Richard Beeching was appointed as chairman of British Railways with one key directive - to cut the soaring losses. The 1950s had seen the start of a mass shift from public to private transport, as lorries, cars, buses and motorbikes replaced trains as Britain’s most popular means of travel.
So often pilloried by the press and public for closing numerous picturesque and romantic country branch lines, leaving even many large towns cut off from the railway network, Beeching might also be seen as merely streamlining a process that was already underway.
Back in the early Sixties, there were many who thought that not only were the days of steam locomotives numbered, but those of railways too, as mankind, leaping towards the first lunar landings, looked toward hovercraft and hovertrains as the transport of the future.
Best of Scootering Magazine - the Eighties
132 Pages | Written by Gary Thomas | £5.49
 It's the perfect gift for anyone interested in scooters, and written by people who really know what they're on about. In the first of a series of bookazines, we celebrate the best of the early days of Scootering magazine, reproducing some of the greatest features, adverts, road tests and letters from the dawn of the magazine and covering the period 1985-1989.
Scootering has been at the heart of the scooter scene for almost 27 years. As the world's number one magazine for the hobby, over the years it has been the first port of call for scooterists both young and old. Since starting out in 1985, the title has seen the best scooters on the planet, been to the best events, biggest rallies and featured the best reviews... all of which have helped make it the scene we have and enjoy today. With old features and adverts hand picked by Gary Thomas, a part of Scootering since 1992, this is the ideal gift and perfect read for all fans.
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WEST COAST is a biography of the West Coast Main Line, Britain’s busiest railway route, and produced to mark the 175th anniversary of its first section, the Grand Junction Railway, which opened between Warrington and Birmingham on July 4 1837.
Celebrate the best of the early days of the Scootering magazine, reproducing some of the greatest features, adverts, road tests and letters from the dawn of the magazine and covering the period 1990-1994.