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American books
Large stock of second hand trolleybus
books available.
Download the latest list (Version 19) Click Here (xls file)
Updated 7th April 2024

We have received a very large donation
of American books
Download the latest list (Version 12) Click Here (xls file)
Updated 24th February 2024

New and Recent Titles Trolleybooks Earlier Titles Magazines DVDs Tram books
Special Offers NTA Sales Newsletter 36
New and Recent Titles

London Trams and Trolleybuses. Baker/ Top Deck Publishing. (2024). New
Softback 21cm x 27cm. 80 pages. A collection of b&w photos from the Transport Treasury archive, 50 pages of trams, 30 pages of trolleybuses.
Cover price £13.95. Our Price £13.50. Postage £2.70
Note; This is the revised, corrected version of this book; an earlier, defective version has been withdrawn.

Bill and Jim. A London Trolleybus Crew. Taylor/ Adam Gordon. (2024). Coming Soon
To be published on 16th April 2024
A4 Hardback. 208 pages. 361 b&w photos. 8 pages of colour.
An animated account of Wood Green depot in its final months, and the life of a particular crew. Concentrates on routes 625, 627, 629, and 641
Cover price £35.00.
Our Price £33.00. NTA Members £30.00. Postage £3.49

Trolleybus Data File. Volume 1: italy. Messina. (2023).
16.5cm x 23.5cm. Softback. Italian text: Schede Tecniche Filoviare.
186 pages. One model per page technical details on post war Italian trolleybuses. Illustrated.
Price £28.50. Postage £2.70

Tracks of London's Trams 1949-1952. Harley/ Capital Transport. (2023)
A4 Hardback. 96 pages. 80 B/W and 25 colour photos. A review of life on the London trams in their final years.
Price £25.00. Postage £3.49

Trolleybuses in Lublin. 70th Anniversary 1953-2023. Pudlo/ yuupi. (2023).
A4 hardback. 60 pages. English text.
Full colour illustrated history. System maps
Price £20.00. Postage £3.49

Tires and Wires. Schwarzkopf/ Railfare DC Books. (2018).
A4. Softback.272 pages. Fully illustrated history of Canadian trolleybus systems. Fleet histories. Wiring maps.
Price £25.00. Postage £3.49
Out of Stock - Please enquire.

By Trolleybus through Solingen. Lehmann/ Verlag Kenning. (2019).
A4 Hardback. German text: Mit dem Obus durch Solingen
127 pages. Fully illustrated history in colour and b/w. Fleet history. Includes tramway coverage.
Price £20.00. Postage £3.49

The Blackpool 'Standards'. Waller/ Unique Books. (2023).
Softback.200mm x 200mm.64 pages. 60 b&w photos.
Photo book of the Blackpool Standard tram from 1923 to the mid 1960s.
Price £11.50. Postage £2.60

The Tramways of Aberdeen 1956. Conn/ Silverlink. (2023).
Hardback 240mm x 210mm. Landscape. 136 pages. A photo album of quality b&w photos taken by David and John Clarke in July 1956.
Cover price £27.00.
Our Price £26.00. NTA Members £24.00. Postage £3.49

Around Waltham Forest by Bus, Tram and Train. Torode/ London Historical Research Group. (2022).
Softback. 200mm x 200mm.120 pages. Fully illustrated history of public transport in this East London are. Includes 8 pages of trolleybus coverage.
Price £15.00. Postage £2.70

Trolleybus Bodies by Emmelmann of Hannover. Spier/ Linus Wittich. (2023).
German text: Die Karosseriefabrik Adolf Emmelmann - Hannover. Sonderband Obusse
A4 Hardback 194 pages. Fully illustrated history, with scale drawings, system wiring maps, and production list.
Price £30.00. Postage £3.49
More on the way - Please enquire.

Japan Tram Atlas. Sohns & Weber/ LRTA. (2023).
A4. Softback. English/ German text. 272 pages. 423 illustrations. 48 maps. Includes a 12 page chapter on the country's trolleybus systems with fleet lists, three maps and six photos.
Price £32.50. NTA Members £30.00. Postage £3.49

Bluebird Reborn. The History and Restoration of LCC No. 1. Wagstaff/ LRTA. (2023).
A4. Hardback. 224 pages. 330 illustrations. 4 maps. A full history of this famous tramcar from its inception and construction, through its working life in London and Leeds, to its restoration.
Price £35.00. NTA Members £33.00. Postage £3.49

Trolleybooks

Brazil's Trolleybuses. Moraes & Howes/ Trolleybooks. (2022).
Hardback. 388 pages. Fully illustrated. 50 maps.
A full history of Brazil's 14 systems.
£49.00. Members' price £46.00. Postage £5.86 (over 2kg).

A London Trolleybus Reborn. Chick / Trolleybooks (2020).
A4 Hardback. Tells the story of London Q1 trolleybus 1812, its life in London, further service in Spain, and then its return to the UK and subsequent restoration. A detailed overview of Spanish trolleybus systems is included.
£25.00. Members' price £22.00. Postage £3.10.

Reading Trolleybuses Hall/ Trolleybooks (2018).
A4 Hardback. 280 pages. A detailed system history. Fleet history. Maps.
£36.00 NTA member £33.00 Postage £3.10.

Walsall Trolleybuses Rowe/ Trolleybooks (2018).
A4. Hardback. 232 pages. A detailed system history in the Trolleybooks format. Fleet History. Maps.
£32.00 NTA member £30.00 Postage £3.10.

Italian Trolleybuses Abroad Albe and Montanarini. Trolleybooks (2018). Dual English/ Italian text: Filobus italiani all' estero. A4 Hardback. 258 pages. A detailed and fully illustrated, much in colour, history of Italian trolleybus exports. Contains many quality photos of little seen systems in eg Turkey, Africa, and South America.
£38.00 NTA Members' £35.00 postage £3.10.

Lombard-Gerin and Inventing the Trolleybus. Bruce/ Trolleybooks (2017).
A4 Hardback. 158 pages. A detailed history of early trolleybus development up to World War One.
£28.00 NTA Members' £24.00 postage £3.10.

Belfast Trolleybuses Maybin/ Trolleybooks (2015).
A4. Hardback. 256 pages. A detailed system history in the standard Trolleybooks format.
£32.00, NTA Members' £26.00 postage £3.10.
Buy from the UK

Trolleybus Miniatures, Models and the Real Things Bruce & Kure (2012).
A4 Hardback. 416 pages. Full colour history of model trolleybuses.

£15.00, NTA Members' £14.00 postage £5.80.

Published jointly by Trolleybooks and the LRTA.
Trolleybus Days in Wolverhampton Challoner/ Trolleybooks & LRTA (2017). A4 softback. 240 pages. 350 photos. Fleet history. Maps. Cover price £30.00 NTA Members' £28.00 Postage £3.10.

The Tramways of Wolverhampton Challoner/ Trolleybooks & LRTA (2017).
A4 softback. 108 pages. Fully illustrated. Fleet history. Maps. Cover price £22.00 NTA Members' £20.00 Postage £3.10.

Price for both volumes (NTA Members) £45.00 postage £3.10. Price for both volumes (Non NTA members) - please enquire.

British Trolleybus Database CD
A CD with a huge database of all British trolleybuses including pictures, specifications, tables and statistics.
New updated version, runs on Windows XP,Vista,7,8 and 10 Only £16.00 incl.UK postage

Earlier Titles

The Trolleybus in Suffolk. Ipswich Transport Museum. (2014).
A5 Softback 36 pages. Brief, illustrated histories of the Ipswich system, and the Garrett and Ransomes manufacturers.
Price £5.00. Postage £0.75

Around Cardiff By Trolleybus. Smith/ Adam Gordon. (2023).
A4 Hardback. 168 pages. Continuing the Around....By Trolleybus series.
Price £35.00. NTA Members £32.00. Postage £3.49

An Illustrated Trolleybus Atlas of Australia and New Zealand. Ballment & Segnit/ Transit Australia. (2023).
A4 Hardback. 118 pages. Fully illustrated with detailed maps.
Price £35.00. Postage £3.49
Back in Stock

An Illustrated Tramway Atlas of Australia and New Zealand. Ballment & Segnit/ Transit Australia. (2018).
A4. Hardback. 120 pages. Fully illustrated, with detailed maps.
£35.00. Postage £3.49.
Back in Stock

Trolleybuses in West Central London. Taylor/ Adam Gordon. (2023).
A4 softback. 192 pages. Pull out map. 430 b/w photos, 21 colour images.
Continuing the long running series of London photo books. Covers routes from Moorgate, Tottenham Court Road, and Holborn Circus.
Cover price £34.50.
Our price £32.00. NTA members' £30.00. Postage £3.35.

Tasmania's Trolleybuses. Cooper/ Transit Australia. (2010).
A4. Softback.208 pages.
A very comprehensive history of trolleybuses in Hobart and Launceston.
Fully illustrated with detailed fleet histories.
£35.00 Postage £3.49.

Swiss Interurban Trolleybuses. Coppex/ Editions Endstation Ostring. (2008).
German/ French text: Die Schweizer Uberlandtrolleybusse/ Les trolleybus regionaux en Suisse.
A4 softback. 65 pages. Fully illustrated, in colour and b&w history of Swiss regional systems. With fleet histories.
£20.00. Postage £2.15.

Minsk Trolleybuses. Klimov (2022).
Hardback 240mm x 170mm. English/Russian text.
Year -by- Year photo album, 1952 - 2022, the fourth in the series.
£42.00. Postage £3.35
Sold out but a further batch may be ordered. Please enquire

Two Rooms and a Bath, The Turin 2700 Series. Bordone et al/ ATTS. (2019).
English language version now in stock.
Softback.130 pages. One of the joint authors is the Chief Engineer of Torino Tramways.
£18.00. Postage £2.15.

70 Years of Solingen Trolleybuses. Stadwerke Solingen/ Obus- museum Solingen. (2022).
German text; 70 Jahre Obus in Solingen.
Softback. 210mm x 210mm. 71 pages.
Illustrated anniversary booklet. With current and historic fleet lists.
£6.50. Postage £1.65

British Trolleybus Systems. An Historic Overview. Wales, Midlands & East Anglia. Waller/ Pen & Sword. (2023).
A4 Hardback. 136 pages. Concluding volume of four part set.
Our price £30.00. Members' price £�27.00. Postage £3.35

Around the Glasgow Tramway System. McAulay & Loarridge/ Adam Gordon. (2022).
Hardback. A4. 228 pages and large pullout map.
Over 400 full and half page photos taken by Peter Mitchell between 1951 and 1962.
Cover price £42.00.
Our price £40.00. Members' price £38.00. Postage £3.35

Belgium's Trams and Trolleybuses. Law/ Amberley, (2022).
Softback. 96 pages. Photographic history, from the mid 1960s to the present. Photos by the late Tony Martens.
£16.00. Postage £2.70

British Trolleybus Systems. An Historic Overview. Lancashire, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Northern England.. Waller/ Pen & Sword. (2022).
A4 Hardback. 136 pages.
£30.00. Members' price £27.00. Postage £3.35

Trolleybus Trains. Bodnya/ Krasnodar. (2022).
English/ Russian text. A4 Hardback. 120 pages. Fully illustrated history of coupled units. with scale drawings and technical detail.
£40.00. Postage £3.35

Sold out, but a further batch may be ordered subject to demand. Please enquire.

The Tramways of Portugal. King & Isgar/ LRTA. (2022).
210mm x 297mm, Softback. 328 pages. 400 photos in colour and b/w. 57 maps.
With trolleybus coverage, including Braga in colour.
£45.00. Members' price £42.00. Postage £3.35

The Tramways of Upper Silesia- A Guidebook. Russell/ LRTA. (2022).
A4 Softback. 240 pages. 300+ colour and b/w photos and large-scale folding track plan.
£35.00. Members' price £32.00. Postage £3.35

Trolley Coach Manufacturer's Catalog Archive Volume 1; Westinghouse. SilverLake Images. (2021).
Softback. 90 pages. Contains three reproduction catalogs from the 1930s. Well illustrated with much technical detail.
£35.00. Postage £3.35.

Glasgow Trams. A pictorial Tribute. Jenkins & Price/ Pen and Sword. (2022).
Hardback.192 pages. Over 600 B&W and colour photos. Maps
Marking the 60th Anniversary of the closure in 1962.
Cover price £35.00. Our price £28.00. Postage £3.35.

Trams in Milan in Colour (1954-1978). Jenkins and Roberts; LRTA. (2022).
English/ Italian Text; I tram di Milano- Immagini a colori.
A4 Hardback. Landscape format. 144 pages. Full colour.
£30.00. Postage £3.35.

Tramways in Portugal in Colour (1985-2018). Booth/ LRTA. (2022).
A4 Hardback. Landscape format. 144 pages. Full colour.
£30.00. Postage £3.35.

Around Ipswich By Trolleybus. Barker/ Adam Gordon. (2022).
A4 Hardback. 155 pages. Colour and b/w photos.
£45.00. NTA member £42.00. Postage £3.35.

British Trolleybus Systems. Yorkshire. An Historic Overview. Weller/ Pen & Sword. (2022).
A4 Hardback. 112 pages. Photos from the Online Transport Archive.
£30.00. NTA member £27.00. Postage £3.20.

British Trolleybus Systems. London & South East England. An Historic Overview. Weller/ Pen & Sword. (2022).
A4 Hardback. 112 pages. Photos from the Online Transport Archive.
£30.00. NTA member £27.00. Postage £3.20.

80 Years of San Remo Trolleybuses. Alfano & Nigrelli. (2022).
Italian text; Dalla STEL alla Riviera Trasporti. 80 anni di filobus a Sanremo.
Hardback. 21cm x 29cm. 376 pages. 500 photos.
£45.00. Postage £3.20.

60 Years of Arnhem Trolleybuses,1949-2009. NTV. (2009).
Dutch text; 60 jaar Trolley in Arnhem.
A4. 66 pages. Fully illustrated, with detailed fleet history.
Now back in stock, a special edition of trolley berichten issue 168.
£5.00. Postage £1.99.

Turin - Chieri Trolleybuses. Zampa. (2021).
Italian text: La Filovia Torino - Chieri.
Softback 188 pages. Full history of the Autoindustriale line (1951- 1979)
£23.00. Postage £2.70.

Around Brighton By Trolleybus Part 1. Stedman/ Adam Gordon. (2022).
A4 hardback. 162 pages. Fully illustrated in black & white, and colour.
Cover price £45.00. NTA Members £42.00. Postage £3.20.

London Trolleybus Depots. Part Three. Taylor/ Adam Gordon. (2021).
A4 hardback. 184 pages. 284 photos including 27 in colour.
Covers Stonebridge Park, Colindale, Finchley, Wood Green depots.
Cover price £44,00. NTA members £40.00. Postage £3.20.

Trolleybuses in Greiz. Karkuscke/ Endisch. (2021).
German Text; Der Obus in Greiz.
Hardback. 223 pages.
Fully illustrated history of the smallest DDR system. Maps, Fleet history.
£25.00. Postage £2.70.

Public Transport in Offenbach. Hofmann/ Endisch. (2010).
German Text; Der Offenbacher Nahverkehr.
Hardback 223 pages.
Fully illustrated. Includes Tram, Trolleybus, Bus. Full Fleet histories.
£25.00. Postage £2.70.

Further titles from Endisch are available, See Endisch books

The Leningrad Tram 1941 - 1945. (1995).
Russian text. Hardback. 320 pages. Almost 200 photos from the St Petersburg Archive of Film and Photo Documents, of trams during the Great Patriotic War. Includes some trolleybus photos.
£20.00. Postage £3.20.

Voronezh In 1994. A View From Abroad. (2019).
22cm x 21.5 cm. Hardback. 119 pages. Russian text
A collection of photos, all colour and 1 per page taken by a group of visiting German enthusiasts in 1994. Mainly tram, some trolleybus.
£20.00. Postage £3.20.

London Trolleybus Collection. Webber/ Bowden Publishing. (2021).

A4 Hardback. 194 pages.
£40.00. NTA Members £37.00. Postage £3.20.

Glasgow By Tram in Photographs. Hume/ Stenlake. (2021).
A collection of black and white photos from the last days of Glasgow's trams.
Softback. 236 x 168mm. 58 pages. 56 photos.
Our price £11.95. Postage £1.53.

Britain's Second Hand Trams. Waller/Pen & Sword. (2021).
History of the several hundred British trams which had second - and sometimes - third careers.
Hardback 184 pages. 250 illustrations.
Cover price £25.00. Our price £20.00. Postage £3.20.

The First Generation of Italian Trolleybuses. Cozzolino. (2021).
Italian text; Appunti sulle filovie italiane di prima generazione,
Softback 63 pages. Fully illustrated history of early vehicles 1900 to 1927.
Our price £17.00. Postage £1.99.

Trolleybus World from A to Z. Klimov & Korolkov. (2018).
A4 Hardback 480 pages. Bi-lingual English/ Russian text.
Fully illustrated world trolleybus encyclopaedia.
Special purchase.
Sold out. A Further batch will be ordered.
Please e-mail, phone or txet to reserve a copy.

The Leaving Of Liverpool. Jenkins & Roberts/ LRTA. (2021).
A detailed record of the city's tramway abandonment programme.
A4 softback.232 pages. 624 photos mainly black & white.
£32.50. NTA Members £30.00. Postage £3.20.

30 Years of the Neuchatel Trolleybuses 101-121. Maeder. (2020).
With a history of the System from 1940 to the present.
French text; 30 Ans des trolleybus 101-121. Dans le contexte de l'histoire des trolleybus a Neuchatel de 1940 a aujourd 'hui..
A4 softback. 28 pages. 50 colour photos. Fleet history.
Price £20.00. Postage £1.83.

Trolleybus Current. Special Edition number 3. A Compilation from the first 24 issues.
Trolleybus Current in its regular format is expected to resume this year. In the meantime this compilation issue contains unpublished photos (except Shanghai) from each of the systems visited in the first series of 24 issues.
A4. 48 pages.
Price £11.00. Postage £1.40.

Pyongyang Trolleybuses. Klimov. (2020).
English/ Russian text.
Hardback. 256 pages. Photo history of the system. Similar format to the author's St Petersburg and Moscow titles.
£40.00. Postage £3.20.

The Blackpool Streamlined Trams. Waller/ Pen & Sword. (2020).
A4 Hardback. 152 pages. 200 colour illustrations and diagrams.
Cover price. £25.00. Our price £20.00. Postage £3.10.

The London E1 Tram. Waller/ Pen & Sword. (2020).
A4, Hardback. 208 pages. 200 colour and black & white illustrations and diagrams
The 2nd in Pen & Sword's Great Tramcars series, to be published on 30/11/20.
Cover price. £25.00. Our price £20.00. Postage £3.10.

Regional Tramways - London Transport. Waller/ Pen & Sword. (2019).
A4. Hardback. 166 pages. 200 illustrations.
The final volume in the author's Regional Tramways series, with emphasis on the post war years.
Cover price. £25.00. Our price £20.00. Postage £3.10.
Other titles in this series are available, see Regional Tramways

Tramways in Vienna in Colour (1956-1978). Jenkins & Russell/ LRTA. (2020).
English/ German text: Strassenbahnen in Wien in Farbe.
Hardback. 297 x 210 mm. 144 pages. Fully illustrated in colour.
Full colour photographic album of Vienna trams. Most shots come from the Online Transport archive. Includes a few trolleybus photos
Cover price £29.00.
Our price £28.00. Members' price £27.00. Postage £3.10.

Buses and Trolleybuses in Hradec Kralove 1928-2020. Rezkove (2020).
Czech text; Historie Mestske Hromadne Dopravy V Hradci Kralove.
A4 hardback. 298 pages. 660 photos (219 in colour). 12 maps. Approx. 50% trolleybus/ 50% bus. Published by the operator.
£25.00. Postage £3.10.

Trolleybuses in East Central London. Taylor/ Adam Gordon (2020).
A4. Softback. 184 pages. 435 photos including 12 colour. Pull out wiring map.
Hugh Taylor continues the photographic journey around the London system commenced by the LTPS in 1996.
£30.00. NTA members £27.00. Postage £3.10.

Trams and Trolleybuses of Tarragona Reus. Masip/ Mar editor. (2018).
Catalan text; Tramvies I Troleibusos De tarragona I Reus.
210mm x 300mm. Sofback. 160 pages. Fully illustrated.
Now back in stock
£25.00. Postage £3.10.

The Trolleybus In Advertising. Alfano & Messina (2020).
Italian Text: Il Filobus Nella Pubblicita.
Softback. 18.5 x 23mm. 186 pages. Fully illustrated, in black & white, and colour, history of trolleybus advertising and publicity material from Italy and worldwide.
£19.50. Postage £1.83.

Croydon Tramlink. A Definitive history. David/ Pen and Sword (2020).
Hardback.21.6cm x 27.9cm. 200 pages.
The first full history of the system at its twentieth anniversary.
Cover price £30.00. Our price £26.00. Post free.

Philadelphia's Streetcar Heritage. Springirth/ America Through Time (2019).
20.3 x 27.9mm.Softback. 127 pages.
Photograpic album in colour, and black & white, of Philadelphia streetcars.
£20.00. Post free. Other titles in this series are available, see Streetcars books

The London Feltham Tram. Waller/ Pen and Sword (2020).
A4 Hardback. 152 pages. 200 illustrations.
Cover price £25.00. Our price £22.00. Post free.

The Tramways of Brighton And Its Surrounds. Voice/ Adam Gordon (2020).
A4 Softback. 108 pages. Covers various tramways in the Brighton area 1884 to 1939; the Volks Electric Railway 1883 to the present, and recent developments. Fully illustrated.
£25.00. Post free.

The Birsigthalbahn. Stone/ Swiss Railway Society, (2019).
A4 softback. 52 pages. English text, over 100 photos mostly in colour.
Covers the line's history as an international interurban from steam tram days to its present incarnation as part of the Basel tram network.
£9.50. UK Postage £1.83.

Bournemouth Trolleybuses. Bowler/ Adam Gordon (2019).
Hardback. 625 pages. Cover price £60.00 Our price £57.00 postage (over 2kg) £6.49 Postage. NTA Members' £54.00 post free (UK), or collect from NTA London meetings £50.00. Note, for Members' overseas please enquire.

Around Derby by Trolleybus by Colin Barker/Adam Gordon. (2019) A4 Hardback. 192 pages. Colour and b & w.
Cover price £45.00 Members' price £39.00 Postage £3.10.

Trolleybuses In Portugal. Harvey/ Amberley (2019) 128 pages. Fully illustrated.
Cover price £14.99. Members' price £12.50. Postage £1.83.

Bradford Trolleybuses, The Final Years
David Christie/ Amberley (2019).
Softback. 96 pages. Collection of full colour photos from 1969 to 1972, taken by this renowned trolleybus photographer.
Cover price £14.99. NTA members' price £12.50. Postage £1.83.

Birmingham Buses, Trams and Trolleybuses in the Second World War
Harvey/ Amberley (2019) Softback. 128 pages.
Cover price £14.99. Members' price £13.50. Postage £1.83.

Hull Trolleybuses. The Final Decade.
Wells/ Amberley (2018). Softback. 96 pages. Cover price £14.99. Our price £13.50. Postage £1.83.

Huddersfield Trolleys and Buses.
Berry/Amberley. (2018) 96 pages. Paperback.180 photos. Cover price £14.99. Our price £13.50. Postage £1.30.

Trams and Trolleybuses in Hastings, Leonards-on-Sea. 1905-1959.
Harley/ Adam Gordon (2017)
A4. Hardback. 198 pages. £40.00 NTA Members' £37.00 Postage £3.10.

Trams and Trolleybuses in Harburg.
Klaus Barnick/Geschichtswerkstatt Harburg e.V.
German text: Strassenbahnen und O-Busse in Harburg. A5. 48 pages. With DVD - line 12. Die letzte strassenbahn in Harburg.
Our price £10.00 Postage £1.83.

Trolejbusy v Pardubicich. Katalog Vozidel. Harak (2017)
Czech text: Pardubice Trolleybuses. Vehicle Catalogue. A5. 32 pages. Photos of all types from 7Tr to 30TR. With fleet history. £6.76. Postage £0.65.

65 Let Mestke Dopravy V Pardubicich. Harak/ Malkus (2015)
Czech text: A small, 22 page booklet celebrating 65 years of municipal transport in Pardubice, very largely trolleybus. 1 photo per page of trolleybuses from 1952 to 2011.
£3.00 plus £0.90 Postage.

Tate Trolleybuses in Prague Part 1 Arazim/ Paseka (2014).
Czech text: Italicise. Hardback. 195 pages. A collection of quality b/w photos in Prague c 1950s to 1970s. Reviewed in TM 322
£14.50 plus £3.10 postage.

Tate Trolleybuses in Prague Part 2 Arazim/ Paseka (2015).
Czech text; Italicise. Hardback 184 pages. Further photos c.1950s to 1970s
£14.50 plus £3.10 postage.

Reading's Municipal Transport 1939 - 1950 (2014).
War And Austerity. Smith & Whitehead/ Millane Publishing.
A4 Hardback.240 pages. Many photos of Reading buses and trolleybuses in the war years and after.
Cover price £30.00 Our price £29.00 NTA Members' £28.00 Postage £3.80

Special Offer!
LTPS London Trolleybuses pictorial survey series.

A4 Softback. Many photos of London trolleybuses by region.
Our price £10.00, free postage.
Choose an issue

Cardiff Trolleybuses by Peter Smith, Published by Adam Gordon, A4 Hardback. 294 pages. Full system history.
Cover price £50.00 Our price £47.00 NTA Members' £44.00 Postage £3.10.

Around Bournemouth By Trolleybus Conn/ Adam Gordon (2016)
A photo tour of the system during the 1960s and draws extensively on black + white photos taken by the late Peter Mitchell. There are also colour views by Tony Belton and Fred Ivey. All are excellent quality and printed on glossy paper.
A4 hardback. 224 pages. Wiring map. 1 or 2 photos per page.
The cover price is £47.00 Our price is £40.00 NTA Members' £38.00 Postage is £3.10.

Pontypridd Trolleybuses Bowler/ Adam Gordon (2014).
2014. A4 Hardback. 216 pages. A full history of this small Welsh system.216 pages. Many photographs including colour. Full fleet details. Maps.
Cover price £40.00 Our price £38.00 NTA Members' £35.00 Postage £3.80.

Around London By Trolleybus. Part 1. Taylor/ Gordon (2014).
A4 hardback.184 pages. 16 pages of colour.
Hugh Taylor takes a photographic trip round the south-east, south and west of the system.
Cover price £32. Our price £30.00 (NTA Members' £29.00) Postage £3.10.

St. Helens, Lockwood/ Middleton Press (2013). Number 29 in this popular and long-running series looks at the trolleybuses of this Lancashire town (1927 to 1958)
Normal Price £16.95. Our Price £15.95. Plus £1.83 UK p+p

Five books (two remaining) under the series title of Trolley Holidays each covering several overseas trolleybus systems in the 1970s. 64 pages, over 100 pictures, some in colour and diagrams.

Book 4 Czech Republic (1990s) and Belgrade (2007)

Book 5 Czech Republic (1990s) and Coimbra (1990s onwards)

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Magazines

Trolleybus Magazine
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Published six times a year, Trolleybus Magazine is the world's premier journal devoted to trolleybuses and deals with the different aspects of the vehicles themselves and their operation. See Our Latest Trolleybus Magazine
NTA Sales holds a good stock of backnumbers from the 1970s to date, with a limited number of 1960s issues.
Prices for individual copies are:
Issues before January-February 1991 (no. 175) £4.50 each
Issues from the last 12 months £4.50
All others £2.00 discount for bulk orders. Pease enquire.
See main contents, since number 180
Orders and payments to NTA Sales at 22 Sandfield Road, St. Albans, Herts., AL1 4LA, U.K. Please make cheques payable to NTA (1963) Ltd.
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Trolleybus Current
A quarterly publication on contemporary trolleybus systems.

Published from 2014 to 2022, issue 30 (Summer 2022) being the last in the series.

Issue 1. Winter 2013/ 2014. Covers the current Salzburg fleet. A5. 40 pages. Full colour. Fleet list. Reviewed in TM 315
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 2. Spring 2014. Trolleybuses at Sandtoft and the Black Country Museum. Reviewed in TM 316.
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 3. Summer 2014. Trolleybuses of Budapest.
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 4. Autumn 2014. Trolleybuses of Lausanne.
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 5. Winter 2014/5. Trolleybuses of Esslingen and Eberswalde.
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 6. Spring 2015 Shanghai.
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 7. Summer 2015. Trolleybuses of Lyon & St Etienne.
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 8. Autumn 2015. Trolleybuses of Brno.
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 9. Winter 2015/6. Preserved Trolleybuses in UK and Europe
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 10. Spring 206. Arnhem
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 11. Summer 2016. Vilnius
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 12. Summer 2016. Geneva
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 13. Winter 2016/7 Bratislava
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 14. Winter 2016/7 Wellington - now reprinted and back in stock.
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 15. Summer 2017 Riga
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 16. Autumn 2017 St Gallen
£6.75 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 17. Autumn 2017 Cluj Napoca
£6.95 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 18. Spring 2018 Milan
£6.95 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Issue 19. Summer 2018 Linz
£6.95 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Trolleybus Current
20 Czechia, Autumn 2018
£6.95 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Trolleybus Current
21 Solingen, Winter 2018/19
£6.95 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Trolleybus Current
22 Kaunas, Lithuania, Spring 2019
£6.95 each plus £0.90 UK postage.

Trolleybus Current
23 Winterthur, Switzerland, Summer 2019
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Trolleybus Current
24 Lucerne, Switzerland, Autumn 2019
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Trolleybus Current in retrospect.
25. Spring 2021. Tallin, Estonia in 2012.
£5.00 plus £0.96 postage.

Trolleybus Current in retrospect.
26 Summer 2021. Bucharest, Romania in 2009
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Trolleybus Current in retrospect.
27 Autumn 2021. Marseille in 2004.
£5.00 plus £0.96 postage.

Trolleybus Current in retrospect.
28 Winter 2021/22. Limoges in 2006.
£5.00 plus £0.96 postage.

Trolleybus Current in retrospect.
29 Spring 2022. VMCV (Montreux) in 2008.
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Trolleybus Current in retrospect.
30 Summer 2022. Basle, Switzerland in 2007 and Innsbruck, Austria in 2006.
£5.00 plus £0.96 postage.

Trolleybus Current - Special editions
Limited edition A4 versions.

Trolleybuses of Shanghai. Photos and text is the same as the standard issue, but with larger wiring map.
£10 including UK postage.

Salzburg. The second Trolleybus Current Special edition celebrates the 75th anniversary of this Austrian system. 120 photos including historic, current, preserved and demonstrators.
£10 including UK postage

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Special Edition number 3. A Compilation from the first 24 issues.
Trolleybus Current in its regular format is expected to resume this year. In the meantime this compilation issue contains unpublished photos (except Shanghai) from each of the systems visited in the first series of 24 issues.
A4. 48 pages.
Price £11.00. Postage £1.40.

Trolley Berichten
The Dutch Trolleybus Magazine
NTA Sales will be taking a batch of each new issue of this quarterly periodical. A4. Dutch text. 26 to 34 pages per issue. Each issue is well illustrated, and there are often historic as well as contemporary articles. £4.50 per issue. Postage £2.15. Back issues available.
220. Groningen; Neuchetal 219. Eberswalde photo history and map; Ostrava; Arnhem
218. Chisnau (Moldovia); Arnhem photo features; Last day at Nancy.
217. History of the Oosterbeck route; Nancy; Groningen part 2; Rimini.
215. Potsdam wiring plan; Anniversaries in Marianske Lazne, Pardubiche, Solingen.
214. Potsdam, Athens, Arnhem overhead
213. Leipzig, East Berlin
212. Zwichau, Dresden.
211. Erfurt; Gera; Karl-Marx Stadt; in motion charging.
209. Marianske Lazne photo history; Teplice; Portuguese trolleybuses; Van Hool in Ukraine; Arnhem Leylands.
208. Arnhem pictures, Foreign review of 2020; Last day in Moscow 24,25/8/20.
198. San Remo. Photo history. Map. fleet history.
193. June 2016. Photo history of Chieti with maps; Photo feature on Luzern's 75th Anniversary.
190. Oct 2015 Illustrated Skoda history Part 2
177. Thun; Innsbruck.
168. Arnhem Fleet History.

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DVDs

DVD - British Trolley Bus Systems. The late 1960's. Vol. 1. 293 Transport Archive, (2023).
Approx 33 mins of previously unpublished film taken by Dennis Vickers between 1965 and 1968. Features Rotherham, Nottingham, Ashton/ Manchester, Wolverhampton, Derby, Huddersfield. Includes tours
£9.95. Postage £1.65.
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DVD - British Trolleybus Systems. The late 1960's Vol. 2. 293 Transport Archive, (2023).
Approx 51 minutes of previously unpublished film taken by Dennis Vickers between 1968 and 1972. Features Reading, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Walsall, Teeside, Bradford. Includes tours.
£9.95. Postage £1.65.
Currently Out of Stock

Swedish DVDs from Trafik-Nostalgiska Fortlaget.
£14.50 each. Postage £1.83.
1. Trolleybuses in Stockholm 1964. - Currently out of stock. Further copies will be ordered subject to demand. Please enquire.
2. Trams and Trolleybuses in North Korea. 100 mins. - Currently out of stock. Further copies will be ordered subject to demand. Please enquire.
3. Gothenburg M25s in Oslo. 65 mins.
4. Old Trams in Malmo and five other cities. 31 mins.

TRAM BOOKS

London Trams and Trolleybuses. Baker/ Top Deck Publishing. (2024). New
Softback 21cm x 27cm. 80 pages. A collection of b&w photos from the Transport Treasury archive, 50 pages of trams, 30 pages of trolleybuses.
Cover price £13.95. Our Price £13.50. Postage £2.70
Note; This is the revised, corrected version of this book; an earlier, defective version has been withdrawn.

Tracks of London's Trams 1949-1952. Harley/ Capital Transport. (2023)
A4 Hardback. 96 pages. 80 B/W and 25 colour photos. A review of life on the London trams in their final years.
Price £25.00. Postage £3.49

The London E3's. London's Lost Classic Tram. Waller/ Unique Books. (2023).
Softback. 200mm x 200mm. 64 pages. 60 b&w photos.
Photo book of the LCC E3 tram from 1930 to 1952.
Price £11.50. Postage £2.60

The Blackpool 'Standards'. Waller/ Unique Books. (2023).
Softback.200mm x 200mm.64 pages. 60 b&w photos.
Photo book of the Blackpool Standard tram from 1923 to the mid 1960s.
Price £11.50. Postage £2.60

The Tramways of Aberdeen 1956. Conn/ Silverlink. (2023).
Hardback 240mm x 210mm. Landscape. 136 pages. A photo album of quality b & w photos taken by David and John Clarke in July 1956.
Cover price £27.00.
Our Price £26.00. NTA Members £24.00. Postage £3.49

Around Waltham Forest by Bus, Tram and Train. Torode/ London Historical Research Group. (2022).
Softback. 200mm x 200mm.120 pages. Fully illustrated history of public transport in this East London are. Includes 8 pages of trolleybus coverage.
Price £15.00. Postage £2.70

Japan Tram Atlas. Sohns & Weber/ LRTA. (2023).
A4. Softback. 272 pages. 423 illustrations. 48 maps. Some trolleybus coverage.
Price £32.50. NTA Members £32.00. Postage £3.49

Bluebird Reborn. The History and Restoration of LCC No. 1. Wagstaff/ LRTA. (2023).
A4. Hardback. 224 pages. 330 illustrations. 4 maps. A full history of this tramcar from its inception and construction, through its working life in London and Leeds, to its restoration.
Price £35.00. NTA Members £33.00. Postage £3.49

Around the Glasgow Tramway System. McAulay & Loarridge/ Adam Gordon. (2022).
Hardback. A4. 228 pages and large pullout map.
Over 400 full and half page photos taken by Peter Mitchell between 1951 and 1962.
Cover price £42.00.
Our price £40.00. Members' price £38.00. Postage £3.35

The Tramways of Portugal. King & Isgar/ LRTA. (2022).
210mm x 297mm, Softback. 328 pages. 400 photos in colour and b/w. 57 maps.
With trolleybus coverage, including Braga in colour.
£45.00. Members' price £42.00. Postage £3.35

Glasgow Trams. A pictorial Tribute. Jenkins & Price/ Pen and Sword. (2022).
Hardback.192 pages. Over 600 B&W and colour photos. Maps
Marking the 60th Anniversary of the closure in 1962.
Cover price £35.00. Our price £28.00. Postage £3.35.

Trams in Milan in Colour (1954-1978). Jenkins and Roberts; LRTA. (2022).
English/ Italian Text; I tram di Milano- Immagini a colori.
A4 Hardback. Landscape format. 144 pages. Full colour.
£30.00. Postage £3.35.

Tramways in Portugal in Colour (1985-2018). Booth/ LRTA. (2022).
A4 Hardback. Landscape format. 144 pages. Full colour.
£30.00. Postage £3.35.

Public Transport in Gorlitz. Riedel/ Endisch. (2013).
German text; Der Gorlitzer Nahverkehr. Hardback. 159 pages.
Fully illustrated. Some colour. Includes Tram and Bus Fleet histories.
£22.00. Postage £2.70.

Tatra Trams Type T2D, B2D. Peters/ Endisch. (2009).
German text; Die Tatra- Strassenbahnwagen des Typs T2D / B2D. Hardback.111 pages.
Fully illustrated. With Fleet lists.
£20.00. Postage £2.70.

Gotha Trams Two- axle Types T57/ B57, T59/ B59 and T2-62/ B2-62. Kalbe/ Endische. (2019).
German text; Zweiachsige Strassenbahnwagen aus Gotha. Hardback. 350 pages..
Fully illustrated. Full Fleet lists.
£29.00. Postage £3.20.

Gotha G4 Articulated Trams. Kalbe/ Endische. (2014).
German text; Die Gelenkwagen des Typs Gotha G4. Hardback. 191 pages.
Fully illustrated. Some colour.Full Fleet lists.
£24.00. Postage £2.70.

The Leningrad Tram 1941 - 1945. (1995).
Russian text. Hardback. 320 pages. Almost 200 photos from the St Petersburg Archive of Film and Photo Documents, of trams during the Great Patriotic War. Includes some trolleybus photos.
£20.00. Postage £3.20.

Voronezh In 1994. A View From Abroad. (2019).
22cm x 21.5 cm. Hardback. 119 pages. Russian text
A collection of photos, all colour and 1 per page taken by a group of visiting German enthusiasts in 1994. Mainly tram, some trolleybus.
£20.00. Postage £3.20.

Glasgow By Tram in Photographs. Hume/ Stenlake. (2021).
A collection of black and white photos from the last days of Glasgow's trams.
Softback. 236 x 168mm. 58 pages. 56 photos.
Our price £11.95. Postage £1.53.

Britain's Second Hand Trams. Waller/Pen & Sword. (2021).
History of the several hundred British trams which had second - and sometimes - third careers.
Hardback 184 pages. 250 illustrations.
Cover price £25.00. Our price £20.00. Postage £3.20.

Turin Trams - the Munich Connection. Giannitti et al/ ATTS. (2019).
German text: Turin- Munchener Tramschicksale..
142 pages. 99 photos including 34 in colour.
Price £18.00. Postage £2.15.

Turin Circular. Bordonne et al/ ATTS. (2018).
Italian text: Torino in Circolare..
118 pages.102 photos including 63 in colour.
Price £18.00. Postage £2.15.

The Blackpool Streamlined Trams. Waller/ Pen & Sword. (2020).
A4 Hardback. 152 pages. 200 colour illustrations and diagrams.
Cover price. £25.00. Our price £20.00. Postage £3.10.

The London E1 Tram. Waller/ Pen & Sword. (2020).
A4, Hardback. 208 pages. 200 colour and black & white illustrations and diagrams
The 2nd in Pen & Sword's Great Tramcars series.
Cover price. £25.00. Our price £20.00. Postage £3.10.

Regional Tramways - London Transport. Waller/ Pen & Sword. (2019).
A4. Hardback. 166 pages. 200 illustrations.
The final volume in the author's Regional Tramways series, with emphasis on the post war years.
Cover price. £25.00. Our price £20.00. Postage £3.10.

Regional Tramways - Yorkshire and North East of England. Waller/ Pen & Sword. (2016).
A4. Hardback. 176 pages. 200 illustrations.
With emphasis on the systems which survived beyond the second world war.
Cover price. £25.00. Our price £20.00. Postage £3.10.

Regional Tramways - Scotland. Waller/ Pen & Sword. (2016).
A4. Hardback. 144 pages. 200 illustrations.
With emphasis on the systems which survived beyond the second world war.
Cover price. £25.00. Our price £20.00. Postage £3.10.

Regional Tramways - The North West of England, Post 1945. Waller/ Pen & Sword. (2017).
A4. Hardback. 192 pages. Nearly 200 colour and Black & white illustrations.
Cover price. £25.00. Our price £20.00. Postage £3.10.

Regional Tramways - Wales, Isle Of Man, & Ireland, Post 1945. Waller/ Pen & Sword. (2018).
A4. Hardback. 181 pages. 200 illustrations.
Cover price. £25.00. Our price £20.00. Postage £3.10.

Regional Tramways - Midland and Southern England. Waller/ Pen & Sword. (2018).
A4. Hardback. 168 pages. 200 illustrations.
With emphasis on the systems which survived beyond the second world war.
Cover price. £25.00. Our price £20.00. Postage £3.10.

Trams and Trolleybuses of Tarragona Reus. Masip/ Mar editor. (2018).
Catalan text; Tramvies I Troleibusos De tarragona I Reus.
210mm x 300mm. Sofback. 160 pages. Fully illustrated.
£25.00. Postage £3.10.

Tramways in Vienna in Colour (1956-1978). Jenkins & Russell/ LRTA. (2020).
English/ German text: Strassenbahnen in Wien in Farbe.
Hardback. 297 x 210 mm. 144 pages. Fully illustrated in colour.
Full colour photographic album of Vienna trams. Most shots come from the Online Transport archive. Includes a few trolleybus photos
Cover price £29.00.
Our price £28.00. Members' price £27.00. Postage £3.10.

Two Rooms and a Bath, The Turin 2700 Series. Bordone et al/ ATTS. (2019).
Italian text; Due camere e cucina.
Softback.130 pages. One of the joint authors is the Chief Engineer of Torino Tramways.
£18.00. Postage £1.83.

Croydon Tramlink. A Definitive history. David/ Pen and Sword (2020).
Hardback.21.6cm x 27.9cm. 200 pages.
The first full history of the system at its twentieth anniversary.
Cover price £30.00. Our price £26.00. Post free.

Philadelphia's Streetcar Heritage. Springirth/ America Through Time (2019).
20.3 x 27.9mm.Softback. 127 pages.
Photograpic album in colour, and black & white, of Philadelphia streetcars.
£20.00. Post free.

San Francisco's Magnificent Streetcars. (2015).
23.5 x 16.51 mm. Softback. 128 pages.
£20.00. Post free.

Philadelphia's Suburban Red Arrow. Trolley Heritage, (2019).
21.59 x 27.94. Softback 128 pages.
£22.00. Post free.

New Jersey's Trolley Heritage. (2020).
21,59 x 27.94 mm. Softback. 128 pages.
£20.00. Post free.

Toronto Streetcars Serve The City. (2014).
16.51 x 23.50. Softback. 128 pages.
£20.00. Post free.

Detroit's Street Car Heritage. (2018).
20.3 x 27.9mm.Softback. 128 pages.
£20.00. Post free.

Chicago's South Shore Line. (2018).
20.3 x 27.9mm.Softback. 128 pages.
£20.00. Post free.

Baltimore Street Car Memories. (2017).
20.3 x 27.9mm.Softback. 210 pages.
£20.00. Post free.

Cincinnati Street Car Heritage. (2017).
20.3 x 27.9mm.Softback. 128 pages.
Includes 8 page Trolley Coach section.
£20.00. Post free.

Streetcars of Washington D.C.. (2016).
20.3 x 27.9mm.Softback. 128 pages.
£20.00. Post free.

The London Feltham Tram. Waller/ Pen and Sword (2020).
A4 Hardback. 152 pages. 200 illustrations.
Cover price £25.00. Our price £22.00. Post free.

The Tramways of Brighton And Its Surrounds. Voice/ Adam Gordon (2020).
A4 Softback. 108 pages. Covers various tramways in the Brighton area 1884 to 1939; the Volks Electric Railway 1883 to the present, and recent developments. Fully illustrated.
£25.00. Post free.

The Birsigthalbahn. Stone/ Swiss Railway Society, (2019).
A4 softback. 52 pages. English text, over 100 photos mostly in colour.
Covers the line's history as an international interurban from steam tram days to its present incarnation as part of the Basel tram network.
£9.50. UK Postage £1.83.

An Illustrated Tramway Atlas of Australia and New Zealand. Ballment & Segnit/ Transit Australia. (2018).
A4. Hardback. 120 pages. Fully illustrated, with detailed maps.
£35.00. Postage £3.49.
Sold out - A further batch will be ordered. Please enquire.

Birmingham Buses, Trams and Trolleybuses in the Second World War
Harvey/ Amberley (2019) Softback. 128 pages.
Cover price £14.99. Members' price £13.50. Postage £1.83.

The Tramways of Wolverhampton Challoner/ Trolleybooks & LRTA (2017).
A4 softback. 108 pages. Fully illustrated. Fleet history. Maps. Cover price £22.00 NTA Members' £20.00 Postage £3.10.

Trams and Trolleybuses in Hastings, Leonards-on-Sea. 1905-1959.
Harley/ Adam Gordon (2017)
A4. Hardback. 198 pages. £40.00 NTA Members' £37.00 Postage £3.10.

Trams and Trolleybuses in Harburg.
Klaus Barnick/Geschichtswerkstatt Harburg e.V.
German text: Strassenbahnen und O-Busse in Harburg. A5. 48 pages. With DVD - line 12. Die letzte strassenbahn in Harburg.
Our price £10.00 Postage £1.83.

Special Offers

British Trolleybus Centenary 1911-2011. Murray/ Trolleybooks. (2011)
A4 softback .64 pages.
Fully illustrated review of 100 years of British trolleybuses.
Now on SALE! with FREE postage - £8.00.

London Trolleybus Wiring -
North East and East, A5 size and with 184 pages;
Now on SALE! with FREE postage - £7.00.

World Trolleybus Pictorial.
A5. 48 pages. 44 monochrome pictures of trolleybuses from around the world, published in 1988. Now on SALE! £4.00 plus postage £1.83.