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Just Released  - Order Now Reading’s municipal transport undertaking has been part of Reading’s townscape and a vital part of its life for more than a century. This volume doc

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Buses of Reading And Newbury

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Written by Graham Stone and published by the Reading Bus Preservation Group in autumn 1994, this 32-page A5 booklet serves two purposes. It is an illustrated fleet list describing and illustrating eve

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Canal Transport Ltd.

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Written by Geoff Wheat and published by Maiwand Publishing in 1999, this is a 40-page A5-size booklet which traces the history of Canal Transport Ltd., which carried freight on the 127-mile Leeds &

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    It is funny how older generation Reading people still love their trolleybuses and the days when they were maroon and cream.