The well known County Down publisher Colourpoint has started a series of inexpensively priced books showing the work of various English railway photographers.

Previous volumes have covered Shap Fell and Bournemouth whilst the latest by Anthony Burges looks at the Isle of Wight Railways in the 1950s and 1950s.

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This is a new edition of Dr E M Patterson's book "The Ballymena Lines" originally published in 1968 and is a companion volume to "The Ballycastle Railway" of 2006.

Fully updated to reflect the position in 2007, the book covers such delights as the Ballymena, Cushendal and Red Bay Railway, the Ballymena and Larne Railway, the NCC, the Glenariff Railway, the Carnlough Mineral railway and the British Aluminium Lines at Larne. Published by Colourpoint.

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William Scott examines the history of the locomotives of the NCC which was a significant part of the LMS empire in Ireland and describes every steam locomotive built between 1847 for the Belfast & Ballymena Railway through to the end of steam in 1970 plus coverage of NCC diesel locomotives and railcars.

The book is well illustrated with 272 b & w photographs and 47 drawings.

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Many of today's railway enthusiasts were first attracted to the hobby by the urge to capture the last days of steam on Ulster's railways in the early 1960s. Relive this era through the images captured by Richard Whitford who took photographs from 1960 when there was still an amazing variety of engines. Captions by Ian McLarnon Sinclair.

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In mid 1960s English bus enthusiast Richard Newman visited Ireland and captured the then prevailing bus scene on film. Richard delves into his archive to present a selection of vehicles from CIE, the Lough Swilly, Belfast Corporation, the UTA and Ulsterbus, as well as a variety of independent coach operators in Eire.

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This unusual book looks at life in Northern Ireland in the immediate post-war years. The themes are transport related and include street scenes in Belfast, the UTA stand at the Balmoral Show, passengers travelling by train and bus, air services from Nutts Corner, heavy haulage by road, the UTA engineering works and much much more.