Welcome to Specialist Transport Publications

Specialist Transport Publications publish spotting books for a variety of rail stock, road vehicles, aircraft and sea vessels.

Our books give you up to date fleet lists of Railway Locomotives, Coaching and Wagon stock, Trams, and Metros, Ships, aircraft and road vehicles as appropriate. We cover the current, historic and preserved eras, and many of our books cover Europe as well as Britain.

---- ST Pub team

Latest Releases

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French Wagons Volume One 0000 - 4999

Only £15.00

This book has recently been updated to incorporate the large number of changes to the French wagon fleet that have taken place in the last few years. This book is the first of a two volume series, Volume two covers wagons in the 5000 - 9999 series.
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French Wagons Volume Two 5000 - 9999

Only £16.00

This book has recently been updated to incorporate the large number of changes to the French wagon fleet that have taken place in the last few years. This book is the second of a two volume series, Volume one covers wagons in the 0000 – 4999 series.
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Business Aircraft of the World 2026 Jets & Turboprops

Only £20.00

In conjunction with the LAAS International Aviation Society, ST Publications are thrilled to promote and distribute edition three of this very popular book, which lists every Business Jet & Turboprop Aircraft of the World. This book has recently been updated with all the latest changes that have occurred since the previous 2025 edition of this book.
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HGV Fleets 25 Registrations

Only £17.00

This is the latest book in our HGV series and includes details of over 16,500 2025-2026 25 registered HGV's.
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Benelux Locomotives, Units & Coaching stock 2026

Only £14.50

This book lists details of the Locomotives, Units and Coaching Stock of the Railways of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, together with those of the relevant Private Owner Operators. This book has been fully updated with all the changes to the respective fleets since our last edition was published in 2024.
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German Locomotives 2026

Only £18.50

This annually updated book once again covers all locomotives registered and / or seen on the mainline in Germany and grows every year as the biggest European locomotive builders (Siemens & Alstom) build and register most of their locomotives in Germany, irrespective of which country they operate in. So there are now more than 9,800 locomotives listed in the book (including 1,300 locomotives registered outside, but often seen inside Germany). Since the last book was published there have also been well over 2,000 updates to operator, depot and status.
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Major Coach Fleets 2026

Only £16.00

This book has recently been updated with all the latest changes to the Major Coach fleets of the UK that we have been made aware of since the last edition of this book was published
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First and Stagecoach Bus Fleets 2026

Only £17.50

This book has recently been updated with all the recent changes to the respective fleets that we have been made aware of since the last edition of this book was published.
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Arriva & Major London Bus Fleets 2026

Only £16.50

This book has recently been updated with all the latest changes to the Arriva and Major London Bus fleets that we have been made aware of since the last edition of this book was published.
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Civil Airliners of the World 2026

Only £19.50

This book has been very recently updated with the great many changes to the World`s Civil Airliners fleets that have taken place since the previous edition of this book was published. The data used in this book has kindly been provided by LAAS International, and now lists over 39,000 planes.