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The Model Engineer And Electrician Bound Volume 24, January - June 1911.
(Reference #B463)
Price:£10.00

Marshall, 1911.
Quarto, 620 pages, illustrated, cloth dull and lifting slightly in places, good inside.

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The Model Engineer And Electrician Bound Volume 27, July - December 1912..
(Reference #B464)
Price:£10.00

Marshall, 1912.
Quarto, 618 pages, illustrated, worn on spine, binding poor, good inside.

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+ Railway Views.
(Reference #B545)
Price:£8.00
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Locomotive Publishing Co, nd, but pre-1922.
Small landscape octavo album, mostly 1 photo per page. A compendium of eight booklets each containing eleven main photos and two small ones on the title pages. Lacks first two pages and any additional prelims, with consequent split in binding at front. Green cloth on stout bevelled boards slightly worn and marked. Overall generally poor, but the photos are good.

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The Modern Tramway 1954.
(Reference #B538)
Price:£14.00
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1954.
Octavo, 232 pages, colour plate, ex libraries (two) with stamps throughout, sturdy library binding in light brown buckram, G+.

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A Locomotive Engineer's Album.
(Reference #B97)
Price:£10.00
Abdill, G B.
NY 1965, Bonanza.
Quarto, 190 pages, album, hardback, VG+. **Mostly locomotive photos with long detailed captions.

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Rails West.
(Reference #B62)
Price:£14.00
Abdill, G B.
Superior, 1960. (Seattle).
4to, 191 pages, album of railroad pioneering. VG.

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The Collector's Book Of The Locomotive.
(Reference #B84)
Price:£9.00
Alexander, E P.
New York; Bramhall House, 1966.
Quarto, 197 pages, illustrated throughout, some colour, VG. **Unusual subject covering not only toy and model locomotives but also locomotives in art, photography, china, advertising etc.

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Locomotive Practice And Performance In The Twentieth Century.
(Reference #B311)
Price:£8.00
Allen, C J.
Heffer, 1949.
Octavo, 302 pages, 148 photo illustrations, 79 tables of loco performance, gradient profiles, hardback, no jacket, cloth faded, foredge and endpapers v spotty, contents clean and fairly tight.** A collation of outstanding performances of British locomotives.

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The Railwaymen. The history of the National Union Of Railwaymen.
(Reference #B215)
Price:£12.00
Bagwell, P.
Allen & Unwin, 1963.
Large octavo, 725 pages + coloured frontispiece & 6 pages of plates, ex lib, no jacket, front endpaper torn, binding strained.

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Mixed Train Daily. A book of short-line railroads.
(Reference #B366)
Price:£15.00
Beebe, L.
Howell-North, 1961.
Quarto, 368 pages, many photo illustrations, colour illustrations, original fawn dec cloth faded on spine and lozenged, binding split between centre sections, but holding. Contents otherwise clean and complete.

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The Bressingham Story.
(Reference #B222)
Price:£8.00
Bloom, A.
Faber, 1963
Octavo, 264 pages + photo plates, jacket, VG. **This appears to have arrived at the wrong shop. It is a gardening book, by the bloke who gave us island beds, and, I believe, the lurid conifer'n'heather gardens of the late 60s, not yet in evidence in this book. There are some traction engines, though.

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James Brindley Engineer, 1716 - 1772.
(Reference #B252)
Price:£8.00
Boucher, C T G.
Goose, 1968.
Octavo, 130 pages, illustrated with photos and drawings, jacket spine faded, ex library, lacks front free endpaper, various stamps etc. A good reading copy of a fairly scarce book.

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Railway Picture Postcards.
(Reference #B173)
Price:£8.00
Bray, M I.
Moorland, 1991.
Quarto, 240 pages, illustrated, card covers, spine worn, but generally VG. **Work on postcard collecting.

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+ BR Passenger Time Tables Southern Region Summer 1957.
(Reference #B542)
Price:£8.00
British Railways.

Medium format, 852 pages, map, contents complete and OK but fairly ratty externally, map has been folded by a heavy hand and has a small tear. **17.6.57 - 15.9.57.

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The Rainhill Story. The great locomotive trial.
(Reference #B317)
Price:£5.00
Burton, A.
BBC, 1980.
Square quarto, 164 pages, photo and other illustrations, jacket, VG. **Nicely produced little history to go with a tv series.

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American Railroads In Transition.
(Reference #B207)
Price:£9.00
Carper, R S.
Barnes, 1968.
Folio, 260 pages, many photo illustrations, hard back. VG+. **Transition from steam to diesel; five brief chapters each followed by a large section of photos; final chapter has a survey of futuristic ideas.

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+ Unusual Locomotives.
(Reference #B547)
Price:£5.00
Carter.
Muller, 1960.
Octavo, 221 pages, photos and line drawings, jacket tatty, book VG.

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+ Railways Of Rhodesia. The story of the Beira, Mashonaland and Rhodesia railways.
(Reference #B540)
Price:£6.00
Croxton, A H.
David & Charles, 1973.
Octavo, 315 pages, photo plates, map, ex library, some thumbing, jacket spine faded, G.

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Portrait Of The Dart Valley Railway.
(Reference #B238)
Price:£5.00
Dart Valley Light Railway.
DVLA/IA, 1978.
Quarto, 96 page photo album, glazed boards, VG.

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Railway History In Pictures:The Chilterns and Cotswolds.
(Reference #B264)
Price:£6.00
Davies & Grant.
1977 D&C.
Large octavo, 96 page album, jacket, VG.

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The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway.
(Reference #B148)
Price:£11.00
Davies, W J K.
D&C, 1968.
Octavo, 204 pages, photos, jacket, G+.

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Tragic Train. "The City of San Francisco".
(Reference #B69)
Price:£13.00
DeNevi, D.
Superior, 1977.
4to, 188 pages, illlustrated. VG+. **Story of de luxe train wrecked by vandals in 1939, killing 24 and injuring 117. Culprits not known at time of writing, author was given masses of evidential material by Southern Pacific in the hope that publication would assist the investigation.

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+ Railways, Steamers And Telegraphs. A glance at their recent progress and present state.
(Reference #B539)
Price:£10.00
Dodd, G.
Chambers, 1867.
Octavo, 326 pages, 10 steel engravings, some on plates and some in text, original green cloth, some wear, split on spine, heavy foxing to prelims, otherwise VG. **The three subjects each get about the same amount of coverage. The railway section includes overseas developments as well as British; the steamers include merchant and war ships; the telegraph section dwells chiefly on the setbacks and final success of the transatlantic cable: the illustration of the loading of the cable into the Great Eastern is of note.

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British Steam Horses. A book of modern locomotives.
(Reference #B360)
Price:£5.00
Dow, G.
Phoenix House, 1950.
Octavo, 128 pages + photo plates, some diagrams, jacket very worn and chipped at edges, blue dec cloth boards a little worn, apart from jacket generally VG. **Dow was PR & Publicity Officer of the LMR.

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+ Reflections On A Railway Career. From LNWR to BR.
(Reference #B543)
Price:£3.00
Dunn, J M.
Ian Allan, 1966.
Octavo, 184 pages + 32 pages of photo plates, some maps and diagrams, jacket worn at edges, first section detached, book otherwise VG. **The author's career in motive power depot management spanned the reigns of the LNWR, the LMS and BR; he worked chiefly in Willesden, Wales and the Coventry area.

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Some Classic Locomotives.
(Reference #B3)
Price:£6.00
Ellis, C H.
Geo Allen & Unwin, 1949.
Octavo, 173 pages + 24 pages photo illustrations & 8 coloured plates from paintings by author, tape repair to p100 offset on p101 with slight damage to margin. Cloth dull, but otherwise sound and complete, G+.

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Some Classic Locomotives.
(Reference #B470)
Price:£8.00
Ellis, C H.
Unwin, 1949.
Tall octavo, 172 pages, colour (author's paintings) and b/w (photo) illustrations, jacket, VG. **And a railway classic itself.

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The Engines That Passed.
(Reference #B257)
Price:£8.00
Ellis, C H.
Allen & Unwin, 1968.
Large octavo, 134 pages, colour frontispiece and 3 other colour plates, other illlustrations by author, jacket worn and faded, book G+. **Reminiscences and drawings of steam engines, British and continental.

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Locomotion. The railway revolution.
(Reference #B21)
Price:£9.00
Faith.
BBC, 1993.
Landscape 4to, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in b/w & colour, hardback. Book accompanying TV series on the influence of railways on landscape and society worldwide. VG.

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Railroading Around The World.
(Reference #B10)
Price:£12.00
Farrington.
New York, Castle, 1955.
Quarto, 230 pages, many photo illustrations. Hard back. VG. **Author had travelled widely in South America, Western Europe, South and East Africa, and Australasia and offers notes and a picture section for each country. The page on Argentina, with pictures of his railway passes and the hall of BA Constitución station, leaves everything to be desired; however other countries fare much better, particularly Switzerland, France and New Zealand.

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The History Of Railways In Britain.
(Reference #B351)
Price:£6.00
Ferneyhough, F.
Osprey, 1975.
Small quarto, 288 pages, photo and other illustrations, map, chronology, index, slightly soiled and dusty but sound and complete.

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Great Western Progress 1835 - 1935.
(Reference #B471)
Price:£6.00
Great Western Railway.
D&C 1972 reprint.
Octavo, 180 pages, some photo illustrations, cloth, fine, but lacks jacket. ** Material from the Times Great Western Railway Centenary Number, as reprinted contemporaneously by the GWR.

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+ Industrial Archaeology Of Dartmoor.
(Reference #B546)
Price:£5.00
Harris, H.
D&C, 1968.
Octavo, 239 pages, photo plates, map, some site plans, drawings, gazetteer of sites, chronology, affected by damp throughout: pages somewhat cockled and many stained, jacket and boards also marked; the marks are light brown and all text is clear; a reasonable working copy. **One of the useful D&C blue jacket series.

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Phantoms Of The Railways.
(Reference #B319)
Price:£4.00
Herbert, W B.
D&C, 1988.
Octavo, 128 pages, jacket, top edge slightly affected by damp, otherwise VG. **48 ghost stories, all true, naturally. A sequel to the author's Railway Ghosts.

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The Pleasures Of Railways. A journey by train through the delectable country of enthusiasm for railways.
(Reference #B356)
Price:£5.00
Hollingsworth, B.
Allan Lane, 1983.
Octavo, 154 pages + photo plates, jacket, VG. **Easy reading.

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The Story Of The Dover Corporation Tramways 1897 - 1936.
(Reference #B459)
Price:£4.00
Horn, J V.
LRTL, 1955.
Octavo, 88 pages, photo illustrations, route map, cloth faded on and around spine and edges, inscriptions throughout an otherwise VG book. **This scarce volume was previously owned by a wally who was unable to resist the temptation to inscribe his name and address throughout; he has also helpfully numbered each photograph in a large, unsteady hand, and has added, on the preface page in bold characters, that there are 29 photos.

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The National Railway Collection.
(Reference #B73)
Price:£6.00
Jenkinson, D (ed).
Collins, 1988.
Small 4to, 206 pages, illustrated throughout, much in colour. Paperback. VG/F. **Articles about the various categories of exhibits at the York museum.

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Steam Locomotive Development. An analytical guide to the literature on British steam locomotive development 1923-1962.
(Reference #B251)
Price:£6.00
Jones, K P.
1969, Library Association.
Octavo, 412 pages, card covers a little worn and dog-eared. *From a Library Association Fellowship thesis; a bibliography of books and periodical articles about steam locomotives. Useful reference.

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A Book Of Railway Journeys.
(Reference #B92)
Price:£5.00
Kennedy, L (compiler)
NY, 1980, Rawson Wade.
Large octavo, 356 pages, illustrated, jacket, quarter cloth, front free endpaper missing, otherwise VG+. **Anthology of literary railway journeys, in fact and fiction, prose and poetry.

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The History And Economics Of Transport.
(Reference #B237)
Price:£6.00
Kirkaldy & Evans.
Pitman, 1927.
Octavo, 426 pages, ex library, cover worn, binding becoming slightly lax, contents VG. **Dry but interesting history text book.

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The World's Locomotives. A digest of the latest locomotive practice in the railway countries of the world.
(Reference #B508)
Price:£15.00
Lake, C S.
Marshall, nd, early C20.
Large octavo, 380 pages, + 8 folding plates, and advertisements, other drawings in text, photos, original qtr green leather/dec cloth, slightly worn, binding split along spine but holding, contents clean and appear complete. **Nice survey, the plates are large folding pages of good clear detailed locomotive drawings: 5 English, 1 German, 1 Swiss and 1 Italian.

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The Locomotive Magazine Volume 24, 1918.
(Reference #B531)
Price:£30.00
Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 202 pages, index, no supplements, contents clean, title page and index have been added loose, quarter leather, worn but sound. G+.

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The Locomotive Magazine Volume 4, 1899.
(Reference #B520)
Price:£16.00
Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 200 pages + supplements (including Dec 98 supplement), 4/4 coloured plates (3 folding), quarter leather, stout but very worn, sporadic light foxing throughout, some soiling of pages and endpapers. G+

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The Locomotive Magazine Volume 4, 1899.
(Reference #B523)
Price:£12.00
Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 200 pages + supplements, no plates, bound with wrong February (1900) issue, Feb 99 is loosely inserted, quarter morocco binding slightly shaky, spine damaged and reinforced with clear tape, mostly clean and bright throughout. G.

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The Locomotive Magazine Volume 4, 1899.
(Reference #B524)
Price:£8.00
Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 198 pages, index, no supplements or plates, and has completely lost its binding (the inner spine and stitching remain firm), outer pages (to p1) are slightly browned, some marked and creased but remainder is clean and bright.

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The Locomotive Magazine Volume 5, 1900.
(Reference #B522)
Price:£12.00
Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 204 pages, one supplement (incl 1 colour plate), 4/4 folding coloured plates/diagram, plates worn and torn at folds, foxing to front endpaper and occasionally throughout, edges browned, front hinges mostly broken, front endpaper split, first section a bit loose, black pebble cloth binding, dark purple cloth boards worn at edges, discoloured at top edge. Poor.

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The Locomotive Magazine Volume 6, 1901.
(Reference #B525)
Price:£14.00
Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 212 pages, lacks all prelims, supplement, 2/2 folding coloured plates, endpapers soiled, pages lightly browned, quarter leather very worn and lacks backstrip, cloth boards in good order. G.

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The Locomotive Magazine Volume 6, 1901.
(Reference #B526)
Price:£14.00
Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 212 pages + supplements, index, 2/2 folding coloured plates, art paper, gilt edges, quarter leather very worn: half of spine missing, cloth boards in good order. G.

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The Locomotive Magazine Volume 6, 1901.
(Reference #B527)
Price:£16.00
Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 212 pages + supplements, index, 2/2 folding coloured plates, art paper, endpapers browned, contents VG, front hinges broken, publisher's decorative green cloth binding dampstained across spine. G.

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The Locomotive Magazine Volume 6, 1901.
(Reference #B537)
Price:£22.00
Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 212 pages + supplements, index, 2/2 folding coloured plates, endpapers browned, contents VG, quarter leather worn on spine, marbled paper-covered boards. G+.

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The Locomotive Magazine Volume 7, 1902.
(Reference #B529)
Price:£16.00
Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 212 pages + supplements (art paper), 3/3 folding coloured plates + coloured plate in supplement, endpapers browned, publisher's light binding in red decorated (loco) boards with red cloth backstrip. G+.

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The Locomotive Magazine Volume 7, 1902.
(Reference #B530)
Price:£20.00
Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 212 pages + supplements, including the four fairly rare carriage supplements, 3/3 folding coloured plates (mostly split at folds) + coloured plate in supplement, art paper, binding weak and loose, small tears at edges of many pages, some old tape repairs, publisher's decorated green cloth binding in fairly good condition. G.

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The Locomotive Magazine Volumes 10 & 11, 1904-5.
(Reference #B519)
Price:£22.00
Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, volume 10: 220 pages, index, 5/5 plates; vol 11: 220 pages, index, 3/5 plates. No supplements. Foxing. Binding somewhat shaky, cloth boards dull, spine faded and worn at extremities.

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The Locomotive Magazine Volumes 6 & 7, 1901-2.
(Reference #B528)
Price:£30.00
Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, volume 6: 212 pages + supplements, index, 2/2 folding coloured plates; volume 7: 212 pages + supplements, 3/3 folding coloured plates + coloured plate in supplement, binding strained but holding, dark pebble cloth boards worn and faded on spine. G.

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Locomotive Superheating And Feed Water Heating.
(Reference #B163)
Price:£20.00
Locomotive, Railway Carriage & Wagon Review, supplement.
LPC, 1925, or thereabouts.
Folio, xx + 142 pages + plates (cutaway drawings, coloured to show steam flow), many photo illustrations and clear diagrams.**This Locomotive Magazine supplement appears complete but the cover is a mess. From various inscriptions it seems to have spent the war at Longmoor. It had a rather bad war, the spine has disintegrated and the cover is held together with brown paper tape, parcels, for the use of.

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The Lighted Flame. A history of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen.
(Reference #B254)
Price:£8.00
McKillop, N.
Nelson, 1950.
Octavo, 402 pages + 12 pages of photo portrait plates, some nice drawings of locomotives in the text, no jacket, spine faded, almost VG.

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The Railway-Lover's Companion.
(Reference #B411)
Price:£7.00
Morgan.
Eyre & Spottiswode, 1963.
Octavo, 553 pages, some line etc illustrations, jacket, no particular fault, just a general over-all world-weariness. Good.

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British Railways In Action.
(Reference #B130)
Price:£8.00
Nock, O S.
Nelson, 1956.
8vo, 228pp, illus, performance tables, cloth, G+

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Fifty Years Of Western Express Running.
(Reference #B181)
Price:£12.00
Nock, O S.
Everard, 1954.
Large octavo, 353 pages + photo plates, 8 coloured plates, 7 folding pages of graphs at rear, hard back: binding worn and shaken on front inner joint.

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Historical Steam Locomotives.
(Reference #B240)
Price:£8.00
Nock, O S.
Black, 1959.
Octavo, 162 pages + photo plates, colour frontispiece, jacket a bit worn, VG. **An outline of British locomotive history up to 1923.

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Tracking Ghost Railroads In Colorado.
(Reference #B474)
Price:£4.00
Ormes, R.
Colorado Springs, 1975.
Large quarto, 148 pages, photos, maps, commentaries, laminated card covers, perfect bound: some pages detached, others loosening. none missing.

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The County Donegal Railways. A history of the narrow-gauge railways of north-west Ireland - part one.
(Reference #B214)
Price:£12.00
Patterson, E M.
D&C, 1962.
Octavo, 157 pages + folding page of locomotive & rolling stock statistics, coloured frontispiece (Alice), photo and line illustrations, track diagrams. Jacket damaged at corners, book VG.

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The Clogher Valley Railway.
(Reference #B417)
Price:£14.00
Patterson.
D&C, 1972.
Octavo, 270 pages, jacket, fine, bright.

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The Golden Age Of Steam.
(Reference #B318)
Price:£5.00
Pudney, J.
Hamish Hamilton, 1967.
Quarto, 187 pages, photo and other illustrations, jacket, worn, sound, clean, G+. **Railways, liners, paddle-steamers, fire-engines, agricultural machinery, fairground equipment, traction engines, steam cars, aircraft. The history is social, rather than technical.

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Official Railway Map Of Lancashire & District.
(Reference #B534)
Price:£12.00
Railway Clearing House.
1921.
Dissected, mounted and folded. Ink stains along what is lower edge when folded, since rebacked on clean linen, spine repaired with limp cloth tape and original spine lettering re-glued in place.

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My Life With Locomotives. A retired locomotive engineer looks back.
(Reference #B535)
Price:£6.00
Rivington.
Ian Allan, 1962.
Octavo, 168 pages + photo plates & 2 folding plans. Jacket ratty with internal repair, cloth boards a bit spotty, spine lozenged. **Author was a Horwich man, serving nearly 45 years with the L&Y and its successors.

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Trains.
(Reference #B16)
Price:£10.00
Robert Selph Henry.
Indianapolis, Bobs-Merrill, 1947.
Large quarto, 119 pages, illustrated. Green cloth worn at edges, some browning to page edges, sound, G+. **Nicely produced work on history & operation of US railroads for the general reader.

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Transition From Steam.
(Reference #B56)
Price:£8.00
Rogers, Col H C B.
IA, 1980.
Small 4to, 128 pages, many photo illustrations. VG/F.

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Down The Line To Bristol.
(Reference #B46)
Price:£6.00
Searle, M V.
1986, Baton.
Quarto, 192 pages, photos, jacket, near fine. **A social history of GW main line.

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The Railway And Travel Monthly Volume 11 July - December 1915.
(Reference #B451)
Price:£24.00
Sekon (ed).

422pp, plates, contents sound, dark brown quarter leather rubbed but sound. Generally VG.

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Railway And Travel Monthly Volume 11, July - December 1915.
(Reference #B481)
Price:£24.00
Sekon, G A (ed).

422 pages, bound in dark red quarter leather in rather nice condition. Has the plates and index. VG.

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The Railways Of Britain. An historical introduction.
(Reference #B418)
Price:£7.00
Simmons, J.
RKP, 1961, first edition.
Octavo, 264 pages, illustrated, jacket, VG.

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A Handbook Of Railway Photography.
(Reference #B258)
Price:£10.00
Siviter, R.
D&C, 1983.
Quarto, 135 pages, photo and some line illustrations, including 8-page colour section. Jacket. Fine. *Obviously the references to equipment are now somewhat dated and are irrelevant to digital photography. Nonetheless this tome offers useful advice and information about traditional equipment and processing, and the advice on composition, weather, night photography etc etc is of interest and inspiration to all.

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Practical Hints For Footplate Men.
(Reference #B485)
Price:£15.00
Southern Railway, Traffic Dept (Motive Power).
SR, not dated.
Duodecimo, 72 pages, diagrams, some on folding pages, photos, drawings, green cloth. Lacks front free endpaper, binding frail and splitting, one of the specimen forms has been completed in biro. G. **Advice for rookie footplatemen: interesting booklet, contains matter not found in more advanced works as well as the more familiar coloured diagrams of valve function etc etc. Surprisingly hard to find, so a pity it is not in better condition.

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+ Itinerario-Guia Ferrocarriles, Lineas Aereas Y Maritimas, Lineas De Autobuses De La RENFE June 1961.
(Reference #B544)
Price:£8.00
Spanish Railways.

Small format, 304 pages, large map, rough production on lousy paper, some loose pages, otherwise near fine. **Spanish railway time table with some air, shipping and bus times.

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Die Signale Der Deutschen Eisenbahnen.
(Reference #B337)
Price:£5.00
Spieth, H-J.
Düsseldorf, 1974: Alba.
Square quarto, 112 pages with many photos and diagrams, German text, jacket, good. **A working copy, not a collector's item, as the previous owner has added much extra information from other publications; some is pasted over blank areas of page, but mostly it is neatly pasted to sheets of paper and tipped into the margins. Despite the care with which this has been done it has strained the hinges and pulled the first few pages from the (perfect) binding. Included here nevertheless, as it is useful reference on German signalling.

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Steel Trails. The epic of the railroads.
(Reference #B235)
Price:£9.00
Stevers, M D.
New York, 1933: Grosset & Dunlap.
Octavo, 374 pages + photo plates, hardback, clean ex-reference library, VG.

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The Imperial Way. Making tracks from Peshawar to Chittagong.
(Reference #B308)
Price:£6.00
Theroux, P & McCurry, S.
BCA, 1985.
Quarto, 143 pages, 24 page introductory essay by Theroux followed by McCurry's magnificent colour photos of their journey through Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Jacket, with small tear, top edge affected by damp which has left a narrow grey stain on most pages, slightly worse on the rear endpapers. Sound and otherwise clean. G.

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The Great Railway Bazaar.
(Reference #B304)
Price:£6.00
Theroux, P.
Hamish Hamilton, 1976, 3rd impression.
Octavo, 342 pages, map endpapers, faint stain on endpaper, jacket worn, generally VG. ** "Paul Theroux, posssessed of an idiosyncratic and wholly admirable love for trains and dislike for planes and buses, set out one day from Victoria Station, with the intention of boarding every train that chugged into view between London and Tokyo, and eventually making the return trip on the Trans-Sibererian Express." A classic which has inspired many exciting journeys.

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The Callander & Oban Railway.
(Reference #B416)
Price:£10.00
Thomas.
D&C, 1966.
Octavo, 200 pages, illustrated, no jacket, VG.

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Portrait Of Steam.
(Reference #B368)
Price:£9.00
Treacy, E.
Ian Allan, 1967.
Quarto, 200-page album, small damp marks on boards and endpapers, binding weakened but intact, contents clean, G.

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All Aboard With E M Frimbo. World's greatest railroad traveller.
(Reference #B350)
Price:£5.00
Whitaker & Hiss.
Deutsch, 1974.
Octavo, 235 pages, nice line illustrations, jacket. **Not much wrong with this except the title; Frimbo was in fact a pseudonym for Whitaker, who worked for the New Yorker and was indeed a prodigious and adventurous traveller. A book of railway journeys, in the States and elsewhere, very readable.

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Railway Anthology.
(Reference #B146)
Price:£8.00
Whitehouse
IA, 1965.
8vo, 223pp, dw, bright.

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Eric Treacy: Railway Photographer.
(Reference #B367)
Price:£10.00
Whitehouse & Freeman Allen.
BCA, 1982.
Large quarto, 216 pages, mostly photos, some colour, jacket, near fine. **Book club edition otherwise identical with original D&C production.

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+ Brunel And After. The romance of the Great Western Railway.
(Reference #B541)
Price:£4.00
Williams, A.
PSL, 1972, reprint of 1925 edition.
Octavo, 205 pages+ large folding map, photo and other illustrations, ex Ian Allan library: one stamp, back, spine and inside of the jacket, the endpapers and (slightly) the map are all damp-stained, brown 'cloth' boards are unaffected, it's probably some sort of plastic, contents VG+.

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