Transport Bookshop:New Books:Biographies, memoirs   
Archibald Sturrock.
(Reference #BM2363)
Price:£14.99
Pioneer locomotive engineer.
Vernon.
Medium, 192 pages, photo illustrations and locomotive drawings, soft back. **By 1840 Sturrock was working with Brunel and Gooch on the GWR; later he was locomotive engineer for the GNR and subsequently played a lead role in founding the Yorkshire engine company. The author is his great great grandson.

Behind The Steam.
(Reference #BM1592)
Price:£14.95

Morgan, W & Meyrick, B.
Large, 222 pages + 16 pages of photo illustrations, hard back. **An old favourite - the reminiscences of Bill Morgan, who worked for the GWR at Neyland in Pembrokeshire, now in a new edition with extra photos.

Benjamin Outram 1764 - 1805.
(Reference #BM1274)
Price:£24.95
An engineering biography.
Schofield
Medium, 340 pages, illustrated with drawings, photos and maps. *Biography of the man who may or may not have given his name to the tramway. A short but singularly interesting life: Outram was involved, among other things, with canals and tramways in Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Wales and with the Iron Works at Butterley.

Birmingham Footplateman.
(Reference #BM2416)
Price:£15.95
A job for life. RS18.
Herbert.
Medium, 232 pages, photo illustrations. Soft back. **Memoirs of a footplate career 1949 - 1993.

Brunel
(Reference #BM1094)
Price:£25.00
The life and times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Buchanan, A.
Medium, 294 pages + 16 pages of plates, extensive bibliography, hardback. **A biography both of the engineer and of the man, setting him in the context of his times.

Brunel The Great Engineer.
(Reference #BM0342)
Price:£15.99

Bryan.
Large, 160 pages. Hard back. **A comprehensive and heavily illustrated account of the engineer. Most attention is paid to Brunel's activities on the railways, and one chapter is devoted to his steam ships.

C B Collett.
(Reference #BM1130)
Price:£11.95
A competent successor. OL121.
Chacksfield.
Medium, 160 pages, soft back.

Charles Burling Railway Signalman Of Cromford.
(Reference #BM2332)
Price:£9.99

Waite.
Very large, 68 pages, maps, photo illustrations, card covers. **Life on the Midland, taken from the notebooks of Mr Burling, who retired in 1947 at the age of 66.

Charles Holden Architect.
(Reference #BM2393)
Price:£49.50

Karol, E.
Large, 510 pages, illustrated with photos and drawings, includes 48 page colour section, hard back. **Biography of the architect of many fine London Underground stations, also University of London buildings in Bloomsbury etc. The colour pictures are particularly fine.

Coey/Cowie Brothers.
(Reference #BM1404)
Price:£12.95
All railwaymen.
Chacksfield, J E.
Medium, 176 pages, photos, drawings, soft back. OL124.

Colonel Stephens.
(Reference #BM2024)
Price:£18.95
Insights on the man and his empire.
Shaw.
Medium, 191 pages, illustrated. Glazed boards. **A biographical work drawing on articles first published in the K&ES Railway house journal (the Tenterden Terrier) over. It does not provide a full biography but gives a substantial introduction to the man and his many railway interests.

Crewe Remembered.
(Reference #BM2044)
Price:£12.95

Baker, A C.
Very large, 96 pages, many photo illustrations, works site plans. Soft back. **Essays on aspects of Crewe and its locomotives: Life at Crewe North; Points & Signals; Crewe - Perth working. Author spent the first 12 years of his working life at Crewe North shed.

Didcot Engineman.
(Reference #BM0173)
Price:£21.95

Barlow, B.
Very large, 272 pages. Hard back. **Author started as lad porter at Oxford in the 30s and was based at Didcot through the 40s and 50s. Details the problems of the war years and the daily routine of Didcot.

Douglas Earle Marsh.
(Reference #BM1979)
Price:£12.95
His life and times. OL134.
Marx.
Medium, 160 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. **Locomotive Superintendent on the LBSCR.

Drummond Brothers.
(Reference #BM1978)
Price:£12.95
A Scottish duo. OL133.
Chacksfield.
Medium, 168 pages, photo illustrations, soft back.

Edward Thompson.
(Reference #BM2414)
Price:£12.95
of the LNER.
Grafton.
Medium, 131 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. **Thompson was in railway service for nearly 45 years and was CME of the LNER during the 1940s. This new edition of his biography naturally also provides much information about LNER locomotives.

F W Webb.
(Reference #BM2292)
Price:£11.95
In the right place at the right time. OL141.
Chacksfield.
Medium, 144 pages, photo illustrations, soft back.

From Steam To Stone Volume Two: Onwards Into Management.
(Reference #BM1875)
Price:£14.95
A BR life - engine cleaner to stone projects manager.
Butcher.
Medium, 232 pages, photo illustrations. Soft back.

George Hudson.
(Reference #BM1356)
Price:£16.99
The rise and fall of the Railway King.
Bailey.
Medium, 186 pages, illustrated, hard back. **This, the earlier of the two current books with the same title and very similar subtitles, concentrates on the character of the man, what drove him to rise from farmer's lad to great entrepreneur and MP, and what led him to sink into disgrace.

George Hudson.
(Reference #BM1991)
Price:£20.00
The rise and fall of the Railway King: a study in Victorian entrepreneurship.
Arnold & McCartney.
Medium, 317 pages + 8 pages of illustrations, hard back. **This is the more recent of the two current books with the same title and very similar subtitles. It describes how Hudson used his enormous energy and flair for publicity to draw the investing public into his visionary schemes, and how his name came to be synonymous with fraudulent capitalism at its most brazen. The story of his dramatic career tells us a great deal about the times in which he lived.

Glasgow Railway Memories.
(Reference #BM1022)
Price:£7.95

Smith, W A C & Anderson, P.
Very large, 52 pages, lavishly illustrated with photos, soft back. **"Not just a close-up of Glasgow trains but a look at life in the city from wartime to the end of steam in 1967".

Great Central Signalman.
(Reference #BM2094)
Price:£17.99
One man's passion for signalling in the 1940s and '50s.
MacKenzie & Wortley.
Medium, 144 pages, photos, many signalling diagrams, soft back. **Reminisces combined with much detailed information on signalling practice on the GCR line.

In Search Of A Dream. Life And Work Of Roye England.
(Reference #BM1164)
Price:£19.95

Williams.
Very large, 217 pages, soft back.

James Watt. Volume 1: His Time In Scotland, 1736-1774.
(Reference #BM2421)
Price:£37.50

Hills, Rev Dr R L.
Large, 480 pages + 16 pages of plates, maps, many drawings and diagrams and other illustrations. Hard back. * "The first new biography for 60 years, based on original research on his papers, covering his career in Scotland as scientific instrument maker, civil engineer as well as his important invention of the separate condenser for the steam engine."

James Watt. Volume 2: The Years Of Toil, 1775-1785.
(Reference #BM2422)
Price:£26.99

Hills, Rev Dr R L.
Large, 256 pages, illustrated. Hard back. * "The first new biography for 60 years, based on original research on his papers. This is the second book of a trilogy on Watt, and covers his first ten years in Birmingham."

James Watt. Volume 3: Triumph Through Adversity, 1785-1819.
(Reference #BM2423)
Price:£26.99

Hills, Rev Dr R L.
Large, 288 pages, illustrated. Hard back. * "The first new biography for 60 years, based on original research on his papers. This is the final book of a trilogy on Watt, and includes the important development of rotary motion in our factories to drive machinery."

John Ramsbottom.
(Reference #BM2521)
Price:£9.95
A Victorian engineering giant.
Pennie.
Very large, 96 pages, generously illustrated: photos, plans, drawings, soft back. **One of the second wave of Victorian engineers, increasingly concerned with the reliability of machinery which was now no longer merely excitingly innovative. Through organisational zeal and forward thinking he took standardisation to an unprecedented level and made the workshops at Crewe a byword for self-sufficiency.

Landscape Trilogy.
(Reference #BM0697)
Price:£12.99
The autobiography of L T C Rolt.
Rolt, L T C.
Medium, 651 pages, soft back. **Autobiography of Tom Rolt, reissued as three volumes in one, and now as a paperback.

Landscape With Canals.
(Reference #BM0155)
Price:£9.99

Rolt, L T C.
Medium, 188 pages, illustrated. Soft back. **Volume 2 of Rolt's autobiography.

Lawson Billinton.
(Reference #BM2345)
Price:£13.95
A career cut short. OL142.
Marx.
Medium, 192 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. **Last of the LBSCR locomotive engineers. Displaced at the grouping, at the age of only 40, he took early retirement.

Life Of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer.
(Reference #BM1917)
Price:£20.00

Brunel.
Medium, 568 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Reprint of Longmans 1870 edition of the biography of Brunel by his son. The woodcuts and engravings are all reproduced, two of the engravings (Hungerford and Royal Albert bridges) being separately reproduced to a high standard and tipped in. Excellent value for so substantial a work.

Light Railway King Of The North
(Reference #BM1195)
Price:£11.95

Barnett
Medium, 112 pages, photos, maps, soft back. **Sebastian Meyer, an entrepreneur involved in the creation and operation of a network of minor and secondary lines in the north east of England from the 1880s onward.

Memories And Writings Of A London Railwayman
(Reference #BM1258)
Price:£12.95
A tribute to Harold Vernon Borley (1895-1989)
Jackson, A A (ed)
Medium, 159 pages, photo illustrations, soft back.

Off Northampton Shed.
(Reference #BM2257)
Price:£29.95
The reminiscences of an LMS fireman.
Mutton.
Very large, 186 pages, illustrated with photographs and several sections of OS 25" maps, hard back. **The author became a cleaner at Northampton shed in 1943 and remained there throughout his footplate career which took him over the ex LNWR lines in the area in the final stages of the war, and into the mid fifties.

On The Footplate At Bushbury 1947-1962.
(Reference #BM2136)
Price:£13.95
An engineman's tale. RS15.
Terry.
Medium, 224 pages, some photo illustrations, diagrams and map of Wolverhampton area railways, soft back. **Reminiscences of a West Midlands fireman; includes a detailed chapter on the functioning of a steam locomotive.

Recollections Of Oxenholme.
(Reference #BM1955)
Price:£7.95
Premier Portfolio No 12.
Harris & Talbot.
Very large, 48 pages, map, photo illustrations, soft back.

Reminiscences Of The Somerset & Dorset.
(Reference #BM1324)
Price:£10.99

Hammond.
Medium, 96 pages, illustrated with photos, map endpapers. Glazed boards.

Richard Maunsell: An Engineering Biography.
(Reference #BM0474)
Price:£11.95

Chacksfield.
Medium, 160 pages. Soft back. **OL102.

Richard Trevithick. Giant of Steam.
(Reference #BM1154)
Price:£9.99

Burton.
Medium, 246 pages, soft back.

Robert Billinton.
(Reference #BM2502)
Price:£13.95
An engineer under pressure. OL147.
Marx.
Medium, 152 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. ** "Robert Billingotn, last of the autocrats to run his empire in true Victorian style and discipline, bestrode the LBSCR like a colossus, managing an elephantine department as locomotive, carriage and wagon superintendent, with a brief to overview the marine department, the company's engineering equipment and a hundred and one other matters."

Robert Stephenson - The Eminent Engineer.
(Reference #BM1628)
Price:£55.00
Essays in honour of Jack Simmons.
Bailey, M (ed).
Large, 401 pages + 16 pages of coloured plate, other black and white illustrations, maps and diagrams in text. Hard back. **Twelve essays on Stephenson's influence, achievement, innovation and technique, including particular studies of the building of the London & Birmingham, railway building more generally, iron railway bridges, masonry structures and water engineering.

Robert Stephenson: Railway Engineer.
(Reference #BM2100)
Price:£19.95

Addyman & Haworth.
Very large, 172 pages, well illustrated with photos and contemporary prints (some colour), locomotive and other drawings, maps, diagrams, glazed boards. ** "Stephenson is decidedly the only man in the profession that I feel disposed to meet as my equal, or superior, perhaps, on such subjects": I K Brunel, 5.5.1846; he was not writing of George. A long overdue biography.

Ron Jarvis.
(Reference #BM1788)
Price:£12.95
From Midland compound to the HST.
Chacksfield, J E.
Medium, 176 pages, photos, drawings, soft back. OL130. **Jarvis was born in 1911, began his career as locomotive engineer at Derby in 1928, saw service in Turkey, Brighton, Derby again as Mechanical Engineer, Design, retired in 1971, devoting his spare time to the Festiniog Railway. He died in 1994. Jarvis's career with locomotives covered the enormous range laconically hinted at in the sub-title; John Chacksfield has described his interesting life with insight of a fellow engineer.

Saga By Rail: Great Britain And The Isle Of Man.
(Reference #BM2344)
Price:£14.95
RS17.
Boyd, J I C.
Medium, 192 pages, photos, maps, soft back. **Mr Boyd's reminiscences of railways, mainly narrow gauge, from 1925 onwards. He made a virtue of finding out and poking around the most obscure lines. There are some splendid photos.

Samuel Morton Peto (1809 - 1889).
(Reference #BM2534)
Price:£24.95
The achievements and failings of a great railway developer.
Cox.
Medium, 128 pages, illustrated, some colour, hard back. ** Peto was a prominent figure in business and transport in the mid-victorian age and left an impressive range of practical achievements, the best known surely being Nelson's column, but also the magnificent railway viaducts at Folkestone and Hanwell. He was a railway contractor in Britain, Denmark, Canada and the Crimea, but his work on what is now Thameslink led to his bankruptcy and destroyed his position as a leading British entrepreneur.

Scenes From The Past 47. Bolton Engineman ...A Last Look Back.
(Reference #BM1910)
Price:£12.95

Markland.
96 pages, very large, pictorial, soft back.

Sir Henry Fowler, A Versatile Life.
(Reference #BM0680)
Price:£11.95

Chacksfield.
Medium, 168 pages. Soft back.

Sir Nigel Gresley. The engineer and his family.
(Reference #BM1128)
Price:£14.95

Hughes.
Medium, 216 pages, soft back.

Sir Vincent Raven.
(Reference #BM2086)
Price:£11.95
And the North Eastern Railway. OL137.
Grafton.
Medium, 144 pages, photo illustrations, soft back.

Sir William Stanier.
(Reference #BM1129)
Price:£11.95
A new biography.
Chacksfield.
Medium, 168 pages, photos, soft back.

Steel Wheels And Rubber Tyres. Volume One.
(Reference #BM1626)
Price:£12.95
Transport around Oldham in the 1930s; locomotives at Gorton in the 1940s; Leeds trams in the 1950s.
Hilditch, G.
Medium, 168 pages, photo illustrations, maps. Soft back. *How one uninformed schoolboy tried to attain his early and overriding ambition to see his name in gold leaf on the side of a municipal tramcar, against those almost magic words "General Manager". RS10.

Steel Wheels And Rubber Tyres. Volume Two.
(Reference #BM1778)
Price:£12.95
A General Manager's journey: Manchester, Plymouth, Great Yarmouth, Halifax.
Hilditch, G.
Medium, 184 pages, photo illustrations, maps. Soft back. *How one uninformed schoolboy tried to attain his early and overriding ambition to see his name in gold leaf on the side of a municipal tramcar, against those almost magic words "General Manager". RS11.

Stories Of The Somerset & Dorset.
(Reference #BM1325)
Price:£10.99

Hammond.
Medium, 86 pages, illustrated with photos, map endpapers. Glazed boards.

Swindon Engineman.
(Reference #BM2269)
Price:£35.95

Shurmer & Fenton.
Very large, 272 pages. Hard back. **A record of Mr Shurmer's footplate experiences, the turns he worked in each link and the running of Swindon shed during a long career beginning in 1936. Includes a brief history of Swindon engine sheds and a jolly howler on p26.

Taken By Trains.
(Reference #BM1789)
Price:£13.95
The life and photographs of William Nash, 1909 - 1952.
Robinson, K & Forsythe, R.
Medium landscape, 192 pages, soft back. **Second volume of Nash's photographic collection, presented with much background biographical material. Views, mostly of locomotives and trains, are taken around the country between the wars; there are also some European pictures. Nash lost his life in the Harrow rail crash in 1952. X78.

Tale Of Many Railways.
(Reference #BM2593)
Price:£30.00
An autobiography & history of Alan Keef Ltd.
Keef.
Very large, 192 pages, photo illustrations, some colour, glazed boards. ** History of the Herefordshire locomotive builders and light engineers.

Testing Times At Derby.
(Reference #BM1869)
Price:£9.95
A 'privileged' view of steam. RS14.
Rimmer.
Medium, 120 pages, some photo illustrations, soft back. **A locomotive engineer in the 1950s.

The Greater Genius?
(Reference #BM2133)
Price:£24.99
A biography of Marc Isambard Brunel.
Bagust.
Large, 160 pages, illustrated from contemporary souces and modern photograps, hard back. **Excellent readable biography of IKB's brilliant father; much detail on Thames tunnel.

Thomas Bouch.
(Reference #BM2425)
Price:£17.99
The builder of the Tay Bridge.
Rapley.
Medium, 192 pages, photo and other illustrations, soft back. **Bouch was a maverick among engineers and became famous when he developed roll-on/roll-off wagon ferries for the Edinburgh & Northern Railway to cross the Forth and Tay, but it was his later Tay Bridge and his remarkable design for a Forth Bridge that brought him a knighthood.

Thomas Cook.
(Reference #BM1908)
Price:£20.00
The holiday-maker.
Hamilton.
Medium, 280 pages + 16 pages of plates, hard back. **There have been many histories of the famous travel firm; here is the first full-length biography of Cook himself. He was from a humble background, a Baptist, a man of deep faith, who was determined to improve the lot of the working classes. As well as opening up travel to the masses, in his early years he started soup kitchens and led a campaign for the repeal of the Corn Laws; he was also a strong supporter of the temperance movement. A very readable book.

Through The Ranks On The Southern.
(Reference #BM1380)
Price:£13.95
A career in the nationalised railway industry. RS8.
Aynsley, B W.
Medium, 208 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. **Story of the author's 39 year career in the railways, working his way up from engine cleaner to an important post in middle management.

Toy Story. Life And Times Of Frank Hornby.
(Reference #BM1166)
Price:£17.99

McReavy.
Medium, 288 pages, hard back.

Visionary Pragmatist: Sir Vincent Raven.
(Reference #BM2187)
Price:£19.99
North Eastern Railway locomotive engineer.
Everett.
Medium, 223 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. **Raven rose from engineering apprentice (1875) to CME (1910) in the NER. His steam locomotives were stylish and practical and his early advocacy of electric traction gave the NER a reputation for forward-thinking development.

William James (1771 - 1837).
(Reference #BM2418)
Price:£24.95
The man who discovered George Stephenson.
Macnair.
Medium, 144 pages, illustrated, hard back. ** "William James played a crucial, but largely unremembered, role in the development of inland transport in the industrial revolution. What set him apart from his better-known contemporaries was the scale of his vision and the range of activities he pursued during his long career: as a lawyer, surveyor, land agent and estate manager, geologist, coal-miner, inventor and civil engineer." This carefully researched and nicely-written book sets the record straight.

Zerah Colburn The Spirit Of Darkness.
(Reference #BM2270)
Price:£35.00

Mortimer.
Medium, 505 pages, glazed boards. **Colburn, 1832-70, was an important engineer, journalist and publisher but died in poverty, broken by drink, an opium habit and other problems. He founded "Engineering" and several other journals, compiled authorative books on locomotive engineering and presented many technical papers to the engineers' institutions in London. However, he was an enigmatic man with so violent a temper that his colleagues named him "spirit of darkness".

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