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A Fighting Trade. (Reference #G0938) Price:£25.00 Rail transport in Tyne coal 1600 - 1800. Bennett, Clavering & Rounding. Very large, 2 volumes, 192 and approximately 120 pages (unnumbered), soft back. ** "This is a study of railways, of the first systems which ever existed, the wooden waggonways of Tyneside which fathered all rail networks of today ... particularly those of the three historical parishes on the south shore ... Gateshead, Whickham and Ryton." An elusive academic study; we only have a few sets.

A Look At The Night Mail. (Reference #G2254) Price:£24.95 Travelling post offices - a history. White. Large, 356 pages, map, diagrams, photos, appendices, soft back. **Together with the thorough history is a very detailed account of the work involved in dealing with mail abord the train. The book is published in connection with the operation of a preserved TPO vehicle on the Nene Valley Railway.

All In A Day's Work. (Reference #G1947) Price:£19.99 Life on the GWR. Bryan. Large, 160 pages. Hard back. **Drawing on the extensive GWR archives now at Swindon the author examines the roles of the disparate trades involved in the running of the GW. Social history and evocative portrait of another age.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 34. (Reference #G1265) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. **Argyll Motor Works; Bude canal; Royal Ordnance factory; C R Vickerman's siding.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 35. (Reference #G1656) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. **Shoreham Airport; Crosville in the Wirral; McWatter's bakery, Belfast.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 36. (Reference #G1388) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Coastal shipping/1; Poynton Collieries; Citroen works in England; Defence of Falmouth harbour; Shoreham Airport/2.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 37. (Reference #G1586) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Goole Docks/1; Frampton on Severn gravel pits; Lasaghts of Newport; Coastal shipping/2; Kingswear broad gauge.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 38. (Reference #G1641) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Goole Docks/2; Kyrle biplane; Lasaghts of Newport/2; Bryngwyn colliery, Bedwas; London taxicabs; Millennium flour mills, Silvertown.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 39. (Reference #G1587) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Abandoned vessels; White & Poppe motor works, Coventry; Witney Aerodrome; De Havilland Witney factory 39-45; Ivybridge broad gauge.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 40. (Reference #G1642) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Coke ovens locomotives; Motoring, 1903; Barry No 1 Dock; Butcher's of Ross-on-Wye, purveyors of cycles, jewellery and horse-drawn vehicles.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 41. (Reference #G1774) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Coed Ely coking plant; qualifications for sea fishery sailors; Coventry Machinists' Co Ltd.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 42. (Reference #G1987) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *W O Bentley; Lancashire trams; Cannop Colliery; PLUTO.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 43. (Reference #G1852) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *The Hetton Railway; Trams in S Lancs & NE Cheshire; G&W Butcher motor cars; Maritime dredging; Jas Starley's sewing machine.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 44. (Reference #G1853) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Lambton & Hetton staithes; Coventry Victor Co; Locos of the Mcr Ship Canal contract 1887-94; 1804: Trevithick.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 45. (Reference #G1988) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Combined coke car; Swansea docks; Slimbridge magazine.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 46. (Reference #G2008) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Yorkshire Dry Dock Co/1; Aberthaw Pebble Limekilns; Cinderford Gas Works; Eastham Ferry.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 47. (Reference #G2045) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Locos of the Mcr Ship Canal/2; Yorkshire Dry Dock Co/2; Minster Lovell Mill; Coke making at Cargo Fleet..

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 48. (Reference #G2109) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Cadbury's canal stores at Stirchley; Cromford Interlude; Craft fishing on the Severn and Bristol Channel; MV Salcombe/Friars Craig..

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 49. (Reference #G2189) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Donaghadee harbour and colliers; Joseph White, watchmaker; Craft fishing on the Severn and Bristol Channel; Coke quenching machines.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 50. (Reference #G2190) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Lightmoor colliery; the Black Dwarf, a small steamboat; Lydney Docks; Steam.beer wagons.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 51. (Reference #G2277) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Tirpentws opencast; Liverpool stage coachmen; Burton ale; Emlyn colliery screens.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 52. (Reference #G2278) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Campling, a Goole engineer; Buchanan coking ram; Passengers on inland waterways; Gypsum in Cumbria.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 53. (Reference #G2304) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Lambton Railway; Shadwell Fish Market; Swansea & Mumbles; Crystal Palace District Gas, loading locomotives for India, 1929 (photos).

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 54. (Reference #G2331) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Lambton Railway/2; TID class tugs; cokery electric locos; Runcorn locks, gold mining in the forest of Dean.

Britain's Railway Liveries. (Reference #G0937) Price:£19.95 Colours, crests and linings, 1825 - 1948. Carter, E F. Medium, 350 pages, diagrams, 8 colour plates, folding colour chart. **Current (3rd) edition of a long established reference work.

British Carriage & Wagon Builders & Repairers 1830 - 2006. (Reference #G2441) Price:£24.99 A directory and history of a British industry. Sambrook. Very large, 200 pages, many photo illustrations, glazed boards. ** An alphabetical listing, with dates, sites and brief histories and links between the firms highlighted for ease of cross-reference. Along with the well-known large firms there are many dozens of smaller businesses, some almost one-man-bands.

British Rail 1974-97. (Reference #G2027) Price:£32.50 From integration to privatisation. Gourvish. Large, 705 pages, some illustrations, lots of financial and other tabular statistics, soft back. *"Commissioned by the BRB and based on free access to its rich archives the book provides a detailed and analytical account of the main themes: a process of continuous organisational change; the existence of a persistent government audit; perennial investment restraints; the directive to reduce operating costs and improve productivity; a concern with financial performance, technological change, service quality and the management of industrial relations; and the Board's ambiguous position as the Conservative government pressed home its privatisation programme..."

British Rail Northern Scene. (Reference #G2224) Price:£19.99 A 1970s railway album Sparks, A. Large, 154-page album with brief essays, hard back. **The seventies in grimy monochrome, very nostalgic. Suddenly they seem a very long time ago.

British Railways Illustrated Summer Special Number 12. (Reference #G1807) Price:£14.95 Hawkins, C (Ed). Large, 96 pages, pictorial. Glazed boards. **Rugby - Kings Cross - Motor cars to the South West - Polloc & Govan - Boston.

British Railways Illustrated Summer Special Number 13. (Reference #G2021) Price:£15.95 Hawkins, C (Ed). Large, 96 pages, pictorial. Glazed boards. **Water Troughs - Paddington, Nov 83 - Surbiton, Aug 64 - N7s - North Lincs 1960s - Gloucester Horton Rd - Roade Station 1950s - Auld Reekie - Bishops Stortford - Last 4-4-0 expresses - Home from Dunkirk - Railway Life.

British Railways Operating History 6. Through The Links At Old Oak Common. (Reference #G0957) Price:£14.95 Abear. Very large, 96 pages, glazed boards.

Changing Face Of Britain's Railways 1938-1953. (Reference #G2106) Price:£24.95 The railway companies bow out. Hendry, R. Very large, 192 pages, photo illustrations, hard back. **A detailed and serious study of this critical period, challenging some popular preconceptions. Covers all the UK but is unusually strong on N Ireland.

Death Rode The Rails. (Reference #G2144) Price:£40.00 American railroad accidents and safety 1828-1965. Aldrich. Large, 446 pages + 16 pages of photo illustrations, hardback. **Academic study of rail accidents in the USA, immensely interesting. Two statistical appendices, copious notes on sources etc.

Dictionary Of Railways. (Reference #G0725) Price:£25.00 An A - Z of railway terminology. Jackson, A A. Medium, 368 pages, some diagrams, hard back. **3rd edition of this authoritative and indispensable work, revised and extended.

District Controller's View 10. The Severn Valley. (Reference #G2165) Price:£11.95 Kidderminster - Bridgnorth - Shrewsbury; Wellington - Buildwas - Much Wenlock; Hartlebury - Bewdley - Woofferton. Becket & Bradshaw. Very large, 64 pages, soft back. * "Train and traffic operations over the Severn Valley and branches during the 1950s; working timetable (passenger and goods); engine workings, allocations and shed movements 1950-60."

District Controller's View 11. The Midland & South Western Junction Railway. (Reference #G2320) Price:£11.95 Cheltenham - Cirencester - Swindon - Marlborough - Savernake - Andover Junction. Stephens. Very large, 68 pages, photos, many diagrams, soft back. * "Train and traffic operations over the MSW during the 1950s; full working timetable (passenger and goods); engine diagrams and locomotive allocations 1950-60 Swindon & Gloucester MPDs."

District Controller's View 6. The Peak District. (Reference #G1231) Price:£12.95 Manchester - Matlock - Derby; Manchester - Chinley - Sheffield. Bentley. Very large, 120 pages, soft back.

District Controller's View 7. York - Newcastle. (Reference #G1563) Price:£13.95 Millar, M. Very large, 124 pages, soft back. * "Train and traffic operations over the North Eastern main line during the 1950s; working timetable (passenger and goods); engine workings: engine allocation and movements 1950-60."

District Controller's View 8. The Waverley Route. (Reference #G1899) Price:£12.95 Edinburgh - Hawick - Carlisle. Hodge, J. Very large, 80 pages, soft back. * "Train and traffic operations over the Waverley route during the 1950s; working timetable (passenger and goods; engine workings; engine allocation and movements 1950-60."

District Controller's View 9. The Kent Coast. (Reference #G2092) Price:£13.95 Victoria - Chatham - Ramsgate/Dover. Becket & Bradshaw. Very large, 132 pages, soft back. * "Train and traffic operations over the ex-LC&DR during the 1950s; working timetable (passenger and goods) including the London suburban area; engine workings including allocations and shed movements 1950-60."

Dow's Dictionary Of Railway Quotations. (Reference #G2138) Price:£30.00 Dow, A. Medium, 354 pages, hardback. **Must be the best present ever for railway-minded people; just as well as we'll need to sell lots to justify the time it has taken me to catalogue it. Almost all the noteworthy quotations from Stephenson's "the time is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel on a railway than to walk on foot" to "the wrong sort of snow". All the favourites (bar two) plus thousands of excellent ones previously unknown. But where is Sherlock Holmes's famous remark about Bradshaw? ("The vocabulary of Bradshaw is nervous and terse, but limited": The Valley Of Fear, Ch 1). Also absent is the Fat Controller's classic "What a nuisance passengers are!".

Early Railways 2. (Reference #G1780) Price:£31.50 Papers from the second International Early Railways Conference. Lewis, M J T, (ed). Medium, 360 pages, illustrated, glazed boards. *Nineteen papers from the second International Early Railways Conference. "The fruit of wide research, these authoritative studies embrace history and archaeology, locomotives and permanent way, financing and management. They shed new light and offer fresh perspectives on the formative years of railways. both in Britain and elsewhere."

Essential Guide To French Heritage And Tourist Railways. (Reference #G2123) Price:£15.95 Jones, M. Medium, 191 pages, map, colour photos, soft back. **A very useful guide to all the preserved railways in France, by département, with notes on access, length, journey time, motive power, operating dates, tarriffs etc.

Essential Guide To Swiss Heritage And Tourist Railways. (Reference #G2347) Price:£15.95 Jones, M. Medium, 191 pages, map, colour photos, soft back. **A new and very useful guide to all the preserved railways in Switzerland, by region, with notes on access, gauge, length, journey time, motive power, operating dates, tarriffs etc.

George Hudson. (Reference #G1356) 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 #G1991) 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.

Golden Age Of Steam Locomotive Building. (Reference #G0211) Price:£19.99 Atkins. Very large, 128 pages, hard back. **History of the British locomotive building industry from 1826 to 1964 with many photographs and drawings.

Goods Traffic Of The LNER. (Reference #G0851) Price:£15.95 Goslin. Very large, 112 pages, photo illustrations, soft back.

Great British Train Robbery, 1963. (Reference #G1643) Price:£9.99 Coates, T. (ed) Medium, 178 pages, some photo illustrations, soft back. **This is an edited version of the report by HM Inspector of Constabulary on Buckinghamshire Constabulary's handling of the crime. It is actually very interesting and is enlivened by archival photographs. I'm not sure though, of the relevance of the photo of the Bulleid pacific leaving Waterloo, perhaps Ronnie Biggs is aboard, on his flight from England.

GWR Goods Services. An Introduction. (Reference #G1029) Price:£17.95 Atkins, T & Hyde, D. Very large, 142 pages, illustrated with photos, maps, tables etc. Soft back. **The introductory volume of a new series which will study all sides of the GW goods operation.

GWR Goods Services. Part 2A. (Reference #G2439) Price:£24.95 Goods depots and their operation. Atkins. Very large, 180 pages, illustrated with photos, site maps etc. Soft back. **Essential reference.

Hillhouse Immortals. (Reference #G0479) Price:£8.95 Fraser. Medium, 112 pages. Soft back.

Industrial Railways In Northumberland And County Durham In The Latter Days Of Steam. (Reference #G1924) Price:£19.99 Castledine, M. Large landscape, 94 page album, hard back.

It's Quicker By Rail! (Reference #G1408) Price:£17.99 The history of LNER advertising. Middleton, A. Medium, 160 pages, photo illustrations including 16 pages of colour, soft back.

LMS Journal. LMS 85th Anniversary Issue. (Reference #G2432) Price:£11.95 Essery (ed). Large, 96 pages, illustrated. *Wolverhampton High Level; Wartime wagon pooling; 4-6-0s on LMS Northern divn; Equipment of passenger trains; Royal Scots; Lineside Estates; Walker/Pagefield mobile cranes..

LMS Journal. Number Eight. (Reference #G1918) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *David Jenkinson obituary, Loco repairs, Rugby, Carriage liveries/1, Line to Bath/2, Signals/8, Engine preparation.

LMS Journal. Number Eighteen. (Reference #G2428) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Royal Scot; 36/50 ton steam breakdown cranes; Claughtons; LMS Signals/16; Birmingham coal traffic/1; LT&SR railwayman; S&D.

LMS Journal. Number Eleven. (Reference #G2174) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Turbomotive 6202 /2; signals/11; LMS clerk's reminiscences/3; Coach painting at Derby C&W 1955-63; Uttoxeter; Carlisle Petteril Bridge; HR River class; Horwich Class 8s; St Albans Abbey & Watford Branch.

LMS Journal. Number Fifteen. (Reference #G2353) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Train acceleration policy; LMS signals/14; Sheffield City Road goods station; Relaying prefabricated track, Mansfield to Rolleston Junction; Mid-Notts Joint Railway; LMS std class 2P valve gear; Crianlarich W Jn SB; Water Orton Station jn.

LMS Journal. Number Five. (Reference #G1554) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Princess Royals, Northampton St Johns St, signals/5, C&W renewals, 1661 cattle wagon, L&Y loco details, LNW 0-6-0s, 2P 4-4-0 no 697.

LMS Journal. Number Four. (Reference #G1401) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Northern divn passenger train formation & operations, Garretts, Liverpool Central, signals, Gayton Loop, injectors, L&Y 1400 4-4-2s, Wick & Lybster Light Rly.

LMS Journal. Number Fourteen. (Reference #G2155) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Training on bank pilots; LMS gallantry medal; Cumbrian engines; LMS dining cars, Scotland/2: Bemrose & Sons; CR locomotive valve gear; Buxton motor train; Ted Harrison reminiscences/5; WTT Appendix.

LMS Journal. Number Nine. (Reference #G1892) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Bridge renewal Mangotsfield-Bath, Royal Scot 6140, signals/9, station opening/closures, allocations of new tank locos 2325-2352, 1-plank unfitted wagon.

LMS Journal. Number Nineteen. (Reference #G2429) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Lickey; How it was done/5; Head, side & tail lamps; LMS Signals/17; Portpatrick & Wigtownshire; Passengers travelling by freight train.

LMS Journal. Number One. (Reference #G1178) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 96 pages, illustrated. *Train reporting numbers, signals, turntables, Meltham, loco allocations, LNWR 0-8-4T, station master, Scottish locos.

LMS Journal. Number Seven. (Reference #G1805) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Loco operating costs/1, MR line to Bath/1, signals/7, 8-wheeled coupled freight locomotives, HR River class, Trent/2.

LMS Journal. Number Seventeen. (Reference #G2427) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Improver Assistant, Loco power classification; Buxton - Millers Dale; 41 Years with BR LMR; How it was done/4; Scientific Research Dept; Fiskerton Curve.

LMS Journal. Number Six. (Reference #G1891) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Midland Div loco testing, Shrewsbury shed, signals/6, Trent, S&D economies 1929-31, carriage liveries, L&Y rly trust, Gayton Loops SB.

LMS Journal. Number Sixteen. (Reference #G2426) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Toton; LMS signals/15; Canklow; L&YR Wagons; Joint line engineman; Fitted freight stock working; Achnasheen.

LMS Journal. Number Ten. (Reference #G1998) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Turbomotive 6202, Carlisle, signals/10, station gardens, disposal of locomotives (routine maintenance after the day's service), shared wagon construction, LMS clerk's reminiscences/2.

LMS Journal. Number Thirteen. (Reference #G2154) Price:£9.95 LMS Society issue. Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Motive power improver; LMS dining cars, Scotland; Named engines - VC holders; Permanent way; Rose Grove engineman; signals/13.

LMS Journal. Number Three. (Reference #G1403) Price:£9.95 Essery (ed). Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *LMS traffic/1, Excursion to York, diagram 2116 22 ton tube wagon, Mirfield mpd, signals/3, post '37 pacific projects, CR valve gear, control office working, loco details/1, Harborne branch, glossary, stats, Beauchief station.