Transport Bookshop:New Books:General Studies   
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.

Bibliography Of British And Irish Tramways.
(Reference #G2574)
Price:£35.00

Croft & Gordon.
Very large, 482 pages, soft back. **The latest version of Croft's bibliography, now in a single huge volume. Apart from bringing the listing of books and articles up-to-date the work now includes Gordon's listings of legislation, arbitration and accident reports. A magnificent tour de force, but next time could we please have page numbers on the Contents page?

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

Britain's Railways 1997-2005.
(Reference #G2663)
Price:£30.00
Labour's strategic experiment.
Gourvish.
Medium, 309 pages, some illustrations, hard back. * "A critical examination of the Blair government's involvement in the rail industry from 1997 as they attempted to deal with the fragmented privatised railways".

Britain's Railways In Wartime.
(Reference #G2565)
Price:£19.99

Robertson, K.
Very large, 128 page album, hard back. **A remarkable selection of photographs from the Getty collection, showing aspects of railway working, travel, bomb damage etc.

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:£39.00
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.

British Railways Railway Centres No 1 Leeds Central.
(Reference #G2468)
Price:£13.95
1950's BR Steam Operating.
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Very large, 72 pages, some photos, many diagrams, soft back. ** "Full details of a typical 1957 day's working. 1957 working timetable (Doncaster/Bradford - Leeds). Engine diagrams and carriage workings. Locomotive allocations 1950-60 : Leeds and Bradford." "This book is packed with the finest possible detail of operating data allowing the reader to recapture the daily movements at Leeds Central in the 1950's."

British Railways Railway Centres No 2 Exeter Central.
(Reference #G2541)
Price:£13.95
Summer Saturday : 1961.
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Very large, 84 pages, some photos, many diagrams, soft back. ** "Full details of a summer Saturday working during the BR steam period. Includes the full working timetable, engine diagrams, enginemen's workings, locomotive allocations, train formations and carriage workings.

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 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."

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 12. The Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway.
(Reference #G2669)
Price:£14.95
Peterborough Saxby King's Lynn Norwich Wisbech Bourne Melton Constable Cromer Sutton Bridge Spalding Great Yarmouth Lowestoft.
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Very large, 92 pages, photos, many diagrams, soft back. * "Train and traffic operations over the M&GN during the 1950s; full working timetable (passenger and goods); engine diagrams, carriage workings and locomotive allocations 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
X83.
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
X85.
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.

Level Crossings.
(Reference #G2556)
Price:£19.99
The history, development and safety record of railway level crossings in Britain and overseas from 1830 to 2008.
Hall & van der Mark.
Very large, 128 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), hard back. ** As one who slept through much of the Hixon inquiry, I can warmly recommend this incisive book.

Modern Railways Dictionary Of Railway Industry Terms.
(Reference #G2203)
Price:£19.99

Glover.
Large, 160 pages, photo and other illustrations, hardback. **Useful reference, right up-to-date. Contains much other information - particularly legislation, also a list of railway companies etc.

Moore's Monthly Magazine 1896.
(Reference #G0634)
Price:£35.00
(Forming Volume 1 of the Locomotive Magazine)
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Very large, 156 pages, green cloth, not issued with jacket. High quality reprint, limited to 250 copies. Hard back.

Named Trains On LNER Lines Part I.
(Reference #G1813)
Price:£26.99
The Scottish trains & the Pullman trains.
Yeadon, W B.
Large landscape, 154 pages, pictorial, hard back.

Named Trains On LNER Lines Part II.
(Reference #G1814)
Price:£26.99
Streamlined trains, boat trains, holiday trains, business trains, officially nameless trains & developments by British Railways.
Yeadon, W B.
Large landscape, 154 pages, pictorial, hard back.

Operation Cornwall.
(Reference #G2110)
Price:£14.95
Summer weekday & summer Saturday passenger services: 1957 Plymouth to Penzance and all Cornish branches.
Becket, W S.
Very large, 128 pages, a few photos, traffic graphs, soft back. **Carriage workings, working time tables, train formations, marshalling arrangements etc.

Operation Midland.
(Reference #G2280)
Price:£12.95
Passenger services: 1955. St Pancras - Leeds - Carlisle; Manchester - Derby; Bristol - Birmingham - Derby.
Becket, W S.
Very large, 80 pages, some photos, traffic graphs, soft back. **Carriage workings, time tables, train formations, marshalling arrangements, carriage diagrams etc.

Operation Norfolk.
(Reference #G2389)
Price:£13.95
Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway passenger services: 1954. Peterborough - Kings Lynn - Yarmouth; Spalding, Cromer, Norwich and Lowestoft Branches.
Wilkinson.
Very large, 84 pages, some photos, soft back. **Carriage workings, time tables, train formations, marshalling arrangements, carriage diagrams etc.

Operation Torbay.
(Reference #G1859)
Price:£13.95
Summer weekday & Saturday passenger services: 1957 Newton Abbot - Torquay - Paignton - Goodrington - Kingswear.
Becket, W S.
Very large, 80 pages, a few photos, traffic graphs, soft back. **Carriage workings, working time tables, train formations, carriage siding arrangements etc.

Passenger Train Operation.
(Reference #G2049)
Price:£14.99
For the railway modeller.
Essery, B.
Very large, 96 pages, illustrated with photos and diagrams. Soft back. **In-depth examination of the nature of passenger service operation, providing a general introduction and a guide for modellers which explains how to represent accurately the operations of a full-scale railway.

Portrait Of The Pines Express.
(Reference #G1372)
Price:£15.99

Austin.
Large, 112 pages, pictorial, glazed boards. **Out of print - LAST COPY.

Private Owner Wagons In Colour.
(Reference #G2613)
Price:£14.99
For the modeller and historian.
Ratcliffe.
Very large, 96 page album, soft back. **Tells the background to the revival of private-owner wagons in the last quarter of the twentieth century and examines in detail the wagon types, the traffic carried and the customers served.

Pullman Trains In Britain.
(Reference #G2025)
Price:£8.95
LP210.
Kidner, R W.
Medium, 112 pages, photos, carriage plans, soft back. **This is the second edition of Kidner's 1998 expansion of his 1987 book, Pullman Cars Of The Southern 1875-1972. The work is now a concise history of Pullman trains and vehicles in this country.

Railfreight In Colour.
(Reference #G2572)
Price:£14.99
For the modeller and historian.
Cable.
Very large, 96 page album, soft back. **Covers the years 1983 - 1996; describes the classes of locomotives used, showing a wide range of rolling stock at locations ranging from the north of Scotland to Cornwall.

Railway Blunders.
(Reference #G1620)
Price:£16.99

Vaughan, A.
Large, 160 pages, photo illustrations, hard back. **The history of railways is marked by more than its fair share of blunders, usually the result of managerial or engineering incompetence, or political interference. The author casts a railwayman's eye over failures of locomotives, organisation, structures, policy and much else.

Railway Bylines Collection 2006-2007.
(Reference #G2186)
Price:£15.95
All new articles and photographs to complement your magazine collection...
Smith, M (ed).
Very large, 96 pages, glazed boards. **Articles include Backworth Colliery railways; Westward TV train; GE J65 0-6-0Ts; Quakers Yard (S Wales valley junction); Marks Tey brickworks, a cornucopia of gauges etc.

Railway Conversion - The Impractical Dream.
(Reference #G2271)
Price:£13.95

Gibbins.
Medium, 220 pages, soft back. **The first comprehensive review and analysis of claims made for the conversion of railways into roads.

Railway Milestones And Millstones.
(Reference #G2272)
Price:£19.99
Triumphs and disasters in British railway history.
Hall, S.
Large, 160 pages, photo illlustrations, hard back. **Triumphs: specific civil and locomotive engineering achievements and operating practices - and disasters: certain locomotive designs and policies, gauge decisions, legislative restrictions - are identified and cogently examined.

Railway Operation For The Modeller.
(Reference #G1532)
Price:£14.99

Essery, B.
Very large, 96 pages, illustrated with photos and diagrams. Soft back.

Railway Passenger Stations In England, Scotland And Wales. A Chronology.
(Reference #G2664)
Price:£49.50
Fourth edition.
Quick.
Medium, 544 pages including 40-page map section with 134 diagrammatic maps, hard back. *List of all stations with dates of opening, closure etc. The author's object "is to show the outline history of all stations in England, Scotland and Wales, and to do so as accurately as the limitations of evidence allows" and to see this from the standpoint of the contemporary traveller, rather than from that of the railway companies. This new revised fourth edition is enlarged and re-set, and embellished with nineteenth century Punch cartoons.

Railway Records.
(Reference #G1928)
Price:£14.99
A guide to sources.
Edwards.
Large, 222 pages, a few illustrations, soft back. **A Public Record Office readers' guide.

Railway Roundabout.
(Reference #G1512)
Price:£14.99
A guide to the highlights of the classic TV series.
Christiansen.
Very large, 112 pages, illustrated thoughout with colour photos, hard back. **Additional background information to the series.

Railways In Retrospect 4: Railways For The People..
(Reference #G2162)
Price:£15.00
The nationalisation of Britain's railways in 1948.
Mullay.
Very large, 88 pages, pictorial, soft back. ** "In 1948 25000 route miles of track, 20000 locomotives, 1.23 million goods wagons, 70 hotels, 50000 tons of shipping, harbours such as Hull and Southampton, 1640 miles of canals and 52000 houses passed into government control. This is the fascinating and revealing story of how the nationalisation of Britain's railways was achieved."

Railways North From Nottingham Part One: Nottingham - Basford.
(Reference #G1862)
Price:£19.99
In the latter days of steam

Railways North From Nottingham Part Two: Bulwell - Kirkby, Mansfield & Westhouses.
(Reference #G1920)
Price:£19.99
In the latter days of steam

Railways Of Scotland.
(Reference #G1887)
Price:£19.99
In the latter days of steam.
Castledine.
Large landscape, 94 page album, hard back.

Railways Restored 2009.
(Reference #G2628)
Price:£15.99

Butcher.
Medium, 255 pages, map, some photos, soft back. **30th edition of the bestselling guide to heritage railways, completely revised with time table supplement.

Railways To Victory (Great Railway Eras).
(Reference #G1958)
Price:£14.95
British recollections Normandy to Germany 1944-46.
Mitchell.
Medium, 96 pages, many photos. Glazed boards. ** Out of print - last copy.

Register Of British Railway And Tramroad Companies Incorporated Before 1948 (Also Joint Committees).
(Reference #G2050)
Price:£10.50

Warren, A R.
Very large, xl + 109 pages. Comb binding with outer clear sheets. * "Our ... railway system was built up by a very large number of joint stock companies, mostly authorised by individual acts of Parliament. ... This book is a schedule of all such companies, with the dates of their origin, changes of name, working arrangements, and ultiimate disappearance, generally into larger bodies. It differs from similar attempts in the care with which facts have been checked against original sources." (From H W Paar's foreword.) Essential new reference, and an absolute steal at £10.50.

Royal Visit To Crewe Works.
(Reference #G2072)
Price:£9.90
An album of photographs edited by Edward Talbot.
Talbot.
Large, 48 pages, splendid photos, soft back. **A lucky survival of a souvenir album from a royal visit in 1913. The author notes: The photographs give a glimpse of life in England before the Great War; of the respect accorded to the royal family and of the enormous effort expended to make the visit a great success; of the working conditions of industry; of the interior of steel works, foundries, forges and machine shops; of the organisation of the works of a great railway and of engineering in the age of coal.

Signal Failure.
(Reference #G0012)
Price:£25.00
Politics & Britain's railways.
Wragg, D.
Medium, 202 pages + 16 pages of plates: photo illustrations, maps etc, hard back. **A history of the relationship between railways and government in the United Kingdom; looks at the effect of political intervention and its impact on the service (or lack of it) given to the long-suffering customer (or passenger).

Snow, Flood & Tempest. Railways And Natural Disasters.
(Reference #G1153)
Price:£16.99

Ransom.
Medium, 176 pages, hard back.

Southern Railways.
(Reference #G2355)
Price:£19.99
In the latter days of steam. Waterloo to Weymouth including the Isle-of-Wight.
Castledine.
Large landscape, 96 page album, hard back.

Square Deal Denied.
(Reference #G0653)
Price:£11.95

Gibbins.
Medium square, 202 pages. Soft back.

Staith To Conveyor.
(Reference #G0911)
Price:£15.00
An illustrated history of coal shipping machinery.
Powell.
Very large, 132 pages with many illustrations and drawings. **Detailed study of an hitherto untouched subject.

Steam Locomotive Casualty Reports.
(Reference #G2051)
Price:£12.99

Mourton, S.
Very large, 80 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. ** Over 400 Locomotive Casualty Reports dated between 1958 and 1963, salvaged from Gloucester Barnwood mpd, came to light recently. They are analysed and amplified in this book, providing a valuable insight into BR operations during the last years of steam..

Sutton Scotney.
(Reference #G2164)
Price:£7.95
Life at a country station.
Robertson
Very large, 56 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. **Great Western Aspects No 3.

Telling The Passenger Where To Get Off.
(Reference #G2032)
Price:£14.95
George Dow and the evolution of the railway diagrammatic map.
Dow, A.
Large square, 88 pages, photos and other illustrations, mostly colour. Glazed boards. ** We now take the diagrammatic map for granted; this book by the son of one of the early pioneers traces its development, perhaps originally from signalling diagrams, to the present day.

Thomas Cook.
(Reference #G1908)
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.

Train Control And Passenger Workings On The L&YR.
(Reference #G2321)
Price:£9.95
LYR Focus 64.
Mills.
Very large, 114 pages, some photo illustrations, soft back. ** "The late Bob Mills actually worked for the L&Y Railway in the train control office at Manchester Victoria during the final years of its independent existence. During that period he made copious notes from primary documents of locomotive allocations and each individual locomotive duty roster. His records proved a unique insight into the daily workings of a major pre-grouping railway and are a major step forward in our understanding of how the L&Y operated."

Train Formations & Carriage Workings Of The Great Western Railway.
(Reference #G0810)
Price:£14.95

Becket
Very large, 128 page, illustrated with photographs, soft back. **Starts with 38 pages of extracts from Bradshaw winter 1931/2 to set out the service. The services are then individually described, giving number of vehicles normally conveyed, the previous and subsequent duty for each vehicle and comments on the operation. The final, 10 page, section gives the daily carriage diagrams.

Transport In Britain 1750 - 2000.
(Reference #G1197)
Price:£25.00
From canal lock to gridlock.
Bagwell & Lyth.
Medium, 272 pages, hard back.

Victorian Railway.
(Reference #G2585)
Price:£9.95

Simmons, J.
Medium, 416 pages, 32 pages of photo plates, soft back. **First published 1991, this is a reprint of the corrected 1995 edition. Prof Simmons' classic book studies the railways from their origins and construction to the spreading impact on the nation, from engineers and financiers to the effect on leisure and the environment.

Willing Servant. A History Of The Steam Locomotive.
(Reference #G0026)
Price:£25.00

Ross, D.
Medium, 352 pages + 32 pages of photo plates, hard back. **The first history of the world-wide development (and ultimate preservation) of the steam locomotive; traces the history of design, construction and use and also of the intriguing story of human involvement with the steam locomotive and of its powerful symbolic value.

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