Out of print railway books

(Reference #S5467)
Price:£18.00

Athearn, R G.
Univ Nebraska Press, 1985: Bison Books.
Octavo, 480 pages, photos, maps, line drawings, card covers, near fine. **The history of the UPRR to the end of the 19th Century, in its social, geographical and political context. Detailed study.

Trains D'Autrefois Et De Toujours.

(Reference #S4803)
Price:£20.00

Bailhé, C.
Toulouse, 1988: Milan.
Large square quarto, 166 pages, French text (mais pas beaucoup), photo illustrations, glazed boards, fine. **Tour de France du rail. Pictorial: includes sections on construction, industrial railways, wartime, the various réseaux and Paris.

Pittsburgh's Railways, Volume 1. A pictorial journey through the history of the Pittsburgh Railways Company.

(Reference #S5202)
Price:£40.00

Beal, R L.
Pittsburgh, Pa, 2002: published privately by the author.
Large quarto, 536 pages with many photo illustrations, maps and plans, jacket, as new. **The first of three projected volumes; the second and third do not appear to have been published yet.

Mixed Train Daily. A book of short-line railroads.

(Reference #S4797)
Price:£45.00

Beebe, L.
Berkeley, Ca, 1961: Howell-North. 4th edition.
Quarto, 368 pages, 6 colour plates, 300 b/w illustrations, VG+ in rubbed jacket.

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Grand European Expresses. The story of the Wagons-Lits.

(Reference #S5548)
Price:£20.00

Behrend, G.
Allen & Unwin, 1962.
Octavo, 258 pages + 23 pages of photo plates, map endpapers, signed by author on title page, jacket, VG+. **Classic history of a bygone age. What would George Behrend have made of the frightful City Night Link sleeper as attached to the rear of the present Amsterdam - Vienna overnight train? I daresay he would have gone first class, and quite right too - there is not room for two people to stand on the floor space of a second class compartment.

Les Chemins De Fer Fribourgeois GFM.

(Reference #S4801)
Price:£25.00

Belloncle, P & Metz, J.
Breil-sur-Roya, 1992: Cabri.
Folio, 200 pages, map, many photo illustrations (some colour), French text, German summary text, glazed boards, fine. **History of GFM, the railway system of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.

The Kalka-Simla And Kangra Valley Railways.

(Reference #S5289)
Price:£20.00

Bhandari, R.
New Delhi, 1983: Northern Railway.
Quarto, 95 pages, well illustrated (some colour), map, gradient diagrams, jacket (permanently attached to endpapers), VG.

South And Central American Special. A Locomotives International Special.

(Reference #S5474)
Price:£12.00

Binns, D, ed.
Locomotives International, 1993.
Quarto, 68 pages, many photo illustrations, some colour, card covers, near fine. ** Articles on:
Cuban Sugar Steam
Narrow Gauge In Minas
Steam In Argentina 1992
The Quinta Normal Park Museum (Chile)
Brazilian "Usina" Steam 1992/3
The Donna Thereza Christina Railway
Steam In Paraguay/Uruguay 1992.

+ The Malta Railway.

(Reference #S5576)
Price:£20.00

Bonnici & Cassar.
Malta, 1992: published by the authors; revised edition.
Small folio, 192 pages, photo and other illustrations, map, chronology, card covers, near fine. **Malta must have been one of the last European countries without a railway. Its line opened after unusually contentious beginnings in 1883 and survived only until 1931. A substantial history of a small, short-lived undertaking.

Aigle - Sepey - Diablerets. Le chemin de fer de la Vallée des Ormants. Die Ormonttalbahn.

(Reference #S4239)
Price:£18.00

Braun, M.
Breil-sur-Roye, 1984: Cabri.
Folio, 84 pages, many photo illustrations, some colour, some rolling stock drawings, French and German texts, jacket a little worn, generally VG.

Eisenbahn In Sudetenland.

(Reference #S5081)
Price:£24.00

Bufe, S & Schröpfer, H.
Egglham, 1991: Bufe-Fachbuch.
Folio, 244 pages, mainly illustrations, some colour, German text, laminated boards, fine. **Railways of Sudetenland; mainly historical, steam era predominating.

Eisenbahn In Oberösterreich.

(Reference #S5133)
Price:£24.00

Bufe, S.
Egglham, 1982: Bufe.
Large quarto, approx 250 pages, high quality photo album, mostly black & white, some colour, map, small amount of text, laminated boards. **Railways of Upper Austria centred on Linz.

+ Rails Around Gold Hill.

(Reference #S5578)
Price:£140.00

Cafky, M.
Denver, Co, 1955: Rocky Mountain Railroad Club. Copy 2613 of an edition of 2750.
Large quarto, 483 pages, 3 colour plates, hundreds of photo illustrations, 4 maps in text, 6 folding maps in pocket at rear, signed by author, jacket worn, rest of book very good. ** A detailed history of the three railways serving the Cripple Creek Gold Mining District of Colorado: The Florence & Cripple Creek, The Midland Terminal, and The Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek. Extremely scarce, the first copy we have catalogued for ten years or more.

L'Aventure De La Grande Ceinture.

(Reference #S5138)
Price:£40.00

Carrière, B & Collardey, B.
Paris, 2002: La Vie Du Rail, 2nd impression.
Folio, 310 pages, numerous photos, maps and track plans, laminated boards, fine. **A rather grand detailed history of the outer belt railway of Paris from its beginnings up to the modern era. Features some very powerful locomotives: look out for the compound 0-6-2-2-6-0T du Bousquet engines.

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Classic American Railroad Stations

(Reference #S4798)
Price:£28.00

Cavalier, J.
Tantivy, 1980.
Quarto, 212 pages, many photo illustrations, some colour, jacket, VG+. Fairly scarce. **Forty stations chosen to illustrate the wide range of architectural styles used at small and medium sized towns.

North American Railroad Stations.

(Reference #S4931)
Price:£28.00

Cavalier, J.
Cranbury, NJ, 1979: A S Barnes.
Large quarto, 215pp, album illustrating the great variety of American stations, captions give details of ownership, construction etc, jacket, near fine.

Små Tog På Spinkle Skinner.

(Reference #S4870)
Price:£16.00

Christiansen, H G & Laursen, O W.
Copenhagen, 1972: Clausens.
Octavo, 208 pages, photo illustrations, Danish text, glazed boards, near fine. **A selective survey of narrow gauge railways in western Europe (including East Germany and Poland). I can't vouch for the text, but the pictures are good.

Le Petit Train Jaune De Cerdagne, ou "l'histoire d'un canari de montagne ..."

(Reference #S5301)
Price:£23.00

Churet, J.
Breil-sur-Roya, 1989: du Cabri.
Folio, 96 pages, photo illustrations including 5 pages of colour (quite enough when the trains are yellow and red), map, large station track plans, rolling stock drawings, French text, jacket, near fine. **A narrow gauge railway in the Pyrenees.

The Last Of Steam. ...the waning years of steam railroading in the United States.

(Reference #S3028)
Price:£45.00

Collias, J G.
1960, Howell-North, an undated later printing.
Large quarto, 269 page photo album with about 350 illustrations, jacket. Near fine copy of a scarce book.

Rails To The Lakes. The story of the Hamilton & Northwestern Railway.

(Reference #S5275)
Price:£28.00

Cooper, C.
Cheltenham, Ont. 1980: Boston Mills.
Large quarto, 158 pages, double-page coloured frontispiece, photo illustrations, maps, drawings of structures, multimedia repair to back of jacket, book fine. **Not only the named railway, but also the Hamilton and Lake Erie (or Port Dover) Railway, both strategic to the rivalry of the city of Hamilton with Toronto, and both eventually absorbed into the CNR system.

Railways Of Rhodesia. The story of the Beira, Mashonaland and Rhodesia railways.

(Reference #S2757)
Price:£20.00

Croxton, A H.
David & Charles, 1973.
Octavo, 315 pages, photo plates, map, jacket spine faded, otherwise near fine.

Over the Garden Wall. The story of the Otago Central Railway.

(Reference #S5310)
Price:£18.00

Dangerfield, J A & Emerson, G W.
Dunedin, 1995: Otago Railway & Locomotive Society.
Quarto, 120 pages, photo illustrations: some colour, maps, gradient diagrams, some station layouts, laminated boards, fine. **History of a line in South Island, NZ.

Die Lokomotiven Der Bulgarischen Staatsbahnen.

(Reference #S5349)
Price:£21.00

Dejanov, D.
Vienna, 1990, Slezak.
Large octavo, 176 pages, many photo illustrations, diagrams and locomotive lists, German text, laminated boards, fine. **Standard reference.

Durango, Always A Railroad Town.

(Reference #S5028)
Price:£30.00

Dorman, R L.
Santa Fe, 1987: RD Publications.
Oblong quarto, 184 page photo album, some colour and a little text, jacket, near fine copy.

Gunnison. From Marshall Pass, Lake City and Crested Butte through to Ouray.

(Reference #S5016)
Price:£42.00

Dorman, R L.
Santa Fe, 1993: RD Publications.
Oblong quarto, 223 page photo album, jacket, fine. **Copy #137 signed by the author.

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The Pennsylvania Railroad. Its organisation, construction and management. With eighty-two plates and numerous illustrations.

(Reference #S4875)
Price:£400.00

Dredge, J.
1879, published by 'Engineering.'
Folio, 266 pages text, 34 pictorial steel engravings of the line, stations, bridges, etc; numerous technical drawings, maps, tables, appendices; followed by a large coloured map of the system and 82 plates of engineering drawings (many double and a few folding) of structures , locomotives and rolling stock. Bound in old quarter morocco, rubbed but sound, marbled end papers, top edge gilt. Contents clean and tight. A very good copy of a scarce volume. ** A good all-round account of the history, engineering and operation of the PRR. Even then the Pennsy had a good reputation for sound engineering and careful management.

+ Balloon Stacks And Sugar Cane. The sugar cane railways of Fiji.

(Reference #S5575)
Price:£15.00

Dyer, P & Hodge, P.
Wellington, 1961: NZRLS.
Octavo, 107 pages, maps, photos, loco and wagon drawings, jacket (some wear to this), VG. **Narrow gauge in the South Seas: the story of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company's nine railways and tramways in Fiji - a much-loved classic.

Dampflokomotiven In Sachsen 1975-85.

(Reference #S2669)
Price:£20.00

Ebberg, R; Waidelich, M & Waidelich, T.
Schweers & Wall 1987.
Oblong quarto, 146 page photo album of standard gauge steam, much excellent colour, map endpapers. German forward and captions. Glazed boards, fine.

Les Ateliers De Quatre-Mares. Huit decennies au service de la reparation des locomotives.

(Reference #S2707)
Price:£35.00

Folliot, S and others.
La Vie Du Rail, 1996.
Folio, 311 pages, numerous photo illustrations, plans of workshops, French text, glazed boards, as new. **In-depth history of large locomotive repair works in northern France.

The Corn Belt Route. A history of the Chicago Great Western Railroad.

(Reference #S4930)
Price:£28.00

Grant, H R.
Dekalb, Ill, 1984: Northern Illinois University Press.
Large octavo, 231 pages, photo illustrations, 2 maps, chapter notes, bibliography, jacket, fine.

The Berlin S-Bahn.

(Reference #S3758)
Price:£10.00

Hardy, B.
Capital, 1996.
Octavo, 104 pages, well illustrated in colour, maps, stock lists, card covers, fine.

The Berlin U-Bahn.

(Reference #S4811)
Price:£10.00

Hardy, B.
Capital, 1996.
Octavo, 112 pages, well illustrated in colour, maps, stock lists, card covers, VG.

Colorado Rail Annual No 8.

(Reference #S2079)
Price:£18.00

Hauck, C W (ed).
Colorado Railroad Museum, 1970.
Quarto, 131 pages, well illustrated, card covers, VG. **The Colorado Rail Annuals are compendia of serious history of the railways of the Rocky Mountains. No 8 contains two articles: Scenic Line Of The World - the early history of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway and Black Canon Revisited.

Colorado Rail Annual No 10. Narrow Gauge to Central And Silver Plume.

(Reference #S1759)
Price:£29.00

Hauck, C W.
Colorado Railroad Museum, 1972.
Quarto, 221 pages, well illustrated, jacket, VG. **The first of the fully bound issues, comprising the single subject the Clear Creek Lines in story and photo.

Fortress Railways Of The Baltic Shores.

(Reference #S3949)
Price:£8.00

Helme, M.
Plateway, 1994.
Large octavo, 80 pages, photos, maps, locomotive drawings, card covers, near fine. ** "In the wake of Russia's defeat by Japan in 1905, massive fortification works were put in hand along the Estonian coast and on the offshore approaches to St Petersburgh. Construction of the fortresses was serviced by a network of 750mm gauge railways eventually totalling almost 250km. In 1918 the Germans invaded Estonia and took possesion of the fortress railways, also laying down a network of 600mm gauge feldbahnen of their own." This is probably the first English language account of the turbulent history of the fortress railways - their building, operation and ultimate fate - and of their diverse and international locomotive stock.

Lima The History.

(Reference #S3727)
Price:£48.00

Hirsimaki, E.
Hundman Publications, 1986.
Large quarto, 351 pages with numerous photo illustrations and extensive listings and diagrams, jacket, fine. ** Lima was originally a small locomotive builder whose main product was the Shay articulated locomotive. After an unsuccessful foray into rod drive locomotives in 1913-1916, the works passed into new ownership, was greatly expanded and began the production of the famed 'Super-Power' series. Having become the third largest steam locomotive manufacturer (after Alco and Baldwin) it lost its way during the post-1945 diesel era. Merger with Baldwin in 1950 brought no relief. After a period manufacturing road construction equipment the plant closed in 1980.

Cross Country. A history of the Ballarat-Skipton and Newtown-Colac Railway 1883-1985.

(Reference #S5431)
Price:£12.00

Houghton, N & McLean, J.
Melbourne, 1986: ARHS.
Small quarto, 64 pages, photos, map, track diagrams, card covers, VG. **Carefully researched history of this hundred-mile Victorian line.

Die Niederösterreichischen Landesbahnen.

(Reference #S5432)
Price:£24.00

Hufnagl, W.
Stuttgart, 2003: Transpress.
Large octavo, 381 pages, photo illustrations, maps and trackplans, drawings, stock lists, German text, laminated boards, as new. **Local railways in lower Austria.

Men Of Erie.

(Reference #S1329)
Price:£28.00

Hungerford, E.
1946 Random House.
Octavo, 346 pages, photo plates, cloth, light usage, VG. **A general text history of the Erie Railroad.

A History Of The Canadian Pacific Railway.

(Reference #S3057)
Price:£18.00

Innis, H A.
1972 Toronto University Press reprint of 1923 edition, 2nd impr.
Octavo, 365 pages, jacket a trifle dull, book VG+. ** "the most significant scholarly contribution to Canadian transport history dealing with Canada's first transcontinental railroad. ... discusses in detail all aspects of CPR construction and operation to 1921."

+ The Apricot Mail. A history of the Rogan's Hill Railway.

(Reference #S5558)
Price:£15.00

Irwin, B S.
NSW, 2005: published privately.
Large quarto, 96 pages, photo illustrations, map, laminated card covers, fine. **Rogan's Hill railway grew out of a tramway, at the behest of local fruit growers. It survived for just nine years, a result of "dogged quest, political naivety and a surprising inability to see signs of change already abroad".

India 'No Problem Sahib'. A state by state tour of India and her railways.

(Reference #S3177)
Price:£15.00

Jordan, Paget & Charlesworth.
Three Counties, 1989.
Folio, 96 page colour album with notes about each state, jacket, fine. **This is either great nostagia for old India hands, or inspiration for intending (or even unintending) travellers. All the real working steam still extant in 1989 has gone now, though.

Italian Railways.

(Reference #S5234)
Price:£16.00

Kalla-Bishop, P M.
D&C, 1971.
Octavo, 208 pages, photos, maps, stock lists, neat repair to jacket, otherwise VG+. **Railway Histories Of The World series.

Mediterranean Island Railways.

(Reference #S5484)
Price:£16.00

Kalla-Bishop, P M.
D&C, 1970.
Octavo, 207 pages, photo plates, route maps, statistical appendices, jacket, near fine. **Histories of the railways of Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Cyprus, Majorca and Malta.

Railway Holiday In Italy.

(Reference #S4980)
Price:£15.00

Kalla-Bishop, P.
D&C, 1967.
Octavo, 160 pages + frontispiece and 39 photo illustrations on 16 plates, maps, some wear to jacket but generally VG.

Lost Railroads Of New England.

(Reference #S5523)
Price:£12.00

Karr, R D.
Pepperell, Mass, 1996: Branch Line; 2nd edition.
Octavo, 167 pages, some photo and line illustrations, maps, bibliography, card covers, fine. **History of decline in local railroads is followed by an 85-page directory of closed roads, with brief details and history of each. There are 407 entries.

Building The Railways Of The Raj 1850-1900.

(Reference #S5351)
Price:£20.00

Kerr, I.
OUP, 1995.
Octavo, 254 pages, a few illustrations, tables, bibliography, jacket, fine. **How the British got the Indian railways built: despite its importance to the history of modern India this topic has been little studied.

Steam & Thunder In The Timber: Saga Of The Forest Railroads.

(Reference #S3117)
Price:£160.00

Koch, M.
1979, World Press.
Number 5107 of an unstated limited edition. Quarto, 528 pages, 925 photo illustrations, 12 colour plates with tissue guards. VG+ copy in slightly rubbed DW. Signed by author. **The fullest of all the logging railroad books, a monumental work.

Golden Rails. One hundred years of operation of the Union Pacific Railroad.

(Reference #S5499)
Price:£90.00

Kratville, W.
Kratville Publications, 1965; copy no 259 of an edition of ?1000 copies
Folio, 314 pages, well illustrated, maps, gradient profiles. Gold laminated boards. Original owner's name on title page. A very good copy of a scarce work.

Vom "Graswurm" Zum "Orangen Pfeil". Geschichte der Schmalspurbahn Biel - Meinisberg BMB 1913 - 1940.

(Reference #S4971)
Price:£22.00

Kunz, K.
Büren a/Aare, 2003: Hornerblätter.
Folio, 140 pages with many illustrations: comtemporary drawings, maps, photos, some colour, stock list, German text, paper-covered boards, fine. ** History of a narrow gauge light railway in Switzerland, operated with steam railmotors.

Steam On The Illawarra.

(Reference #S5429)
Price:£12.00

Larkin, F.
Burwood, NSW, 1979: NSW Rail Transport Museum.
Small quarto album, 60 pages, card covers, VG+.

The Greatest Public Work. The New South Wales Railways 1848-1889.

(Reference #S5131)
Price:£20.00

Lee, R.
Sydney, 1989: Hale & Iremonger.
Large quarto, 184 pages, well illustrated with contemporary photographs, map, chapter notes, jacket, fine. **History of the railway and its importance to the development of the colony.

Continental Tour 1956.

(Reference #S5147)
Price:£25.00

London Transport.
Foolscap, 37 pages folding map page and 5 pages of photo plates, (all printed on one side of leaves only), duplicated typescript, heavy card covers with cloth backstrip, top edge of cover sunned, otherwise near fine. **The report of a party of four LT senior officers (their posts are not given) who travelled to Hamburg, West Berlin, Moscow, Leningrad, Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen to study the underground railways there. The report gives a most interesting picture of public transport at that time. The LT men were particularly impressed by the Moscow metro, as well they might have been. They also took the opportunity to inspect road transport where possible.

Die Salzkammergut-Lokalbahn.

(Reference #S5271)
Price:£12.00

Luft, A and others.
Vienna, 1994: Popischil.
Small octavo, 96 pages, of which the first 11 are of text (German), the remainder being (mostly whole-page) photographs, glazed boards, fine. **Bahn Im Bild, no 7. A portrait of an atmospheric narrow gauge line in Austria.

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Time Tables: BR
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