New books - railways in Ireland

(Reference #IR0445)
Price:£12.99

Coakham, D.
Very large, 96 pages. Soft back.

(Reference #IR1803)
Price:£15.00

2nd Edition.
Patterson, E M.
Very large, 191 pages, photo illustrations, map, track diagrams, appendices including stock list and bibliography, soft back. **2nd edition of history first published by D&C, with extra material by N Johnston (including a survey of remains of the railway in 2004) and many extra illustrations. The CVR served its valley for over 50 years. It was limited in speed by being a roadside tramway so its demise in 1941 was a foregone conclusion.

County Donegal Railways Companion.

(Reference #IR2030)
Price:£14.99

A handbook for railway modellers and historians.
Crombleholme.
Very large, 112 pages, illustrated with photographs and scale drawings of stock and buildings, map. Soft back. **Brief historical survey; details of locomotive and rolling stock, buildings etc; staff reminiscences, guide to remaining traces of the railway.

Dublin And South Eastern Railway.

(Reference #IR0450)
Price:£19.99

Shepherd & Beesley.
Very large, 160 pages, pictorial history illustrated with photos, line drawings, maps and tables. Glazed boards.

Dublin Northwards In The 1950s (Great Railway Eras).

(Reference #IR2529)
Price:£14.95

A tour of forgotten stations.
Sutton & Smith.
Medium, 96 page album, photos, maps. Glazed boards. ** Record of a trip exploring the Irish border lines in 1957.

Farranfore To Valencia Harbour Railway. Volume One.

(Reference #IR1750)
Price:£10.95

Planning, construction and an outline of operation. OL126A.
O'Sullivan, P.
Medium, 152 pages, maps, track diagrams, photo illustrations. Soft back.

Farranfore To Valencia Harbour Railway. Volume Two.

(Reference #IR1607)
Price:£10.95

The life of the line: its train services, locomotives and personalities. OL126 B.
O'Sullivan, P.
Medium, 150 pages, photo illustrations. Soft back.

Fermanagh's Railways.

(Reference #IR2507)
Price:£18.00

Friel & Johnston.
Very large, 176 pages, pictorial, soft back. **Second edition. The book covers all three railway companies operating in the county as well as the bus services. The first edition came out in 1998; this new edition has many previously unpublished photographs and increased coverage of the run-up to closure, the last day and the aftermath.

Forty Shades Of Steam.

(Reference #IR2208)
Price:£14.99

The story of the RPSI.
Cassells & Friel.
Large, 160 pages, photo illustrations, mostly colour, map. Soft back. **The Railway Preservation Society Of Ireland was founded in 1964 and continues to run terrific steam trips. An interesting read, with some evocative photos.

Great Northern Railway (Ireland) In Colour.

(Reference #IR2076)
Price:£20.00

Johnston, N.
Very large, 112-page colour album, map, track plans, glazed boards.

Great Northern Railway (Ireland).

(Reference #IR1591)
Price:£14.95

OL 67.
Patterson, E M.
Medium, 240 pages, photos, map, track diagrams. Soft back. **New edition of classic history first published in 1962.

Great Northern Railway.

(Reference #IR1639)
Price:£14.99

An Irish Railway Pictorial.
Ferris, T.
Very large, 112 pages, album with 12 page forward/introduction. Soft back.

Iarnród Éireann.

(Reference #IR2305)
Price:£14.99

Twenty years of progress.
Ferris
Medium oblong, 80-page album, long captions, glazed boards.

Irish Broad Gauge Carriages.

(Reference #IR1821)
Price:£14.99

A pictorial introduction.
Coakham, D.
Very large, 96 pages, pictorial (quite a lot of text, though). Soft back. **A thorough survey of the Irish coaches from earliest times to the present.

Irish Narrow Gauge In Colour.

(Reference #IR1783)
Price:£19.99

Johnston, N.
Very large, 108-page colour album, map, track plans, glazed boards.

Irish Narrow Gauge. A Pictorial History. Vol.1 From Cork to Cavan.

(Reference #IR0138)
Price:£15.99

Ferris, T.
Very large, 112 pages, pictorial. Glazed boards.

Irish Narrow Gauge. A Pictorial History. Vol.2 The Ulster Lines.

(Reference #IR0139)
Price:£15.99

Ferris, T.
Very large, 128 pages, pictorial, with many maps and photos. Glazed boards. **Includes chapters on The Londonderry & Lough Swilly Rly, The Portstewart Tramway, and The Clogher Valley Rly.

LMS In Ireland.

(Reference #IR1025)
Price:£12.99

An Irish railway pictorial.
Kennedy, M.
Very large, 96 pages, album. Soft back. **The LMS inherited from the MR the Belfast & Northern Counties Railway and the Donegal Railways; from the LNWR the Dundalk, Newry & Greenore Railway and various shipping interests. The book also covers road services, air services, the effects of the war and much else.

Locomotive Compendium Ireland.

(Reference #IR2655)
Price:£19.99

Boocock.
Very large, 128 pages, photo illlustrations, some period colour, glazed boards. **The first of a series planned to cover all the main railways in the British Isles in the period from 1949 to the present. In fact this volume includes classes dating back to the 1870s. A class-by-class survey giving brief histories and class statistics. The volume covers the whole of Ireland.

Locomotives Of The Great Northern Railway Of Ireland.

(Reference #IR0266)
Price:£25.00

Johnston.
Very large, 208 pages, hard back.

Locomotives Of The GSR.

(Reference #IR2580)
Price:£35.00

Clements & McMahon
Very large, 384 pages, map, photos, charts, tables, hard back. **All the locomotives inherited by the Great Southern in 1924 and those subsequently built or acquired to 1944, broad and narrow gauge, described class by class. Pre-1924 history of inherited engines is included and details of disposal by CIE. Chapters deal with other motive power and tenders.

Locomotives Of The LMS NCC.

(Reference #IR2590)
Price:£25.00

And its predecessors.
Scott.
Very large, 190 pages, map, photos, locomotive drawings, tables, hard back. **History of NCC locomotives from the first engines built for the Belfast and Ballymena Railway in 1847 - every NCC locomotive built between then and the end of steam in 1970 is described, together with information on diesel locomtives and railcars.

Lost Railways Of Co Down And Co Armagh.

(Reference #IR1046)
Price:£7.50

Johnson, S.
Small quarto landscape, 48 pages, album. Soft back.

Mid-Antrim Narrow Gauge.

(Reference #IR2379)
Price:£15.99

2nd Edition of The Ballymena Lines, with additional material by Norman Johnson.
Patterson, E M.
Very large, 175 pages, photo illustrations, map, track diagrams, appendices including locomotive details and bibliography, soft back. **2nd edition of history first published by D&C, with extra material by N Johnston (including a survey of remains of the railways in 2007) and many extra illustrations. County Antrim was the cradle of Irish narrow gauge railways: this book covers the Ballymena, Cushendal & Red Bay Railway, the Ballymena & Larne Railway, the NCC and various industrial lines.

Rails Around Belfast.

(Reference #IR1845)
Price:£13.99

An Irish Railway pictorial.
Crockhart, A & Patience, J.
Very large, 80 page album, photos, soft back. **Includes a tram section.

Rails Around Cork And Kerry.

(Reference #IR2071)
Price:£14.99

An Irish railway pictorial.
Baker.
Large, 90 pages, album with brief essays on both counties, soft back.

Railways In Ireland. Part One.

(Reference #IR2298)
Price:£13.95

Great Northern, SL&NC, Lough Swilly, County Donegal, Cavan & Leitrim, Clogher Valley, C&VB.
Bairstow.
Large, 112 pages, photos (some colour), maps, soft back.

Railways In Ireland. Part Two.

(Reference #IR2378)
Price:£13.95

Belfast & County Down, Northern Counties, Giants Causeway, Dundalk, Newry & Greenore, Ballycastle, Belfast Tramways, Cross Channel Shipping.
Bairstow.
Large, 120 pages, photos (some colour), maps, soft back.

Saga By Rail: Ireland.

(Reference #IR2285)
Price:£16.95

RS16.
Boyd, J I C.
Medium, 288 pages, photos, maps, soft back. **Mr Boyd's reminiscences of Irish narrow gauge, 1933 - 1962.

Smoke Amid The Drumlins.

(Reference #IR2252)
Price:£8.99

The Cavan and Leitrim in the 1950s.
Burges, A.
Medium landscape, 64 page album, soft back. **Irish Railway Photographer series.

Steam's Silver Lining.

(Reference #IR1072)
Price:£4.95

Cassells, J.
Medium, 76 pages, photos, map. Soft back. **A silver jubilee celebration of the trains of the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland 1964 - 1989.

Through Streets Broad & Narrow.

(Reference #IR1516)
Price:£19.99

A history of Dublin trams.
Corcoran, M.
Very large, 160 pages, some photo illustrations. Glazed boards.

Waterford And Limerick Railway.

(Reference #IR0685)
Price:£10.95

Fryer.
Medium, 160 pages. Soft back.

Waterford, Limerick & Western Railway.

(Reference #IR2161)
Price:£19.99

Shepherd.
Very large, 160 pages, photo illlustrations, map, track diagram, stock lists and other tabulated statistical information, glazed boards. **Complex history of the fourth largest Irish railway company of its day, railway politics, line descriptions, locomotive history, economic and social influence.

Wee Donegal Revisited.

(Reference #IR0820)
Price:£19.99

More views of the County Donegal railways in colour.
Robotham & Curran.
Very large, 108 page colour album. Includes track diagrams and map. Glazed boards.

West Clare Railway.

(Reference #IR0022)
Price:£25.00

Taylor, P.
Very large, 224 pages, illustrated, with photos, tables, line drawing and map. Hard back. **A full history of a 3ft gauge railway network in County Clare.

West Clare Railway. An Irish Pictorial.

(Reference #IR1252)
Price:£10.99

Taylor.
Very large, 64 pages, soft back.

Second Hand Showcase Books from Robert Humm

Time Tables: BR
Time Tables 2
UK & Ireland 1
UK & Ireland 2
UK & Ireland 3
Locomotives 1
Locomotives 2
International 1
International 2
Miscellany
Tramways