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Aldwych Branch.
(Reference #A2588)
Price:£19.95

Badsey-Ellis & Horne.
Large, 112 pages, illustrated with photos and maps, some colour, boards. **A quarter mile branch of the London Underground, between Holborn and the Aldwych, this was a hopeless enterprise and never covered its costs; extension frequently beckoned but never came and the line is now closed. However its history was surprisingly colourful, especially during the war, and its lengthy abandoned spaces have been used for experimental design work and film jobs. The station at Aldwych and the running line to Holborn remain today, but not for passengers.

Anstruther & St Andrews Railway.
(Reference #A2583)
Price:£15.95
OL149
Hajducki, Jodeluk & Simpson
Medium, 248 pages, photos, maps, some architectural drawings. Soft back. *Line history.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 62.
(Reference #A2637)
Price:£6.00

Parkhouse & Pope (eds).
Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Burnhope Colliery/3; Forest of Dean Market Boat; Southampton Taxi; Forth & Clyde Canal; Port Dinorwic.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 63.
(Reference #A2659)
Price:£6.00

Parkhouse & Pope (eds).
Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Burnhope Colliery/4; Bicslade Tramroad; Oil Under Canvas (sailing ships); funeral suppliers; Bentley Colliery.

Atock/Attock Family.
(Reference #A2620)
Price:£15.95
A worldwide railway engineering dynasty.
Shepherd.
Medium, 264 pages, photo and other illustrations, soft back. ** An ordinary family with a remarkably persistent engineering gene, the Attocks and Atocks served the Eastern Counties, GER, L&Y, LMS, and other undertakings in Ireland, Australasia, Burma, North Africa, Cuba and elsewhere.

Bagnalls Of Stafford.
(Reference #A2647)
Price:£100.00
Builders of locomotives for the world's railways.
Baker & Civil.
Very large, and nearly 2 inches thick (including the binding). Must have at least 300 pages, and maybe up to 500. Hardback. **Our stock is protected by cellophane wrappers so a proper description is impossible. A history of the company and from the size of it, the last word on the subject.

Bibliography Of British And Irish Tramways.
(Reference #A2574)
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?

Blue Pullman Supplement.
(Reference #A2654)
Price:£14.95

Robertson.
Very large, 88 pages, pictorial, soft back. **i>The

Book Of The Castle 4-6-0s.
(Reference #A2610)
Price:£27.95

Sixsmith.
Very large, 336 pages. Glazed boards. **With a collection of photographs and the record card histories transcribed and tabulated.

Book Of The T9 4-4-0s.
(Reference #A2673)
Price:£27.95

Derry.
Very large, 208 pages, glazed boards. ****A pictorial history with repair lists, annual mileages etc for each locomotive.

Book Of The Warships.
(Reference #A2667)
Price:£27.95
(The Western Region D600/D800/D833, Class 41/42/43 diesel-hydraulics.)
Jennison.
Very large, 344 pages, glazed boards. **A pictorial history with chronology, works visits, etc for each locomotive.

Britain's Railways 1997-2005.
(Reference #A2663)
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".

British Rail Standard Diesels Of The 1960s.
(Reference #A2650)
Price:£19.99

Clough, D N.
Large, 160 pages, photo illlustrations, hard back. **An examination of the BR fleet class by class, with information on key design features, entry into traffic, and operational experience, and draws heavily on recently released official information which provides a few unexpected details.

British Railway Signalling Development In Colour.
(Reference #A2571)
Price:£14.99
For the modeller and historian.
Hendry.
Very large, 96 pages, pictorial, soft back. **Company-based survey of British and Irish signalling inheritance and development, lavishly illustrated in colour.

Brits Abroad.
(Reference #A2582)
Price:£14.95

Carr & Maxey.
Very large, 98 pages, pictorial, nearly all in colour: photos, maps, loco lists, soft back. **British diesels and electrics at work overseas. Opens with an account of five LMS diesel shunters shipped to France in 1940, the first of twenty-six; it is a surprise to learn that one is still in revenue-earning service, although currently in store. Finishes with the Channel Tunnel locomotives.

Brush Diesel & Electric Locomotives 1940-2008.
(Reference #A2602)
Price:£35.00

Toms.
Very large, 304 pages, photos (some colour), tables, lists, hard back. **The definitive history of Brush locomotives. The author worked at the Brush factory at Loughborough for 48 years, and chronicles with the detail of first-hand knowledge the works' output of diesel and electric locomotives, including what happened, in general terms, to the engines after delivery. This volume takes the story up to the BR class 56s, finishing the build histories to the early 1980s and covering the service history of each type thereafter. A second volume is planned to continue the build histories and bring the story up to date.

Building A Railway.
(Reference #A2668)
Price:£30.00
Bourne to Saxby.
Squires, Hollamby & Rhodes.
Very large, 151 pages, illustrated with contemporary and modern (colour) photographs and maps, hard back. **The engineer in charge of the building of this railway made a photographic record of the progress of the work. The authors have been at great pains to pinpoint the site of each photograph and to analyse the contents. Astonishingly they have found one of the navvy houses intact - it is now among the most unlikely of Grade 2 listed buildings. By way of a bonus the book includes a reprint of John Rhodes's 1989 history of the line, Bourne To Saxby. A fascinating book.

Caledonian Railway Livery.
(Reference #A2606)
Price:£30.00
The true line elegance and style.
MacIntosh.
Very large, 328 pages, lavishly illustrated with photograps and other material, some colour, glazed boards. ** A major study, which includes a brief company history, short biographies of the locomotive superintendents, a list of locomotive build orders, notes on the adoption of Westinghouse brakes and an index of wagon photographs.

Castleford Colliery Railways.
(Reference #A2644)
Price:£9.95
Ackton Hall, Allerton Bywater, Allerton Main, Fryston, Glasshoughton, Ledston Luck, Peckfield, Prince of Wales, Savile, Wheldale, Whitwood.
Rockett, R.
Large, 64 pages, pictorial, area map, some colliery plans. Soft back.

Castleman's Corkscrew. Volume Two: The Twentieth Century And Beyond.
(Reference #A2617)
Price:£19.95
Including the railways of Bournemouth & associated lines. OL 144B.
Jackson, B L.
Medium, 320 pages, photos, maps, soft back. ** Castleman's Corkscrew was the Southampton & Dorchester Railway, 60 miles of rural line.

Cromford Station.
(Reference #A2657)
Price:£11.95
A history.
Waite.
Very large, 77 pages, photo illustrations, maps, soft back. **History of the railway at Cromford, no longer what it was as the line is truncated at Matlock, but at least still part of the national network. The station is a particularly fine collection of buildings.

Diesel Retrospective Class 31.
(Reference #A2589)
Price:£19.99

Vaughan, J.
Very large, 112 page album, some colour, hard back. **Handsome collection of photos by the author and others recording over 50 years of class 31 operations.

District Controller's View 12. The Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway.
(Reference #A2669)
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."

East Somerset And Cheddar Valley Railways.
(Reference #A2670)
Price:£24.99
The 'Strawberry Line'.
Harman.
Large, 272 pages, many photo illustrations, maps, structure drawings, large track diagrams, hardback. **Officially the GWR route between Yatton and Witham was known as the Wells branch, but it had originated in two entirely separate branches both terminating at Wells and ultimately joined by a short length of the Somerset & Dorset. Indeed at one time Wells had three stations, on three independent lines. A comprehensive line history and description.

GNER. The Route Of The Flying Scotsman.
(Reference #A2605)
Price:£19.99

Balmforth.
Very large, 96 pages, pictorial, colour throughout, appendices, including fleet list and chronology, glazed boards. **The complete history of GNER, a sad loss to eastern travellers.

Grids.
(Reference #A2680)
Price:£16.95
The Class 56 story.
Bulmer.
Very large, 125 pages, many photo illustrations, nearly all in colour, maps, loco lists, soft back. **1976 - 2004 and beyond, the 135 class 56s are chronicled here in great detail. Among the nuggets of information offered is a 13-page list of all passenger trains ever hauled by a class 56.

History Of British Railways' North Eastern Region.
(Reference #A2591)
Price:£19.95

Teasdale (ed).
Very large, 192 pages, photos (some colour), drawings, glazed boards. ** This is the work of a number of authors. Background is supplied by a general history of BR and description of the organisation of the NE Region. This is followed by detailed studies of freight and passenger operations, locomotives, civil engineering, architecture, signalling and shipping.

History Of The British Steam Tram. Volume 5.
(Reference #A2595)
Price:£45.00

Gladwin, D.
Very large, 256 pages, photos, line drawings and diagrams, maps, glazed boards. **This is the fifth of an unspecified number of volumes i*>[seven, perhaps]

History Of The British Steam Tram. Volume 6.
(Reference #A2608)
Price:£45.00

Gladwin, D.
Very large, 256 pages, photos, line drawings and diagrams, maps, glazed boards. **This is the sixth and apparently penultimate volume of a deeply researched and fascinating account of steam trams in Britain. Volume 1 looked at the general history and infrastructure of steam trams and tramways, Volume 2 examined the history of tram systems in towns A-B, Volume 3 covered towns C-L; Volume 4 proceeds from M to S; Volume 5, takes the English systems to W, continues to Scotland, Wales and experimental systems; this volume, volume 6, covers Ireland, further systems in England, boiler explosions and other matters. The final volume will be of photographs.

Horton's Guide To Britain's Railways In Feature Films.
(Reference #A2618)
Price:£17.99
Updated second edition
Horton.
Medium, 192 pages + xvi pages of photo plates, soft back. ** "This A-Z guide lists nearly 1000 feature films that have British railway content, and gives details of where the sequences were filmed, whether on the contemporary railway or more recently using the facilities of preserved lines." Includes trams, London underground and Irish scenes; extra information for many films, including pointing up howlers and continuity errors.

Illustrated History Of The Cornish Main Line.
(Reference #A2604)
Price:£24.99

Vaughan, J.
Very large, 192 pages, many photo illustrations, hardback.

Industrial Locomotives Of The People's Republic Of China.
(Reference #A2576)
Price:£19.95
Including preserved and local railway locomotives.
Pritchard.
Medium, 252 pages + 14 page photo section and double page map, glazed boards. IRS Handbook 2PRC. ** Second edition, double the size of the first. Also available in softback @ £16.95 (item 2472)

Industrial Narrow Gauge Album.
(Reference #A2661)
Price:£19.95

Neale, A.
Large, 108 pages, soft back. **A fine selection of photographs from the length and breadth of Great Britain showing many industrial lines with a variety of motive power and gauges. The majority of pictures have not been published before. Each is extensively and knowledgeably captioned, and each area section has a brief introductory essay.

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of The County Of London.
(Reference #A2577)
Price:£16.95

Waywell & Jux.
Medium, 232 pages + 40 pages of photographs, good map section including some site plans, soft back. (Also available as a hard back, qv.) **Information previously published in Pocket Book C has been greatly amplified. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive-worked systems, contractor's and preservation sites within the county.

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of The County Of London.
(Reference #A2578)
Price:£19.95

Waywell & Jux.
Medium, 232 pages + 40 pages of photographs, good map section including some site plans, glazed boards. (Also available as a soft back, qv.) **Information previously published in Pocket Book C has been greatly amplified. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive-worked systems, contractor's and preservation sites within the county.

Kent & East Sussex Railway.
(Reference #A2671)
Price:£34.95

Hart.
Very large, 282 pages, photo illustrations, maps, hard back. ** "The life and times of a local railway" - a history of Col Stephens' favourite line.

Kerr, Stuart & Co Ltd Fifteen Shillings Change Reprint.
(Reference #A2599)
Price:£6.95
Being a description of the new Kerr Stuart diesel locomotive.
Hunslet Engine Co / IRS.
Very large, 30 pages, photos and line drawings, card covers. ** "Fifteen shillings out of every pound you at present spend on locomotive fuel will be yours, if you replace you obsolescent steam equipment by the super-ecomomical Kerr Stuart Diesel locomotive". Kerr Stuart closed in 1930 and the goodwill was purchased by the Hunslet Engine Co who are now cataloguing the company archive.

Kerr, Stuart & Co Ltd Locomotive Catalogue Reprint.
(Reference #A2598)
Price:£6.95

Hunslet Engine Co / IRS.
Very large, 40 pages of locomotive photos with brief details; appendix with brief supplementary details of each engine, card covers. **The introduction notes that the source of these illustrations is a loose leaf catalogue begun in 1911, added to until about 1920 and remaining in use until 1924. Kerr Stuart closed in 1930 and the goodwill was purchased by the Hunslet Engine Co who are now cataloguing the company archive.

King's Cross to Potters Bar. (Eastern Main Lines).
(Reference #A2686)
Price:£15.95

Connor & Connor.
Medium, probably 96 pages, album with 4-page historical introduction, photos, some maps, glazed boards.

LMS Journal. Number Twenty-three.
(Reference #A2566)
Price:£9.95

Essery (ed).
Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Aspects of Freight/2; Signals/20; Engines & enginemen; Kettering - Huntingdon; Early traffic control; Scottish local committee.

LMS Journal. Number Twenty-four.
(Reference #A2567)
Price:£9.95

Essery (ed).
Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Watford; Goods stations; Leicester & Loughborough; Surplus equipment; Willesden; B W Cooke; Track relaying; Railcars; More enginemen.

LMS Journal. Number Twenty-five.
(Reference #A2639)
Price:£9.95

Essery (ed).
Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Signals/21; King's Langley; Steel Rolling Stock Policy; Remote Points, double wire lever control; LMS Locomotive Profiles; 1936 Summer Passenger Services on S&D; Pullman Cars in Scotland; Proposed 4-6-4.

LMS Journal. Number Twenty-six.
(Reference #A2640)
Price:£9.95

Essery (ed).
Large, 80 pages, illustrated. *Signals/21/2; Ambergate; Bells Nottingham - Lincoln; Switch Diamonds; How It Was Done/6; 50s Freight on the Butterley Branch; Patricroft; Line Closures; Evolution of Brakes.

LMS Lineside. Part Two: Railway Signage, Timetables And Poster Boards, Platform Numbering, Station Seats, Barrows And Trolleys.
(Reference #A2681)
Price:£17.95
An LMS Journal handbook.
Anderson & Twells.
Very large, 102 page album, mostly photos, some drawings, soft back. **Generously captioned pictures, essential reference for modellers, plenty of interest for the rest of us.

LMS Locomotive Profiles. No.11 - The Coronation Class Pacifics.
(Reference #A2682)
Price:£24.95

Hunt, Jennison, Meanley, James & Essery.
Very large, 174 pages, soft back. **Illustrated with photos and archive technical drawings (some fold-out) from the NRM.

LMS Locomotive Profiles. Pictorial Supplement To LMS Locomotive Profile No. 11. The Coronation Pacifics.
(Reference #A2689)
Price:£18.95

Jennison, Meanley, Essery, James & Hunt.
Very large, 118 pages (some folding), pictorial: photos, some drawings, soft back. **This supplement provides the photographs which were surplus to the main profile volume.

LMS Locomotive Profiles. No.12 - The Diesel-Electric Shunters.
(Reference #A2683)
Price:£19.95

Hunt & Jennison.
Very large, 122 pages, soft back. **Illustrated with photos and archive technical drawings (some fold-out) from the NRM.

Locomotive Compendium Ireland.
(Reference #A2655)
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 GSR.
(Reference #A2580)
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 #A2590)
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.

Locomotives Of The LMS. The Hughes And Stanier 2-6-0's.
(Reference #A2677)
Price:£22.95

Young & Tyreman.
Very large, 208 pages, photo illustrations including 12 pages of period colour, drawings, glazed boards. **From design to disposal, details of construction, allocation, re-building, modification, mileages, etc, etc.

London Railway Atlas.
(Reference #A2609)
Price:£12.99

Brown.
Very large, 62 map pages + 33 page station and site index, glazed boards.**Second enlarged edition of this very useful atlas: all maps give track detail and index gives opening and closure dates and other details

London's Disused Stations, Volume Seven.
(Reference #A2614)
Price:£9.00
The Midland Railway and associated lines.
Connor, J E.
Medium, 84 pages, photo illustrations, maps, soft back.

Main Line To The West. The Southern Railway Route Between Basingstoke & Exeter - Part Three.
(Reference #A2594)
Price:£29.95
Yeovil to Exeter.
Nicholas, J & Reeve, G.
Very large, 422 pages, many illustrations: photos, signalling diagrams, station track plans, architectural drawings, glazed boards. **A straightforward line history.

Melton Constable To Yarmouth Beach. (Country Railway Routes).
(Reference #A2615)
Price:£15.95

Adderson & Kenworthy.
Medium, 96-page album, large-scale maps, glazed boards.

Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway And Its Locomotives.
(Reference #A2653)
Price:£24.99

Essery.
Very large, 192 pages, many photo illustrations, drawings, map. Glazed boards.

Midland Record 28.
(Reference #A2569)
Price:£11.95

Essery (ed).
Very large, 96 pages. Soft back. **Huddersfield extension; Goods shed at Kings Cross; Mechanical indicators; Stonehouse - Nailsworth & Stroud branches/2; Headlamp code alteration; Early signal boxes Newark-Lincoln; Tilbury; Milk truck.

Midland Record 29.
(Reference #A2660)
Price:£11.95

Essery (ed).
Very large, 96 pages. Soft back. **London coal traffic; Moseley; Darley Dale; MR in S Wales; Huddersfield/2.

Narrow Gauge Railways Of Bosnia-Hercegovina.
(Reference #A2675)
Price:£40.00

Chester.
Very large, 416 pages, photo illustrations including 16-page colour section, maps, drawings, loco lists, hard back. **The narrow gauge railways of Bosnia-Hercegovina were originally conceived as a temporary field railway but was soon adapted to civilian use and by 1914 the network exceeded 1000 km - a fully-fledged main line system with comfortable bogie stock and advanced locomotives.

Narrow Gauge Railways Of Cuba.
(Reference #A2651)
Price:£30.95
From the 1860s to the present day.
Walker, C.
Very large, 200 pages, photo illustrations, some colour, maps, stock lists, soft back. Also available in hardback, qv. **General history of these fascinating railways.

Narrow Gauge Railways Of Cuba.
(Reference #A2652)
Price:£36.95
From the 1860s to the present day.
Walker, C.
Very large, 200 pages, photo illustrations, some colour, maps, stock lists, hardback. Also available in soft back, qv. **General history of these fascinating railways.

Newcastle-under-Lyme.
(Reference #A2678)
Price:£18.95
Its railway and canal history.
Baker & Fell.
Very large, 136 pages, many photo illustrations, maps, glazed boards.

On Chariots With Horses Of Fire And Iron.
(Reference #A2611)
Price:£29.95
The excursionists and the narrow gauge railroad from Jaffa to Jerusalem.
Travis.
Very large, 236 pages, photo illustrations, map, hard back. **History of the metre gauge Jaffa-Jerusalem railway, inaugurated in 1892.

On The Trail Of The Royal Scot.
(Reference #A2601)
Price:£19.99

Packer.
Medium, 150 pages, pictorial, hard back. **The route and history of the famous train and other passenger and freight trains on the line between Euston and Glasgow Central.

Over The Alps On The Watercress Line.
(Reference #A2684)
Price:£11.95
Realising a boyhood dream in the 21st century.
Richardson.
Medium, 143 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. ** Reminiscences of a driver on the Mid-Hants.

Peterborough To King's Lynn (Country Railway Routes).
(Reference #A2648)
Price:£15.95
Part of the M&GN.
Black.
Medium, 96-page album, large-scale maps, glazed boards.

Poster To Poster. Volume 1 Scotland
(Reference #A2645)
Price:£35.00
Railway journeys in art.
Furness.
Very large landscape, 236 pages, colour images, discursive text, poster database in county order, bibliography, hardback. **First of a planned series of seven volumes intended to catalogue British railway posters throughout the twentieth century, and based largely on the magnificent collection of the NRM.

Power Of The Kings.
(Reference #A2672)
Price:£19.99

Waters.
Very large, 112 page album, hard back. **Photos of all locomotives at different stages of their careers, with information of building, allocation, withdrawal etc of each engine..

Private Owner Wagons An Eighth Collection.
(Reference #A2666)
Price:£19.95

Turton, K.
Very large, 168 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Another wide range of wagons and their operators. Short histories of over seventy more businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; as usual there is also further information and pictures on companies featured in earlier volumes.

Private Owner Wagons In Colour.
(Reference #A2613)
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.

Private Owner Wagons Of Bristol & District.
(Reference #A2607)
Price:£18.00

Pope, I.
Very large, 128 pages, many photo illustrations, maps. Glazed boards.

Railfreight In Colour.
(Reference #A2572)
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 Archive. No 22.
(Reference #A2638)
Price:£7.50

Parkhouse & Pope, eds.
Large, 80 pages, illustrated, soft back journal. * Photographs of E Pouteau/22: Finale - update and index; Cornish Minerals Railway; Adlestrop; Dean Locos/3; SR in the 1930s; Hopwood: SE&CR; Adams G6 0-6-0T.

Railway Archive. No 24.
(Reference #A2658)
Price:£7.50

Parkhouse & Pope, eds.
Large, 80 pages, illustrated, soft back journal. * Oxfordshire post cards; Hopwood: NER; Richborough Military Port; Wemyss Bay Station; LNER W1 10000.

Railway Memories No 21 Rotherham Mexborough & Wath.
(Reference #A2649)
Price:£13.95

Booth & Chapman.
Large, 112 page album, soft back.

Railway Paintings Of Barry J Freeman.
(Reference #A2579)
Price:£30.00

Freeman.
Very large landscape, 96 pages, hard back. **More than forty of Barry's lovely evocative paintings, each accompanied by his own enlightening commentary.

Railway Passenger Stations In England, Scotland And Wales. A Chronology.
(Reference #A2664)
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 Photographs Of P W Pilcher.
(Reference #A2573)
Price:£9.95
London & North Western Railway, Great Western Railway, Great Northern Railway and other companies.
Patrick.
Very large, 96 page photo album, soft back. **Pilcher (1866-1935), a scholar and musician, was possibly the first photographer of moving trains. The earliest picture here is from the 1880s and features a Stirling single at Boston, the final ones show Princesses taking water at Whitmore troughs.

Railways Restored 2009.
(Reference #A2628)
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.

Red For Danger.
(Reference #A2629)
Price:£14.99
The classic history of British railway disasters.
Rolt, L T C.
Medium, 297 pages + 12 pages plates of railway accidents, soft back. **Survey of major accidents in Britain, classified by cause. This is a reprint of the 1966 edition, presenting the book exactly as Rolt left it.

Scenes From The Past 13 A. Stockport Tiviot Dale.
(Reference #A2581)
Price:£12.95
A Cheshire line remembered and revisited.
Fox.
Very large, 72 page album, photos, lengthy captions, maps, soft back. ** A reprint of the 1991 original edition, with some extra material. Good value!

Scenes From The Past 54. Bolton Trinity Street To Liverpool Exchange Via Wigan Wallgate.
(Reference #A2646)
Price:£17.95
Footplate memories.
Markland.
Very large, 96 page album, map, track plans, narrative captions, soft back.

Sitimela.
(Reference #A2596)
Price:£9.00
A history of the Zambesi Saw Mills logging railway 1911 - 1972.
Calvert.
Medium, 96 pages, photo illustrations: some period and recent colour, map, site plans, soft back. **History of what was, in its heyday, the longest privately owned railway in the world. It was based at Livingstone in Zambia (Northern Rhodesia) and was 3' 6" gauge with 175 permanent plus 25 temporary miles of track, a variety of steam locomotives and an assortment of freight and passenger rolling stock.

Somerset & Dorset Files No 6.
(Reference #A2656)
Price:£10.95
A Railway Bylines Special.
Smith, M.
Large, 64 pages, pictorial: photos, map, soft back.

South African Two-Foot Gauge (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines).
(Reference #A2623)
Price:£15.95
Featuring the last Garratts.
Ballantyne.
Medium, 96-page album, mostly colour, maps, glazed boards.

Southern Rails On The Isle Of Wight Volume One.
(Reference #A2662)
Price:£19.95
The central and Freshwater lines.
Drummond.
Large, 156 pages, pictorial: photo illustrations, some period colour, numerous maps and station layouts, bibliography, glazed boards. **Detailed line survey.

Southern Way Special Issue No 3.
(Reference #A2641)
Price:£14.95
Wartime Southern; evacuation, ARP and enemy action.
Robertson (ed).
Very large, 112 pages, many photo illustrations, soft back.

Southern Way No 6.
(Reference #A2642)
Price:£11.95
The regular volume for the Southern devotee.
Robertson (ed).
Very large, 100 page soft back journal. ** Includes: Lancing Carriage Works/1; Accident at London Bridge; Southampton TSO/1; The Southern Railway history/1; Water Troughs; Bulleid Steam Reverser Gear; Urie 4-8-0Ts & 4-6-2Ts; Permanent way; Colour interlude.

Southern Way No 7.
(Reference #A2643)
Price:£12.95
The regular volume for the Southern devotee.
Robertson (ed).
Very large, 100 page soft back journal. ** Includes: Callington Branch; Movies; Clapham Jn Signal Box Collapse; Sir E Missenden; Stock Storage on the Ardingley Branch; Three generations of railwaymen; Permanent way; Colour interlude.

St Andrews Railway.
(Reference #A2584)
Price:£16.95
OL146
Hajducki, Jodeluk & Simpson
Medium, 248 pages, photos, maps, signalling diagrams. Soft back. *Line history.

Steam In England.
(Reference #A2676)
Price:£30.00
The classic colour photography of R C Riley.
Lissenden.
Large landscape, 96 pages, album, colour throughout, hard back. **Fine period colour, arranged by region and nicely captioned.

Steam In The Scottish Landscape.
(Reference #A2679)
Price:£19.95

Welch.
Large square, 112 page colour album, glazed boards. **A fine collection of period colour from north of the border.

Tale Of Many Railways.
(Reference #A2593)
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.

Trackatlas Of Mainland Britain.
(Reference #A2674)
Price:£24.95
A comprehensive geographic atlas showing the rail network of Britain.
Bridge (ed).
Very large, 133 map pages + introduction and index (gazetteer), coloured maps, glazed boards. **A tour de force. This is a map of the present system in great detail and shows each track, stations, signal boxes, all crossings including footpaths, sidings, bridges and tunnels.

Trainspots Midlands Edition.
(Reference #A2685)
Price:£12.95
The guide to UK railway photographic locations.
Dawson.
Medium, 161 pages, illustrated in colour with photographs and OS map extracts, soft back. **Suggests sites around the midlands giving precise instructions for access by private and public transport, direction of sunlight, the sorts of trains passing, and local amenities. Note that in the geography of this book the midlands stretch from Bicester in the south to Derby in the north; Birmingham and Peterborough are the western and eastern limits, but Nottingham is not included.

Ulverstone And Lancaster Railway.
(Reference #A2597)
Price:£13.50
The challenge of Morecambe Bay.
Gilpin.
Very large, 95 pages, maps, photos (some colour), viaduct drawings, numerous track plans, soft back.** First-rate local history.

Victorian Railway.
(Reference #A2585)
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.

Vidzeme Railway.
(Reference #A2603)
Price:£25.00
Stukmani (Plavinas) - Vecgulbene - Aluksne - Valka.
Altbergs & Biedrins.
Very large, 101 pages, photo illustrations, map endpapers, glazed boards. **History of a narrow gauge line in Latvia. This is an English version of a Latvian book.

Wagons Of The Final Years Of British Railways.
(Reference #A2612)
Price:£14.00
A pictorial study of the 1962-1968 period.
Larkin.
Very large, 88 pages, photos, stocklists, softback.

What's In A Name? Part 1 - LNER.
(Reference #A2619)
Price:£15.50
The origins, meanings and significance of steam locomotive names in the British Railways era.
Baldwin.
Medium, 295 pages, soft back. **Geography, history, literature, sport - there is a complete education in this compendium of knowledge. Owners of this book, and their families, will need to look no further for details of the products of counties served by the LNER, nor for the plots of the Waverley novels. An ideal present for a compiler of pub quizzes. Note that although the title refers to the LNER the locomotive numbers given are the BR ones.

Wirral Railway.
(Reference #A2690)
Price:£24.99
And its predecessors.
Maund.
Large, 240 pages, many photo illustrations, some drawings and maps, hard back. **This is the first comprehensive history of the little railway which serves the far end of the Wirral, running between West Kirby and Wallasey and Birkenhead.

Wisbech & Upwell Tramway.
(Reference #A2687)
Price:£15.95
OL152.
Paye.
Medium, 240 pages, photos, map, locomotive and rolling stock drawings, station layouts. Soft back.

Yeadon's Register Of LNER Locomotives. Vol 48: Classes J64, J65, J66, J67, J68, J69, J70 & J92.
(Reference #A2688)
Price:£34.99
The Great Eastern 0-6-0Ts.
Yeadon.
Very large, many photos, 110 pages, hard back. **This monumental study records the history of each engine from building to disposal, including renumberings, repairs, allocations etc. As well as the GE tank engines there are the J92 crane engines and the Wisbech & Upwell tram engines (J70).
Note that parts 47 A and B have not yet been published.

Yorkshire Engine Company.
(Reference #A2616)
Price:£12.99
Sheffield's locomotive manufacturer.
Vernon.
Medium, 160 pages, many photo illustrations, some drawings, works lists, soft back. **The company was founded in 1865, had the technical expertise of Sir Archibald Sturrock and Charles Sacré, was a leading manufacturer of Fairlie locomotives but had no success with marine or tramway engines, or with motor cars; it began making diesel locomotives after the war and ceased business in 1965: an unfortunate centenary. Some of its diesel locomotives are still at work.

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