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Locomotives: Post-Nationalisation

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Locomotives

British locomotives post-Nationalisation and overseas locomotives post 1945. This is the section for modern traction and BR standard steam. See also: Locomotives: Pre-Nationalisation for British locomotives pre-Nationalisation and overseas locomotives up to the end of the Second World War; Photo albums & collections for the Working Steam series and similar; and Biographies for books about locomotive engineers.
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The abc Of British Locomotives 1948. Ref: MT3712  

Combined volume.

Small, 248 pages, photo illustrations, glazed boards. **Reprint of the Ian Allan 1948 combined volume abc. Cover: 61577 on shed.
Price: £13.50
 

The abc Of British Railways Locomotives 1954. Ref: MT3765  

Combined volume.

Small, 268 pages, photo illustrations, glazed boards. **Reprint of the Ian Allan Winter 1953-54 combined volume abc. Cover: 30860 at Waterloo.
Price: £13.50
 

The abc Of British Railways Locomotives Spring 1955. Ref: MT3446  

Combined volume.
Cook.
Small, 280 pages, photo illustrations, glazed boards. **Reprint of the Ian Allan 1955 combined volume abc. Cover: 34064 at Bournemouth.
Price: £13.00
 

The abc Of British Locomotives Winter 1962-63. Ref: MT3713  

Combined volume and locoshed book.

Small, 368 pages, photo illustrations, glazed boards. **Reprint of the Ian Allan Winter 1962-3 combined volume abc. Cover: 30517 at Swaythling.
Price: £13.50
 

Bagnall Locomotives. Ref: MT1027  

A pictorial album of Bagnall standard gauge locomotives.
Baker, A C, & Civil, T D A.
Very large, 106 pages, album, soft back. **Introduced by a 6-page history of the firm, this is a collection of photographs of their engines accompanied by lengthy descriptive captions. A hard back edition is also available.
Price: £16.95
 

Bagnall Locomotives. Ref: MT1086  

A pictorial album of Bagnall standard gauge locomotives.
Baker, A C, & Civil, T D A.
Very large, 106 pages, album, hard back. **Introduced by a 6-page history of the firm, this is a collection of photographs of their engines accompanied by lengthy descriptive captions. A soft back edition is also available.
Price: £21.95
 

The Blue Pullman Story. Ref: MT3807  

Fully revised and unabridged.
Robertson & Smith.
Very large, 390 pages, many photos: some colour, glazed boards. **This definitive history of the Midland Blue Pullman consolidates Kevin Robertson's Blue Pullman (2005), Blue Pullman Supplement (2009) and Blue Pullman Pictorial (2012) including much new material which has come to light since those days.
Price: £40.00
 

Blue Pullman Pictorial. Ref: MT2988  


Robertson.
Very large, 92 pages, pictorial, soft back. **The truly iconic train-sets of the 1960s, says Mr Robertson. Lots of interesting extra pictures and information; the original study is now out of print.
Price: £16.50
 

The Book Of The BR Standard Class 5 4-6-0s. Ref: MT2871  


Sixsmith & Derry
Very large, 208 pages, many photo illustrations, glazed boards.
Price: £27.95
 

The Book Of The Britannia Pacifics A Photographic Accompaniment. Ref: MT1851  

Every single Britannia!
Sixsmith, I.
Very large, 52 page album, soft back.
Price: £6.99
 

Detailed History Of BR Standard Steam Locomotives. Volume Two: The 4-6-0 and 2-6-0 Classes. Ref: MT1666  


Walford, J; Taylor, R K (ed).
280 pages, very large, well illustrated, mainly photos - including 8 pages of colour, some drawings, glazed boards. **A complete history of the locomotives designed and built by Riddles in the BR Standard Classes, and their work. Details of design origins, dimensions, construction and withdrawal dates of each engine are given and detail variations, classification, engine diagrams, allocation and work are described.
Price: £24.95
 

Detailed History Of British Railways Standard Steam Locomotives. Volume Five: The End Of An Era. Ref: MT3190  


Walford.
Very large, 208 pages, well illustrated with period colour photos, locomotive repair lists, corrections to previous volumes, glazed boards. **The final volume in this series assesses the value of the Standard classes, examines the organisation and control of works repairs on BR and records the allocations and repair histories of the locomotives.
Price: £27.95
 

British Industrial Steam In The 1960s. Ref: MT3890  

The collected industrial colour photography of Terence Dorrity.
Dorrity.
Very large, 224 page colour album, glazed boards. ** The author developed an interest in industrial steam as a boy growing up in the west midlands and it is the coal, ironstone and steel industries there that form the backbone of this work. When older he photographed industries further afield in England, Wales and Scotland and so has produced a powerful record of steam at work from Dorset to Morayshire. Some terrific images here, including some fairly unusual engines.
Price: £30.00
 

British Rail Departmental Locomotives 1948-1968. Ref: MT3320  

Includes depots and stabling points.
Smith & Smith.
Very large, 96 pages, photo illustrations, site plans, glazed boards.**A single reference to all the departmental locomotives - steam, diesel, electric and battery - both standard and narrow gauge, operated by BR to the end of steam in 1968. Full details of each locomotive's record in departmental service, together with information about the locations at which the locomotives worked and including large-scale OS maps of depots etc.
Price: £20.00
 

British Railways Locomotives And Coaching Stock 2012. Ref: MT3008  

The complete guide to all locomotives & coaching stock which operate on the national rail network and Eurotunnel.
Pritchard & Hall.
Small, 379 pages including colour plates. Glazed boards. **The rolling stock of Britain's mainline railway operators and light rail systems in 2012.
Price: £18.25
 

British Railways Locomotives And Coaching Stock 2013. Ref: MT3202  

The complete guide to all locomotives & coaching stock which operate on the national rail network and Eurotunnel.
Pritchard & Hall.
Small, 383 pages including colour plates. Glazed boards. **The rolling stock of Britain's mainline railway operators and light rail systems in 2013. Last few copies reduced from £18.95 to £3.
Price: £3.00
 

Brush Diesel & Electric Locomotives 1980-2020. Ref: MT3809  


Toms.
Very large, 184 pages, photo illustrations (mostly colour), extensive lists, glazed boards. **The story of Brush locomotives built since 1980, including rebuilding, re-engineering and renovation of other locomotives.
Price: £24.50
 

A Celebration Of BR Standard Pacifics. Ref: MT3834  

Britannias, Clans and Duke Of Gloucester.
Jennison.
Very large landscape, 144 page album, glazed boards. **The third of this new series of albums depicting some of the best-loved steam classes. Fine black and white photos of BR Standard 4-6-2s, one to a page, in chronological order starting with the batches of each class as built. The emphasis is on the engines in service and all engines are illustrated at least once (71000 is x 6).
Price: £27.95
 

Cohen's. Ref: MT3654  

A Northamptonshire railway graveyard.
Grayer.
Very large, 128 pages, pictorial, much period colour, lists, glazed boards. **This is mainly an album of steam and diesel locomotives and units in the course of or awaiting dismantling at the Cransley yard. There are also photos of buses, carriages and LT stock which were scrapped here. Fascinating pictures, and to avoid it being too depressing some views of the victims at work in happier days are interspersed. Other nice additions are a history of the firm and of the ironworks which preceded Cohens at the site, and a short chapter on Northamptonshire iron ore railways./nWe have so often passed this site in the angle of the A43 and the A14 and had no idea of its former glory, still less that it was once rail connected.
Price: £25.00
 

Testing Times At Derby. Ref: MT1869  

A 'privileged' view of steam. RS14.
Rimmer.
Medium, 120 pages, some photo illustrations, soft back. **A locomotive engineer in the 1950s.
Price: £9.95
 

Eclectic Electrics. Ref: MT3600  

From the Stephenson Locomotive Society Archives (Vol 2).
Hennessey.
Very large, 63 pages, photo illustrations and drawings, soft back. **A collection of archive articles covering different forms of electric locomotive, the first of an intended series illustrating the development of this form of traction.
Price: £9.50
 

Here Be Dragons. Ref: MT3592  

A journey with steam to the end of the world.
Girdlestone.
Very large, 136 pages, photo illustrations, chiefly colour, maps, hard back. **Phil Girdlestone, who died untimely in 2016 at the age of 61, was a locomotive engineer, described by David Wardale in the foreword as "one of a small band of adventurers with steam for a vocation and anywhere in the world for a home - provided of course there was a steam railway nearby." Girdlestone chronicles his remarkable career, which started at the Festiniog in 1969 and took in Africa, Russia and South America, and describes his technical work in detail. A fascinating read.
Price: £33.95
 

History Of The North London Railway Volume 1. Ref: MT3844  

London's North Western Electrics.
Atkinson, Adams & Clarke.
Very large, 152 pages, many photo illustrations, maps, softback. **The first two named authors' detailed history, London's North Western Electric was published in 1962 by the Electric Railway Society; the work, long out of print, has now been updated by the third author, with new photos.
Price: £22.50
 

Indian Locomotives Part 4 - All Gauges 1941 - 1990. Ref: MT0268  


Hughes.
Large, 112 pages, soft back.
Price: £10.50
 

Industrial Locomotives Of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire & Northamptonshire. Ref: MT1288  


Waywell
Medium, 464 pages. Glazed boards. (Also available as a paperback, qv.) **The information about Bedfordshire was previously published in Pocket Book C (SE England) and the other two counties in Pocket Book D (Eastern England); it has all been greatly amplified in this volume. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive, contractors' and preservation sites within in the three counties.
Price: £27.50
 

Industrial Locomotives Of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire & Northamptonshire. Ref: MT1289  


Waywell
Medium, 432 pages, soft back. (Also available as a hard back, qv.) **The information about Bedfordshire was previously published in Pocket Book C (SE England) and the other two counties in Pocket Book D (Eastern England); it has all been greatly amplified in this volume. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive, contractors' and preservation sites within in the three counties.
Price: £22.50
 

Industrial Locomotives Of Lancashire Part A. The National Coal Board. Ref: MT1162  

Including opencast disposal points & British Coal. Interim Pocket Book 7A.
Bradley & Hindley.
Medium, 100 pages, maps, soft back.
Price: £7.50
 

Industrial Locomotives Of North Staffordshire. Ref: MT0350  


Baker.
Medium, 392 pages, illustrated: maps and photos, glazed boards. **Includes histories of locomotives, locomotive worked systems, and non locomotive systems. Also background company histories and descriptions of track layouts.
Price: £24.00
 

Industrial Locomotives Of Nottinghamshire. Ref: MT0358  


Bendall.
Medium, 432 pages. Glazed boards. (Also available as a paperback, qv.) **Information previously published in Pocket Book E has been greatly amplified. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive, contractor's and preservation sites within in the county.
Price: £27.50
 

Industrial Locomotives Of Picardy, France. Ref: MT2953  


Clingan.
Medium, 120 pages, photo illustrations, some text also in French, soft back. **Handbook PNF, covers the departments of Aisne, Oise & Somme.
Price: £9.00
 

Industrial Locomotives Of South Staffordshire. Ref: MT0154  


Shill, R.
Medium, 172 pages, + 24 pages photos, maps. Glazed boards. Also available in soft back, qv.
Price: £17.95
 

Industrial Locomotives Of South Staffordshire. Ref: MT1302  


Shill, R.
Medium, 172 pages, + 24 pages photos, maps. Soft back. Also available hard back, qv.
Price: £14.95
 

Industrial Locomotives Of Western France. Ref: MT0347  


Clingan.
Medium, 192 pages, soft back.
Price: £12.00
 

Industrial Locomotives Of West Glamorgan. Ref: MT0349  


Potts & Green.
Medium, 260 pages, illustrated: photos and maps, glazed boards. **Includes information previously published in Pocket Book 6, but in a greatly amplified state. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive, contractors' and preservation sites within the county. Also available in softback, qv.
Price: £20.00
 

Industrial Locomotives Of West Glamorgan. Ref: MT2956  


Potts & Green.
Medium, 260 pages, illustrated: photos and maps, soft back. **Includes information previously published in Pocket Book 6, but in a greatly amplified state. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive, contractors' and preservation sites within the county. Also available in glazed boards, qv.
Price: £14.95
 

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of The County Of London. Ref: MT2577  


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.
Price: £16.95
 

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of The County Of London. Ref: MT2578  


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.
Price: £19.95
 

Industrial Railways Of Manvers Main And Barnburgh Main. Ref: MT0357  


Booth.
Large, 128 pages, album, track diagrams, plans, many photos. Hard back. **Descriptive captions provide historical detail. Appendices give loco and wagon lists.
Price: £7.50
 

Internal Combustion Traction. Ref: MT3759  

A compilation.
Hennessey.
Very large, 80 pages, photo illustrations and drawings, soft back. **A collection of archive articles recording some of the better and lesser known developments of applying internal combustion motors to railway traction. In no way a definitive or critical history of this form of motive power, the compiler offers the selection - arranged chonologically - as a good read and provides a good bibliography for those who want to pursue the subject in greater depth. Robert's article on Fairbanks-Morse opposed piston diesel engines is included amid a feast of topics from R H N Hardy's recollections of the coming of diesels on BR to weird steam/diesel and jet-propelled locomotives.
Price: £12.50
 

The LMS Turbomotive. Ref: MT3480  

From evolution to legacy.
Clements & Robertson.
Very large, 160 pages, illustrated with photos, diagrams and drawings, tabulated statistical data, glazed boards. **Even in the twilight of the steam age Britain was at the forefront of developing a new generation of steam power which could have changed the face of the railways. Stanier's Turbomotive was unquestionably Britain's most successful experimental locomotive of the 20th century; this is a thorough history and analysis of its development and operation.
Price: £27.95
 

LMS/BR Class 7 4-6-0 Rebuilds. Ref: MT3215  

The rebuilt Jubilee, Patriot and Royal Scot locomotives.
Clarke.
Very large, 207 pages, photo illustrations (including period and recent colour), hard back. ** Includes : origins of the class, and design of the 2A boiler; detail differences between classes; liveries, names, plates; detailed allocation tables; winter 1962-3; decline and withdrawal; preservation.
Price: £25.00
 

Locomotive Testing On Britain's Railways 1901-1968. Ref: MT3050  

A non-technical overview.
Peel.
Very large, 74 pages, photos, Rugby site plan, soft back. **Includes details of dynamometer car use and testing programmes at Rugby.
Price: £12.95
 

Locomotives Of Severn-Lamb Ltd. Ref: MT2729  

A special issue of The Narrow Gauge.
Holroyde & Little.
Medium, 85 pages, photo illustrations (mainly colour), list, soft back. ** "Leisure train builders to the world". A history of the firm, with a very details list of their products.
Price: £9.95
 

Locomotives Of The Isle Of Wight Railways. Ref: MT3838  


Cooper & others.
Very large, 192 pages, photo illustrations, some colour, tabulated locomotive data, glazed boards. **The Island's locomotive history from the first tank engines of 1862 to the reconditioned LT D78 stock. Includes industrial and preserved locomotives.
Price: £25.00
 

A Detailed History Of The Stanier Class Five 4-6-0s Volume 2. Ref: MT3410  

Volume 2 on 45472-45499, 44658-44999.
Jennison.
Very large, 256 pages, illustrated with photos and drawings, extensive lists, glazed boards. **This volume covers the development of the design under George Ivatt, gives allocations, repairs, general chronology etc of the 370 engines introduced between 1943 and 1951 and includes post-war and BR operation of the class as a whole.
Price: £29.95
 

Locomotives Of Zimbabwe And Botswana. Ref: MT3358  


Hamer.
Very large, 224 pages, many photo illustrations including a 16-page colour section, some locomotive drawings, extensive locomotive listings, bibliography, hardback. ** History of the development of the initially British but later much more cosmopolitan locomotive stock of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Includes much unpublished material concerning the 'sanctions-busting' engines imported into Rhodesia during the 1970s.
Price: £30.00
 

The Longmoor Military Railway. Ref: MT3291  

A new history. Volume Three : The inevitable closure, locomotives and rolling stock.
Ronald & Christensen.
Large, 283 pages (numbered continuously from Volumes 1 and 2, hence the last page is p 848), many photo and other illustrations, stock and numbering lists, and other appendices, glazed boards. ** Excellent thorough history, generously illustrated with more first-rate photographs.
Price: £30.00
 

Miniature Locomotives Of David Curwen. Ref: MT2532  


Little & Holroyde.
Medium, 118 pages, drawings, photographs (some colour), soft back. **A catalogue of all locomotives built by Curwen, and all designed by him and built by others. Gives dates of building, rebuilds, transfers, current status and other interesting details.
Price: £9.95
 

Motor Rail Ltd. Ref: MT3474  

Simplex Motor Rail & Tramcar Co Ltd Bedford - England.
Keef.
Very large, 152 pages, photo illustrations, glazed boards. ** History of the Bedford locomotive builders and light engineers, formed in 1884 to build tramcars for Karachi. The author's company, Alan Keef Ltd, bought the business in 1987. This readable account covers the full history and product ranges of the company together with individual histories of some of its extant locomotives.
Price: £22.50
 

Pictorial Record Of British Railways Standard Steam Locomotives Volume Two. Ref: MT1835  

Including War Department heavy goods engines.
Talbot, E.
Very large, 118 page album: photos, some technical drawings, glazed boards. *Pictures of all BR standard classes; a companion volume to the author's original Pictorial Record Of British Railways Standard Steam Locomotives which was published in 1982.
Price: £20.00
 

Power Of The BR Standard 2-6-0s. Ref: MT2178  


Morrison, G.
Very large, 112 page album, hard back. **Photos with short explanatory notes, some with brief historical or allocation details. Out of print - last copy.
Price: £19.99
 

Power Of The BR Standard 4-6-0s. Ref: MT1583  


Morrison, G.
Very large, 112 page album, hard back. **Photos with short explanatory notes, some with brief historical or allocation details. Out of print - last copy.
Price: £19.99
 

Preserved Standard Gauge Steam Locomotives Of Great Britain A Working History. Ref: MT3515  


Randall
Medium, 144 pages, a few photo illustrations, soft back. ** Useful reference book lists all preserved standard gauge locomotives (whether restored or not) by manufacturer. Dates, numbers (including works numbers), past owners and present whereabouts are given for each engine. Appendices list imported locomotives, list every main line engine by number (referenced to the main entry), and list the places of work of the preserved ex-industrial locomotives.
Price: £13.50
 

The Railway Foundry, Leeds. Hudswell Clarke & Co Ltd : The Diesel Era. Ref: MT3383  


Redman.
Large, 204 pages, photo illustrations, works list, hard back. **The diesel era at the Railway Foundry extended from the early 20th century to the works closure in 1972. The author has chronicled the history of the works and of its products during this time and includes not only mainstream diesels but a very early petrol locomotive, miniature railway locomotives and other products.
Price: £29.95
 

Russian & Soviet Steam Locomotives. Vol 1. Ref: MT0757  

E class 0-10-0, S class 2-6-2, P36 class 4-8-4.
Chester.
Large, 72 pages. Soft back.
Price: £12.95
 

Russian & Soviet Steam Locomotives. Vol 3. Ref: MT1541  

Narrow Gauge Steam Locomotives In Russia And The Soviet Union.
Chester.
Large, 112 pages, soft back.
Price: £15.95
 

Ruston & Hornsby Diesel Locomotive Album. Ref: MT3292  


Neale.
Very large, 112 page album, hard back. **In 1931 Ruston & Hornsby, an amalgamation of two pioneer internal combustion engine manufacturers, embarked on the production of small narrow gauge diesel locomotives. From this initiative, intended to increase the sales of their engines, they became Britain's largest builders of diesel locomotives and had built over 6500 by the time the firm closed in 1969. Here Andrew Neale describes and illustrates the range and scope of these locomotives using a combination of official and privately taken photographs and other materials.
Price: £28.00
 

Scottish Colliery Pugs In The Seventies. Ref: MT1572  


Roberton, W.
Very large, 48 page album, soft back. **This book, although published over 20 years ago, is still a "new" copy, As it has been on our shelves for a couple of decades it has naturally developed what is known in the trade as "shelf wear" to the cover. It is still offered at the original price, inflation and shelf wear balancing each other out.
Price: £4.95
 

Sentinel Locomotives And Sentinel-Cammell Railcars. Ref: MT3750  

Their design and development.
Hutchings.
Very large, 347 pages, photos, drawings, diagrams, appendices, bibliography, hard back. **A comprehensive and well illustrated account of the railway locomotives produced by Sentinel, including tabulated works lists.
Price: £39.00
 

Shunting Locomotives In The Diesel Age. Ref: MT3082  


King.
Medium, 76 page album, photos, four-page colour section, four-page introduction, soft back. **Some industrial locomotives, mainly BR engines.
Price: £10.50
 

Simplex Locomotives At Work. Ref: MT3738  


Keef.
Very large, 96 page album, soft back. ** Motor Rail Ltd started building Simplex locomotives in 1916, for use behind the trenches, and continued to produce light industrial locos for some 70 years. This is an album of black and white and colour photos, many previously unpublished, showing the engines at work in locations around the world and knowledgeably captioned at some length. The author's company, Alan Keef Ltd, bought Motor Rail's business in 1987.
Price: £15.00
 

Soviet Locomotive Types. Ref: MT0551  

Union Legacy.
Heywood & Button.
Medium, 175 pages, photos, lists, hard back. Low stock.
Price: £12.95
 

Vertical Boiler Locomotives And Railmotors Built In Great Britain. Volume Two Ref: MT3514  


Ashforth & Bradley.
Very large, 290 pages, well illustrated with photographs (some colour), glazed boards. ** The first volume of this book, by the late R A S Abbott, was published by the Oakwood Press in 1989 and has long been out of print (we do have second hand copies from time to time). This second volume, a collaboration of various members of the Industrial Locomotive Society, is a companion to the original volume, adding corrections and so much new information that it is almost double the size of its predecessor. As before the material is listed by manufacturer; the locomotives are diverse in design and generally fascinating in operation.
Price: £29.95
 

The Vulcan Foundry. Ref: MT3611  

150 years of engineering.
Alexander.
Medium, 96 page colour album, soft back. **A collection of mostly period colour (some mono) pictures of the products of the famous locomotive works at Newton-le-Willows, ultimately English Electric, builder of the Deltics and many other well-loved locomotives for home and overseas railways. Three pages of introduction and detailed captions give the background to this pictorial historical survey.
Price: £14.99
 

Xpress Loco Register 1. SR 1949 - 61. Ref: MT0768  


Becket.
Very large, 208 pages, glazed boards.
Price: £15.95
 

Xpress Loco Register 2. LMR 1950 - 60 Ref: MT0769  


Becket.
Very large, 248 pages, glazed boards.
Price: £15.95
 

Xpress Loco Register 3. ER 1950 - 60. Ref: MT0770  


Becket.
Very large, 232 pages, glazed boards.
Price: £15.95
 

Xpress Loco Register 4. WR 1950 - 60. Ref: MT0771  


Becket.
Very large, 178 pages, glazed boards.
Price: £15.95
 

Yellow Trains. Ref: MT3721  

Ten years of testing.
Royle.
Very large, 160 pages, many photos: colour throughout, glazed boards. **The author worked as an on-train technician for Network Rail between 2002 and 2012. He took his camera wherever he went and recorded the trains, the equipment and the people - this lucid description of the work involved is therefore singularly well illustrated.
Price: £25.00
 

Blue Pullman Supplement. Ref: MT2654  


Robertson.
Very large, 88 pages, pictorial, soft back. **i>The
Price: £14.95

BR Diesel Traction In Scotland. Ref: MT2777  


O'Hara.
Very large, 308 pages black & white album of dmus, railbuses and diesel locomotives during the BR period in Scotland. Map endpapers, glazed boards.
Price: £25.00

Detailed History Of BR Standard Steam Locomotives. Volume 1. Background to Standardisation; Pacific Classes. Ref: MT0117  


Taylor, R K (ed).
172 pages, very large, well illustrated, glazed boards.
Price: £19.95

Brush Diesel & Electric Locomotives 1940-2008. Ref: MT2602  


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.
Price: £35.00

Industrial Locomotives Of Dyfed And Powys. Ref: MT0158  


de Havilland, J.
Medium, 342 pages, + 40 pages of photos, 29 maps. Glazed boards. **Describes not only locomotives and their locations, but also non-locomotive and contractors' sites.
Price: £19.95

Industrial Locomotives Of East Anglia. Ref: MT1926  


Fisher.
Medium, 286 pages, + 32 pages photos, maps. Soft back. **Listings, with brief notes on the lines.
Price: £14.95

Industrial Locomotives Of Gwent. Ref: MT0354  


Hill & Green.
Medium, 400 pages. Glazed boards. (Also available as a paperback, qv.) **Includes information previously published in Pocket Book Six, Industrial Locomotives In South Wales with many additions. Known locomotives are listed on a site-by-site basis, and the industrial history of each site is described as far as it is known.
Price: £27.50

Industrial Locomotives Of Nottinghamshire. Ref: MT0359  


Bendall.
Medium, 432 pages, soft back. (Also available as a hard back, qv.) **Information previously published in Pocket Book E has been greatly amplified. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive, contractor's and preservation sites within in the county.
Price: £22.50

Industrial Locomotives Of The People's Republic Of China. Ref: MT2472  

Including preserved and local railway locomotives.
Pritchard.
Medium, 252 pages + 14 page photo section and double page map, soft back. IRS Handbook 2PRC. ** Second edition, double the size of the first. Also available in glazed boards @ £19.95 (item 2576)
Price: £16.95

Industrial Locomotives Of The People's Republic Of China. Ref: MT2576  

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)
Price: £19.95

Lifetime In Traction Ref: MT1664  

An engineer on the Southern diesels and electrics.
Tayler, A.
Very large, 96-page album with 4-page introduction and brief biography, large photo illustrations, soft back. ** The author's own photographs, with interesting descriptions, of various types of locomotives and multiple units with which he was involved over forty-one years: 5½ years with the Southern Railway, 16½ years with BR(SR), and 19 years with Sulzer, which included 7 years in the IME serving as Chairman of the Divisional Board Visits Committee.
Price: £14.95

Locomotives Of The LMS NCC. Ref: MT2590  

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 locomotives and railcars.
Price: £25.00

Locomotives of the Ministry of Defence. Ref: MT0003  


Hateley, R K.
Medium, 150 pages, photos. Soft back. **History of locomotives operated by the War Department and MoD from 1952 to 1992.
Price: £9.95

Parovozy - see items MT0757, MT1151 & MT1541. Ref: MT1150  


Chester
Parovozy : Russian & Soviet Steam Locomotives. Volumes 1, 2 & 3 available separately.

Preserved Heritage Traction. Ref: MT2342  


Marshall.
Medium, 136 pages, colour photo illustrations, card covers. **Preserved diesel and electric locomotives, preserved diesel and electric multiple units of former BR & constituent companies. Stocklists and distance tables of preserved railways. Set out in classes, like an abc.
Price: £14.95

Russian & Soviet Steam Locomotives. Vol 2. Ref: MT1151  

Elements Of Locomotive Development In Russia And The USSR.
Chester.
Large, 76 pages, soft back.
Price: £13.95

Ruston Proctor And Hornsby Akroyd Oil-Engined Locomotives. Ref: MT1589  


Parkinson, R J.
Medium, 50 pages, photo and line illustrations, site plans (of gunpowder mills where locos were in use). Soft back. **Industrial Narrow Gauge Heritage series number 5. In 1896 Hornsby Akroyd produced the first commercially successful oil-engine locomotive for the Royal Arsenal Railway at Greenwich. This booklet records the early development of the oil-engined loco.
Price: £4.95

Tornado 21st Century Steam. Ref: MT2767  

The definitive work.
Glancey.
Very large, 207 pages, many colour and some black & white photos, hard back. **The "official history" of Tornado includes a complete history of the Peppercorn A1 class. A handsome book at a very reasonable price.
Price: £24.99

Willing Servant. A History Of The Steam Locomotive. Ref: MT0026  


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.
Price: £25.00

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