London, Home Counties & South East England Railway Books

Welch.
Very large, about 150 pages, album. Hard back. **History of a branch line of the LB&SCR which was closed in 1958. Part of it was reopened in 1960 as the Bluebell Line.

British Railways Layout Plans Of The 1950s. Volume 2.

(Reference #L1952)
Price:£6.95

Ex-MR main line, Trent to St Pancras, and associated branches.
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Very large, 60 pages of signalling diagrams, closure list, index, soft back.

British Railways Layout Plans Of The 1950s. Volume 7.

(Reference #L2022)
Price:£6.95

L&NWR branch lines London and East Midlands area..
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Very large, 50 pages of signalling diagrams, location map, closure list, index, (60 pages in all), soft back. 2005 reprint.

British Railways Operating History 6. Through The Links At Old Oak Common.

(Reference #L0957)
Price:£14.95

Abear.
Very large, 96 pages, glazed boards.

British Railways Southern Region In Colour.

(Reference #L2380)
Price:£14.99

For the modeller and historian.
Robertson.
Very large, 96 pages, pictorial, soft back. **175 colour photographs illustrating the Southern Region during the years following nationalisation and shows a great variety of SR facilities and services. Invaluable reference for modellers.

Broad Street To Poplar.

(Reference #L0269)
Price:£7.25

A photographic journey.
Connor.
Medium, 52 pages, soft back.

Brookwood Necropolis Railway.

(Reference #L2193)
Price:£12.95

LP 143.
Clarke.
Medium, 192 pages, illustrated with photos, rolling stock drawings, track plans and maps; folding plan of cemetary. Soft back. **Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. A work of considerable interest, both from the railway and the socialogical points of view. As well as his exhaustive history of the cemetary and its railway the author provides much incidental information on funereal transport in general.

Brunel (Great Railway Eras).

(Reference #L2119)
Price:£14.95

A railtour of his achievements.
Mitchell.
Medium, about 96 pages, album. Glazed boards. ** Six fascinating railtours of Brunel's crowning glory, the Great Western Railway.

By Tube Beyond Edgware.

(Reference #L1198)
Price:£19.95

Beard.
Large, 136 pages, illustrated with photos and lots of maps, diagrams etc, glazed boards. *Planned extension of the Northern Line for 3 miles beyond Edgware to a projected large depot; conceived in the 1930s, postponed during the war it was finally abandoned. This is a complete record of the plan and its failure. Really interesting.

Channel Tunnel.

(Reference #L2122)
Price:£19.95

And its high-speed links. OL138.
Comfort.
Medium, 256 pages + large folding map, photos (mostly colour), maps, track plans, soft back. **A very detailed study of the origins, construction, operation and future of this monumental enterprise. Some fascinating illustrations.

Circle Line. Including the Hammersmith and City line.

(Reference #L1003)
Price:£5.95

An illustrated history.
Croome, D F.
Medium, 80 pages, photo illustrations. Soft back.

Cuckoo Line.

(Reference #L0080)
Price:£17.95

Elliott, A C.
Very large, 170 pages, pictorial. Hard back. **History of a Sussex branch line running to Tunbrige Wells. Includes descriptions of every station with track plans, building drawings, photos and timetables.

Designed For London.

(Reference #L1767)
Price:£19.95

150 years of transport design.
Green, O & Rewse-Davies, J.
Very large, 160 pages, many photo illustrations, some colour, hard back.

Directory Of British Engine Sheds And Principal Locomotive Servicing Points. Volume 1.

(Reference #L0494)
Price:£34.99

Southern England, the Midlands, East Anglia & Wales.
Griffiths & Smith.
Very large, 206 pages. Hard back. **For update and amendments see item 2166.

District Controller's View 9. The Kent Coast.

(Reference #L2092)
Price:£13.95

Victoria - Chatham - Ramsgate/Dover.
Becket & Bradshaw.
Very large, 132 pages, soft back. * "Train and traffic operations over the ex-LC&DR during the 1950s; working timetable (passenger and goods) including the London suburban area; engine workings including allocations and shed movements 1950-60."

Don't Knock The Southern.

(Reference #L0452)
Price:£14.99

Behrend.
Medium, 223 pages, illustrated with photos & maps. Hard back. **Recollections of the SR from the 1920s to the present day. Includes observations on SR ships and the various bus companies which competed with the trains.

Down The Tube.

(Reference #L0791)
Price:£9.99

The battle for London's underground.
Wolmar, C.
Medium, 246 pages, paperback. ** "Why do ministers still believe, after the collapse of Railtrack, that the separation of operations from maintenance and renewal is anything other than a recipe for inefficiency and a threat to safety?". Christian Wolmar is transport correspondent for the Independen, contributes to many other jounals and also broadcasts.

Ealing To Slough.

(Reference #L0673)
Price:£14.95

Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Early Years Of London Diesels.

(Reference #L1316)
Price:£9.95

Welch.
Medium square, 80 pages, colour album, soft back. *Some striking images, including a surprising shot of a diesel taking up water from Bushey troughs. (For its train heating boiler.) Good long captions.

East Kent Railway Volume One.

(Reference #L1588)
Price:£14.95

The history of the independent railway. OL 127A.
Finch, M L & Garrett, S R.
Medium, 232 pages, photos, maps. Soft back. ** "The East Kent Light Railways Company began as but one enterprise in a complex federation of enterprises whose ultimate goal was to transform East Kent into a thriving industrial centre to rival Glamorgan or Lancashire." A lively and thorough history.

East Kent Railway Volume Two.

(Reference #L1606)
Price:£14.95

Nationalisation, the route, rolling stock and operation.
Finch, M L & Garrett, S R.
Medium, 237 pages, photos, maps. Soft back. ** This volume contains chapters thirteen to seventeen of the work. It brings the history of the line up to its closure following the miners' strike of 1984, gives a very detailed description of the line as it was built and describes the locomotives and rolling stock.

East London Line.

(Reference #L0427)
Price:£14.95

Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Eastern Electric.

(Reference #L1537)
Price:£21.99

Glover, J.
Very large, 160 pages, photo illustrations, hard back. **The history of electric services throughout eastern England from the ground-breaking work on the NER through the LNER Woodhead and suburban systems to BR's various schemes; includes both main line and minor systems.

Essex Railway Heritage. Supplement.

(Reference #L2386)
Price:£9.95

Kay.
Very large, 71 pages, pictorial, soft back. ** "Includes full listing of all surviving railway structures in Essex and an appendix covering all station buildings now demolished. With many previously unpublished period illustrations.

Euston To Harrow & Wealdstone. (Midland Main Lines).

(Reference #L0802)
Price:£14.95

Scholey, K.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Fenchurch Street To Barking.

(Reference #L0421)
Price:£14.95

Connor.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Ferry Services Of The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway.

(Reference #L0472)
Price:£8.95

Jordan, S.
Medium, 112 pages. Soft back. LAST COPY

Finsbury Park To Alexandra Palace.

(Reference #L0420)
Price:£14.95

Connor.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

First Generation Southern EMUs.

(Reference #L2442)
Price:£12.99

British railway pictorial.
Robertson, K.
Very large, 80 pages, album with 6 pages of introductory text and lists, soft back.

Folkestone's Railways.

(Reference #L1755)
Price:£14.95

Hart, B.
Very large, 94 pages, map, photo illustrations, soft back.

From Construction To Destruction.

(Reference #L1957)
Price:£12.50

An authentic history of the Colne Valley and Halstead Railway.
Willingham.
Very large, 256 pages, photos, maps, station plans, soft back.

Glory Days: Western Region Steam Around London.

(Reference #L1148)
Price:£14.99

McCormack.
Medium landscape, 96 pages, colour/b&w album, glazed boards.

Going Green.

(Reference #L1005)
Price:£5.95

The story of the District Line.
Connor, P.
Medium, 80 pages, photo illustrations, soft back.

GWR Disused Stations In Greater London.

(Reference #L1038)
Price:£8.25

Connor.
Medium, 68 pages, photos, map, soft back.

Hadleigh Branch.

(Reference #L2195)
Price:£13.95

LP230.
Paye.
Medium, 208 pages, photos, map, scale drawings. Soft back. **A very short railway on the Essex - Suffolk border.

Harpenden To Hemel Hempstead Railway.

(Reference #L1132)
Price:£14.95

The Nickey Line. LP197
Woodward.
Medium, 160 pages, soft back. Reissue.

Harrow To Watford. (Midland Main Lines).

(Reference #L1593)
Price:£14.95

And the branches to St Albans Abbey, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth and Stanmore Village.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Hawkshurst Branch.

(Reference #L0952)
Price:£26.95

Hart.
Very large, 224 pages, hard back.

History Of The London & Birmingham Railway Volume One.

(Reference #L1896)
Price:£18.95

Euston to Bletchley.
Richards & Simpson.
Very large, 158 pages, pictorial: photos (some colour), track plans, maps etc, soft back. **The first main line to the north from London. With the tremendous engineering genius of Robert Stephenson it was successfully completed and opened throughout in 1838, taking only four years. This is primarily a history of the development of the line itself, taking it place by place, northwards.

History Of The Metropolitan Railway Volume One.

(Reference #L1569)
Price:£17.95

The Circle and the extended lines to Rickmansworth.
Simpson, W.
Very large, 158 pages, pictorial: photos (some colour), maps etc, soft back. **By the middle of the nineteenth century London's unique problems of overcrowding and density of traffic called for some revolutionary form of transport, the answer proved to be an underground railway. The Metropolitan Railway as the first underground railway in the world acquired a pioneering ethos from the beginning. The story of that railway and its subsequent extension into Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Buckinghamshire is to be detailed in three books of which this is the first.

History Of The Metropolitan Railway Volume Two.

(Reference #L1817)
Price:£18.95

The railway from Rickmansworth to Aylesbury including Halton Camp Railway.
Simpson, W.
Very large, 158 pages, pictorial: photos (some period colour), maps etc, soft back. **This second volume of the history of the Met continues the story beyond the confines of London as the line reaches north through the Chess and Misbourne valleys and climbs the Chilterns to reach Aylesbury. It includes a comprehensive account of the RAF Halton Camp Railway.

Hitchin To Peterborough. (Eastern Main Lines).

(Reference #L1083)
Price:£14.95

Including the Ramsey North branch.
Mitchell, V & Mott, A.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Hundred Of Hoo Railway.

(Reference #L0056)
Price:£7.95

Hart, B.
Very large, 48 pages, pictorial, soft back.

Hythe And Sandgate Railway.

(Reference #L0066)
Price:£18.95

Hart, B.
Very large, 176 pages, pictorial photos, maps, station elevations etc. Hard back. **Thorough history of this railway together with a shorter history of the Hythe and Sandgate Horse tramway.

Ilford To Shenfield. (Eastern Main Lines).

(Reference #L0803)
Price:£14.95

Brennand.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Illustrated History Of Slade Green Depot.

(Reference #L1968)
Price:£10.95

From steam to Networker.
Deller.
Very large, 96 pages, photo illustrations, drawings, diagrams, site plan, glazed boards.

Illustrated History Of The Lewes & E Grinstead Railway.

(Reference #L1260)
Price:£35.00

Marx.
256 pages, hard back.

Industrial Locomotives Of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire & Northamptonshire.

(Reference #L1288)
Price:£27.50

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.

Industrial Locomotives Of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire & Northamptonshire.

(Reference #L1289)
Price:£22.50

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.

Industrial Railways & Locomotives Of Hertfordshire & Middlesex.

(Reference #L2306)
Price:£19.95

Waywell.
Medium, 408 pages, maps and site plans (some colour), photo section, softback.

Jubilee Line.

(Reference #L1006)
Price:£6.95

An illustrated history.
Horne, M.
Medium, 80 pages, photo illustrations, soft back.

Kent And East Sussex Railway.

(Reference #L0465)
Price:£8.95

Garrett.
Medium, 112 pages, new edition. Soft back.

Kent Narrow Gauge (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines).

(Reference #L2405)
Price:£14.95

Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Kent Narrow Gauge.

(Reference #L0674)
Price:£14.95

Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

LCC Electric Tramways.

(Reference #L0785)
Price:£25.00

Harley, R J.
Very large, 176 pages, colour and b/w photo illustrations, maps. Hard back. **An excellent history of the undertaking, which was the largest municipal system in Great Britain.

Lifetime In Traction

(Reference #L1664)
Price:£14.95

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.

Liverpool Street To Chingford. (London Suburban Railways.)

(Reference #L0840)
Price:£14.95

Connor.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Liverpool Street To Ilford.

(Reference #L0442)
Price:£14.95

Connor.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Logo For London.

(Reference #L0724)
Price:£19.95

The London Transport Symbol.
Lawrence.
Large square, 112 pages, drawings, posters, photos, much in colour. Glazed boards. ** Serious history with much nostagia; ends with some interesting examples of other undertakings' copies of the symbol.

London & North Eastern Railway In Focus.

(Reference #L1021)
Price:£25.00

Crawley, J.
Large, 192 pages, pictorial, hard back. **Compilation of official and unofficial photographs, promotional booklets, accident reports, LNER committee minutes and other unusual items from the author's extensive archives of LNER memorabilia.

London & South Western Railway Miscellany.

(Reference #L1965)
Price:£19.99

Scott-Morgan.
Very large, 128 page album, hard back. **About 250 photos of LSWR operations, including locos, workshops and sheds, rolling stock, docks and shipping, bridges, viaducts, and signalling. The aim is to give a picture of the LSWR in the period leading up to the grouping.

London Brighton & South Coast Railway: Signal Boxes In 1920-1922. Part 3.

(Reference #L1457)
Price:£7.95

Mid Sussex & west coast lines and branches.
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Very large, 120 pages of signalling diagrams, soft back.

London Brighton & South Coast Railway: Signal Boxes In 1920-1922. Part 4.

(Reference #L1458)
Price:£7.95

Dorking and suburban lines.
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Very large, 112 pages of signalling diagrams, soft back.

London Railway Atlas.

(Reference #L2132)
Price:£14.99

Brown.
Medium, 56 map pages + about 30 page station index, glazed boards.**Very useful atlas: all maps give track detail and index gives opening and closure dates and other details

London Railway Map.

(Reference #L1270)
Price:£7.00

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Folding coloured map in soft cover, approximately the size of an OS sheet. 2nd edition. *A useful detailed map showing all the present lines and stations, including the Croydon Tram Link. Includes a list of stations.

London Railway Record.

(Reference #L0731)
Price:£2.50

(Quarterly magazine).
ed Connor.
Medium, 40 pages per issue. Recent issues only. Low stocks of some of the earlier numbers.