Transport Bookshop:New Books:Area Studies:Midlands & East Anglia   

A Significant Accident. (Reference #ME1648) Price:£14.99 Atkin, C. Medium, 404 pages, soft back. **Detailed study of the Connington derailment.

Alcester Branch. (Reference #ME2112) Price:£18.95 Jenkins & Carpenter. Very large, 100 pages, many photo illustrations, large scale maps showing track layouts. Soft back. **History and detailed descriptions.

Around The Great Western Railway Then & Now. (Reference #ME1092) Price:£35.00 Waters, L. Very large, 256 pages, album, hard back.**Housing estates, industrial developments, car parks, supermarkets, new roads, cycle paths, modern stations, crisp new ballast, HSTs, sprinters - photos of all these shown side by side with atmospheric pictures of the same spots under GWR or Western Region. This large and handsome volume covers almost the entire system by area and line.

Arrival Of The Midland Railway In Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire In 1866. (Reference #ME1109) Price:£12.50 Slack. Medium, 95 pages, maps, photos and various other illustrations. Hard back. *A novel approach: having recorded the history of the planning and building of the line the author has drawn largely on records of goods traffic to illustrate the running of the nineteenth century services and the local trades and industries. Some unusual photos illustrate the work.

Aylesbury To Rugby. (Midland Main Lines). (Reference #ME2495) Price:£14.95 Including the Brill Tramway. Mitchell & Smith Medium, 96-page album: photos, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Banbury & Cheltenham Direct Railway. (Reference #ME1863) Price:£24.99 Jenkins, S C, Brown, B & Parkhouse, N. Very large, 368 pages, many photo illustrations, some maps. Hard back. **Line history including operation and detailed line description.

Banbury & Cheltenham Railway. Volume One. (Reference #ME0027) Price:£29.95 Hemmings, W. Very large, 200 pages, illustrated with photographs, maps and other artwork, hard back. **A meticulous history documenting the growth of the line from its beginnings as the Chipping Norton branch in 1845, the addition of the Bourton-on-the-Water railway and the final push to Cheltenham and the GWR northern main line. Volume 1 takes the history up to 1939. Volume 2 (qv) describes the route from Banbury to Kingham; Volume 3, not yet published, will cover the route from Kingham to Cheltenham.

Banbury & Cheltenham Railway. Volume Two. (Reference #ME1775) Price:£28.95 Hemmings, W, Karau, P & Turner, C.. Very large, 170 pages, illustrated with photographs, maps and other artwork, hard back. **Volume Two of this meticulous history provides a description of the route from Banbury to Kingham and a chapter on each of the eleven stations on that section. A third volume is planned, to cover Kingham station and the route to Cheltenham.

Banbury And The Branch Line To Verney Junction. (Reference #ME2108) Price:£8.95 The final years. Simpson. Very large, 63 pages, pictorial: map, track plans, many photos, soft back. ** An illustrated view of the final years of the branch from Banbury to Bletchley.

Banbury To Birmingham (Western Main Lines). (Reference #ME1883) Price:£14.95 Mitchell & Smith. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Banbury To Verney Junction Branch. (Reference #ME0404) Price:£8.95 Simpson. Medium, 175 pages, large folding map, photo illustrations, soft back.

Bedford To Wellingborough. (Midland Main Lines). (Reference #ME1882) Price:£14.95 Including Hitchin, Northampton and Higham Ferrers. Goslin. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Benjamin Outram 1764 - 1805. (Reference #ME1274) Price:£24.95 An engineering biography. Schofield Medium, 340 pages, illustrated with drawings, photos and maps. *Biography of the man who may or may not have given his name to the tramway. A short but singularly interesting life: Outram was involved, among other things, with canals and tramways in Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Wales and with the Iron Works at Butterley.

Birmingham - Bristol. Portrait Of A Famous Midland Route. Part One. (Reference #ME1017) Price:£14.99 Birmingham To Cheltenham. Mourton, S & Pixton, B. Large, 96 pages, softback. **Album with 14 page introductory article on The Making Of The Route and notes on services and on the Saltley mpd.

Birmingham - Bristol. Portrait Of A Famous Midland Route. Part Two. (Reference #ME1637) Price:£14.99 Cheltenham to Bristol and Bath. Mourton, S & Pixton, B. Large, 96 pages, photos, gradient profile, softback. **Album with 5 page introductory article on The Making Of The Route.

Birmingham - Derby. Portrait Of A Famous Route. (Reference #ME2080) Price:£12.99 Pixton. Large, 96 page album, softback. **One extremely foggy day in the 1960sI shared a compartment on this line with two old ladies (every bit of 50, no doubt). They were anxious at being unable to see where they were but cheered up on arrival at Tamworth. A strong but completely imaginary smell of beer convinced them they had reached Burton. Fortunately they were going to Derby.

Birmingham New Street. The story of a great station 3. LMS Days 1923 - 1947 (Reference #ME0608) Price:£14.95 Including Curzon Street. Foster, R. Very large, 128 pages, many photo and other illustrations, soft back. **Number 3 of a four part, very detailed, history; numbers 1 & 2 are out of print and number 4 is not yet published.

Birmingham Railway Stations. (Reference #ME0527) Price:£3.50 On old picture postcards. Marks. Medium, 36 pages, album. Soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the last century, with informative captions."

Birmingham Railways. (Reference #ME1549) Price:£3.50 On old picture postcards. Marks. Medium, 36 pages, album. Soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes earlier this [last] century, with informative captions."

Birmingham Snow Hill. (Reference #ME1560) Price:£13.95 Commemorating 150 years of a great station Baxter, I & Harper, R. Very large, 128 pages, profusely illustrated with photos, some colour. Soft back. **History of the station.

Black Country. (Reference #ME1636) Price:£12.99 British railway pictorial. Collins, P. Very large, 80 pages, pictorial, map endpapers, soft back..

Bletchley To Cambridge. (Country Railway Routes). (Reference #ME2487) Price:£14.95 Featuring Bedford St Johns. Mitchell & Smith. Medium, 96-page album: photos, maps, glazed boards.

Bletchley To Rugby. (Midland Main Lines). (Reference #ME2494) Price:£14.95 Including Newport Pagnell and Northampton. Mitchell & Smith Medium, 96-page album: photos, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Bournville. (Reference #ME1488) Price:£5.95 Steam And Chocolate. Hitchin. 2nd printing. Large, soft back.

Branch Line To Hemel Hempstead. (Reference #ME2497) Price:£14.95 The Nickey Line. Woodward & Woodward. Medium, 96-page album: photos, large scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Branch Line To Shrewsbury. (Reference #ME2498) Price:£14.95 The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire. Mitchell & Smith. Medium, 96-page album: photos, large scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Branch Line To Southwold. (Reference #ME2627) Price:£15.95 Including the Hainault Loop. Mitchell & Smith. Medium, 96-page album: photos, maps, glazed boards.

Branch Line To Upwell. (Reference #ME0436) Price:£14.95 Mitchell, Smith & Ingram. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Branch Line To Wantage. (Reference #ME1884) Price:£14.95 The Wantage Tramway. A tramway classic. Mitchell & Smith. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Branch Lines Around Cromer. (Reference #ME0437) Price:£14.95 Adderson & Kenworthy. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Branch Lines Around Huntingdon. (Reference #ME1659) Price:£14.95 Kettering To Cambridge. Mitchell, Smith, Awdry & Mott. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Branch Lines Around Lowestoft. (Reference #ME2562) Price:£14.95 From Yarmouth and Beccles. Adderson & Kenworthy. Medium, 96-page album, large-scale maps of stations areas, glazed boards.

Branch Lines Around March. (Reference #ME0434) Price:£14.95 Mitchell, Smith, Awdry & Mott. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Branch Lines Around Towcester. (Reference #ME2560) Price:£14.95 The S&MJR Routes. Mitchell & Smith. Medium, 96-page album, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Branch Lines Around Wisbech. (Reference #ME0435) Price:£14.95 Ingram. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Branch Lines To Felixstowe And Aldeburgh. (Reference #ME1881) Price:£14.95 Including the Snape branch. Adderson & Kenworthy. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Branch Lines To Princes Risborough. (Reference #ME2625) Price:£15.95 From Aylesbury, Oxford and Watlington. Mitchell & Smith. Medium, 96-page album, large-scale maps of stations areas, glazed boards.

British Railways In Colour No 3. Northampton And Beyond. (Reference #ME1601) Price:£9.99 A British Railways Illustrated Special. Onley, G. Medium landscape, 62 pages colour album, glazed boards.

British Railways Layout Plans Of The 1950s. Volume 14. (Reference #ME1951) Price:£6.95 Ex-MR lines Whitwell to Glendon Sidings via Nottingham, and branches. - Very large, 54 pages of signalling diagrams, index, soft back.

British Railways Layout Plans Of The 1950s. Volume 2. (Reference #ME1952) Price:£6.95 Ex-MR main line, Trent to St Pancras, and associated branches. - Very large, 60 pages of signalling diagrams, closure list, index, soft back.

British Railways Layout Plans Of The 1950s. Volume 7. (Reference #ME2022) Price:£6.95 L&NWR branch lines London and East Midlands area.. - Very large, 50 pages of signalling diagrams, location map, closure list, index, (60 pages in all), soft back. 2005 reprint.

British Railways Layout Plans Of The 1950s. Volume 8. (Reference #ME2023) Price:£6.95 Manchester and Chesterfield to Derby and Trent (including Hope Valley & other branches. - Very large, 58 pages of signalling diagrams, location map, closure list, index, (68 pages in all), soft back. 2005 reprint.

Bromsgrove To Birmingham. (Midland Main Lines). (Reference #ME2493) Price:£14.95 Including the Camp Hill Route. Mitchell & Smith Medium, 96-page album: photos, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Bromsgrove To Gloucester. (Midland Main Lines). (Reference #ME2492) Price:£14.95 Including Ashchurch to Great Malvern. Mitchell & Smith Medium, 96-page album: photos, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Building A Railway. (Reference #ME2668) 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.

Burton And Ashby Light Railways 1906 - 1927. (Reference #ME1399) Price:£3.50 On old picture postcards. Bown, M Medium, 36 pages, album, soft back. *"Featuring scenes at Burton, Newhall, Swadlincote, Bretby, Woodville, Winshill, Church Gresley, and Ashby."

By Great Western To Crewe. (Reference #ME2125) Price:£13.95 The story of the Wellington to Nantwich and Crewe line. Yate, R. Medium, 208 pages, photo illustrations, maps. Soft back.

Cambridge To Ely. (Eastern Main Lines). (Reference #ME2057) Price:£14.95 Including St Ives to Ely. Adderson & Kenworthy. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Century Of Railways Around Birmingham And The West Midlands. Volume 1. (Reference #ME0453) Price:£9.95 Boynton. Very large, 96 pages. Soft back.

Charles Burling Railway Signalman Of Cromford. (Reference #ME2332) Price:£9.99 Waite. Very large, 68 pages, maps, photo illustrations, card covers. **Life on the Midland, taken from the notebooks of Mr Burling, who retired in 1947 at the age of 66.

Cherwell Valley Railway. (Reference #ME0561) Price:£14.99 Allen. Large, 160 pages. Soft back.

Chester & North Wales Border Railways. (Reference #ME1368) Price:£16.99 A view from the past. Christiansen. Medium, 96 pages, pictorial, map, glazed boards.

Churnet Valley Iron. (Reference #ME2213) Price:£12.50 The mills & the mines. Chester. Medium, 110 pages, maps, photos and other illustrations. Soft back. Originally published in 1979 as "The Iron Valley", this is the 2nd edition.

Churnet Valley Railway. (Reference #ME0411) Price:£19.95 Jeuda. Very large, 180 pages, hard back.

Collieries & Their Railways In The Manchester Coalfields. (Reference #ME1810) Price:£19.95 Hayes, G. Medium, 208 pages, photos, geological map, railway maps, machinery lists, locomotive details. Hard back. *A study of the geology of the coal field is followed by a general history and description of the collieries; details of shafts and winding gear are compared in tabular form. The final substantial chapter deals with the various railways and tramways serving the pits.

Country Branch Line. Volume One: The Story Of The Line From 1872 To 1961. (Reference #ME1477) Price:£26.95 An intimate portrait of the Watlington branch. Karau, P & Turner, C. Very large, 240 pages, photo illustrations. Hard back.

Country Branch Line. Volume Two: The Stations. (Reference #ME1472) Price:£25.95 An intimate portrait of the Watlington branch. Karau, P & Turner, C. Very large, 214 pages, photo illustrations. Hard back.

Cromford & High Peak Railway. (Reference #ME1073) Price:£6.95 Coleford, I C. Large, 28 pages, photos, maps. **A serious, well-researched history.

Cromford And High Peak Railway. (Reference #ME0216) Price:£9.95 Marshall. Large, 96 pages, illustrated, soft back.

Cromford Station. (Reference #ME2657) 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.

D J Norton's Pictorial Survey Of Railways In The West Midlands. Part One (Reference #ME2547) Price:£19.95 LMS Western Division lines. Essery. Very large, 143 page album, photosl, some maps, soft back. **Norton held a lineside pass, and took a robust view of the degree of access it was intended to allow him. These pictures were taken between 1947 and 1965, when he died, aged just 35. Pictures taken in Birmingham. A few of Norton's excellent street and canal scenes are also included.

D J Norton's Pictorial Survey Of Railways In The West Midlands. Part Two. (Reference #ME2548) Price:£17.95 LMS Midland Division. Former Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway and later lines connecting to it. Essery. Very large, 112 page album, photosl, some maps, soft back. **Norton held a lineside pass, and took a robust view of the degree of access it was intended to allow him. These pictures were taken between 1947 and 1965, when he died, aged just 35. In this volume Norton ventures as far as Tamworth. A few of Norton's excellent street and canal scenes are also included.

D J Norton's Pictorial Survey Of Railways In The West Midlands. Part Three. (Reference #ME2549) Price:£17.95 LMS Midland Division. Former Birmingham & Gloucester Railway and later lines connecting to it. Essery. Very large, 112 page album, photos, some maps, soft back. **Norton held a lineside pass, and took a robust view of the degree of access it was intended to allow him. These pictures were taken between 1947 and 1965, when he died, aged just 35. This volume covers the line as far as Kings Norton. A few of Norton's excellent street and canal scenes are also included.

Derbyshire Railway Stations. (Reference #ME0008) Price:£3.50 On old picture postcards. Lund, B. Medium, 36 pages, album, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the last century, with informative captions."

Directory Of British Engine Sheds And Principal Locomotive Servicing Points. Volume 1. (Reference #ME0494) 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 3. Marylebone - Rugby. (Reference #ME0766) Price:£10.95 Skoars. Very large, 72 pages, soft back.

District Controller's View 4 Somerset & Dorset. (Reference #ME0767) Price:£10.95 Bath - Bournemouth and branches. Foster. Very large, 64 pages, soft back.

District Controller's View 6. The Peak District. (Reference #ME1231) Price:£12.95 Manchester - Matlock - Derby; Manchester - Chinley - Sheffield. Bentley. Very large, 120 pages, soft back.

District Controller's View 10. The Severn Valley. (Reference #ME2165) Price:£11.95 Kidderminster - Bridgnorth - Shrewsbury; Wellington - Buildwas - Much Wenlock; Hartlebury - Bewdley - Woofferton. Becket & Bradshaw. Very large, 64 pages, soft back. * "Train and traffic operations over the Severn Valley and branches during the 1950s; working timetable (passenger and goods); engine workings, allocations and shed movements 1950-60."

District Controller's View 11. The Midland & South Western Junction Railway. (Reference #ME2320) Price:£11.95 Cheltenham - Cirencester - Swindon - Marlborough - Savernake - Andover Junction. Stephens. Very large, 68 pages, photos, many diagrams, soft back. * "Train and traffic operations over the MSW during the 1950s; full working timetable (passenger and goods); engine diagrams and locomotive allocations 1950-60 Swindon & Gloucester MPDs."

District Controller's View 12. The Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway. (Reference #ME2669) Price:£14.95 Peterborough Saxby King's Lynn Norwich Wisbech Bourne Melton Constable Cromer Sutton Bridge Spalding Great Yarmouth Lowestoft. - 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."

Dunstable Branch. (Reference #ME0406) Price:£8.95 Simpson. Medium, 142 pages, soft back.

East Somerset And Cheddar Valley Railways. (Reference #ME2670) 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.

Eastern Electric. (Reference #ME1537) 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.

Ely To Kings Lynn. (Eastern Main Lines). (Reference #ME1660) Price:£14.95 Including the Stoke Ferry branch. Adderson & Kenworthy. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Ely To Norwich. (Eastern Main Lines). (Reference #ME1336) Price:£14.95 Adderson & Kenworthy. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Fenland Pumping Engines. (Reference #ME2366) Price:£24.99 Hinde, K S G. Medium, 224 pages, photos, some drawings, maps. Hard back. ** "An account of over 200 steam and diesel powered pumping stations installed in the fens and Trent Valley since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Invaluable to those interested in the history of the fens and to those exploring the fens on land or water."

Firsby. (Reference #ME2188) Price:£10.75 Portrait of a country junction. Brown, G H. Very large, 110 pages plus folding plan, many photo illustrations, some maps, soft back. **On the GNR system, close to Skegness. This study is particularly strong on the signalling system.

First Generation DMUs In East Anglia. (Reference #ME2362) Price:£12.99 British railway pictorial. Brodribb. Very large, 80 pages, album with 7 illustrated pages of introductory text, map, soft back..

Framlingham Branch. (Reference #ME2503) Price:£15.95 OL233. Paye. Medium, 248 pages, photos, map, locomotive and rolling stock drawings, station layouts. Soft back.

Glory Days: Steam In East Anglia. (Reference #ME1127) Price:£15.99 Swinger. Medium landscape, 96 pages, album, some colour, glazed boards.

Golden Valley Railway. (Reference #ME1476) Price:£15.95 Smith, W H. Very large, 136 pages, pictorial, soft back.

Great Northern Railway Engine Sheds Volume 2. (Reference #ME0249) Price:£22.50 The Lincolnshire Loop, Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire. Griffiths & Hooper. Very large, hard back, 122 pages.

Great Northern Railway In The East Midlands Volume 1. Colwick Yards - Nottingham London Road - Gedling - Basford. (Reference #ME0520) Price:£13.95 Henshaw. 108 pages, very large, pictorial with photos, maps and tables. Soft back.

Great Northern Railway In The East Midlands Volume 2. Nottingham Victoria And GC Line. The Leen Valley Network And Extensions. (Reference #ME0633) Price:£14.95 Henshaw. 131 pages, very large, pictorial with photos, maps and tables. Soft back.

Great Northern Railway In The East Midlands Volume 3. Erewash Valley, Pinxton Branch, Awsworth, Ilkeston, Heanor, Stanton. (Reference #ME0693) Price:£15.95 Henshaw. 156 pages, very large, pictorial with photos, maps and tables. Soft back.

Great Northern Railway In The East Midlands Volume 4. Nottingham - Grantham, Bottesford - Newark, Melton Mowbray, The Leicester Line And Ironstone Branches. (Reference #ME0842) Price:£18.95 Henshaw. 185 pages, very large, pictorial with photos, maps and tables. Soft back. **Reprint of issue published in 2003, which went out of print quickly.

GWR At Stourbridge And The Black Country. Volume One. (Reference #ME1876) Price:£14.95 The life, the times, the men. OL132A. Butcher. Medium, 240 pages, illustrated with photos and diagrams. Soft back. **After the author had finished his book The Railways Of Stourbridge he found the minutes of the Stourbridge shed Local Department Committee which in turn led him to further material and many railwaymen who had worked there. This book and its continuation volume contain the details of working practices and much other information learnt from these sources.

GWR At Stourbridge And The Black Country. Volume Two. (Reference #ME1916) Price:£15.95 The life, the times, the men. OL132B. Butcher. Medium, 256 pages, illustrated with photos and diagrams. Soft back. **After the author had finished his book The Railways Of Stourbridge he found the minutes of the Stourbridge shed Local Department Committee which in turn led him to further material and many railwaymen who had worked there. This book and its preceeding volume contain the details of working practices and much other information learnt from these sources.

Hadleigh Branch. (Reference #ME2195) Price:£13.95 LP230. Paye. Medium, 208 pages, photos, map, scale drawings. Soft back. **A very short railway on the Essex - Suffolk border.

Henley-On-Thames Branch. (Reference #ME1959) Price:£15.95 Karau, P. Very large, 176 pages, photos, track plans, architectural drawings. Hard back.

Hereford, Hay and Brecon Branch. (Reference #ME2458) Price:£30.00 An historical survey of stations and lines under Great Western or Great Western joint ownership. Smith, W H. Very large, 320 pages, photo illustrations (including small colour section) plus maps, station layouts. Hard back. **In-depth line history.

Heyday Of Tyseley And Its Locomotives. (Reference #ME0839) Price:£14.99 Whitehouse & Hogarth. Medium landscape, 80 page colour album, glazed boards.

History Of The Great Northern Railway's Colwick Motive Power Depot And Marshalling Yard. (Reference #ME1865) Price:£19.99 Incorporating the Nottingham Colwick Estates Light Railway, and the London & North Western Railway's Netherfield & Colwick engine shed. Waite, P B. Large landscape, 96 pages, many photo illustrations, maps, allocation lists, hard back.

History Of The Railways Of Oxfordshire. Part 1: The North. (Reference #ME0405) Price:£19.95 Simpson. Large, 192 pages, illustrated with photos, maps, track plans, hard back.

History Of The Railways Of Oxfordshire. Part 2: The South. (Reference #ME1141) Price:£19.95 Simpson. Large, 192 pages, illustrated with photos, maps, track plans, hard back.

History Of The Stratford-upon-Avon & Midland Junction Railway. (Reference #ME1093) Price:£24.95 Riley, R C & Simpson, B. Very large, 160 pages, many illustrations - photos, maps, diagrams etc. Hard back. **History of cross country line running through Northamptonshire and Warwickshire.

Hitchin To Peterborough. (Eastern Main Lines). (Reference #ME1083) Price:£14.95 Including the Ramsey North branch. Mitchell, V & Mott, A. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Horncastle And Tattershall Canal. (Reference #ME1941) Price:£4.95 C6. Clarke. Medium, 96 pages, illustrated with photos and maps. Soft back.

Illustrated History Of Mansfield's Railways. (Reference #ME0667) Price:£10.95 Anderson & Cupit. Very large, 76 pages.

Illustrated History Of Scunthorpe's Railways. (Reference #ME0371) Price:£12.25 Longbone. Very large, 76 pages, soft back.

Illustrated History Of Slade Green Depot. (Reference #ME1968) Price:£10.95 From steam to Networker. Deller. Very large, 96 pages, photo illustrations, drawings, diagrams, site plan, glazed boards.

Illustrated History Of The Ashchurch To Barnt Green Line (Reference #ME1106) Price:£30.00 The Evesham route. Essery, R J. Large, 160 pages, hard back.

Illustrated History Of The North Cornwall Railway. (Reference #ME2558) Price:£29.95 The Southern Railway route between Okehampton, Launceston, Wadebridge and Padstow. Wroe and others. Very large, 406 pages, photo illustrations, drawings, junction, station, gradient and signalling diagrams, glazed boards. **A very comprehensive history and survey.

Illustrated History Of The Shropshire And Montgomeryshire Light Railway. (Reference #ME2479) Price:£19.99 Johnson, P. Very large, 128 pages, photos, maps, station/signalling diagrams, pictures of paperwork, ephemera etc. Hardback. ** Another nicely-illustrated and readable history from Mr Johnson. The station/signalling diagrams by Gordon Rushton are particularly lucid.

Immingham And The Great Central Legacy. (Reference #ME0562) Price:£9.99 Mummery & Butler. Medium, 128 page album. Soft back. Images of England series.

Industrial Locomotives Of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire & Northamptonshire. (Reference #ME1288) 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 #ME1289) 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 Locomotives Of Nottinghamshire. (Reference #ME0358) Price:£27.50 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.

Industrial Locomotives Of Nottinghamshire. (Reference #ME0359) Price:£22.50 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.

Industrial Locomotives Of South Staffordshire. (Reference #ME0154) Price:£17.95 Shill, R. Medium, 172 pages, + 24 pages photos, maps. Glazed boards. Also available in soft back, qv.

Industrial Locomotives Of South Staffordshire. (Reference #ME1302) Price:£14.95 Shill, R. Medium, 172 pages, + 24 pages photos, maps. Soft back. Also available hard back, qv.

Industrial Railways & Locomotives Of Worcestershire. (Reference #ME2527) Price:£12.00 Preliminary handbook. Smith. Medium, 55 pages including 8 pages of maps, softback. ** Usual IRS format: sites and lines are briefly described and locomotives listed.

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of The County Of London. (Reference #ME2577) 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 #ME2578) 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.

Ipswich To Saxmundham. (Reference #ME0625) Price:£14.95 Anderson & Kenworthy. Medium, 96 page album. Glazed boards. Out of print - last few.

Irish Mail. (Reference #ME1567) Price:£14.99 Hitches, M. Large, 160 pages, photo album, glazed boards.

Iron Roads To The Broads & Fens. (Reference #ME2031) Price:£4.99 A guide to the scenic railways of Norfolk and the adjoining counties. Pearson. Very large, landscape, 64 pages, illustrated with maps and photographs, colour throughout, handsomely produced, soft back. **So many of our books are historical it is refreshing to have one bang up to date - this is an enthusiastic rallying call to explore the railways of northern East Anglia. The system is divided into manageable sections each with a map, a description of the route, (this does include some history, the author is a traditionalist) and a gazetteer of the places along the way, with lists of accommodation, pubs, restaurants, shops, walks, boatyards, and bus, taxi and cycle hire details for onward travel. All this for just £4.99? There are no ads, but the commercial sponsors get a couple of pages at the end. Sadly the adjoining counties don't include Lincolnshire - it would be good to see more of this sort of guide.

Ironstone Quarries Of The Midlands. History, Operation And Railways. Part VI The Corby Area. (Reference #ME1301) Price:£19.95 Tonks. 320 pages, medium, with photo illustrations and maps, hard back.

Kidderminster To Shrewsbury. (Country Railway Routes). (Reference #ME2402) Price:£14.95 Including Stourport-on-Severn. Mitchell & Smith. Medium, about 96 pages, album, glazed boards.

King's Cross to Potters Bar. (Eastern Main Lines). (Reference #ME2686) Price:£15.95 Connor & Connor. Medium, probably 96 pages, album with 4-page historical introduction, photos, some maps, glazed boards.

Lambourn Branch Revisited. (Reference #ME2538) Price:£14.95 Robertson. Very large, 128 pages, photos, maps, plans, drawings of structures, some colour, soft back. **Further information on this GWR branch, nicely illustrated.

Lambourn Branch. (Reference #ME0182) Price:£18.95 Robertson, K & Simmonds, R. Very large, 172 pages. Hard back. **A well illustrated history of this former GWR branch line.

Leek And Manifold Light Railway. (Reference #ME0717) Price:£6.99 Porter. Large, 96 pages, soft back. **New enlarged edition, mainly photographic, very good range of illustrations.

Leicestershire And Rutland Railway Stations. (Reference #ME1313) Price:£3.50 On old picture postcards. Lund, B. Medium, 36 pages, album, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the last century, with informative captions."

Lincoln To Grantham Line Via Honington. (Reference #ME0162) Price:£11.95 LP195 Squires, S. Medium, 176 pages, many photos, plans, maps, soft back.

Lincolnshire Potato Railways. (Reference #ME2087) Price:£12.95 LP163 Squires. Medium, 160 pages, photos, plans. Soft back. **Over 140 route miles of track were laid on farms in at least 50 separate locations, from Alkborough in the banks of the Humber to Crowland in the south. This is the second edition of an old favourite - the first edition in 1987 happily coincided with our move to Lincolnshire and was a best-seller at once. The new version is much expanded and will be very welcome.

Lincolnshire Railway Memories. (Reference #ME2373) Price:£17.95 A tribute to the photographs of Jack Cupit. Anderson, P. Very large, 116 pages album, glazed boards.

Lincolnshire Railway Stations. (Reference #ME0007) Price:£3.50 On old picture postcards. Croft, E. Medium, 36 pages, album, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the last century, with informative captions."

London & Birmingham Railway Between Birmingham And Coventry. (Reference #ME1771) Price:£14.95 Including the Coventry-Leamington line. Boynton, J. Very large, 112 pages, pictorial including some colour photos, maps. Soft back.

London & North Eastern Railway In Focus. (Reference #ME1021) 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 Extension Of The Midland Railway. (Reference #ME0099) Price:£16.95 St. Pancras to Bedford. Goslin, G. Very large, 110 pages, pictorial. Hard back. **A history of the St. Pancras - Bedford route.

London Midland Steam Finale. (Reference #ME0755) Price:£13.99 Welch. Large oblong, 64 pages, colour album, glazed boards.

Lost Lines: LMR. (Reference #ME1361) Price:£12.99 Welbourn. Large, 128 pages, pictorial, maps, soft back.

Lynn & Dereham Railway. (Reference #ME1331) Price:£14.95 OL87 Jenkins. Medium, 176 pages, photos, maps, some drawings. Hard back. *Line history.

Main Line Lament. (Reference #ME1419) Price:£22.95 The final years of the Great Central route to London. Walker, C. Large oblong, 167 photos on about the same number of pages, album, hard back. Centenary edition. LAST COPY.

Main Line To Metro. (Reference #ME1087) Price:£11.95 Train and tram on the Great Western route Birmingham Snow Hill - Wolverhampton. Boynton, J. Very large, 112 pages, many photos including 2 8-page colour sections. Soft back. **A useful and interesting history from the line's inception in the mid nineteenth century to the modern use of the trackbed for the Midland Metro.

Making Of A Railway. (Reference #ME1484) Price:£12.99 Rolt, L T C. Medium, 154 page album, paper back. **The building of the Great Central London extension from contemporary photographs by S W A Newton with notes and captions by Rolt. A classic.

Marlow Branch. (Reference #ME1482) Price:£21.95 Karau, P & Turner, C. Very large, 224 pages. Hard back.

Melton Constable To Yarmouth Beach. (Country Railway Routes). (Reference #ME2615) Price:£15.95 Adderson & Kenworthy. Medium, 96-page album, large-scale maps, glazed boards.

Midland And South Western Junction Railway Volume 2. (Reference #ME0067) Price:£18.95 Locomotives. Barnsley, M. Very large, 154 pages, pictorial, hard back.

Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway And Its Locomotives. (Reference #ME2653) Price:£24.99 Essery. Very large, 192 pages, many photo illustrations, drawings, map. Glazed boards.

Midland Railway. (Reference #ME1550) Price:£3.50 On old picture postcards. Waite, G. Medium, 36 pages, album, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes during the past century, with informative captions." Many station views of course, but lots of other subjects, starting naturally with the Sun Inn at Eastwood. But who could possibly have wanted to send anyone a postcard featuring Toton sidings?

Mid-Suffolk Light Railway. (Reference #ME1473) Price:£21.95 Paye, P. Very large, 224 pages, paper back.

Mildenhall Branch. (Reference #ME0177) Price:£17.95 Paye, P. Very large, 152 pages. Hard back. **History of GER branch line from Cambridge to Mildenhall.

Newcastle-under-Lyme. (Reference #ME2678) Price:£18.95 Its railway and canal history. Baker & Fell. Very large, 136 pages, many photo illustrations, maps, glazed boards.

Norfolk Railway. (Reference #ME2365) Price:£14.99 Railway mania in East Anglia 1834-1862. Barney, J. Large, 244 pages, illustrations from period engravings, map, sb. **Dr Barney's researches into early East Anglian railway history have produced a very readable study of a particularly complex situation.

North & West Route Volume One Shrewsbury. (Reference #ME2399) Price:£28.95 Hodge. Very large, 154 pages, pictorial: photos, large scale maps, hard back. **First of a new series on the North and West Route between Shrewsbury, Hereford and Newport (Maindee).

North Midland Portrait Of A Famous Route. Part Three: Rotherham To Leeds. (Reference #ME0999) Price:£11.99 Pixton. Very large, 80 pages, pictorial - photos, drawings, maps, soft back.

North Midland Portrait Of A Famous Route. Part Two: Chesterfield-Sheffield-Rotherham. (Reference #ME1390) Price:£12.99 Pixton. Very large, 96 pages, pictorial - photos, drawings, maps, soft back.

Northamptonshire Railway Stations. (Reference #ME0528) Price:£3.95 On old picture postcards. Rice & Swift. Medium, 36 pages, album. Soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the last century, with informative captions."

Nottinghamshire Railway Stations. (Reference #ME0009) Price:£3.50 On old picture postcards. Lund, B. Medium, 36 pages, album, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the last century, with informative captions."

Nottinghamshire Steam Railways In The 1960s. (Reference #ME1398) Price:£3.50 Wright, G. Medium, 36 pages, album, soft back. *"A selection of photographs showing steam locomotives at work in Nottinghamshire in the 1960s."

Off Northampton Shed. (Reference #ME2257) Price:£29.95 The reminiscences of an LMS fireman. Mutton. Very large, 186 pages, illustrated with photographs and several sections of OS 25" maps, hard back. **The author became a cleaner at Northampton shed in 1943 and remained there throughout his footplate career which took him over the ex LNWR lines in the area in the final stages of the war, and into the mid fifties.

Operation Norfolk. (Reference #ME2389) Price:£13.95 Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway passenger services: 1954. Peterborough - Kings Lynn - Yarmouth; Spalding, Cromer, Norwich and Lowestoft Branches. Wilkinson. Very large, 84 pages, some photos, soft back. **Carriage workings, time tables, train formations, marshalling arrangements, carriage diagrams etc.

Oxford To Bletchley. (Country Railway Routes). (Reference #ME2486) Price:£14.95 Including Verney Junction to Banbury. Mitchell & Smith. Medium, 96-page album: photos, maps, glazed boards.

Oxford To Cambridge Railway Forty Years On. 1960 - 2000. (Reference #ME1276) Price:£12.95 Simpson. Large, 142 pages, pictorial: many photo illustrations, soft back.

Oxford To Princes Risborough. (Reference #ME1871) Price:£15.95 A GWR secondary route. OL131. Potts. Medium, 256 pages, photos, map, plans etc, soft back

Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Portrait Of A Famous Route. Part One: Oxford To Worcester. (Reference #ME1769) Price:£14.99 Pixton, R. Very large, 96 pages, pictorial - photos, maps, tables, soft back.

Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Portrait Of A Famous Route. Part Two: Worcester To Wolverhampton. (Reference #ME1850) Price:£14.99 Pixton, R. Very large, 96 pages, album with discursive captions, map, tables, soft back.

Past And Present No 10. The East Midlands. (Reference #ME2473) Price:£17.99 Leicester, Northampton, Kettering, Peterborough, Cambridge, March, Ely. Milner & Banks. Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Past And Present No 12. East Anglia. (Reference #ME0823) Price:£15.99 Norfolk; Suffolk; East Cambridgeshire Adderson & Saunders Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Past And Present No 15. Oxfordshire. (Reference #ME0889) Price:£16.99 Waters & Doyle. Medium, 104 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Past And Present No 16. Avon, Cotswolds And The Malverns (Reference #ME0890) Price:£15.99 Dowling & Whitehouse. Medium, 144 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Past And Present No 23. Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire. (Reference #ME0895) Price:£15.99 Banks, C. Medium, 160 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Past And Present No 24. Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire & West Hertfordshire. (Reference #ME0896) Price:£13.99 - Medium, 144 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Past And Present No 27. Lincolnshire. (Reference #ME0899) Price:£13.99 Hill & Vessey. Medium, 160 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Past And Present No 32. Mid Wales And The Marches. (Reference #ME0904) Price:£13.99 Siviter. Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Past And Present No 33. Worcestershire. (Reference #ME0905) Price:£13.99 Siviter. Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Past And Present No 34. Warwickshire. (Reference #ME0969) Price:£15.99 Siviter. Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Past And Present No 55. Oxfordshire: A Second Selection. (Reference #ME2176) Price:£16.99 Stretton. Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view. Includes Oxford, Banbury, Didcot, Kingham, Bicester, Faringdon, Thame.

Past And Present No 56. Derbyshire. (Reference #ME2284) Price:£17.99 Banks, C. Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Past And Present No 57. Nottinghamshire. (Reference #ME2283) Price:£17.99 Banks, C. Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Peak District Mining And Quarrying. (Reference #ME0699) Price:£9.99 Willies & Parker. Medium, 128 pages, pictorial with many interesting period photographs. Soft back.

Peterborough To King's Lynn (Country Railway Routes). (Reference #ME2648) Price:£15.95 Part of the M&GN. Black. Medium, 96-page album, large-scale maps, glazed boards.

Portrait Of The North Staffordshire Railway. (Reference #ME1371) Price:£14.99 Christiansen. Large, 112 pages, pictorial, glazed boards.

Potters Bar To Cambridge. (Eastern Main Lines). (Reference #ME2120) Price:£14.95 Mitchell & Mott. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Rails To The Coast. (Reference #ME1281) Price:£11.99 East Anglian seaside stations, sheds and rail links: Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. White, M R. Medium landscape, 136 page album, map. Soft back.

Railway Heritage: The Heart Of The Great Western. (Reference #ME1450) Price:£17.99 Great Western Railway collection. Vaughan, A. Very large, 224 pages, photos, track layouts, signalling diagrams. Soft back. ** "A tribute to the railway workers of the steam age" in the Oxford and Didcot areas.

Railway Images Around Northamptonshire. (Reference #ME0590) Price:£16.99 Coleman & Rajczonek. Very large, oblong, about 150 pages, album. Hard back. **All aspects of the county's railways in almost 300 photos. The final part of a photographic trilogy covering Northamptonshire's railways.

Railway Nostalgia Around Bedfordshire. (Reference #ME0593) Price:£25.00 Eatwell. Very large, oblong, about 150 pages, album. Hard back.

Railway Nostalgia Around Warwickshire. (Reference #ME0592) Price:£16.99 Hibbs. Very large, oblong, about 150 pages, album. Hard back.

Railway Track Diagrams 2. Eastern England. (Reference #ME2234) Price:£14.95 - Very large, 54 map pages, coloured + 16 pages prelims, index etc, soft back. **Third edition.

Railway Track Diagrams 3. Western. (Reference #ME2177) Price:£12.95 - Very large, 48 pages, soft back. **System map, 35 track diagrams, index to stations and lines. 4th edition.

Railway Track Diagrams 4. Midlands & North West. (Reference #ME1983) Price:£12.95 - Very large, 61 pages, soft back. **System map, 51 pages track diagrams, index to stations and lines. 2nd edition.

Railways And Rural Life. (Reference #ME2395) Price:£17.99 S W A Newton and the Great Central Railway. Boyd-Hope & Sargent. Large landscape, 215 pages, album with 8 page introduction, hard back. **This book re-treads the ground classically covered by L T C Rolt in The Making Of A Railway, where Newton's pictures of the construction of the Great Central London Extension were first published. Many of the photographs appear in both books and Rolt's work appears in the list of sources consulted, it is regrettable that the authors were unable to recall the correct spelling of his name. However, during his GC travels, Newton also photographed scenes of day to day life in the surrounding towns and countryside and it is for these many extra pictures, full of interesting detail, that one might prefer this book to Rolt's.

Railways In Bedfordshire. (Reference #ME1311) Price:£3.50 On old picture postcards. Chrystal Medium, 36 pages, album, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the last century, with informative captions."

Railways In North Lincolnshire. (Reference #ME2062) Price:£12.95 Doncaster - Scunthorpe - Grimsby - Cleethorpes - Retford - Lincoln - Barnetby - Immingham - New Holland - Axholme Joint - North Lindsey - Lincs Coast. Bates & Bairstow. Large, 112 pages, photos (some colour), map, track diagrams, soft back.

Railways In Northamptonshire And The Soke Of Peterborough. (Reference #ME1397) Price:£3.95 On old picture postcards. Swift, A. Medium, 36 pages, album, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes during the last century, with informative captions."

Railways North From Nottingham Part One: Nottingham - Basford. (Reference #ME1862) Price:£19.99 In the latter days of steam

Railways North From Nottingham Part Two: Bulwell - Kirkby, Mansfield & Westhouses. (Reference #ME1920) Price:£19.99 In the latter days of steam

Railways Of Britain: Norfolk And Suffolk. (Reference #ME2634) Price:£19.99 McCarthy, C & D. Medium, 112 pages, illustrated with photographs and maps, glazed boards. **A series based on the Cobb railway atlas. There are outline histories of the lines featured, forty-three pages of coloured maps and a gazetteer of all stations with opening and closing dates and renamings. The cartography shows the railway infrastructure of the two counties, major roads, sites of locomotive sheds and as many industrial lines as possible.

Railways Of Cadbury And Bournville. (Reference #ME1531) Price:£12.99 The story of the railway system in the chocolate factory and the Midland Railway engine shed. Sharpe, D. Very large, 100 pages, photo illustrations including 4 pages of colour, soft back.

Railways Of Hereford. (Reference #ME1613) Price:£25.00 A study of the historical development and operation of railways in the city. Wood, G. Very large, 224 pages, illustrated with photos and a large number of track plans and diagrams relating the development of the railway to the street layout. Hard back. **An exhaustive local history.

Railways Of Leicestershire And Rutland. (Reference #ME2540) Price:£12.99 British railway pictorial. Webb. Very large, 96 pages, album, map, soft back.

Railways Of Newark On Trent. (Reference #ME0463) Price:£19.95 Vanns. Medium, 256 pages. Hard back. **Newark was the crossing place of the Great Northern "Town Line" and the Midland Railway Nottingham-Lincoln Line. This book describes in detail the growth of the local network and the intricate relationship of railway, industry and agriculture, and the development of train services up to the present.

Railways Of Stourbridge. (Reference #ME0468) Price:£19.95 OL104. Butcher. Medium, 256 pages, illustrated with photos and maps. Hard back.

Railways To New Holland And The Humber Ferries. (Reference #ME0166) Price:£8.95 LP198 Ludlam, A J. Medium, 104 pages. Soft back. **Covers the ferries themselves as well as the railways.

Railways To Skegness. (Reference #ME0458) Price:£11.95 Ludlam. Medium, 160 pages. Soft back.

Raymond Williams' LMS Steam In The Thirties. (Reference #ME1232) Price:£19.95 Boswell & Essery. Very large, 90 pages, album, hard back.

Rise & Fall Of Nottingham's Railway Network. Volume 1. (Reference #ME2358) Price:£19.99 Lines in the city. Reed. Large landscape, 112 pages, pictorial: photos, maps, track plans, structure drawings, hard back. ** **An excellent study of railways and their remains in Nottingham: the author photographed much of what was extant in the sixties and seventies. "In the course of his career the author has gained access to many places inaccessible to the general public. This has enabled him to record ... railway structures since demolished or buried and forgotten." An informative text accompanies the pictures.

Rise & Fall Of Nottingham's Railway Network. Volume 2. (Reference #ME2359) Price:£19.99 Beyond the city limits. Reed. Large landscape, 102 pages, pictorial: photos, maps, track plans, structure drawings, hard back. **An excellent study of railways and their remains around Nottingham: the author photographed much of what was extant in the sixties and seventies. "In the course of his career the author has gained access to many places inaccessible to the general public. This has enabled him to record ... railway structures since demolished or buried and forgotten." An informative text accompanies the pictures.

Rowsley. (Reference #ME1662) Price:£15.95 A rural railway centre. Waite, G & Knighton, L. Very large, 124 pages, photo illustrations, maps, track and gradient diagrams, statistical information, soft back. **History of the railway at Rowsley from 1840 to the present Peak Rail era. Useful to local as well as railway historians, though in Rowsley they are probably both at once.

Rugby To Birmingham. (Midland Main Lines). (Reference #ME2559) Price:£14.95 Including connections to Leamington Spa. Mitchell & Smith Medium, 96-page album: photos, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Saxmundham To Yarmouth. (Eastern Main Lines). (Reference #ME1225) Price:£14.95 Adderson & Kenworthy. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Scenes From The Past 7. The Railway From Buxton To Millers Dale, Bakewell, Matlock And Ambergate. (Reference #ME2296) Price:£12.95 Bentley. Approximately 100 pages, very large, pictorial: photos, map, soft back. **Second edition.

Scenes From The Past 32. Buxton - Ashbourne. (Reference #ME1645) Price:£14.95 Bentley & Fox. 120 pages, very large, pictorial, soft back.

Scenes From The Past 37/1. Railways Of The High Peak. Whaley Bridge To Friden. (Reference #ME0796) Price:£12.95 Jones & Bentley. 96 pages, very large, pictorial, soft back.

Scenes From The Past 43. Sheffield Victoria To Chesterfield Central. (Reference #ME2295) Price:£17.95 The Derbyshire lines of the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway. Grainger. Very large, 144 pages, pictorial - photos, track plans, map. Soft back.

Scenes From The Past 44. Rowsley Motive Power Depot. (Reference #ME0781) Price:£16.95 Miles, K. Very large, 128 pages, pictorial - photos, track plans, gradient diagrams, drawings of shed, map. Soft back.

Scenes From The Past 45. Manchester London Road To Hayfield. (Reference #ME1530) Price:£15.95 Via Reddish, Bredbury, Romiley, Marple & New Mills, and including the "Hyde Loop". Smith, I R & Fox, G K. Very large, 136 pages, pictorial - photos, track plans, gradient diagrams, map. Soft back.

Scenes From The Past 50/1. The Buxton Line - Part One. (Reference #ME2111) Price:£16.95 Davenport and Hazel Grove to Disley, New Mills (Newtown) and Whaley Bridge. Fox. 144 pages, very large, many photo illustrations, large clear station track plans, soft back.

Scenes From The Past 50/2. The Buxton Line - Part Two. (Reference #ME2236) Price:£16.95 The Buxton extension from Whaley Bridge to Buxton (LNWR) via Chapel-en-le-Frith (south) and Dove Holes. Bentley & Fox. 128 pages, very large, many photo illustrations, large clear station and junction track plans, soft back.

Shakespeare's Railways. (Reference #ME0042) Price:£9.95 The Lines Around Stratford upon Avon Then And Now. Boynton, J. Very large, 96 pages, pictorial (some colour). Soft back. **The North Warwickshire Line; Birmingham -Henley -Stratford.

Shipston On Stour Branch. (Reference #ME0610) Price:£14.95 Jenkins & Carpenter. Very large, 122 pages. Soft back.

Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway. (Reference #ME2500) Price:£8.95 Tonks. Medium, 102 pages, photo illustrations, map, loco lists, soft back. *Second printing of the IRS 1972 edition (the first was published by the author in 1949).

Shropshire Union Railway. (Reference #ME1625) Price:£14.95 Stafford to Shrewsbury including the Coalport branch. OL129. Yate, R. Medium, 224 pages, photo illustrations, maps. Soft back.

Snape Branch. (Reference #ME2088) Price:£8.95 LP229. Paye. Medium, 160 pages, photos, map, scale drawings. Soft back. **A very short railway in Suffolk.

South Kesteven. (Reference #ME1922) Price:£3.50 On old picture postcards. Jenkins. Medium, 36 pages, album, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes in Bourne, Grantham, Stamford and surrounding villages during the last century, with informative captions."

St Albans To Bedford. (Midland Main Lines). (Reference #ME1543) Price:£14.95 Including the Hemel Hempstead Branch. Goslin. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Staffordshire Railway Stations. (Reference #ME0526) Price:£3.50 On old picture postcards. Lewis. Medium, 36 pages, album. Soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the last century, with informative captions."

Stamford - All Change. (Reference #ME0190) Price:£9.95 Jordan, A. Medium, 80 pages, illustrated, soft back. **How The Railway Came To Stamford. A history of the Syston To Peterborough line with particular emphasis on its physical and social impact on Stamford.

Stamford On Old Picture Postcards. (Reference #ME1139) Price:£3.50 Jenkins. Medium, 36 pages, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the last century, with informative captions."

Stationary Steam Engines Of Great Britain Volume 9: East Anglia & Adjacent Counties. (Reference #ME1866) Price:£24.00 Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Northamptshire & Suffolk. Watkins, G. Large, 191 page album with 11 pages of introductory text. Hard back. **Photographs and descriptions of stationary engines in the national photographic collection. A work of reference.

Steam Around Stafford. (Reference #ME1255) Price:£12.99 Hitches. Large, 128 pages, photo album, glazed boards.

Steam Around Wolverhampton. (Reference #ME1345) Price:£10.99 Hitches. Medium, 128 page album, soft back. **Sutton's Photographic History Of Railways series.

Steam Memories: 1950's & 1960's No 31. Around Nottingham And Its Environs. (Reference #ME2445) Price:£9.99 Cowlishaw Medium square, 72 page album, soft back. **1 picture per page.

Steam Memories: 1950's & 1960's No 7. Great Central Lines. (Reference #ME2444) Price:£9.99 Including: Nottingham Victoria to Hucknall, Annesley, Staveley & Darnell Sheds. Beecroft. Medium square, 72 page album, soft back. **1 picture per page.

Steam Nostalgia Around Northampton. (Reference #ME0589) Price:£19.99 Coleman & Rajczonek. Very large, oblong, about 150 pages, 2nd edition. Hard back.

Steam Railways In Colour Around Northamptonshire. (Reference #ME0591) Price:£19.99 Coleman & Rajczonek. Very large, oblong, about 150 pages, album. Hard back. **Over 200 colour photos from the late fifties and onwards.

Steam Routes Around Gloucester. (Reference #ME2303) Price:£17.99 And Lydney, Sharpness, Stroud, Sapperton. Mourton, S. Very large, 96 pages, pictorial, soft back. ** 77 pages of photos preceded by an 19 page historical survey.

Steaming Into Bedfordshire. (Reference #ME1568) Price:£25.00 Eatwell. Very large, oblong, 192 pages, album. Hard back.

Steaming Into Birmingham And West Midlands. (Reference #ME0588) Price:£19.99 Coleman & Rajczonek. Very large, oblong, about 150 pages, album. Hard back. **Over 200 photos featuring sixty classes of locomotive, mainly from the '50s and '60s, with a handful of earlier pictures.

Steaming Into Northamptonshire (Reference #ME1206) Price:£19.99 Coleman & Rajczonek Large square, album, no page numbers, 260 photographs, mainly one per page, hard back.

Stoke To Market Drayton Line. (Reference #ME1201) Price:£5.95 LP142. Lester. Medium, 55 pages, soft back. Reissue.

Stratford Upon Avon To Birmingham (Moor Street). (Country Railway Routes). (Reference #ME2141) Price:£14.95 Including Hatton to Alcester. Mitchell & Smith. Medium, about 96 pages, album, glazed boards.

The Knotty. An Illustrated Survey Of The North Staffordshire Railway. (Reference #ME0409) Price:£14.95 Jeuda. Very large, 128 pages, soft back.

The Midland Railway: A Chronology. (Reference #ME1515) Price:£19.95 Gough, J. Very large, 392 pages, main text reproduced from typescript, illustrated with track and junction diagrams. Hard back.

Tivetshall To Beccles. (Country Railway Routes). (Reference #ME1886) Price:£14.95 The Waveney Valley line. Anderson & Kenworthy. Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Track Diagrams Of The London & North Western Railway And Its Successors. Section 5: Northamptonshire. (Reference #ME1445) Price:£3.95 Foster, R D & Instone, M R L. Very large, 42 pages, soft back.

Trainspots Midlands Edition. (Reference #ME2685) 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.

Tramways And Railways Of John Knowles (Wooden Box) Ltd. (Reference #ME0345) Price:£14.00 Etherington & West. Medium, 104 pages, illustrated with photos (some in colour), line drawings and maps. Hard back. **History of the railway operations of a clay products works in Derbyshire, at the town of Wooden Box, now Woodville.

Wantage Tramway. (Reference #ME1175) Price:£28.00 Pearce Higgins. Medium, 158 pages, hard back. *Reprint of 1958 edition.

Warwickshire Railways. (Reference #ME2210) Price:£10.99 Hitches. Medium, 128 pages, pictorial. Soft back. **Photographic History Of Railways series.

Watford To St Albans Branch. (Reference #ME2194) Price:£10.95 OL 177 Jenkins. Medium, 128 pages, illustrated with photos, track diagrams and map, soft back. 2nd edition, updated.

Wenlock Branch. (Reference #ME0467) Price:£19.95 Jones. Medium, 256 pages. Hard back. **History of a Shropshire line which passed through Coalbrookdale and was used for both goods and passenger trains.

West Shropshire Mining Fields. (Reference #ME2211) Price:£10.99 Brown. Medium, 128 pages, pictorial with many interesting period photographs. Soft back. **Primarily about the mines and includes views of the mineral railways.

Wirksworth Branch. (Reference #ME1870) Price:£14.95 OL72. Sprenger. Medium, 216 pages, photo illustrations, maps, soft back. ** Second revised edition of this history of the branch which was the MR's fall-back route to Rowsley. In the end the main line went via Matlock and the line from Duffield to Wirksworth remained a branch; its main traffic being stone from the many quarries round the town. This traffic continued into the 1980s. After it ceased the track was not lifted and the line is now the home of WyvernRail.

Wisbech & Upwell Tramway. (Reference #ME2687) Price:£15.95 OL152. Paye. Medium, 240 pages, photos, map, locomotive and rolling stock drawings, station layouts. Soft back.

Wolverton To Newport Pagnell Branch. (Reference #ME0407) Price:£8.95 Simpson. Medium, 144 pages, soft back.

Woodstock Branch. (Reference #ME0181) Price:£7.95 Jenkins, S C. Very large, 104 pages, soft back.

Worcestershire Railways. (Reference #ME0726) Price:£10.99 Hitches. Medium, 128 pages. Soft back.

Yarmouth Train. (Reference #ME2016) Price:£10.25 The railway at Gt Yarmouth and scenes on the lines to Norwich, Lowestoft, Melton Constable and Ipswich. White, M R. Medium landscape, 116 page album with historical introduction, some period colour, map. Soft back.