Transport Bookshop:New Books:Miscellaneous   

A Year To Remember 1957. (Reference #MS0392) Price:£9.95 Smith. Very large, 76 pages, soft back. **British Railways Illlustrated Special. "The last year in which the traditional face of Britain's railway system remained substantially unchanged."

A, B, C And M. (Reference #MS2350) Price:£7.95 Road numbering revealed. Emmerson & Bancroft. Medium, 94 pages, photos, maps, soft back. ** "Who devised Britain's road numbering scheme and what was its purpose? When were roads first numbered? Are there anomalies and why are so many road numbers never shown on maps and signs? These and many other fascinating topics are discussed in this book together with something about the history of the highways, byways and motorways of Great Britain and the Irish Republic."

Archaeology Of Railways. (Reference #MS0563) Price:£19.99 Morriss. Medium, 192 pages. Hard back.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 34. (Reference #MS1265) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. **Argyll Motor Works; Bude canal; Royal Ordnance factory; C R Vickerman's siding.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 35. (Reference #MS1656) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. **Shoreham Airport; Crosville in the Wirral; McWatter's bakery, Belfast.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 36. (Reference #MS1388) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Coastal shipping/1; Poynton Collieries; Citroen works in England; Defence of Falmouth harbour; Shoreham Airport/2.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 37. (Reference #MS1586) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Goole Docks/1; Frampton on Severn gravel pits; Lasaghts of Newport; Coastal shipping/2; Kingswear broad gauge.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 38. (Reference #MS1641) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Goole Docks/2; Kyrle biplane; Lasaghts of Newport/2; Bryngwyn colliery, Bedwas; London taxicabs; Millennium flour mills, Silvertown.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 39. (Reference #MS1587) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Abandoned vessels; White & Poppe motor works, Coventry; Witney Aerodrome; De Havilland Witney factory 39-45; Ivybridge broad gauge.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 40. (Reference #MS1642) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Coke ovens locomotives; Motoring, 1903; Barry No 1 Dock; Butcher's of Ross-on-Wye, purveyors of cycles, jewellery and horse-drawn vehicles.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 41. (Reference #MS1774) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Coed Ely coking plant; qualifications for sea fishery sailors; Coventry Machinists' Co Ltd.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 42. (Reference #MS1987) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *W O Bentley; Lancashire trams; Cannop Colliery; PLUTO.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 43. (Reference #MS1852) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *The Hetton Railway; Trams in S Lancs & NE Cheshire; G&W Butcher motor cars; Maritime dredging; Jas Starley's sewing machine.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 44. (Reference #MS1853) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Lambton & Hetton staithes; Coventry Victor Co; Locos of the Mcr Ship Canal contract 1887-94; 1804: Trevithick.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 45. (Reference #MS1988) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Combined coke car; Swansea docks; Slimbridge magazine.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 46. (Reference #MS2008) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Yorkshire Dry Dock Co/1; Aberthaw Pebble Limekilns; Cinderford Gas Works; Eastham Ferry.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 47. (Reference #MS2045) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Locos of the Mcr Ship Canal/2; Yorkshire Dry Dock Co/2; Minster Lovell Mill; Coke making at Cargo Fleet..

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 48. (Reference #MS2109) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Cadbury's canal stores at Stirchley; Cromford Interlude; Craft fishing on the Severn and Bristol Channel; MV Salcombe/Friars Craig..

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 49. (Reference #MS2189) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Donaghadee harbour and colliers; Joseph White, watchmaker; Craft fishing on the Severn and Bristol Channel; Coke quenching machines.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 50. (Reference #MS2190) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Lightmoor colliery; the Black Dwarf, a small steamboat; Lydney Docks; Steam.beer wagons.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 51. (Reference #MS2277) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Tirpentws opencast; Liverpool stage coachmen; Burton ale; Emlyn colliery screens.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 52. (Reference #MS2278) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Campling, a Goole engineer; Buchanan coking ram; Passengers on inland waterways; Gypsum in Cumbria.

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 53. (Reference #MS2304) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Lambton Railway; Shadwell Fish Market; Swansea & Mumbles; Crystal Palace District Gas, loading locomotives for India, 1929 (photos).

Archive. The Quarterly Journal For British Industrial And Transport History. Issue 54. (Reference #MS2331) Price:£6.00 Parkhouse & Pope (eds). Large, 64 pages, illustrated, soft back. *Lambton Railway/2; TID class tugs; cokery electric locos; Runcorn locks, gold mining in the forest of Dean.

Barry Railway Steamers. (Reference #MS2011) Price:£14.95 X80. Tedstone. Medium, 224 pages, illustrated with photos and some drawings, dock plans and dock track layouts, very large folding page of scale boat drawings, soft back.

British Fire Engines Of The 50s And 60s. (Reference #MS0701) Price:£6.50 Famous Fleets volume 3. Rowley. Medium square, 52 pages, pictorial. Soft back.

British Railways Illustrated Annual Number 13. (Reference #MS1888) Price:£14.95 Hawkins (ed). Very large with glazed boards, 96 pages, many photos. Articles include Diesels for LNER, Melrose, Barking, Caley, Holyhead.

British Railways Illustrated Annual Number 14. (Reference #MS2079) Price:£15.95 Hawkins (ed). Very large with glazed boards, 96 pages, many photos. Articles include express exchanges, G&SWR locomotives, Axminster, North Wales, Shrewsbury GW, signalling at Wigan, E Birmingham triangle.

British Railways Operating History 7. Through The Links At Tyseley. (Reference #MS0773) Price:£14.95 Jacks. 120 pages, very large, glazed boards.

Brookwood Necropolis Railway. (Reference #MS2193) 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.

Burntisland: Fife's Railway Port. (Reference #MS1205) Price:£12.95 LP218. Marshall. Medium, 192 pages, maps, drawings, plans, soft back.

Burry Port & Gwendreath Valley Railway. Vol 1 Canals. (Reference #MS1204) Price:£12.95 And its antecedent canals. OL116A. Bowen. Medium, 184 pages, photos, maps, soft back.

Caradon & Looe. (Reference #MS1422) Price:£26.00 The canal, railways and mines. Messenger, M. Very large, 168 pages, illustrated with maps and photographs, hardback. **The definitive history of the Liskeard & Looe Union Canal, the Liskeard & Caradon Railway and the Liskeard & Looe Railway, now fully revised.

Churnet Valley Iron. (Reference #MS2213) 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.

Cliff Railways Of The British Isles. (Reference #MS0801) Price:£11.95 LP223. Turner, K. Medium, 176 pages, photos, some line drawings, soft back.

Collieries & Their Railways In The Manchester Coalfields. (Reference #MS1810) 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.

Companion To British Road Haulage History. (Reference #MS1603) Price:£29.95 Armstrong, J and others. Medium, 446 pages + 96 pages of photo illustrations, of which 32 are in colour, glazed boards. **Over 600 articles, arranged alphabetically, on the history of road freight transport in Britain in the twentieth century. It covers businesses - hauliers, lorry builders and others - economic, legal, administrative, technical and social aspects, from the very beginning of the motor vehicle era, through the slow transition from horse-drawn transport, to modern heavy lorries.

Crane Makers Of Carlisle. (Reference #MS1847) Price:£9.95 The Cowans Sheldon Story. Earnshaw, A. Medium square, 72 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. *A nice little history.

Fenland Pumping Engines. (Reference #MS2366) 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."

Ferry Services Of The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway. (Reference #MS0472) Price:£8.95 Jordan, S. Medium, 112 pages. Soft back. LAST COPY

Fire Engines. (Reference #MS0310) Price:£14.99 Colour Portfolio. Mardon. Medium oblong, 79 pages, glazed boards.

Firth Brown. A Sheffield Steel Company. (Reference #MS1547) Price:£11.99 Hamilton, C. Medium, 128 page album with many interesting period photographs. Soft back.

Forty Shades Of Steam. (Reference #MS2208) Price:£14.99 The story of the RPSI. Cassells & Friel. Large, 160 pages, photo illustrations, mostly colour, map. Soft back. **The Railway Preservation Society Of Ireland was founded in 1964 and continues to run terrific steam trips. An interesting read, with some evocative photos.

Garrett Wagons Part 1. Pioneers & Overtypes. (Reference #MS1519) Price:£18.00 Whitehead, R W. Very large, 142 pages, photo illustrations, some line drawings, stock lists. Glazed boards.

Garrett Wagons Part 3. Electrics & Motors. (Reference #MS1520) Price:£18.00 Whitehead, R W. Very large, 144 pages, photo illustrations, some line drawings, stock lists. Glazed boards.

Great Western Railway Road Vehicles. (Reference #MS0700) Price:£6.50 Famous Fleets volume 4. Aldridge & Earnshaw. Medium square, 48 pages, pictorial. Soft back.

Great Western Road Vehicles. (Reference #MS1490) Price:£35.00 Kelley, P J. Very large, 256 page album of photographs and drawings, includes motor and horse-drawn vehicles, goods, passenger and miscellaneous, hard back.

History Of The White Star Line. (Reference #MS1105) Price:£16.99 Gardiner. Medium, 224 pages + 32 pages of plates, hardback.

Horncastle And Tattershall Canal. (Reference #MS1941) Price:£4.95 C6. Clarke. Medium, 96 pages, illustrated with photos and maps. Soft back.

Illustrated History Of Fire Engines. (Reference #MS1362) Price:£19.99 Mardon. Large, 128 pages, pictorial, hard back.

Iron, Steel And Coal Industry In North Staffordshire. (Reference #MS0998) Price:£8.95 A brief account. Baker, A C. Very large, 64 pages, pictorial: photos, maps. Soft back.

Johnston's Underground Type. (Reference #MS0722) Price:£14.95 Howes. Very large, 80 pages. Glazed boards. ** The history of the typeface developed for use by London Underground.

L T C Rolt: A Bibliography. (Reference #MS0835) Price:£6.00 Rogerson/Maxim/Rolt ed Baldwin. Medium, 55 pages, illustrated. Card covers. **Lists all books and periodical contributions.

Landscapes Under The Luggage Rack. (Reference #MS1219) Price:£19.50 Great paintings of Britain. Norden. Large landscape, 192 pages, hard back. * Reissue of handsome book on carriage prints.

Lightning Force. (Reference #MS2113) Price:£19.95 RAF units 1960-1988. A photographic appreciation of the English Electric Lightning. Martin. Square quarto, 112 page colour album, soft back. **We do not normally stock new books on aviation, this one has snuck in under the radar.

Limestone Industries Of The Yorkshire Dales. (Reference #MS1407) Price:£16.99 Johnson, D. Medium, 192 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), diagrams of kilns etc. Soft back. **A wide-ranging history of the industry in the area.

LMS Railway Road Vehicles. (Reference #MS1379) Price:£6.50 Famous Fleets volume 6. Earnshaw & Aldridge. Medium square, 48 pages, pictorial. Soft back.

Locomotive Names. (Reference #MS0698) Price:£25.00 An Illustrated Dictionary. Pike. Very large, 199 pages, hard back. **A comprehensive listing of all British named locomotives from the earliest times. Extant locomotives are highlighted.

Logo For London. (Reference #MS0724) 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.

Modelling Further Aspects Of The Coal Industry. (Reference #MS2242) Price:£19.99 Johnson, R. Very large, 96 pages, illustrated mainly with photographs, hard back. **Follow-up to the author's Modelling Aspects Of The Coal Industry, this too is mainly an album of colliery railway views, and also includes photos of models and some advertisements

Municpal Refuse Collection Vehicles. (Reference #MS0703) Price:£6.50 Nostalgia Road No 1. Woods. Medium square, 48 pages, pictorial, soft back.

Myths & Legends Of Stamford In Lincolnshire. (Reference #MS1578) Price:£7.95 Smith, M. Medium, 128 pages, illustrated in the antique taste by the author, soft back. **This is the book we sell to non-railway-minded train travellers: as (almost) the only non-transport book we stock it saves them the hassle of decision-making. It is a good choice: a collection of Stamford's myths, legends, miracles, customs and curious characters written and drawn by a truly talented local man and handsomely produced in antiquarian style by an off-beat local publisher. A book Stamford can be proud of.

Official Railway Postcard Book. (Reference #MS0191) Price:£15.50 Alsop. Very large, 400 pages, soft back.

Pick Of Stamford. (Reference #MS1507) Price:£14.95 A history of the Pick Motor Company. Key, M. Large, 128 pages, illustrated with photos, drawings and reproductions of the firm's trade catalogues. Glazed boards.

Quarries Of England And Wales. (Reference #MS0709) Price:£12.95 Historic photographic scenes. Stanier. Medium square, 120 pages. Hard back.

Radio Caroline. (Reference #MS1546) Price:£10.95 The pirate years. Humphries, R C. Medium, 207 pages, some photo illustrations mostly the ships rather than personalities). Soft back. ** "Pirate stations came and went but one name outlasted all the others: Radio Caroline, Britain's first and last offshore radio station. She survived storms, drifting, piracy, rebellion and the loss of her beloved ship, the Mi Amigo. This is her story and the story of the events which shaped popular music radio as we know it today."

Rail & Road Transport On The Isle Of Portland. (Reference #MS1133) Price:£11.95 A pictorial survey. Jackson. Medium, 160 pages,soft back.

Railway Archive. No 10. (Reference #MS2020) Price:£7.50 Parkhouse & Pope, eds. Large, 96 pages, illustrated, soft back journal. * Jackson: Ferme Park, Harringay & Hornsey; Jeuda: Stoke Works/4; Photographs of E Pouteau/10: L&Y, L&L, LT&S; Roberts collection/8: Finale, GNR W Yorkshire post cards.

Railway Archive. No 11. (Reference #MS2063) Price:£7.50 Parkhouse & Pope, eds. Large, 96 pages, illustrated, soft back journal. * Annan & Solway Viaduct; Gas by Rail/2: ICI; Photographs of E Pouteau/11: LB&SCR; Gillford collection/1: GN round Nottm; Shropshire post cards.

Railway Archive. No 12. (Reference #MS2179) Price:£7.50 Parkhouse & Pope, eds. Large, 96 pages, illustrated, soft back journal. * Photographs of E Pouteau/12: LB&SCR /2; SW Scotland post cards; BR oil-burning 1945-48; CR Livery; 1910 lantern lecture; Forest of Dean.

Railway Archive. No 13. (Reference #MS2180) Price:£7.50 Parkhouse & Pope, eds. Large, 96 pages, illustrated, soft back journal. * Photographs of E Pouteau/13: LNWR /1; Cornwall post cards; BR oil-burning 1945-48; London coal trade; Drummond S11 4-4-0s.

Railway Archive. No 14. (Reference #MS2251) Price:£7.50 Parkhouse & Pope, eds. Large, 96 pages, illustrated, soft back journal. * Photographs of E Pouteau/14: LNWR /2; Durham post cards; LNER (NE area) goods motorservices; Early rail travel; Stroudley Gladstones; MR bridge improvements.

Railway Archive. No 15. (Reference #MS2289) Price:£7.50 Parkhouse & Pope, eds. Large, 96 pages, illustrated, soft back journal. * Photographs of E Pouteau/15: LSWR; Essex post cards; MR footbridge improvements; Didcot c1892; Gas tank wagons/3: Murgatroyds; Mistley Quay.

Railway Archive. No 16. (Reference #MS2330) Price:£7.50 Parkhouse & Pope, eds. Large, 96 pages, illustrated, soft back journal. * Photographs of E Pouteau/16: Lynton & B'staple, M&GN, M&SWJ & MR/1; Carmarthenshire post cards; Gas tank wagons/4; Cambrian photos; T Hackworth & loco development.

Railway Archive. No 17. (Reference #MS2381) Price:£7.50 </