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A Day Above Lincolnshire.
(Reference #MS2476)
Price:£14.99

Nowell & Nowell.
Very large, square, 128 page album, glazed boards. ** Magnificent aerial photographs taken from a hot air balloon. Handsome production, excellent value.

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.

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.

Guide To Digital Railway Photography.
(Reference #MS2550)
Price:£19.99

Fullbrook.
Very large, 192 pages, colour photo illustrations, hard back. **Practical advice and suggestions for producing top quality railway images with a digital camera: basic principles and tips on useful corrective editing techniques, both simple and advanced, using standard editing software. There is a separate chapter on pictures for web sites.

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.

Horton's Guide To Britain's Railways In Feature Films.
(Reference #MS2618)
Price:£17.99
Updated second edition
Horton.
Medium, 192 pages + xvi pages of photo plates, soft back. ** "This A-Z guide lists nearly 1000 feature films that have British railway content, and gives details of where the sequences were filmed, whether on the contemporary railway or more recently using the facilities of preserved lines." Includes trams, London underground and Irish scenes; extra information for many films, including pointing up howlers and continuity errors.

Illustrated History Of Fire Engines.
(Reference #MS1362)
Price:£19.99

Mardon.
Large, 128 pages, pictorial, hard back.

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 Headboards.
(Reference #MS2438)
Price:£25.00
The complete story.
Peel
Large, 294 pages, pictorial: photos (some colour) and drawings, hard back. **The first headboards for trains were introduced by the NBR in 1912, the last by Virgin in 1996; however the practice was only common nationally for about 15 years of that period. This comprehensive history covers all named trains running with headboards and explores the minutiae of design, materials, shapes and styles.

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.

Poster To Poster. Volume 1 Scotland
(Reference #MS2645)
Price:£35.00
Railway journeys in art.
Furness.
Very large landscape, 236 pages, colour images, discursive text, poster database in county order, bibliography, hardback. **First of a planned series of seven volumes intended to catalogue British railway posters throughout the twentieth century, and based largely on the magnificent collection of the NRM.

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 Clocks.
(Reference #MS1806)
Price:£35.00

Lynam, I P.
Large, 359 pages, photo illustrations, hard back. ** Fascinating study of a rewarding field of collecting. It is prefaced by a history of the development of national, as opposed to local, time keeping; this is followed by a chapter for each of the big four companies plus one for Scotland; the final chapter contains, so far as I know, the only history of the greatly missed BR Collectors' Corner shop. 13 appendices provide much extra detail - lists, notes, old servicing records, etc. There is a short bibliography.

Railway Paintings Of Barry J Freeman.
(Reference #MS2579)
Price:£30.00

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

Railway Ships And Packet Ports.
(Reference #MS2361)
Price:£26.00

Danielson.
Very large, 136 pages, many photo illustrations, map,. Hard back. **Backed by many years' research into British small passenger ships, this is a fascinating study of railway shipping - cargo and passenger, on sea and lake - and includes a chapter on railway harbours. Handsome production, too.

Railways And Rural Life.
(Reference #MS2395)
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.

Rhondda Collieries.
(Reference #MS1948)
Price:£9.99

Carpenter.
Medium, 128 pages, pictorial with many interesting period photographs. Soft back.

Rocket To Eurostar.
(Reference #MS1448)
Price:£17.95
The National Railway Museum in camera.
Coiley, J (compiler & editor)
Very large, 144 page album, hard back. **Illustrates the work of the museum "behind the scenes" and "beyond the walls".

Shelter Of The Tubes.
(Reference #MS1063)
Price:£16.95
Tube sheltering in wartime London.
Gregg, J.
Large square, 96 pages, many photo illustrations; list of sources, annotation. Glazed boards. **A carefully researched study covering all aspects of the use of underground stations as bomb shelters.

Shildon-Newport In Retrospect.
(Reference #MS0113)
Price:£10.95
The Fore-runner of Main Line Electrification.
Appleby, K C.
Medium, 90 pages, illustrated. Soft back.

South For Sunshine.
(Reference #MS0232)
Price:£7.95
Southern Railway Publicity And Posters 1923 - 1947.
Hillman & Cole.
Large square, 64 pages, colour album, soft back. **From a golden age of graphic design.

South Yorkshire Collieries.
(Reference #MS1544)
Price:£10.99

Goodchild, J.
Medium, 128 page album with many interesting period photographs. Soft back.

St Nicholas Works.
(Reference #MS0581)
Price:£30.00
A history of Charles Burrell & Sons Ltd 1803 - 1928.
Lane.
Very large, 304 pages. Hard back.

Stamford On Old Picture Postcards.
(Reference #MS1139)
Price:£3.50

Jenkins.
Medium, 36 pages, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the last century, with informative captions."

Stamford Pubs And Breweries.
(Reference #MS2246)
Price:£23.95

Smith, M.
Large, 328 pages, many photo and other illustrations, soft back. **A lovely book by the author of Stamford Myths And Legends, it is a catalogue of all pubs, alehouses, inns and breweries known of in Stamford, with dates, details of ownership, beers sold, and a good deal of fascinating historical anecdote. Well written, handsomely produced.

Stationary Steam Engines Of Great Britain Volume 9: East Anglia & Adjacent Counties.
(Reference #MS1866)
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.

Steamers Of The Clyde.
(Reference #MS1638)
Price:£12.99
NB & LNER.
Deayton, A.
Medium, 128 page album with many interesting period photographs. Soft back. **The first NB Clyde steamer service ran in 1866 and after an inauspicious beginning grew to a large operation, of which the well-known and loved Waverley is the last survivor.

Steam's Silver Lining.
(Reference #MS1072)
Price:£4.95

Cassells, J.
Medium, 76 pages, photos, map. Soft back. **A silver jubilee celebration of the trains of the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland 1964 - 1989.

Story Of Queen's Engineering Works, Bedford.
(Reference #MS1514)
Price:£28.00

Lane, M R.
Very large, 160 pages, illustrated. Hard back. **History of W. H. Allen Sons & Co Ltd.

The Hut Six Story.
(Reference #MS1964)
Price:£8.50
Breaking the Enigma codes.
Welchman, G.
Medium, 263 pages, some photos and diagrams, soft back. **This has nothing to do with transport but is nonetheless a fascinating book. The author was a brilliant mathematician and a leading figure at Bletchley Park from 1939 to 1945 where he worked on the most important British deciphering operations of the war. No other book has explained so thoroughly how the job was done and how often a flash of inspiration, or just a stroke of luck, tipped the balance from failure to success, against all odds. Back in stock after a longish absence.

Toy Story. Life And Times Of Frank Hornby.
(Reference #MS1166)
Price:£17.99

McReavy.
Medium, 288 pages, hard back.

Transport In Britain 1750 - 2000.
(Reference #MS1197)
Price:£25.00
From canal lock to gridlock.
Bagwell & Lyth.
Medium, 272 pages, hard back.

Travelling Around The Isle Of Wight.
(Reference #MS1309)
Price:£3.50
On old picture postcards.
Swift.
Medium, 36 pages, album. Soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring rail and road transport during the last century, with informative captions."

Turbine Steamers Of The British Isles.
(Reference #MS1023)
Price:£11.99

Robins, N.
Large, 125 pages, photos, tables etc. Soft back. **Tells the story of the British turbine-driven cross-channel steamer and records all the British flag turbine steamers from 1901 (King Edward) to 1966 (Ben-my-Chree).

Wellington Foundry, Lincoln.
(Reference #MS0580)
Price:£30.00
William Foster, Lincoln.
Lane.
Very large, 192 pages. Hard back.

West Shropshire Mining Fields.
(Reference #MS2211)
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.

West Yorkshire Coalfield.
(Reference #MS1893)
Price:£11.99

Goodchild, J.
Medium, 128 page album with many interesting period photographs. Soft back.

Weymouth To The Channel Islands.
(Reference #MS0800)
Price:£13.95
A Great Western Railway shipping history. X76.
Jackson, B L.
Medium, 208 pages, photos, maps, line drawings, soft back.

What's In A Name? Part 1 - LNER.
(Reference #MS2619)
Price:£15.50
The origins, meanings and significance of steam locomotive names in the British Railways era.
Baldwin.
Medium, 295 pages, soft back. **Geography, history, literature, sport - there is a complete education in this compendium of knowledge. Owners of this book, and their families, will need to look no further for details of the products of counties served by the LNER, nor for the plots of the Waverley novels. An ideal present for a compiler of pub quizzes. Note that although the title refers to the LNER the locomotive numbers given are the BR ones.

Witness To Change.
(Reference #MS1536)
Price:£24.99
A record of the industrial revolution. The Elton collection at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum.
Vanns, M.
Very large, landscape, 160 pages, illustrated in colour throughout. Hard back. **Sir Arthur Elton collected an impressive range of original paintings, drawings, high-quality prints and items of ephemera relating to the industrial revolution. This handsome book illustrates much of the collection.

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