Transport Bookshop:Out Of Print Showcase:Miscellany   
Sentinel Steam Waggons.
(Reference #S5786)
Price:£18.00
Alley and MacLellan.
EP Publishing,1972: reprint of a catalogue of 1912.
Octavo, 87 + 40 pages, coloured frontispiece, photos, diagrams, jacket, VG. **This volume contains two works: the Sentinel catalogue and Instructions To Drivers For Running And Tending for the 6-ton waggon. The original colour illustrations (with the exception of the one used for the frontispiece) are reproduced in black and white. Even the reprint seems to be scarce these days.

The Motor Bus Services Of Kent And East Sussex. A brief history.
(Reference #S5513)
Price:£10.00
Baldock, E.
Meresborough, 1985.
Folio, 64 pages, photo illustrations, card covers, near fine. **Despite the subtitle a painstaking and detailed local history. No map in text but two operators' route maps are reproduced on the back cover.

Model Railway Journal Compendium.
(Reference #S5683)
Price:£10.00
Barlow, B (ed).
Wild Swan, 1988.
Quarto, 76 pages, photos, scale drawings, diagrams, soft back, some fading on cover, generally VG. **Main articles include building a Britannia and modelling Cotswold stone buildings.

A Railway History Of Denaby & Cadeby Collieries.
(Reference #S5606)
Price:£14.00
Booth, A J.
IRS, 1990.
Small quarto, 130 pages, photo illustrations, drawings, plans of collieries, soft back, slight fading of spine otherwise fine.**South Yorkshire collieries.

Thomas Telford.
(Reference #S1606)
Price:£15.00
Bracegirdle, B & Miles, P H.
1973, D&C.
Quarto, 112 page album, 112 illustrations with long captions, VG in rubbed jacket. ** Great Engineers And Their Works series.

Swindon Carriage & Wagon Works.
(Reference #S2866)
Price:£8.00
British Railways Western Region.
1957.
Octavo, 36 pages, many photo illustrations: interior views with machinery in operation, rolling stock etc, good plan of works, card covers, near fine. **Souvenir guide to the works, nice period item.

Paisley's Trams And Buses. Eighties to twenties.
(Reference #S4196)
Price:£10.00
Brotchie, A W & Grieves, R L.
NB Traction, 1985.
Quarto, 72 pages, photo illustrations, stock list, card covers, near fine.

Industrial Archaeology Of The Bristol Region.
(Reference #S5819)
Price:£30.00
Buchanan, A & Cossons, N.
D&C, 1969.
Octavo, 335 pages, photo plates, drawings, diagrams, lists of sites, chronology, jacket, VG+.

+ The Trolleybuses Of Newcastle Upon Tyne 1935-1966. Including details of the proposed trolleybus operations in Gateshead.
(Reference #S5897)
Price:£18.00
Canneaux, T P & Hanson, N H.
Trolleybooks, 1974, first edition.
Octavo, 200 pages + folding map, photo illustrations, many appendices (stock lists, routes, etc etc) card covers, near fine.

North Western Road Car Company Limited. A driver's reminiscences.
(Reference #S5509)
Price:£14.00
Caunt, P.
OPC, 1984.
Small quarto, 128 pages, map endpapers, photo illustrations, jacket, VG+.

The 10.30 Limited. A Great Western Railway book.
(Reference #S1506)
Price:£12.00
Chapman, W G.
Patrick Stephens, 1970 reprint of GWR 1923 edition.
Octavo, 131 pages, photo and line illustrations, hard back, jacket, VG+ copy.

Tumult On The Mountains. Lumbering in West Virginia 1770 - 1920.
(Reference #S4155)
Price:£25.00
Clarkson, R B.
Parsons, W Va, 1964: McClain.
Octavo, 410 pages + folding map, jacket, VG. **97pp text followed by 256 captioned photographs, one per page, glossary, locomotive lists. Railroads take second place to lumber, but there are numerous interesting railroad scenes, and the lists of Shays, Climaxes and Heislers.

New Principle Of Steam Engine.
(Reference #S2806)
Price:£150.00
Congreve, Sir W.
1819, London: T Egerton.
Octavo, 48 pages + 3 folding diagrams. Original card covers, worn on spine otherwise VG. The full title is: A short account of a patent taken out by Sir William Congreve, Bart, for a new principle of steam engine; and also of a new mode which he has adopted for the consumption of smoke in the production of steam, the generation of gas, and in various other operations; being also the subject of a patent. The author is "now satisfied ... of the practicability of constructing a Steam Engine of so simple a form, that it may come within the reach of the ordinary mechanic, not only as to its cost, but in many cases even as to construction by his own hands". Sir William was more famous as the inventor of the rocket as a military weapon.

Roads And Their Traffic 1750 - 1850.
(Reference #S5423)
Price:£30.00
Copeland, J.
D&C, 1968.
Octavo, 205 pages + plates (largely contemporary illustrations, some photographs), coloured frontispiece, jacket, fine. **One of the few scholarly works on the subject, but not common.

Seventy-five Years On Wheels. The history of public transport in Barrow-in-Furness.
(Reference #S4106)
Price:£8.00
Cormack, I L.
STMS, 1960.
Octavo, 54 pages, photo illustrations, map, card covers, VG.

+ Bournemouth Trolleybuses. A souvenir brochure published by Bournemouth Corporation Transport to commemorate the closure of the trolleybus system.
(Reference #S5895)
Price:£12.00
County Borough Of Bournemouth.
Bournemouth, 1969.
Small quarto, 20 pages, photo illustrations, route map, card covers. ** "Official Souvenir Brochure 1933 - 1969 36 years of service". Loosely inserted are the last BCT trolleybus timetable (28 pages, paper covers, 9.9.68 ufn) and a double sided folding map.

Railway Motor Buses And Bus Services In The British Isles 1902-1933.
(Reference #S5577)
Price:£45.00
Cummings, J.
OPC, 1978, 1980.
Large quarto, two volumes, 136 + 182 pages, illustrated with maps and photos, fleet lists, jacket of volume two a little faded on spine, otherwise VG+. **A very comprehensive study of railway buses and the services they operated; includes Ireland.

The Stroudwater And Thames & Severn Canals In Old Photographs.
(Reference #S3527)
Price:£12.00
Cuss, E & Gardiner, S.
Sutton, 1988.
Octavo, 159-page album, card covers, near fine. **Some idyllic scenes contrasting with views of busy activity, particularly interesting are the pictures of restoration work at the turn of the century and of Severn ports which fed the systems and the upper reaches of the Thames around Lechlade.

The Wilts And Berks Canal.
(Reference #S3526)
Price:£8.00
Dalby, L J.
Oakwood, 1986, second edition, enlarged.
Octavo, 120 pages + 16 pages photo plates and folding map, other maps in text, card covers, near fine. **Local history in reliable Oakwood style. Their reference: C2.

Summer Tours in Scotland. Official Guide, Glasgow to The Highlands by David Macbrayne's Royal Mail Steamers, Columba and Iona etc.
(Reference #S3956)
Price:£70.00
David MacBrayne Ltd.
1883.
Crown octavo, 111 pages, plates, large folding map, fare tables and timetables. Brown cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, very good copy.

Derby Trams & Buses. A portrait of public transport in Derby 1880-1985.
(Reference #S5682)
Price:£22.00
Doig, A G & Craven, M.
Trent Valley, 1986/7.
Two volume album, large quarto, 96 pages each, some colour, maps and stock lists. Soft back, fine set.

The History Of The Somerset Coalfield.
(Reference #S5866)
Price:£40.00
Down, C G & Warrington, A J.
D&C, nd, circa 1970.
Octavo, 283 pages, map, site plans, jacket, very good copy of a scarce work. **Geological background, historical overview, history of each undertaking, description of all remaining sites.

The Yorkshire Ouse. The history of a river navigation.
(Reference #S5512)
Price:£20.00
Duckham, B F.
New York, 1968: Kelley; USA edition of (and identical with) D&C publication 1967.
Octavo, 226 pages + 16 pages of plates, maps, notes, glossary etc, jacket, VG. **Account of the improvement and use of the tideway and upper reaches of one of England's greatest rivers. The Ouse was a vital trading route throughout the middle ages, and subsequently had important ports at Selby and Goole and connected with the Aire & Calder Navigation. Even at the time of writing the Ouse carried a greater quantity of goods further inland than any other British river.

The Railways Of The South Maitland Coalfields.
(Reference #S5571)
Price:£45.00
Eardley, G H.
Sydney, 1969: ARHS.
Quarto, 162 pages, photos, map, track plans, card covers, top corner bumped, otherwise VG. **History of an extensive privately owned railway system serving the numerous collieries and mining properties of the South Mailand coalfield in New South Wales.

Backworth. Illustrated history of the mines and railways.
(Reference #S5669)
Price:£15.00
Elliott, J & Charlton, D.
Chilton Iron Works, 1994.
Large quarto, 116 pages with many illustrations and maps, laminated card covers, VG+. **Mines just north of Newcastle on Tyne; there is a lot about the railways.

Rails To Rubicon. A history of the Rubicon Forest.
(Reference #S5756)
Price:£32.00
Evans, P.
Melbourne, 1994: Light Rly Research Soc.
Folio, 200 pages, many illustrations, track plans, drawings of motive power, etc, jacket, fine. **A substantial and detailed history of the logging industry and its tramways in the Rubicon Forest in Victoria.

The History And Development Of Steam On Common Roads.
(Reference #S5350)
Price:£80.00
Fletcher, W.
Spon, 1891.
Octavo, 306 pages, 108 diagrams and engravings, eight of which are on folding plates. Advertising pages. Newly rebound in green cloth, mark across front board. Some marks of usage within, nevertheless a good copy of a road steam rarity.

Somerset.
(Reference #S2926)
Price:£15.00
Fraser, M.
GWR, 1934.
Octavo, 186 pages, coloured frontispiece, about 90 gravure plates and sketches to chapter headings. Card covers in the Brian Cook style, lovely fresh copy.

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The Biography Of A Locomotive Engine.
(Reference #S1216)
Price:£20.00
Frith, H.
Cassell, 1891.
Crown octavo, 254 pages, drawings, ornate decorative cover, royal blue, red, orange & gilt, showing a knife attack on the footplate of a speeding loco. VG. **Railway-based tale of adventure.

The Post Office Railway (London).
(Reference #S5266)
Price:£10.00
General Post Office.
GPO, nd.
Octavo, 8 pages, photo illustrations, map, card covers, sewn, owner's name stamp on front cover, VG. **Nice public information booklet giving details of the operation of the post office underground railway between Mount Pleasant, Paddington and the GPO Eastern District Office in Whitechapel Road.

A History Of Transport.
(Reference #S4205)
Price:£25.00
Georgano, G N (ed).
Dent, 1972.
Large quarto, 311 pages, 16 colour plates, over 400 mono illustrations, jacket, VG. The broad sweep approach, beginning with primitive man and arriving at space travel, nevertheless an intelligent overview with contributors being Snell on railways, Hadfield on canals, Georgano on roads, MacIntyre on ships and Mondey on aviation.

The World's Commercial Vehicles 1830 - 1964. A record of 134 years of commercial vehicle production.
(Reference #S5146)
Price:£12.00
Georgano, G N.
Temple Press, 1965.
Octavo, 122 pages + 8 pages of photo plates, jacket, near fine. **A labour of love: a listing of all commercial vehicle manufacturers in the western world, one- or two-line entries give locations and dates. Occasional notes about vehicles produced. NB that plate 3 is opposite p13, not p1 as stated in the list of illustrations.

+ London Buses And The Second World War.
(Reference #S5890)
Price:£22.00
Glazier, K.
Capital, 1986.
Quarto, 192 pages, many photo illustrations, dense text, tabular appendices, very detailed chronology of route alterations, jacket, slight spotting on endpapers, otherwise a near fine copy. **Study of bus and trolleybus operations between the outbreak of the second world war and the end of the 1940s, an eventful and lacerating period which saw the end of the long process of development which had culminated in the formation of the LPTB.

London Buses In The 1960s.
(Reference #S5293)
Price:£22.00
Glazier, K.
Capital, 1998.
Quarto, 224 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), some route maps, route list, jacket, near fine. **Very detailed study of the decade's bus and trolleybus operations.

The Last Years Of The General. London buses 1930-1933.
(Reference #S5354)
Price:£20.00
Glazier, K.
Capital, 1995.
Quarto, 128 pages, photo illustrations, some route maps, route list, vehicle lists, jacket, some offsetting from frontispiece and photo on contents page, otherwise near fine. **Detailed study of bus operations in the last few years before the London Passenger Transport Board took over. Takes in the independent companies and tram operations.

Railways On Stamps.
(Reference #S5614)
Price:£35.00
Goodbody, A M & Hart, C A.
1974-1983 Picton.
Octavo, 7 parts now bound as a single volume. Approx 470 pages with many illustrations, new cloth, fine. ** These seven parts cover Europe and North Africa. If any more were published we are not aware of them.

Triang Railways. The story of Rovex Volume 1 1950 - 1965.
(Reference #S5823)
Price:£35.00
Hammond, P.
New Cavendish, 1993.
Large landscape octavo, 432 pages, generously illustrated, with much in colour, checklists, jacket, VG+. **Tri-ang was the model railway arm of Lines Bros, and the first to market a relatively cheap, mass-produced 2-rail system. The use of plastic gave them a great edge over their rivals.

I Worked With Traction Engines.
(Reference #S5425)
Price:£18.00
Hampshire, J.
Falmouth, 1967: Lake.
Octavo, 152 pages, photo illustrations, card covers, VG. **Scarce. The author's father ran a large haulage business employing steam traction engines and steam wagons.

Railway Liveries 1923 - 1947.
(Reference #S2977)
Price:£18.00
Haresnape, B.
Ian Allan, 1989.
Small quarto, 208 pages, many illustrations including 16 page colour section, jacket, near fine copy. **Designs and liveries of the big four companies. Essential reference.

Cumberland Iron. The story of the Hodbarrow mine 1855-1968.
(Reference #S5753)
Price:£18.00
Harris, A.
Bradford Barton, 1970.
Octavo, 122 pages, photos, map, a little wear to top edge of jacket, but generally VG+. **Monographs on Mining History No 2.

+ Industrial Archaeology Of Dartmoor.
(Reference #S5915)
Price:£30.00
Harris, H.
D&C, 1968.
Octavo, 239 pages, photo plates, map, some site plans, drawings, gazetteer of sites, chronology, jacket, VG+. **One of the useful D&C blue jacket series.

Railway Ancestors. A guide to the staff records of the railway companies of England and Wales 1822 - 1947.
(Reference #S4267)
Price:£35.00
Hawkings, D T.
Alan Sutton, 1995.
Large octavo, 509 pages, some photo illustrations, jacket, fine. **Essential reference for family historians with railwaymen in their ancestry; a detailed and serious work.

Railway Ribaldry. Being 96 pages of railway humour.
(Reference #S5560)
Price:£12.00
Heath Robinson, W.
Ian Allan reprint, nd.
Quarto, 96 pages, card covers, VG+. **Originally published by the Great Western Railway in 1935, to mark the company's centenary. An inspired collection of WHR's trademark ramshackle contraptions in railway vein.

The Traveller's Guide To India, Australia, China And The Far East.
(Reference #S5421)
Price:£20.00
Henry King & Co.
London, 1899.
Duodecimo, 128 pages, with several maps tipped in, light card covers, some wear but generally in very good condition. **Henry King & Co were travel agents in London. Their guide offers quantities of practical information for the traveller, including details of the overland route to Bridisi for onward travel through the Suez canal.

The Quarries. Ironstone, limestone and sand.
(Reference #S5656)
Price:£18.00
Hewlett, H B.
Market Overton IRA, 1979.
Quarto, 46 pages, photo illustrations, maps, site plans, card covers, VG+. **A reprint of the 1935 original, which in turn was reprinted from the Stantonian: the magazine of the Stanton Ironworks Co Ltd which was the author's employer. This is a short survey, but a singularly knowledgeable and interesting one.

A Century Of Traction Engines.
(Reference #S5352)
Price:£20.00
Hughes, W J.
Percival Marshall, 1959.
Octavo, 262 pages, 181 illustrations (drawings and photographs) in text, some wear to jacket, VG. **Subtitled "Being an historical account of the rise and decline of an industry whose benefits to mankind were and are incalculable."

Along Hornby Lines.
(Reference #S5559)
Price:£15.00
Huntington, B.
OPC, 1976.
Large quarto, 72 pages, photo illustrations, jolly vignettes, jacket, VG+. **A biographical note on Frank Hornby is followed by many photos of the company's models, arranged by type, carefully captioned and with background notes to each section.

Railways On The Screen.
(Reference #S5570)
Price:£17.00
Huntley, John.
Ian Allan, 1993.
Small quarto, 205 pages, plus illustrations. Jacket. Near fine. **The most comprehensive catalogue of pre-1993 railway films available and greatly sought-after by enthusiasts of films with railway content; Huntley lists not only all films with railway scenes but also many of the commercially available videos, giving date, stars, director, and an outline of the plot or topic. Both documentary and commercial movies are included and each film is rated for the amount of railway coverage. Illustrated with some memorable stills.

+ The South Wales Iron Industry 1750 - 1885.
(Reference #S5899)
Price:£12.00
Ince, L.
Ferric, 1993.
Octavo, 198 pages, photo illustrations, sketch maps, tabulated statistics, card covers, fine. **A scholarly study. "By the early 1830s the main characteristics of the South Wales iron industry had come together, namely large stone built furnaces, steam power in the form of blowing engines and rolling mill engines, the production of wrought iron and from this the manufacture of rails. These characteristics were to be found in the majority of the South Wales ironworks right up to the collapse of the wrought iron trade" (in the late 19th century).

Inchley's Theory Of Heat Engines.
(Reference #S5473)
Price:£18.00
Inchley, W.
Longmans, 1944, 6th edition edited and revised by H Wright Baker.
Octavo, 455 pages, text figures, tables, charts, jacket, VG. **A scientific work setting out the principles of hot air engines, reciprocating and turbine steam engines and internal combustion engines. There is also a chapter on mechanical refrigerators and reversed heat engines.

J G Robinson. A lifetime's work.
(Reference #S5876)
Price:£19.00
Jackson, D.
Oakwood Press, 1996.
Octavo, 234 pages, numerous illustrations, jacket. **The biography of the Great Central locomotive engineer. One of Oakwood's hardbacks: OL98.

Photo Pictures In East Anglia.
(Reference #S5684)
Price:£25.00
Jennings, P & Berlyn, A.
Payne Jennings, nd c1905.
Octavo, 134 pages, topographical guide with photo illustrations, green cloth with gilt art nouveau decoration, all edges gilt, VG. **This does not seem to have been produced by the GER directly, but there is a GE crest on the front and some of the pictures look as if they have been taken from official postcards. East Anglia is taken to include Lincolnshire, or at least Lincoln. The author/publisher offers to supply list of photographs of places of interest on the GER.

Trolleybus Trails. A survey of British trolleybus systems.
(Reference #S5279)
Price:£15.00
Joyce, J.
Ian Allan, 1963.
Octavo, 120 pages, photo illustrations and system maps, jacket, VG+.

My Life In Steam.
(Reference #S5295)
Price:£20.00
Judkins, K.
Oakwood, 1970.
Octavo, 71 pages + 12 pages photo plates, hardback, jacket, fine. **The author's experience encompassed road vehicles and industrial railways and Foden Works in its steam heyday. A lively read.

Locomotives At War. Army railway reminiscences of the second world war.
(Reference #S3505)
Price:£8.00
Kalla-Bishop.
Bradford Barton, no date.
Octavo, 151 pages including 8 pages of photo plates, card covers, spine faded otherwise VG. **The author had an interesting war with the Royal Engineers in Longmoor, Melbourne, North Africa and Italy.

Buses And Trolleybuses Since 1945.
(Reference #S3737)
Price:£14.00
Kaye, D.
Blandford, 1968.
Small octavo, 184 pages, including 80 pages of colour photos, notes on each class, jacket, VG+. ** "A Blandford pocket encyclopaedia in colour".

Streets Of Belfast.
(Reference #S5229)
Price:£10.00
Kennedy, M.
Ian Allan, 2003.
Large landscape octavo, 80 page period colour album, glazed boards, near fine. **Buses, trolleybuses and trams in the 1950s and 1960s; other interesting views include a striking picture of a drilling platform under construction at the Harland & Wolff yard.

London's Trolleybuses. A fleet history.
(Reference #S5471)
Price:£14.00
Kirk, D and others.
PSV Circle / Omnibus Society, 1969.
Small octavo, 96 pages + 20-page photo section, litho'd typescript, glazed boards, ex Gateshead library: stamp, labels, some marks on rear board, otherwise VG. **Replete with technical information and lists. Includes details of disposals.

The Railway King. A study of George Hudson and the business morals of his times.
(Reference #S2566)
Price:£18.00
Lambert, R S
Allen & Unwin, 1964 (2nd impression).
Octavo, 320 pages, illustrated, jacket, VG. ** Hudson, his principles (or lack of them), and comeuppance have been a perennial favourite of historians since the Victorian period. This study was first published in 1934, so gives an earlier perspective than the recent crop of Hudson books.

The Steam Engine Explained And Illustrated. With an account of its invention and progressive improvement, and its application to navigation and railways.
(Reference #S2187)
Price:£120.00
Lardner, D.
1840. 7th Edition, London, Taylor & Walton.
Octavo, 535 pages, 136 figures on plates and in the text, steel engravings as vignettes. Frontispiece portrait of Watt rather browned, otherwise contents clean and tight. Brief newspaper cutting tipped in to advertisement page. Later binding in quarter dark blue calf and gilt, marbled sides, a near fine copy. **Historical, descriptive and technical. Includes chapter on Savery & Newcomen and four chapters on Watt and his inventions. Chapters also on rail and road locomotives and steam boats, and a separate chapter on American steam navigation. A handsome volume. The newspaper cutting is from the '100 years ago' column of a Sunday Times of the 1940s; it relates a colourful episode from Dr Lardner's life.

Fifty Years Of Motorbuses 1924 - 1974.
(Reference #S5485)
Price:£10.00
Leicester City Transport.
1974.
Folio, 42 pages, photo illustrations, card covers, VG. **A brief introductory history is followed by photographs, technical details number listings and disposals of all bus types run by the undertaking from the six 1924 Tilling Stevens TS6s to the 8 Scania BR111DHs so far delivered in 1974.

Glasgow Buses.
(Reference #S5877)
Price:£12.00
Little, S.
TPC, 1990.
Folio, 80 pages, photo illustrations, colour section, card covers, fine. **British Bus,Tram & Trolleybus Systems No 10.

Appointments For 1932. With which is included a photographic record of some memorable London happenings and personalities.
(Reference #S5751)
Price:£20.00
London General [Omnibus Co]
Octavo, about 56 pages, illustrated, brown cloth covered boards, a little faded on spine and edges, slight wear at head of spine, matching silk marker ribbon, VG+. ** Nice diary, week-to-a-page, with illustration facing. Illustrations are accompanied by quite lengthy captions, mainly extracts from newpaper reports. Many of the memorable happenings and people have stood the test of time - the crowd waiting for news of the Titanic, for example, or the Nippy, or Lily Langtry, but who now recalls the Flood of London in 1928? "high water and high wind reduced Westminster to the swamp it was when Caesar viewed it".

The Track Of The Coronation Scot. A running commentary on the journey from London to Glasgow by the west coast route.
(Reference #S5510)
Price:£12.00
London Midland & Scottish Railway.
LMS, nd c1938.
Booklet, similar in shape to triple-fold A4 leaflet, but taller, 32 pages, illustrated with diagrammatic maps of the line, blue art deco card covers (6220 at speed), staples slightly rusty, part of menu inscribed inside front cover in an unsteady hand (done in the train?) otherwise VG+. **Number 3 in the LMS Book Of The Train series. Two pages extolling the new locomotives and carriages are followed by a milage table and a two-page introduction. The remainder of the book is a series of diagrammatic maps of the route from Euston to Glasgow Central showing bridges, junctions, rivers, towns and other sights of interest on either side. There is a full map of the route on the centre spread.

Tours In Lakeland. 3rd July to 24th September 1939.
(Reference #S3955)
Price:£14.00
London Midland & Scottish Railway.
Crown octavo, 60 pages, maps, light card covers, small piece missing from back cover, else VG+..

London's Country. Guide No 2: By road, stream and fieldpath south of the Thames.
(Reference #S5822)
Price:£16.00
London's Underground.
London's Underground, 5th edition, nd (1920s).
Octavo, 106 pages, many good maps, photos, heavy card covers, pictorial, depicting ancient buildings, VG. **Charming guide to pretty places around London, with travel directions etc. There is a companion volume for north of the Thames, which may be listed here at #S4384.

A Biographical Dictionary Of Railway Engineers.
(Reference #S3146)
Price:£21.00
Marshall, J.
David & Charles, 1978.
Octavo, 247 pages, jacket, near fine. **Over 600 entries of civil, mechanical, electrical and signalling engineers, principally British but including leading men from Europe and North America (according to the jacket blurb; there is also at least one from China).

Diaries Of Sir Daniel Gooch, Baronet.
(Reference #S4016)
Price:£40.00
Martin, Sir T.
Kegan Paul, 1892.
Crown octavo, 254pp, frontispiece portrait, binding somewhat lozenged, G+. Scarce. The first edition of these diaries. Though less comprehensive than Wilson's later edition it is nevertheless sought after by many GW collectors.

Scale Model Traction Engine Building. Featuring Minnie.
(Reference #S5773)
Price:£20.00
Mason, L C.
MAP, 1971.
Large octavo, 197 pages, 65 photo illustrations + text diagrams, jacket, VG+. **Detailed description of the construction of the one-inch to the foot scale model traction engine Minnie. Includes all working drawings, reduced but adequately dimensioned.

Furnace, Fire And Forge. Lithgow's iron and steel industry 1874-1932.
(Reference #S5556)
Price:£35.00
McKillop, B.
Melbourne, Vict, 2006: Light Railway Research Society.
Folio, 316 pages, many illustrations, track plans, motive power details, bibliography, chapter notes, jacket, fine. ** Lithgow in NSW was the first Australian heavy industrial centre following the opening of the railway into the valley in 1879. History of the town and its industry.

North Devon Clay. The history of an industry and its transport.
(Reference #S5755)
Price:£14.00
Messenger, M J.
Twelveheads, 1982.
Small quarto, 102 pages, photos, maps, locomotive drawings, brown "nattitex" binding, not issued with jacket, near fine. **History of the exploitation of ball clay in the area between Great Torrington and Hatherleigh, and of the Torrington and Marland Light Railway.

The Eveleigh Railway Workshops.
(Reference #S5178)
Price:£15.00
Moore, D.
Sydney, 1996: Simpson.
Large square quarto, 120 pages, 51 photo plates, some colour, plus some portraits of former staff, jacket, fine. **Moore was commissioned to photograph the Eveleigh railway yards "before it was too late". So far as I can tell it was already too late, as the pictures seem to be of a closed works, although there are one or two with locomotives, perhaps brought in for the picture. However that may be, there are many interesting views of abandoned machinery, interspersed with shots of tools, and heaps of bogies etc, with pithy comments by former workers. The photos, of a high professional standard, are the point of the book, but there is also a seven-page history of the works.

Glory Days Bournemouth Transport.
(Reference #S5761)
Price:£10.00
Morris, C.
Ian Allan, 2002.
Large landscape octavo, 96 pages, many photo illustrations, some period colour, maps, glazed boards, fine. **Trams, trolleybuses, buses and (but in brief) cliff railways. A nice history of fine local authority transport undertaking.

A History Of The North British Locomotive Co Ltd.
(Reference #S3106)
Price:£44.00
North British Locomotive Co.
1953.
Large quarto, 115 pages, colour and black & white photos of the works, locomotives, etc. In the usual soft-grain card covers with metal NB diamond. Slight use but a decent copy. *Sharp Stewart & Co Ltd, Neilson Reid & Co, Dübs & Co amalgamated to form the NB Loco Co in 1903; as well as being the 50th anniversary of the amalgamation, 1953 marked 120 years from the completion of the first locomotive built by the oldest constituent (then Sharp Roberts, the locomotive being Experiment).

Castles.
(Reference #S5752)
Price:£35.00
Oman, Sir C.
GWR, 1926, sole edition.
Quarto, 230 pages + 94 pages photo plates/map, coloured frontispiece and 1 other coloured plate, 67 line drawings, red boards, cloth back strip, folding GW map in pocket, a little cockled, both endpapers split at spine, front hinges a little weak but holding, jacket worn, otherwise a very good copy. **Note for beginners, this book is about fortifications, not locomotives. It is a guide book, albeit a scholarly one, on a grand scale, and describes castles reachable by the GWR. It is unusual to find a copy complete with its dust jacket.

The Railway Carriers. The history of Wordie & Co, carriers, hauliers and store keepers, as told to and illustrated by....
(Reference #S1635)
Price:£14.00
Paget-Tomlinson, E.
Dalton, 1990.
Small quarto, 178 pages, some photo and many line illustrations, jacket, fine. **History of a family firm who first contracted with the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway in 1842 to collect and forward goods on the railway and became a household name in Scotland, owning nearly 3000 horses.

Tramcar, Carriage & Wagon Builders Of Birmingham.
(Reference #S4477)
Price:£8.00
Price, J H.
Nemo, 1982.
Octavo, 64 pages, illustrated, card covers, VG+. ** "A short history of the rolling stock trade in the West Midlansds, with notes on associated companies elsewhere."

Industrial Saundersfoot.
(Reference #S5834)
Price:£22.00
Price, M R C.
Gomer, 1982.
Octavo, 237 pages + photo plates, numerous maps and plans in text, jacket, faded on spine, otherwise a fine copy. **The rise and fall of local industry 1750 - 1950, including the history of the inter-related Saundersfoot Railway & Harbour Co, the Pembrokeshire Iron & Coal Co and the Bonvilles Court Coal Co. Fairly scarce.

A Lifetime With '0' Gauge. Crewchester - and others.
(Reference #S5754)
Price:£14.00
Ray, J.
Atlantic, 1995 (2nd impression).
Folio, 83 pages, photo illustrations, some colour, layout diagrams, card covers, fine.

Model Railways And Their Builders.
(Reference #S5511)
Price:£20.00
Ray, J.
Atlantic, 1995.
Quarto, 160 pages, photo illustrations, some colour, layout diagrams, jacket, fine. **A book portraying the creators of model railways as well as their creations. No two people approach the hobby from exactly the same angle.

The Channel Ferry. Advantages and feasibility of a train ferry between England and France.
(Reference #S2275)
Price:£55.00
Rodakowski, E de.
London, Harrison, 1905.
Large octavo, 236 pages, many photo plates, plans, and diagrams. Original green cloth showing usage, strained on inner joints, contents clean and sound. Scarce. **Detailed proposals based on experience of North American (in particular the Ann Arbor railroad) and European practice. Progress was hastened by the Great War, when the Richborough train ferry was introduced for military traffic. The first commercial ferries were introduced by the LNER (at Harwich) and SR (Dover).

G J Churchward. A locomotive biography.
(Reference #S5572)
Price:£23.00
Rogers, H C B.
Unwin, 1975.
Large octavo, 216 pages, photo illustrations, diagrams, jacket, fine. ** "Undoubtedly the greatest locomotive engineer in British railway history".

The Steam Engine Of Thomas Newcomen.
(Reference #S5611)
Price:£30.00
Rolt, L T C & Allen, J S.
1977, Moorland.
Quarto, 160 pages, photos, tables, diagrams, drawings, jacket, near fine. **A very readable history of Newcomen's development of the steam engine.

Exeter. A century of public transport.
(Reference #S5299)
Price:£20.00
Sambourne, R C.
Falmouth, 1976: Glasney.
Quarto, 104 pages, photo illustrations, maps, stock lists, jacket, VG+. **History of tram and bus systems.

Locomotion In Victorian London.
(Reference #S3777)
Price:£40.00
Sekon, G.A.
Oxford Univ Press, 1938.
Octavo, 212 pages, well illus on plates and in text. Some spotting of foredge and prelims but a good and sound copy. VG. **Pioneering study with wide coverage.

James Nasmith, Engineer. An autobiography.
(Reference #S1625)
Price:£45.00
Smiles, S (ed).
Murray, 1883.
Octavo, 456 pages, plates, portrait, original decorated cloth with steam hammer motif in gilt, slightly rubbed but a good sound copy, VG. **The great machine-tool maker and inventor of the steam hammer. The renowned Patricroft works at Manchester also built locomotives. (During the second world war it was requisitioned as, and remained, an ordnance factory.)

The Life Of George Stephenson. And of his son Robert Stephenson; comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the railway locomotive.
(Reference #S3136)
Price:£60.00
Smiles, S.
1868, Murray, a new edition revised and enlarged.
Large octavo, 542 pages, portrait frontispiece, maps and steel engravings in the text. Contents generally clean and tight. Publisher's dec red cloth, some fading on the spine as usual, a well above-average copy. **A considerable improvement over the earlier editions which tended to suffer from an excess of hero worship.

A Story Of Railway Pioneers. An account of the inventions and works of Isaac Dodds and Thomas Weatherburn Dodds.
(Reference #S4497)
Price:£45.00
Snell, S.
1921 Selwyn Blount.
Large octavo, 160 pages, plates and diagrams, red cloth, VG. **Isaac Dodds was born in 1801, his son Thomas died in 1899. Isaac was apprenticed to George Stephenson and invented many improvements to early steam locomotives and was a pioneer advocate of steel rails; Thomas "one of the most prolific inventors of the [19th] century" worked on railways at home and overseas.

Railway-Owned Commercial Vehicles.
(Reference #S3935)
Price:£16.00
Stevens-Stratton, S W & Aldridge, W J.
Ian Allan, 1987; 2nd impr. 1990.
Small quarto, 112 pages, copiously illustrated with photographs, jacket, fine copy. **The first railway-owned motor vehicle, a bus, was in public service in 1903, a year later the GWR operated the first railway-owned motor cartage vehicle; over the years railway companies played a considerable part in the development of the internal combustion engine. This book covers all types of goods traffic, and examines in detail vehicles designed for specific traffic.

Scotland For The Holidays.
(Reference #S5872)
Price:£16.00
Sutton, G.
LNER / LMS, 1939.
Octavo, 48 pages plus folding map backed with ticket rates, photo illustrations, enticing text, contemporary illustrated coloured card covers, slightly marked, otherwise a VG+ booklet.

The Moving Metropolis. A history of London's transport since 1800.
(Reference #S5416)
Price:£23.00
Taylor, S (ed).
Laurence King, 2001.
Quarto, 400 pages, 1200 illustrations, mostly coloured, jacket, fine. **Uses the resources of the LT Museum to illustrate progress - period photos, advertising material and ephemera - LT iconography. Detailed captions, but not much additional text. A handsome volume.

The Hunslet Engine Works. Over a century and a half of locomotive building.
(Reference #S5835)
Price:£25.00
Townsley, D H.
Plateway Press, 1998.
Large quarto, 305 pages, many photo and other illustrations, site plans, tables, jacket, fine. **One of the best histories of a British locomotive builder. The author, a chartered engineer, worked for the company for 40 years.

+ The London Country Bus.
(Reference #S5907)
Price:£10.00
Wagstaff, J S.
Oakwood, 1968.
Octavo, 70 pages + 16 pages of photo plates, lists of vehicle types and of garages, card covers, VG+. **LP42.

The Textile Mill Engine.
(Reference #S5665)
Price:£50.00
Watkins, G.
David & Charles, 1970-71.
2 volumes quarto, 120 pages + 112 pages with about 150 photographs and matching descriptive text, jackets, VG+. **Pictures from the Watkins archive of stationary steam engines. Watkins was the foremost authority in this subject.

Stephen Lewin And The Poole Foundry.
(Reference #S5417)
Price:£16.00
Wear, R & Lees, E.
1987, Industrial Railway Society.
Large ocatvo, 101 pages with numerous illustrations and drawings, glazed card covers, VG. **Obscure builder of agricultural machinery, steam boats and small industrial locomotives in the 1870s and 1880s.

Steam On Canals.
(Reference #S2416)
Price:£14.00
Weaver, C P & Weaver, C R.
D&C, nd (c1980)
Large octavo, 96 pages, many photo illustrations, glazed boards, VG+. **A record of the steam age on Britain's waterways. The scale and leisurely working practices of British canals made the steamboat less common than elsewhere. However many fine steamers had long and successful careers, and some passenger services remained steam powered into the 1950s and beyond.

Garrett 200. A bicentenary history of Garretts Of Leiston 1778-1978.
(Reference #S5871)
Price:£24.00
Whitehead, R A.
Transport Bookman 1978.
Quarto, 248 pages including photo plates, jacket, fine. **Builders of steam road vehicles and other equipment including trolleybuses and latterly drycleaning machines.

Brunel And After. The romance of the Great Western Railway.
(Reference #S5735)
Price:£12.00
Williams, A.
GWR, 1925.
Octavo, 205 pages+ large folding map, photo and other illustrations, card covers, some spotting and wear to covers and spotting to prelims, contents clean. **Great Western Railway's own short history of the company. A note on the back cover mentions "a complete and detailed History of the Great Western Railway" in preparation. This will have been the first edition of MacDermot's history, the more recent edition of which is added to our on-line listing in company with this, its small predecessor (see S5731 in the UK Railways section).

Bridges For Modellers. An illustrated record of railway bridges.
(Reference #S5657)
Price:£18.00
Wood, L V.
OPC, 1985.
Landscape folio, 144 pages, photos and drawings, fading and wear to top edge of jacket, otherwise VG+. **Actually this is only landscape when open, the book opens along its long edge as normal, but the pages are printed in landscape. This would be tricky for sustained reading, but the text is minimal, the profuse illustrations are the point of this valuable reference book.

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