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4mm Wagon Part Two: General Merchandise Vans, Special Purpose Vans and Tank Wagons. Ref: RS0171

Kent, G.
Very large, 160 pages, pictorial. Soft back.

Price: £14.95

The Blue Pullman Story. Ref: RS3807

Fully revised and unabridged.
Robertson & Smith.
Very large, 390 pages, many photos: some colour, glazed boards. **This definitive history of the Midland Blue Pullman consolidates Kevin Robertson's Blue Pullman (2005), Blue Pullman Supplement (2009) and Blue Pullman Pictorial (2012) including much new material which has come to light since those days.

Price: £40.00

Blue Pullman Pictorial. Ref: RS2988

Robertson.
Very large, 92 pages, pictorial, soft back. **The truly iconic train-sets of the 1960s, says Mr Robertson. Lots of interesting extra pictures and information; the original study is now out of print.

Price: £16.50

Bogie Carriages Of The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway. Ref: RS3135

X54.
Gould.
Medium, 208 pages, photos, listings, diagrams, drawings, soft back.

Price: £12.90

Bogie Carriages Of The South Eastern & Chatham Railway. Ref: RS3134

Gould.
Medium, 208 pages, photos, listings, diagrams, drawings, soft back.

Price: £10.95

BR Air-Braked Wagons In Colour. Ref: RS3340

Ratcliffe.
Very large, 96 page colour album, with 3-page introduction, glazed boards. **All BR air-braked wagons from the 1970s to privatisation and beyond. Over 200 photographs informatively captioned with detailed technical data for each type covered.

Price: £20.00

BR Coaching Fleet. Ref: RS0362

Mk2, Mk3 & Mk4.
Butlin.
Very large, 36 pages, soft back.
Out of print, last copy.

Price: £4.95

BR Parcels And Passenger-Rated Stock. Volume 1. Ref: RS3273

Full brakes, parcels and miscellaneous vans & car-carrying vehicles.
Larkin.
Very large, 92 pages, many photo illustrations, stocklists with building dates etc, softback. **Volume 2 will cover livestock vans and vehicles for carrying perishables such as fruit, milk and fish.

Price: £15.00

BR Parcels And Passenger-Rated Stock. Volume 3. Ref: RS3489

Self-propelled parcels vans, TPOs and car-carrying vehicles for motorail services.
Larkin.
Very large, 92 pages, many photo illustrations, batch lists with building dates as known, softback. **Volume 2 will cover livestock vans and vehicles for carrying perishables such as fruit, milk and fish.

Price: £15.00

The Brighton Belle. Ref: RS2950

The story of a famous and much-loved train.
Grant & Jeffs.
Large square, 96 pages, photo illustrations with period and recent colour, map, timings, menus, posters, etc, glazed boards. **Excellent history giving the story from the first Brighton line Pullmans up to the latest word on preservation of Brighton Belle stock. A handsome and keenly-priced book. 2nd edition.

Price: £12.95

British Carriage & Wagon Builders & Repairers 1830-2018 Ref: RS3708

Second edition, revised and enlarged.
Sambrook
Very large, 296 pages, many photo illustrations, glazed boards. ** An alphabetical listing, with dates, sites and brief histories and links between the firms highlighted for ease of cross-reference. Along with the well-known large firms there are many dozens of smaller businesses, some almost one-man-bands. This invaluable reference has been out of print for at least six years, its return - almost half as large again - is very welcome.

Price: £30.00

British Railways Locomotives And Coaching Stock 2012. Ref: RS3008

The complete guide to all locomotives & coaching stock which operate on the national rail network and Eurotunnel.
Pritchard & Hall.
Small, 379 pages including colour plates. Glazed boards. **The rolling stock of Britain's mainline railway operators and light rail systems in 2012.

Price: £18.25

British Railways Locomotives And Coaching Stock 2013. Ref: RS3202

The complete guide to all locomotives & coaching stock which operate on the national rail network and Eurotunnel.
Pritchard & Hall.
Small, 383 pages including colour plates. Glazed boards. **The rolling stock of Britain's mainline railway operators and light rail systems in 2013. Last few copies reduced from £18.95 to £3.

Price: £3.00

Great Northern Railway And East Coast Joint Stock Carriages From 1905. Ref: RS3168

X546
Harris.
Medium, 160 pages, photos, listings, drawings, plan of Doncaster Works, soft back.

Price: £11.90

Gresley's Legacy. Ref: RS3404

Locomotives and rolling stock.
McIntosh.
Very large, 160 pages, photo illustrations (some colour, including period colour), glazed boards. **A chronological study of Gresley's locomotives and rolling stock, with particular reference to the engines and vehicles which still survive.

Price: £25.00

Historic Carriage Drawings Volume 2. LMS. Ref: RS0210

Jenkinson.
Very large, 136 pages, glazed boards. **Out of print - last copy.

Price: £19.95

Historic Carriage Drawings Volume 3. Ref: RS0645

Non passenger coaching stock.
Tatlow.
Very large, 128 pages. Hard back. **Out of print - last copy.

Price: £19.95

Illustrated History Of Southern Wagons Volume 3. Ref: RS0943

South Eastern & Chatham Railway.
Bixley.
Very large, 160 pages, with many illustrations and drawings. Hard back. Out of print - last copy.

Price: £29.99

Lancashire And Yorkshire Wagons Volume 1. Ref: RS0078

Coates, N.
Very large, 194 pages, pictorial, hard back.

Price: £21.95

Lancashire And Yorkshire Wagons Volume Two. Ref: RS2259

Coates, N.
Very large, 194 pages, many photos and scale drawings, hard back.

Price: £35.95

An Illustrated History Of LNER Wagons Volume One LNER Southern Area. Ref: RS2075

Ex-GN, ex GC and ex-GE wagons absorbed by the LNER.
Tatlow.
Very large, 248 pages, many photo and line illustrations, hard back. **Comprehensive information. Three further volumes are planned to deal with the NE area, the Scottish area and LNER standard designs.

Price: £34.95

An Illustrated History Of LNER Wagons Volume Two LNER North-Eastern Area. Ref: RS3302

Ex-H&B and ex-M&GN wagons absorbed by the LNER.
Tatlow.
Very large, 248 pages, many photo and line illustrations, hard back. **Comprehensive information. Volume 1 covered the Southern area (ex-GN, ex-GC and ex-GE wagons). Two further volumes are planned to deal with the Scottish area and LNER standard designs.

Price: £33.95

An Illustrated History Of LNER Wagons Volume Three LNER Scottish Area. Ref: RS2706

Ex-NB and ex-GNS wagons absorbed by the LNER.
Tatlow.
Very large, 186 pages, many photo and line illustrations, hard back. **Comprehensive information. Third of a four-volume work: still to come is the one on LNER standard designs.

Price: £33.95

An Illustrated History Of LNER Wagons Volume 4A LNER Standard Designs. Ref: RS3379

Open, mineral & hopper wagons, ordinary & special purpose vans.
Tatlow.
Very large, 158 pages, many photos, line illustrations, hard back. **Comprehensive information. Fourth but penultimate volume of a four-volume work, volume 4B (the remaining LNER standard and other designs) includes appendices jointly relevant to itself and to this volume.

Price: £33.95

An Illustrated History Of LNER Wagons Volume 4B LNER Standard & Other Designs. Ref: RS3376

Containers and container flats, iron & steel carrying wagons, bolster wagons, specially constructed vehicles, departmental vehicles and goods brake wagons.
Tatlow.
Very large, 180 pages, many photos, line illustrations, hard back. **Comprehensive information. Fifth and final volume of a four-volume work, includes appendices jointly relevant to this and volume 4A, and addenda relating to all five volumes.

Price: £38.95

LNER Workshops. Ref: RS3646

Development, expansion and demise.
Tuffrey.
Very large, 226 pages, many photos (some period colour), maps, drawings, bibliography, glazed boards. **Studies Cowlairs, Darlington, Doncaster, Gateshead, Gorton & Dukinfield, Inverurie, Shildon & Faverdale, Stratford Works and Temple Mills and York and their roles in locomotive and rolling stock construction and maintenance under LNER ownership. The works' production of munitions during the second world war is also covered.

Price: £30.00

LNWR Wagons Volume Two. Ref: RS2822

Northedge (ed).
Very large, 220 pages, pictorial: large, clear drawings and photographs, soft back. **Produced by the LNWR Society. A third part, which completes this painstaking and detailed survey, is now available.

Price: £29.95

LNWR Wagons Volume Three. Ref: RS3622

Northedge (ed).
Very large, 210 pages, pictorial: large, clear drawings and photographs, hard back. **Produced by the LNWR Society. An engineering history aimed at modellers and restorers. This volume describes coal, coke and hoppered wagons, tramcar trolleys and brake vans. Many official Earlestown drawings, constructional details, photos of each subject across all eras.

Price: £42.50

The Longmoor Military Railway. Ref: RS3291

A new history. Volume Three : The inevitable closure, locomotives and rolling stock.
Ronald & Christensen.
Large, 283 pages (numbered continuously from Volumes 1 and 2, hence the last page is p 848), many photo and other illustrations, stock and numbering lists, and other appendices, glazed boards. ** Excellent thorough history, generously illustrated with more first-rate photographs.

Price: £30.00

LSWR Carriages Volume Four: Ref: RS2310

Goods, departmental stock and miscellany.
Weddell, G R.
Very large, 160 pages, description and history, illustrated with photos and drawings, hard back.

Price: £25.00

North Staffordshire Wagons. Ref: RS0063

Chadwick, G F.
Very large, 94 pages, drawings, photos, soft back. Spine faded.

Price: £11.95

Private Owner Wagons A Seventh Collection. Ref: RS2511

Turton, K.
Very large, 160 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Another wide range of wagons and their operators. Short histories of over seventy more businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; a further section reviews all the previous volumes adding information and pictures which have come to light since their original publication.

Price: £19.95

Private Owner Wagons A Ninth Collection. Ref: RS2783

Turton, K.
Very large, 160 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Another wide range of wagons and their operators: the author was particularly pleased with a find of glass plate negatives from wagon builders Thos Burnett & Co of Doncaster. Short histories of over eighty more businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; as usual there is also further information and pictures on companies featured in earlier volumes.

Price: £19.95

Private Owner Wagons A Tenth Collection. Ref: RS3267

Turton, K.
Very large, 160 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Another wide range of wagons and their operators: short histories of over sixty more businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; as usual there is also further information and pictures on companies featured in earlier volumes.

Price: £21.00

Private Owner Wagons An Eleventh Collection. Ref: RS2977

Turton, K.
Very large, 168 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Another wide range of wagons and their operators: a large proportion were built by the Gloucester RC&W Co. Important owners included the major coal firm of Settle Speakman & Co and the Blaenavon Co, the remains of whose collieries and ironworks is now a World Heritage site. Short histories of over sixty more businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; as usual there is also further information and pictures on companies featured in earlier volumes.

Price: £21.00

Private Owner Wagons A Twelfth Collection. Ref: RS3192

Turton, K.
Very large, 160 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Another wide range of wagons and their operators: from builders Gloucester RC&W Co, Charles Roberts and others. This volume features wagons of some of the more obscure - even surprising - undertakings to own their own fleets (and occasionally just the one wagon). Short histories of over sixty more businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; as usual there is also further information and pictures on companies featured in earlier volumes.

Price: £21.00

Private Owner Wagons A Thirteenth Collection. Ref: RS3343

Turton, K.
Very large, 160 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **The penultimate volume. Another wide range of wagons and their operators of some of the more obscure undertakings to own their own fleets. Short histories of over sixty more businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; as usual there is also further information and pictures on companies featured in earlier volumes.

Price: £22.50

Private Owner Wagons A Fourteenth Collection. Ref: RS3675

Turton, K.
Very large, 152 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **The final volume (not). Extended coverage of the Staveley Company of Derbyshire and Dowlais in South Wales. Short histories of numerous businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; as usual there is also further information and pictures on companies featured in earlier volumes.

Price: £22.50

Private Owner Wagons A Fifteenth Collection. Ref: RS3676

Pope & Turton.
Very large, 152 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Intended as the first of a new series, but Keith Turton found not only new photos but new identification of previously unknown GW wagons, so this volume is a combined effort. It contains short histories of some hundred or so businesses, together with details of their wagon fleets

Price: £22.50

Private Owner Wagons Of Gloucestershire. Ref: RS2264

Pope, I.
Very large, 240 pages, many photo illustrations, map. Glazed boards.

Price: £21.99

Pullman Pride. Ref: RS2287

Photographs from the archive of EJ Morris - Company Secretary of the Pullman Car Company.
Morris & Ford, (comp).
Very large, 92 page album, soft back. **Some very interesting interior and outside views of Pullman cars.

Price: £17.95

Southern Wagons In Colour. Ref: RS3230

King.
Very large, 112 page colour album, soft back. **An ample selection of large period colour photographs, mostly one or two to the page, showing a wide range of Southern wagons and some cranes, copiously and knowledgeably annotated.

Price: £17.50

Pullman Profile No 1. The 12-Wheel Cars. Ref: RS2477

Ford.
Very large landscape, 192 pages, pictorial, glazed boards. **Photographs, lists, drawings, bibliography.

Price: £27.00

Pullman Profile No 4. The Brighton Belle And Southern Electric Pullmans. Ref: RS3079

Ford.
Very large landscape, 200 pages, pictorial (some period colour), glazed boards. **Photographs, lists, drawings, bibliography; as usual a handsome production.

Price: £33.00

Pullman Trains In Britain. Ref: RS2025

LP210.
Kidner, R W.
Medium, 112 pages, photos, carriage plans, soft back. **This is the second edition of Kidner's 1998 expansion of his 1987 book, Pullman Cars Of The Southern 1875-1972. The work is now a concise history of Pullman trains and vehicles in this country.

Price: £8.95

Railway Breakdown Cranes Volume 1. Ref: RS2945

The story of steam breakdown cranes on the railways of Britain.
Tatlow.
Very large, 256 pages, photo illustrations, some period colour, many good measured drawings, glazed boards. **This is the first of a definitive two-part work describing the origins, makers and use of breakdown cranes on the railways of Britain. Cranes are defined as those primarily designed and developed for the purpose of dealing with railway accidents and derailments on standard gauge lines.
Volume 2, (now out of print) contains material on the larger long-jib cranes, powered by both steam and diesel, most of which were fitted with relieving bogies.

Price: £35.00

Railway Snowploughs In The North East. Ref: RS3240

Williamson & Williamson.
Very large, 88 pages, well illustrated with photos (a few in colour), drawings, map, soft back. **Because of the exposed position of many of its lines the North Eastern Railway needed a fleet o f 24 heavy-duty snowploughs to drive through the deep drifts that accumulated. This book traces the history of the snow ploughs in the north east from before the blocking of th East Coast main line in 1886/88 to British Railways days, as well as LNER proposals, post-nationalisation deliberations and the North Eastern Region ploughs. Snow plough developments elsewhere in Britain are compared with north eastern equipment. Working methods are described, as is the disruptive influence of snow on the railways of the north east.

Price: £12.95

Southern Wagons Pictorial. Ref: RS2557

King, M.
Very large, 192 pages, illustrated with photos and scale drawings drawings, hard back. Out of print - last copy.

Price: £30.00

British Railway Goods Wagons In Colour 1960 - 2003. Ref: RS0934

For the modeller and historian.
Hendry.
Very large, 96 pages, pictorial, colour photos, line drawings, soft back. ** For earlier wagons see the companion British Railway Goods Wagons In Colour, reference 2003, which covers vehicles in use during the period from 1948 to the early eighties.

Price: £14.99

British Railway Goods Wagons In Colour. Ref: RS2003

For the modeller and historian.
Hendry.
Very large, 96 pages, pictorial: over 200 colour photographs plus b/w line drawings, soft back. **The first all-colour book devoted to the British goods wagon, covering a broadly representative selection of the wagons which made up the bulk of goods trains from the formation of BR in 1948 to the early 1980s. For more recent models see the companion British Railway Goods Wagons In Colour 1960 - 2003 reference 0934.

Price: £14.99

Irish Broad Gauge Carriages. Ref: RS1821

A pictorial introduction.
Coakham, D.
Very large, 96 pages, pictorial (quite a lot of text, though). Soft back. **A thorough survey of the Irish coaches from earliest times to the present.

Price: £14.99

L&NWR Non-Corridor Carriages. Ref: RS2227

1886-1923, excluding the 30ft 1in 6-wheelers.
Millard & Tattersall.
Very large, 136 pages, photo illustrations, many clear scale carriage drawings, all elevations including floor layouts, hard back. **Invaluable reference for LNW, LMS and BR(LM) modellers and historians. Constructional information, examples of carriage numbering, set formations, train working. These are the non-corridor designs built at Wolverton 1886-1932 (excluding the 30ft 1in 6-wheelers dealt with elsewhere).

Price: £29.95

Memories Of Isle Of Wight Railways. Ref: RS2744

Jacobs.
Very large landscape, 96 pages, pictorial, some period colour, soft back. **A happy combination of personal recollection and some fine photos, generously sized.

Price: £14.95

Metro-Cammell 150 Years Of Craftmanship. Ref: RS0540

Beddoes & Wheeler.
Very large, 112 pages. Hard back. **History of West Midlands rolling stock manufacturer. Concentrates on railway products including those of companies taken over, but also includes chapters on military vehicles and buses.

Price: £17.99

Private Owner Wagons A Fourth Collection. Ref: RS2068

Welsh Anthracite.
Turton, K.
Very large, 184 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Information about the wagons of the various collieries, agents and shippers supplying the best coal from South Wales. Includes a comprehensive list of sources and models available of the wagons featured.

Price: £19.95

Private Owner Wagons A Fifth Collection. Ref: RS2244

Readers contributions.
Turton, K.
Very large, 184 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **This volume reverts to the original formula: some 60 owners are described and their wagons illustrated with 170 photographs. The difference is that almost every owner depicted is included because of reader response in the form of photographs or other information.

Price: £19.95

Private Owner Wagons A Sixth Collection. Ref: RS2481

Turton, K.
Very large, 184 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Another wide range of wagons and their operators. Short histories of over eighty businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; illustrated with some 250 photographs of wagons and sites.

Price: £21.00

Sleepers, Diners & Pullmans Ref: RS2443

Trains and vehicles of the International Sleeping Car Company.
Spark
Large horizontal, 64 pages, pictorial - photos and drawings. Soft back. **Now back in stock after a considerable absence.

Price: £12.50

South Eastern & Chatham Railway Carriages. Ref: RS2434

Coutanche.
Very large, 128 pages, many photo illustrations and drawings, glazed boards. ** A cross section of fifty types of bogie carriages with photos and 4mm scale plans of each plus brief details and histories; appendices give livery details and SR coach renumbering.

Price: £19.95

Southern Coaches In Colour Ref: RS2790

Welch.
Very large landscape, 80 pages, album, soft back. **Period colour, mostly one or two pictures per page, plus technical and other information for each vehicle.

Price: £15.95

Working Wagons. Volume 3. Ref: RS1033

A pictorial review of freight stock on the BR system. Volume 3. 1980 - 1984.
Larkin, D.
Very large, 96 pages, pictorial, soft back. **Third and penultimate book in the author's pictorial review of freight stock on the BR system between 1968 and 1991. The photos are from the author's own collection.

Price: £12.95

Working Wagons. Volume 4. Ref: RS1391

A pictorial review of freight stock on the BR system. Volume 4. 1985 - 1992.
Larkin, D.
Very large, 96 pages, pictorial, soft back. **Fourth and last book in the author's pictorial review of freight stock on the BR system between 1968 and 1991. The photos are from the author's own collection.

Price: £12.95

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