New books - railways in Scotland

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Price:£14.95

Ferguson.
Medium, 240 pages. Soft back.

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Price:£20.00

The Tay and Forth bridges and the 19th-century railway wars.
McKean.
Medium, 390 pages, maps, some photo and other illustrations, hard back. **A study of the Caledonian and North British rivalry which also offers new conclusions about the Tay Bridge disaster. Substantial, highly readable and excellent value.

Branches & Byways - Southwest Scotland And The Border Counties.

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Price:£35.00

Robotham, R.
Very large, 256 pages, pictorial but with essays on all the branches in the area. Hardback. **Concentrates on the post-war BR period, "a comprehensive portrait of the history of these lines and provides and excellent reference for all those interested in the railways of the region, whether as historians or as modellers."

Branches & Byways - Sussex And Hampshire.

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Price:£35.00

Vaughan, J.
Very large, 256 pages, lavishly illustrated with photographs. Hardback. **Useful reference for those interested in the history of the Southern Railway, LBSCR, LSWR or the local history of the two counties.

British Small Mines (North).

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Price:£18.00

Booth.
Large, 112 pages with 142 photos and site plans. Hard back. **Studies of 28 representative drift mines working a variety of minerals in northern England and southern Scotland.

Burntisland: Fife's Railway Port.

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Price:£12.95

LP218.
Marshall.
Medium, 192 pages, maps, drawings, plans, soft back.

Crewe Remembered.

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Price:£12.95

Baker, A C.
Very large, 96 pages, many photo illustrations, works site plans. Soft back. **Essays on aspects of Crewe and its locomotives: Life at Crewe North; Points & Signals; Crewe - Perth working. Author spent the first 12 years of his working life at Crewe North shed.

District Controller's View 8. The Waverley Route.

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Price:£12.95

Edinburgh - Hawick - Carlisle.
Hodge, J.
Very large, 80 pages, soft back. * "Train and traffic operations over the Waverley route during the 1950s; working timetable (passenger and goods; engine workings; engine allocation and movements 1950-60."

Dundee And Newtyle Railway Including The Alyth And Blairgowrie Branches.

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Price:£19.50

Ferguson, N.
Medium, 242 pages + 64 pages photos, maps. Hard back.

Edinburgh Suburban And South Side Junction Railway.

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Price:£25.00

OL139.
Maclean.
Medium, 320 pages, gererously illustrated with photos, map, sections of large scale OS maps, track diagrams, drawings of structures and rolling stock, hard back. **This short but important railway was conceived as a freight bypass to relieve congestion on city centre lines; for a long time it also carried passenger traffic. This ceased in 1962 and so far plans to resume it have come to nothing. Nevertheless the line continues in its original function as an avoiding route.

Glasgow Railway Memories.

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Price:£7.95

Smith, W A C & Anderson, P.
Very large, 52 pages, lavishly illustrated with photos, soft back. **"Not just a close-up of Glasgow trains but a look at life in the city from wartime to the end of steam in 1967".

Glasgow Subway Album

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Price:£10.00

Watson, G.
Very large, 62 pages, sofback. **A collection of photographs of the old Glasgow Subway taken before and during closure for modernisation.

Glasgow's Trams.

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Price:£7.95

The twilight years.
Anderson, P.
Very large, 52 pages, soft back.

Glencorse Branch.

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Price:£10.95

Hurst.
Medium, 176 pages. Soft back.

Great North Of Scotland Railway

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Price:£7.99

The history of the railways of the Scottish highlands - vol 3.
Vallance
Medium, 219 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), soft back.

Haddington, Macmerry And Gifford Branch Lines.

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Price:£18.50

OL90
Hajducki.
Medium, 248 pages, photos, maps, some drawings. Hard back. *Line history.

Highland Main Line.

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Price:£19.99

Sinclair.
Very large, 144 pages, hard back. **A pictorial history illustrated with photos, line drawings and maps. The book pays particular attention to the parts played by the railway staff, especially between Perth and Inverness and brings the history of the line fully up to date. LAST FEW.

Highland Railway

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Price:£9.95

Vallance
Medium, 222 pages, line and photo illustrations (some colour), soft back.

Highland Railway Liveries.

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Price:£19.95

Dathan na Gaidhealtachd.
Geddes, H & Bellass, E.
Large, 108 pages, many photos, line drawings, 4 pages colour. Hard back. **Concentrates on the pre-grouping phase and contains supplementary data for the subsequent period.

Highland Railway.

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Price:£17.99

Ross, D.
Medium, 256 pages + 32 pages of plates, soft back. **The Highland railway extended from Perth to Wick and from Keith to the Kyle Of Lochalsh and was one of the most individual of the British railway companies. This is the most comprehensive book ever written about the Highland. It is rich in detail and based on records from public and private archives.

History Of The Railways Of The Scottish Highlands Vol.2 The Highland Railway.

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Price:£9.95

Vallance, H A (revised Lambert).
Medium, 210 pages, illustrated (some colour). 5th edition. Soft back.

History Of The Railways Of The Scottish Highlands Vol.5 The Skye Railway.

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Price:£7.99

Thomas, J (revised Farrington).
Medium, 181 pages, illustrated (some colour), revised and extended edition. Soft back.

Illustrated History Of Tayside's Railways.

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Price:£12.25

Smith & Anderson.
Very large, 84 pages, soft back.

Inverness And Nairn Railway.

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Price:£4.95

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the opening of the first part of the Highland railway.
Fenwick.
Medium, 50 pages, photo illustrations, maps, card covers.

Iron Road.

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Price:£30.00

The railway in Scotland.
Ransom, P J G.
Large, 334 pages, photo and other illustrations, some colour, hard back. **This is the first, single-volume, overall history of Scottish railways since, when? Ackworth in 1890? Maybe not, but it is certainly long overdue. It is a large volume, handsomely produced, comprehensive, authoritative and at £30 offers true Scottish value.

Monkland & Kirkintilloch.

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Price:£12.00

And associated railways.
Martin, D.
Very large, 164 pages, folding map, some photo illustrations, soft back.

Past And Present No 19. South West Scotland.

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Price:£12.99

Sanders & Hodgins.
Medium, 144 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Past And Present No 31. North West Scotland.

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Price:£15.99

Sanders & Hodgins.
Medium, 160 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Past And Present No 9. South East Scotland.

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Price:£15.99

Sanders & Hodgins.
Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Peebles Railways.

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Price:£15.95

OL135.
Marshall.
Medium, 240 pages, photo illustrations, maps, soft back. **The Edinburgh & Peebles Railway ran from Peebles via Penicuik to a junction with the NBR at Eskbank, just southwest of Dalkeith. Construction began in 1853; it was finally closed in 1952. Very detailed local history.

Perth And Dunkeld Railway.

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Price:£4.95

Marking the 150th anniversary of the opening of the first part of the railway from Perth to Inverness.
Fenwick & Sinclair.
Medium, 44 pages, photo illustrations, maps, card covers. **An 1840s-50s development which later became part of the main line to Inverness.

Puggy Line.

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Price:£9.95

The Lochaber narrow gauge railway.
Howat, P.
Large, 96 pages, photo illustrations, track diagrams, maps, soft back. **History of railway built in the West Highlands in connection with hydro-electricity production for an aluminium works

Rails To Alford.

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Price:£4.95

The story of the railway from Kintore to Alford, one of Aberdeenshire's many branch lines.
Jones, K G.
Medium, 56 pages, photo illustrations, maps, soft back. **Produced by the Great North Of Scotland Railway Society.

Rails To Kyle Of Lochalsh.

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Price:£25.00

McConnell.
Medium, 340 pages, pictorial, maps and many photos. Hard back. **The story of the Dingwall And Skye Railway including the Strathpeffer Branch.

Railways In Retrospect 2: Highland In LMS Days.

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Price:£15.00

Jenkinson, D.
Very large, 88 pages, many photo illustrations, soft back. ** "that very fascinating 25 year phase ... when [the HR] moved from being a rather modest part of the broader Scottish railway scene, with all its implied limitations, to its rather more significant role ... as the most northerly outpost of the largest joint stock corporation running railways in any part of the world at that time."

Railways Of Aberdeen.

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Price:£4.95

150 years of history.
Jones, K G.
Medium, 56 pages, album, soft back. **Produced by the Great North Of Scotland Railway Society.

Railways Of Dundee.

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Price:£15.50

Marshall, P.
Medium, 192 pages, many photos, maps, plans. Hard back. **History of the railways in and around Dundee, paying particular attention to the early years and including proposals for railways which were never built.

Railways Of Scotland.

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Price:£19.99

In the latter days of steam.
Castledine.
Large landscape, 94 page album, hard back.

Railways Of Upper Strathearn.

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Price:£11.95

Crieff-Balquhidder. LP225.
Byrom.
Medium, 160 pages, illustrated with photos and maps. Soft back.

Royal Deeside's Railway.

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Price:£4.95

Aberdeen to Ballater.
Jackson (Ed).
Medium, 72 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), map, track layouts, soft back. **Produced by the Great North Of Scotland Railway Society; they point out that this is not a new edition of their earlier work The Royal Deeside Line: this book has a new text and new photographs..

Scottish Central Railway.

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Price:£19.95

Perth To Stirling.
Marshall.
Medium, 248 pages. Hard back.

Scottish Colliery Pugs In The Seventies.

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Price:£4.95

Roberton, W.
Very large, 48 page album, soft back.

Scottish Steam.

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Price:£30.00

A tribute by Keith Verden Anderson & Brian Stephenson.
Anderson, W J V.
Very large landscape, 160-page colour/black & white album, 4 pages introductory text, glazed boards. **Pictures of a very high quality, taken in the 1950s and 60s. The period colour images are excellent. Warmly recommended.

Skye Railway

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Price:£7.99

The history of the railways of the Scottish highlands - vol 5.
Thomas, J
Medium, 181 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), soft back.

Steamers Of The Clyde.

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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.

Thomas Bouch.

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Price:£17.99

The builder of the Tay Bridge.
Rapley.
Medium, 192 pages, photo and other illustrations, soft back. **Bouch was a maverick among engineers and became famous when he developed roll-on/roll-off wagon ferries for the Edinburgh & Northern Railway to cross the Forth and Tay, but it was his later Tay Bridge and his remarkable design for a Forth Bridge that brought him a knighthood.

Travellers Joy. History of the Morayshire Railway.

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Price:£9.99

Ross.
Very large, 196 pages, soft back. **Last copy.

Waverley Route.

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Price:£15.99

Post War Years.
Robotham.
Large, 112 pages, glazed boards.

Wemyss Private Railway.

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Price:£22.95

Brotchie.
Medium, 272 pages, pictorial, photos, tables, line drawings and maps. Hard back. **The definitive history of Fife's most extensive industrial railway, built by the Wemyss estate to carry coal traffic. The development of Fife's collieries and ports is also covered in some detail.

West Highland Railway

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Price:£12.99

History of the railways of the Scottish highlands vol 1.
Thomas, J
Medium, 192 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), soft back.

Wonderful Waverley.

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Price:£12.95

Edinburgh in the glory days.
Anderson, P.
Very large, 76 pages, pictorial, glazed boards.

Second Hand Showcase Books from Robert Humm

Time Tables: BR
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UK & Ireland 1
UK & Ireland 2
UK & Ireland 3
Locomotives 1
Locomotives 2
International 1
International 2
Miscellany
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