Transport Bookshop:Out Of Print Showcase:UK & Irish Railways: Authors I - P   
History Of The Maryport & Carlisle Railway.
(Reference #S4257)
Price:£8.00
Jackson & Jackson.
Hirst-Jackson, 1979.
Octavo, 75 pages, illustrated with map & photos, card covers, VG.

London's Local Railways.
(Reference #S5564)
Price:£35.00
Jackson, A A.
Capital, 1999: second edition, revised and enlarged.
Large octavo, 464 pages, illustrated with photos and maps, jacket, near fine. ** Starting at the London & Greenwich Railway and working clockwise around London the author deals with the history of forty-eight lines around the capital. As always, A A Jackson's account is very readable.

London's Metropolitan Railway.
(Reference #S5305)
Price:£34.00
Jackson, A A.
D&C, 1986.
Large octavo, 416 pages, illustrated with photos, some maps and diagrams, jacket, near fine. **Authoritative standard history of the company and its line. The author comments: "It is interesting that the Metropolitan Railway was to develop into quasi-main line company on its own account, with an urban underground system as an appendage at its inner end. Initially this was far from anyone's mind."

The Jubilee Memorial Of The Railway System. A history of the Stockton & Darlington Railway and a record of its results.
(Reference #S5610)
Price:£18.00
Jeans, J S.
Frank Graham, 1974 reprint of 1875 first edition.
Octavo, 315 pages, illustrated, jacket, VG+.

The Cork Blackrock & Passage Railway.
(Reference #S5777)
Price:£8.00
Jenkins, S C.
Oakwood, 1993, 2nd edition, enlarged.
Octavo, 104 pages, maps, photos, locomotive drawing and list, card covers, near fine.

The Woodstock Branch.
(Reference #S5174)
Price:£12.00
Jenkins, S C.
Wild Swan, 1987.
Quarto, 96 pages + 8 pages of appendices and drawings, map, station diagram, photo illustrations, card covers, fine. **A very detailed history and description of the line to Blenheim Palace, built by the Duke of Marlborough in 1888 and run by the Great Western Railway until 1964.

The Railways Of Macclesfield and the line to Bollington, Poynton & Marple (Rose Hill). Scenes From The Past: 27.
(Reference #S5506)
Price:£14.00
Jeuda, B.
Foxline, 1995.
Large quarto, 86 pages, 8-page historical introduction followed by photo section, map, card covers, VG+. **Of particular interest is the fine double page view of Hibel Road station with its sheds and sidings spread out in all their glory, every item of interest is numbered and identified in the photo key.

Railways In And Around The Manchester Suburbs. A selective pictorial review. Scenes From The Past: 8.
(Reference #S5469)
Price:£14.00
Johnson, E M.
Foxline, 1989.
Large quarto, 250 photos, at about 2 per page, also maps, card covers, slightly faded, VG.

The Midland Route from Manchester. Cheadle Heath To Chinley. Scenes From The Past 16/2.
(Reference #S5737)
Price:£15.00
Johnson, E M.
Foxline, 1992
Folio, 110 pages, mainly photographic, map, some track plans, stain inside front cover and on title page, otherwise fine, card covers.

The Origins Of The LMS In South Wales.
(Reference #S4147)
Price:£20.00
Jones & Dunstone.
Gomer, 1999.
Large octavo, 257 pages, map endpapers, photo illustrations (some colour), some wear to top edge of jacket, otherwise a near fine copy. **The LNWR's and the Midland's struggles to cut in on the mineral wealth of south Wales "an enterprise which proved difficult to achieve and troublesome to operate".

Talerddig In Great Western Days.
(Reference #S5664)
Price:£25.00
Jones, G B.
Gomer, 1999.
Square quarto, 244 pages, well illustrated, some colour, map, jacket, fine. **The Newport & Machynlleth Railway 1922 onwards (it continues beyond GW days into the BR era).

Steam On The North Wales Coast. Routes, services and motive power in the last years of steam.
(Reference #S5181)
Price:£18.00
Jones, M.
OPC, 1996.
Quarto, 191 pages, well illustrated with photos, depot diagrams, time table extracts, route map, jacket, fine. **A good read and interesting pictures.

Jowett's Railway Atlas Of Great Britain And Ireland. From pre-grouping to the present day.
(Reference #S5496)
Price:£48.00
Jowett, A.
PSL, 1989.
Folio, xix + 352 pages giving 149 hand drawn, hand lettered maps. Jacket, near fine copy of the original publisher's edition`. **This astonishing work is innocent of any typesetting except on the jacket. Drawn and lettered entirely by hand (even the ISBN number) and based on the RCH maps, it covers the country's railways in enormous detail showing all stations (these are indexed) and coloured to show company ownership. Sheds, works, junctions, sidings, and tunnels etc are also shown. Scale is mostly 4 or 5 miles/inch (northern Scotland is at 7.5 m/inch), but with enlargements of 2 miles/inch where needed; really complex junctions are treated as larger scale insets on these.

Mid-Wales Railway.
(Reference #S4007)
Price:£8.00
Kidner.
Oakwood, 1990.
Octavo, 128 pages, maps, photos, card covers, near fine. OL79.

Railways Around Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Immingham & North-East Lincolnshire.
(Reference #S5306)
Price:£12.00
King, P K & Hewins, D R.
Foxline, 1988.
Quarto, 44 pages + 42-page photo section, maps, track diagrams, card covers, near fine. **Scenes From The Past series: 5.

Railways. Volume 5 January - December 1944.
(Reference #S4145)
Price:£25.00
Lake, G H (editor).
Railway World Ltd.
Quarto, 192 pages, photo illustrations, bound in publisher's tan cloth, VG.

East Midlands Branch Line Album.
(Reference #S5676)
Price:£12.00
Lambert, A J.
Ian Allan, 1978.
Small quarto, 128 pages, photo album, jacket, fine copy.

Miniature Railways Past & Present.
(Reference #S5459)
Price:£15.00
Lambert, A.
David & Charles, 1982.
Octavo, 96 pages, interesting album with lengthy informative captions and a three page introduction. Glazed boards. VG/F. **Good basic reference.

The City & South London Railway.
(Reference #S5739)
Price:£9.00
Lascelles, T S.
Oakwood, 1987.
Octavo, 47 pages + 12 pages of photo plates, maps, diagrams, card covers, near fine. **OL11. A useful history of the first tube railway, with some very interesting illustrations.

The Bicester Military Railway and the Army's central railway workshops.
(Reference #S3875)
Price:£22.00
Lawton, E R & Sackett, M W.
1992 OPC.
Large quarto, 160 pages with many photo illustrations and drawings, locomotive lists, jacket, fine.

Early Railways In Surrey.
(Reference #S5171)
Price:£16.00
Lee, C E.
Excerpt from the Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 1940.
Quarto, 40 pages, 5 plates, text diagrams, light card covers, slightly faded at edges, otherwise fine. Quite scarce. **Expands the subject of the author's 1930 paper "The World's First Public Railway"; this is a history of the Surrey Iron Railway and its extension the Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Iron Railway.

How Ffestiniog Got Its Railway.
(Reference #S4056)
Price:£10.00
Lewis, M J T.
RCHS, 1965.
Small octavo, 48 pages, illustrated with a frontispiece and two folding maps, jacket, some offsetting on endpapers, otherwise near fine.

Locomotive Magazine Special Series 1-6.
(Reference #S5475)
Price:£48.00
Locomotive Publishing Co.
LPC 1898-1900.
Winter and Summer pictorial extra numbers bound in one volume and comprising
British Expresses
The World's Famous Railway Trains
The British Express Locomotive During The Victorian Era
Locomotives Of 1900
Locomotives At Work
Cars Of 1900
Quarto, about 100 pages, mainly b/w but the frontispiece is a large folding colour plate of NER 2010 and several other colour plates. Fine blue silk binding, ornate silver lettering and mounted coloured plate. One of the best copies we have seen. ** How well the frontispiece would have done for this year's calendar! 2010 is pulling the royal train and is suitably decorated. All the titles are self-explanatory except Cars of 1900 which hints that the vehicles depicted are not all British carriages; the section includes several exhibits at the Paris Exhibition, including some goods wagons; there are drawings as well as photos.

The East Lincolnshire Railway.
(Reference #S5427)
Price:£18.00
Ludlam, A J.
Oakwood, 1991.
Octavo, 160 pages, photos, map, track plans, hard back with jacket, VG. OL82. **Detailed history of the line between Boston and Grimsby.

Northumberland Central Railway.
(Reference #S4067)
Price:£12.00
Mackichan.
Published by the author, 1998.
Octavo, 184 pages, maps, line drawings, diagrams, card covers, near fine.

The Campeltown & Machrihanish Light Railway.
(Reference #S3565)
Price:£18.00
Macmillan, N S C.
1970, D&C.
Octavo, 164 pages, photo plates, text illustrations, coloured frontispiece, jacket, a fine copy of the first edition.

The Calne Branch.
(Reference #S5347)
Price:£14.00
Maggs, Colin.
Wild Swan, 1990.
Quarto, 112 pages, lavishly illustrated - photos, maps, track diagrams etc. Card covers, near fine.

Minehead Branch And The West Somerset Railway.
(Reference #S3595)
Price:£8.00
Maggs.
Oakwood, 1998.
Octavo, 128 pages, maps, photos, card covers, fine. LP206.

+ Forgotten Railways: Volume 9. North-West England.
(Reference #S5898)
Price:£17.00
Marshall, J.
D&C, 1981.
Octavo, 176 pages + folding map, photo illustrations, gazetteer, jacket, near fine.

The Aberdare Railway.
(Reference #S4236)
Price:£8.00
Mountford & Kidner.
Oakwood, nd (1995).
Octavo, 128 pages, maps, photos, card covers, fine. **OL95.

Caerphilly Works 1901-1964.
(Reference #S5769)
Price:£30.00
Mountford, E R.
Roundhouse Books, 1965.
Large octavo, 132 pages + 64 pages photo plates, locomotive lists, jacket, near fine copy of a scarce book. **Built by the Rhymney Railway, Caerphilly was adopted by the GWR as its maintenance workshops for all steam locomotives shedded in South Wales.

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The Golden Valley Railway. Railway enterprise on the Welsh border in late Victorian times.
(Reference #S2746)
Price:£25.00
Mowat, C L.
University of Wales, 1964.
Octavo, 121 pages + frontispiece & 6 pages photo plates + folding map + folding accounts sheet. Jacket, VG. **History of line from Pontrilas in Herefordshire through Abbeydore, Peterchurch and Dorstone to Hay, on the River Wye, built 1876 - 1889.

Britain's Railways At War 1939-1945.
(Reference #S5772)
Price:£17.00
Nock, O S.
Ian Allan, 1971.
Large octavo, 224 pages + 48 pages of photo plates, other illustrations in text, diagrams, tables, jacket, near fine.

North Western. A saga of the premier line of Great Britain: 1846 - 1922.
(Reference #S5677)
Price:£20.00
Nock, O S.
Ian Allan, 1968.
Octavo, 311 pages + photo plates, maps, loco lists, jacket, a little wear to edges, but generally VG. **Nock in classic form. This is an integration of his two earlier works - Premier Line and The London & North Western Railway, with a different set of illustrations; as always the history is eminently readable and strong on the locomotive side.

The Caledonian Railway.
(Reference #S5167)
Price:£18.00
Nock, O S.
Ian Allan, 1961.
Octavo, 190 pages + photo plates and coloured frontispiece, system map, sketch maps, track diagrams, drawings, jacket worn, cloth a little marked, generally a good, sound copy. **Discursive, readable history, strong on the locomotve side, as usual with Nock.

Osborne's Guide To The Grand Junction Railway. With the topography of the country through which the line passes. And complete guides to the towns of Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester.
(Reference #S3756)
Price:£80.00
Osborne, E.
Birmingham, 1838.
Duodecimo, 378 pages, engravings in the text, time, fare and distance tables, folding map of the line, 11 plates + 138 pages of advertising. Newly rebound in dark red cloth, VG. **Grand Junction guides were always scarcer than London & Birmingham guides.

The Exe Valley Railway Including the Tiverton Branch. The anatomy of a west country branch line.
(Reference #S5214)
Price:£20.00
Owen, J.
Kingfisher, 1985.
Large quarto, 192 pages, many photo illustrations, track plans, diagrams, jacket, near fine.

The Life And Times Of The Great Eastern Railway.
(Reference #S5500)
Price:£16.00
Paar, H & Gray, A.
Castlemead, 1991.
Landscape quarto, 128 pages, 41 photo illustrations and 42 line drawings, maps, jacket, as new. **The personalities connected with the GER - the directors, management, staff and passengers: "enthusiasm, incompetence, board room struggles and chicanery, tragic accidents and other incidents in its history." Based on detailed research in the contemporary press.

Rails In The Valleys.
(Reference #S5292)
Price:£20.00
Page, J.
David & Charles, 1989.
Large quarto, 192 pages, double-page map, photo illustrations, jacket, near fine. **South Wales was uniquely rich in competing railways; they were responsible for the shape of the towns around them but very little has been written about their social effects or their methods of operation. This careful study covers all aspects, from the all-important coal trade to the operation of excursion trains, taking in locomotives, rural branch lines, docks and much else.

The Lough Swilly Railway.
(Reference #S5285)
Price:£28.00
Patterson, E M.
David & Charles, 1964.
Octavo, 189 pages + coloured frontispiece & 24 pages of photo plates, drawings, plans of 22 of the stations, map, bibliography, jacket, VG+. ** A history of the narrow gauge railways of north west Ireland - part 2 (part 1 was the history of the County Donegal Railways.).

The Belfast & County Down Railway.
(Reference #S5166)
Price:£10.00
Patterson.
Oakwood, 1958, first edition.
Octavo, 51 pages, photos, maps, lists of locomotives and stations, fold-in card covers, a bright copy, fine.

PLA Railways.
(Reference #S5678)
Price:£50.00
Peacock, T B.
LPC, 1952.
Octavo, 117 pages, photos, track diagrams, maps, loco lists, hardback, cloth a trifle worn and marked, endpapers slightly browned G+. **The scarce history of the railways of the Port of London; not a stunning copy, and priced accordingly.

Lord Willoughby's Railway. The Edenham branch.
(Reference #S5840)
Price:£12.00
Pearson & Ruddock.
Willoughby Memorial Trust, 1986.
Octavo, 120 pages, photo and other illustrations, maps and track plans, card covers with jacket, near fine. ** A Lincolnshire obscurity.

Somewhere Along The Line. Fifty years love of trains.
(Reference #S5291)
Price:£26.00
Peters, I.
OPC, 1976.
Folio album, 480 photos on maybe 200 pages, jacket, near fine copy. **What a collection! From Peter's earliest efforts at Mortehoe in 1925 to an early HST in 1975 this magnificent series of photographs portrays a whole-hearted enthusiasm which embraced main lines, branch lines, industrial and narrow gauge and European railways (including pre-war photos on the Harz narrow gauge).

Walthamstow And Chingford Railway.
(Reference #S4256)
Price:£8.00
Pond.
1982, Walthamstow Antiquarian Society.
Octavo, 86 pages, illustrated with map, photos, station layouts, card covers. VG+.

The Newton Abbot To Kingswear Railway (1844-1988).
(Reference #S5839)
Price:£20.00
Potts, C R.
Oakwood, 1988.
Octavo, 218 pages, well illustrated with photos, drawings, maps and plans, large folding map, jacket, fine. **One of the hardback Oakwoods, OL75.

The Jubilee Line Extension.
(Reference #S5188)
Price:£22.00
Powell, K.
Laurence King, 2000.
Quarto, 207 pages, 187 colour photo illustrations and architectural drawings, jacket, fine. **A grand architectural survey of the new stations which includes some details of construction, tunnelling etc.

Pembroke And Tenby Railway.
(Reference #S3596)
Price:£8.00
Price.
Oakwood, 1986.
Octavo, 112 pages, map, photo illustrations, station layouts, card covers, VG. **OL68.

A Pictorial Record Of Southern Signals.
(Reference #S2957)
Price:£22.00
Pryer, G .
OPC, 1977.
Large quarto, 200 pages, illustrated with photos of signals, equipment, boxes etc, scale drawings of signals, gantries, signal boxes, diagrams of equipment etc, jacket, VG+.

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