New books - railways in Wales

Around The Great Western Railway Then & Now.

(Reference #W1092)
Price:£35.00

Waters, L.
Very large, 256 pages, album, hard back.**Housing estates, industrial developments, car parks, supermarkets, new roads, cycle paths, modern stations, crisp new ballast, HSTs, sprinters - photos of all these shown side by side with atmospheric pictures of the same spots under GWR or Western Region. This large and handsome volume covers almost the entire system by area and line.

Barry Railway Steamers.

(Reference #W2011)
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.

Behind The Steam.

(Reference #W1592)
Price:£14.95

Morgan, W & Meyrick, B.
Large, 222 pages + 16 pages of photo illustrations, hard back. **An old favourite - the reminiscences of Bill Morgan, who worked for the GWR at Neyland in Pembrokeshire, now in a new edition with extra photos.

Branch Line To Shrewsbury.

(Reference #W2498)
Price:£14.95

The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, large scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Branch Lines Around Barry.

(Reference #W2085)
Price:£14.95

To Cardiff, Wenvoe, Penarth and Bridgend.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, maps, track plans, glazed boards.

Branch Lines Around Hay-On-Wye.

(Reference #W2275)
Price:£14.95

Including the Golden Valley line.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, large-scale maps, glazed boards.

British Railways Layout Plans Of The 1950s. Volume 10.

(Reference #W1461)
Price:£6.95

LNW lines in North Wales, Chester and Wirral areas.
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Very large, 80 pages of signalling diagrams, soft back.

British Railways Western Region In Colour.

(Reference #W2054)
Price:£14.99

For the modeller and historian.
Waters.
Very large, 96 pages, pictorial, soft back. **180 colour photographs illustration the Western Region during the 20 years following nationalisation and shows a great variety of WR facilities and services. Invaluable reference for modellers.

Brunel In South Wales Volume 1: In Trevithick's Tracks.

(Reference #W2060)
Price:£17.99

Jones, S K.
Medium, 224 pages + 16 pages of colour photo plates, other photos in text. Soft back. **Many of Brunel's innovative works were pioneered in South Wales, but have been eclipsed by such famous undertakings as the GWR, the steam ships etc. Brunel worked in South Wales at nearly every stage in his career and much survives and is still in use. This is the first of three volumes and begins with the historic background of the Merthyr ironworks and Trevithick.

Burry Port & Gwendreath Valley Railway. Vol 1 Canals.

(Reference #W1204)
Price:£12.95

And its antecedent canals. OL116A.
Bowen.
Medium, 184 pages, photos, maps, soft back.

Cambrian Railways.

(Reference #W0343)
Price:£15.99

Portrait Of A Welsh Railway Network.
Christiansen.
Large, 112 pages, glazed boards.

Chester & North Wales Border Railways.

(Reference #W1368)
Price:£16.99

A view from the past.
Christiansen.
Medium, 96 pages, pictorial, map, glazed boards.

Coast Lines Of The Cambrian Railways.

(Reference #W1753)
Price:£26.95

Vol.1 Machynlleth to Aberystwyth.
Green, C C.
Very large, 288 pages, pictorial, hard back.

Coast Lines Of The Cambrian Railways. Volume 2.

(Reference #W0963)
Price:£25.00

Dovey Junction to Barmouth Junction and the Dolgelly branch.
Green, C C.
Very large, 288 pages, photos, track plans,signalling diagrams. Hard back.

Directory Of British Engine Sheds And Principal Locomotive Servicing Points. Volume 1.

(Reference #W0494)
Price:£34.99

Southern England, the Midlands, East Anglia & Wales.
Griffiths & Smith.
Very large, 206 pages. Hard back. **For update and amendments see item 2166.

District Controller's View 2. Chester - Holyhead.

(Reference #W0765)
Price:£10.95

Williams.
Very large, 80 pages, soft back.

Elan Valley Railway.

(Reference #W1776)
Price:£12.95

The railway of the Birmingham Corporation Waterworks. OL71.
Judge, C W.
Medium, 232 pages + large folding map, many photo and other illustrations. Soft back. ** "The turn of this [20th] century saw the Elan and Claerwen valleys transformed and changed in character by the massive stone structures. This book sets out to record how this was achieved, mainly by the construction and running of a railway, a village and, above all, hard work." New edition of this very thorough history of the relatively short-lived railway which includes much else of local interest.

Ely Valley Railway.

(Reference #W0684)
Price:£9.95

Llantrisant - Penygraig.
Chapman.
Medium, 144 pages. Soft back.

Festiniog Railway Volume One.

(Reference #W1340)
Price:£22.95

History and route 1800 - 1953.
Boyd.
Medium, 297 pages + 32 pages photo plates, maps & diagrams in text, 2nd impression of 1975 edition. Hard back. ** "A history of the narrow gauge railway linking the slate quarries of Blaenau Ffestiniog with Portmadoc, North Wales: together with outline histories of quarry undertakings connected to the Railway". The British Narrow Gauge Railway series no 1. B1A

Festiniog Railway Volume Two.

(Reference #W0792)
Price:£25.00

Locomotives and rolling stock; quarries and branches: rebirth 1954-1974.
Boyd.
Medium, 329 pages + 54 pages photo plates, maps & diagrams in text, 2nd impression of 1975 edition. Hard back. ** "A history of the narrow gauge railway linking the slate quarries of Blaenau Ffestiniog with Portmadoc, North Wales: together with outline histories of quarry undertakings connected to the Railway". The British Narrow Gauge Railway series no 1. B1B

From Chester To Holyhead.

(Reference #W0860)
Price:£35.00

The branch lines.
Rear, B.
Very large, 256 pages, many photo illustrations, map.

Great Western Corris.

(Reference #W1216)
Price:£12.95

Briwnant-Jones.
Medium square, 87 pages, map, photos, hard back.

Great Western In North Wales. A Past & Present Companion.

(Reference #W2326)
Price:£16.99

Including the Llangollen, Bala Lake and Fairbourne railways.
HIllmer & Shannon.
Medium, 96-page album, map, soft back. ** "Then and now" pairs of photographs of over 50 locations including Ruabon, Llangollen, Bala, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Dolgellau, Barmouth.

Hay & Kington Railways.

(Reference #W2206)
Price:£13.95

Rattenbury & Cook.
Medium, 132 pages, illustrated with photographs, line drawings and good clear maps, soft back. **The Hay Railway was completed in 1816 and linked the town of Hay in the Welsh borders with the canal at Brecon; it was later extended to Eardisley and thence the Kington Railway's line ran to Kington and Dolyhir. These two horse-worked railways had a joint length of 36 miles, greater than any other contemporary railway. For over forty years they served the small towns and villages of this area of the Welsh Marches until they were superseded by locomotive-worked lines in mid-century.

Illustrated History Of The Festiniog Railway.

(Reference #W2316)
Price:£19.99

Johnson, P.
Very large, 160 pages, photos, maps, pictures of paperwork, ephemera etc. Hardback. ** This is indeed well illustrated, with some fascinating old pictures, but there is at least as much history here as illustration. An excellent read, essential reference and first-rate value.

Illustrated History Of The Shropshire And Montgomeryshire Light Railway.

(Reference #W2479)
Price:£19.99

Johnson, P.
Very large, 128 pages, photos, maps, station/signalling diagrams, pictures of paperwork, ephemera etc. Hardback. ** Another nicely-illustrated and readable history from Mr Johnson. The station/signalling diagrams by Gordon Rushton are particularly lucid.

Illustrated History Of The Welsh Highland Railway.

(Reference #W1294)
Price:£19.99

Johnson, P.
Very large, 128 pages, photos, maps, pictures of paperwork, ephemera etc. Hardback. Excellent value.

Industrial Locomotives Of Dyfed And Powys.

(Reference #W0158)
Price:£19.95

de Havilland, J.
Medium, 342 pages, 29 maps, many photos. Glazed boards. **Describes not only locomotives and their locations, but also non-locomotive and contractors' sites.

Industrial Locomotives Of Gwent.

(Reference #W0354)
Price:£27.50

Hill & Green.
Medium, 400 pages. Glazed boards. (Also available as a paperback, qv.) **Includes information previously published in Pocket Book Six, Industrial Locomotives In South Wales with many additions. Known locomotives are listed on a site-by-site basis, and the industrial history of each site is described as far as it is known.

Industrial Locomotives Of Mid And South Glamorgan.

(Reference #W2307)
Price:£19.95

Hill.
Medium, 424 pages, maps (some colour), photo section, softback.

Industrial Locomotives Of West Glamorgan.

(Reference #W0349)
Price:£20.00

Potts & Green.
Medium, 260 pages, illustrated: photos and maps, glazed boards. **Includes information previously published in Pocket Book 6, but in a greatly amplified state. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive, contractors' and preservation sites within the county.

Industrial Railways In Colour: South Wales.

(Reference #W1837)
Price:£9.99

A Railway Bylines Special.
Booth, A.
Medium landscape, 64 pages colour album, glazed boards.

Irish Mail.

(Reference #W1567)
Price:£14.99

Hitches, M.
Large, 160 pages, photo album, glazed boards.

Last Days Of The Old Corris.

(Reference #W1675)
Price:£8.95

Briwnant-Jones, G.
Medium square, 48 pages, photo illustrations, soft back.

Llanelly & Mynydd Mawr Railway.

(Reference #W1333)
Price:£13.50

OL84
Price.
Medium, 176 pages, photos, maps, some drawings. Hard back. *Line history.

Lost Lines: Wales.

(Reference #W1854)
Price:£13.99

Welbourn.
Large, 128 pages, pictorial, maps, soft back.

Lost Lines: Western.

(Reference #W1360)
Price:£12.99

Welbourn.
Large, 128 pages, pictorial, maps, soft back.

Merthyr Tydfil Tramroads And Their Locomotives.

(Reference #W1785)
Price:£14.50

Rattenbury, G & Lewis, M J T.
Medium, 88 pages, illustrated with photographs, line drawings, reproductions of contemporary views and maps, soft back. **The Merthyr (or Penydarren) Tramroad was opened in 1802 to convey the products of Merthyr's four large ironworks to the canal at Abercynon. Its place in the history of railways is fundamental: it was the site of the 1804 run of Trevithick's locomotive - the first steam engine to run on rails. Later many more engines were used on the road, most of them highly idiosyncratic designs from the Neath Abbey Irorworks. This book, which marks the bicentenary, combines two works on this system: Gordon Rattenbury's history of the tramroad, not previously published, and Michael Lewis's history of the motive power, an extensively revised and enlarged verion of his 1975 work Steam On The Penydarren.

Mid-Wales Railway.

(Reference #W1377)
Price:£11.95

OL79
Kidner, R W.
Medium, 160 pages, photos, maps, gradient profile, track plans, soft back.

Monmouthshire Eastern Valleys. (Welsh Valleys).

(Reference #W2490)
Price:£14.95

Featuring Newport Docks.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Mountain Ash To Neath. (Welsh Valleys).

(Reference #W2412)
Price:£14.95

Including the Merthyr branch.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Narrow Gauge Railways In North Caernarvonshire. Volume 2 The Penrhyn Quarry Railways.

(Reference #W1207)
Price:£18.95

Boyd.
Medium, 164 pages, illustrated, hard back. Reissue.

Narrow Gauge Railways In North Caernarvonshire. Volume 3.

(Reference #W1208)
Price:£22.95

The Dinorwic quarry and railways, the Great Orme tramway and other rail systems..
Boyd.
Medium, 228 pages, illustrated, hard back. Reissue.

Narrow Gauge Railways In South Caernarvonshire. Vol 1.

(Reference #W0686)
Price:£22.95

Boyd.
Medium, 310 pages, 2nd impression of 1988 edition. Hard back.

Neath And Brecon Railway.

(Reference #W2093)
Price:£25.00

A history.
Jones, Dunstone & Watkins.
Medium, 204 pages, many illustrations, some in colour, map endpapers, hard back. **Nicely produced and well illustrated line history.

Nevill's Dock & Railway Company.

(Reference #W2070)
Price:£12.75

Railways and industry in Llanelli.
Denman, M.
Very large, 68 pages, photo and other illustrations, maps, some colour, soft back. **Companion to Railways Around Llanelli, now out of print. Covers the growth of the industrial lines of Llanelli and the industries they served, between 1800 and 1960. Outstanding was the eponymous Nevill's system, built to serve the copper works.

New Radnor Branch.

(Reference #W0184)
Price:£7.95

de Courtais, N.
Very large, 64 pages, soft back.

Neyland.

(Reference #W0857)
Price:£19.95

A Great Western outpost.
Parker.
Very large, 144 pages, photo illustrations, hard back. **Formerly known as New Milford, and the port of embarkation to Ireland from the Welsh coast.

On Great Western Lines.

(Reference #W0925)
Price:£14.99

Hobbs
Medium oblong, 80 pages, colour album. Hard back.

Origins Of The LMS In South Wales.

(Reference #W0294)
Price:£25.00

Jones & Dunstone.
Large, 257 pages, some colour, hard back.

Past And Present No 28. South Wales Part 2.

(Reference #W0900)
Price:£17.99

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

Past And Present No 32. Mid Wales And The Marches.

(Reference #W0904)
Price:£13.99

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

Past And Present No 37. South Wales Part 3.

(Reference #W1431)
Price:£15.99

West Glamorgan and the Brecknock and Carmarthen county boundaries..
Gough, T.
Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.

Past And Present No 38. West Wales.

(Reference #W1432)
Price:£15.99

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

Plynlimon And Hafan Tramway.

(Reference #W0574)
Price:£15.00

Wade.
Very large, 72 pages. Hard back. **The history of an obscure Welsh narrow gauge railway which only lasted for two years. First published in 1976, this edition has been updated with with further text and illustrations.

Pontypool To Mountain Ash. (Welsh Valleys).

(Reference #W2499)
Price:£14.95

Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, large scales maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Private Owner Wagons A Fourth Collection.

(Reference #W2068)
Price:£19.95

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.

Private Owner Wagons A Fifth Collection.

(Reference #W2244)
Price:£19.95

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.

Private Owner Wagons A Sixth Collection.

(Reference #W2481)
Price:£21.00

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.

Private Owner Wagons A Seventh Collection.

(Reference #W2511)
Price:£19.95

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.

Quarry Hunslets Of North Wales.

(Reference #W1189)
Price:£22.95

The great (little) survivors. X71.
Thomas.
Medium, 256 pages, illustrated with photos and some drawings, hard back.

Railway Bylines Collection 2006-2007.

(Reference #W2186)
Price:£15.95

All new articles and photographs to complement your magazine collection...
Smith, M (ed).
Very large, 96 pages, glazed boards. **Articles include Backworth Colliery railways; Westward TV train; GE J65 0-6-0Ts; Quakers Yard (S Wales valley junction); Marks Tey brickworks, a cornucopia of gauges etc.

Railway Through Talerddig

(Reference #W1266)
Price:£7.50

Briwnant-Jones
Medium square, 144 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. **Also available in hard back at £11.95. We may not necessarily have both in stock

Railway Through Talerddig

(Reference #W1927)
Price:£11.95

Briwnant-Jones
Medium square, 144 pages, photo illustrations, hard back. **Also available in soft back at £7.50. We may not necessarily have both in stock

Railways Around Saltney.

(Reference #W2231)
Price:£13.96

A pictorial record.
Dixon & Pickard.
Very large, 156 pages, pictorial, photos, maps, diagrams, incl many signalling diagrams. **Privately produced local history of the of railways in the neighbourhood of Saltney, a settlement close to Chester on the Cheshire - Flintshire border

Railways In Retrospect 3: South Wales Valleys.

(Reference #W1919)
Price:£15.00

Evans, E A.
Very large, 88 pages, many photo illustrations, soft back. ** Life on the valley railways: the work of their railwaymen and the communities and industries they served.

Railways Of Pembrokeshire.

(Reference #W2505)
Price:£25.00

Enlarged and extended from the original work of John Morris.
Parker.
Very large, 304 pages, map, photo illustrations, appendices, glazed boards. **Detailed narrative county history, with much useful reference material gathered in appendices: mileages, signal boxes, gradient profiles, track and signalling diagrams, time table extracts, chronology.

Railways Of Wales Circa 1900.

(Reference #W1019)
Price:£25.00

Jones, G B, & Dunstone, D.
Medium, 262 pages, many illustrations, some in colour, map endpapers, hard back. **Nicely produced and well illustrated overview.

Reservoir Builders Of South Wales.

(Reference #W2126)
Price:£14.95

Bowtell & Hill
Medium, 130 pages, photos, area and system maps, glazed boards. **Book six of Bowtell's Dam Builders In The Age Of Steam series. A specialised but fascinating subject.

Rhondda Collieries.

(Reference #W1948)
Price:£9.99

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

Rickard's Record.

(Reference #W1002)
Price:£16.50

Cardiff and the valleys - volume 2.
Miller.
Large, 116 page album, map, hard back. *Sid Rickard's photographs.

Saltney Carriage And Wagon Works.

(Reference #W2446)
Price:£12.75

Wood.
Large, 108 pages, map, site plans, lists, soft back. **GWR history: Saltney, like Worcester, was a rolling stock manufacturing location prior to the establishment of the facilities at Swindon.

Scenes From The Past 53. Return To Pwllheli Please.

(Reference #W2460)
Price:£17.95

Along the Cambrian coast.
Lowe.
120 pages, very large, many photo illustrations, station and junction track plans, soft back.

Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway.

(Reference #W2500)
Price:£8.95

Tonks.
Medium, 102 pages, photo illustrations, map, loco lists, soft back. *Second printing of the IRS 1972 edition (the first was published by the author in 1949).

Slate Quarries Of Gwynedd.

(Reference #W2630)
Price:£14.00

Messenger.
Medium square, 96 pages, album with 3-page introduction and notes about the individual quarries, some colour, site maps, soft back. ** Interesting period photographs. Note that this is a book about the quarry railways; this is omitted from the title but made clear by the nice picture of a Hunslet 0-4-0 on the cover.

Small Mines Of South Wales. Volume 1.

(Reference #W0002)
Price:£12.95

Booth, A J.
Medium, 96 pages. Hard back. **An album with photos and site plans. Much useful information is included: grid references, notes on approach roads, working practice, how many men and horses were employed, machinery used etc. Describes 32 mines, all of which were working when the author visited them between 1985 and 1992. Ten gauges and at least four types of motive power.

Small Mines Of South Wales. Volume 2.

(Reference #W0348)
Price:£17.50

Booth.
Large, 112 pages. Hard back. **On the same principle as the first volume, this book describes a further 34 working coal mines, all visited by the author in the mid '90s. An appendix lists all mines known by the author to have been working at some point between 1980 and 1997 with grid references.

South Wales Main Line. Part 1. Cardiff.

(Reference #W0877)
Price:£19.95

Hodge.
Very large, 100 pages, pictorial, hard back. **Survey of the main line in the 1950s and 60s.

South Wales Main Line. Part 2. Severn Tunnel To Newport.

(Reference #W1478)
Price:£21.95

Hodge.
Very large, 116 pages, pictorial, hard back. **Survey of the main line in the 1950s and 60s.

South Wales Main Line. Part 3. Cardiff (West) To Bridgend.

(Reference #W1907)
Price:£22.95

Hodge.
Very large, 100 pages, pictorial, hard back. **Survey of the main line in the 1950s and 60s.

South Wales Main Line. Part 4. Bridgend (West) To Swansea.

(Reference #W2101)
Price:£28.95

Hodge.
Very large, 172 pages, pictorial: photos, large scale maps, hard back. **Survey of the main line in the 1950s and 60s.

Steam In Mid Wales.

(Reference #W1826)
Price:£25.00

Hale, M.
Very large album, 284 photos on about 120 unnumbered pages, some maps, hard back. **A chronicle of the later years of steam. Includes much lineside detail.

Steam In South Wales.

(Reference #W0587)
Price:£3.75

Series Index.
Hale & Miller.
Very large, 20 pages. Soft back.

Taff Vale Railway. Volume 2.

(Reference #W2158)
Price:£16.99

Rhondda Fawr, Rhondda Fach, Roath and Aberdare branches; locomotives and railmotors; accidents and wartime damage.
Hutton, J.
Medium, 128 pages, pictorial: photos and maps. Soft back. ** The larger of the TVR's 23 branches. Includes a brief survey of the TVR locomotive fleet, coaching stock and steam railmotor venture.

Taff Vale Railway. Volume 3

(Reference #W2152)
Price:£16.99

Branches to Penarth and Cadoxton, Ynysybwl, Llancaiach, Llantrisant, Cowridge and Aberthaw.
Hutton, J.
Medium, 128 pages, pictorial: photos and maps. Soft back. ** "More than 250 photographs, maps and items of ephemera cover the TVR, GWR and BR eras, as well as present-day photographs showing what can still be seen of this fascinating railway network.".

Talerddig In Great Western Days.

(Reference #W0732)
Price:£25.00

Jones.
Medium, 245 pages. Hard back.

Red Dragon ...And Other Old Friends!

(Reference #W2370)
Price:£28.50

A glimpse of post-war steam in and around Swansea.
Daniel, Haynes, Miles & Williams.
Very large landscape, 364 page album, map endpapers, hard back. **This must be one of the largest albums on offer, a veritable feast of South Welsh steam.

Track Layout Diagrams Of The Great Western Railway And BR (WR) Section 46A Rhondda Valleys.

(Reference #W2261)
Price:£7.50

Cooke.
Very large, 61 pages, large-scale diagrams, 2-page photo section, soft back.

Track Layout Diagrams Of The Great Western Railway And BR (WR) Section 46B Pontypridd-Cardiff.

(Reference #W2262)
Price:£7.50

Cooke.
Very large, 58 pages, large-scale diagrams, soft back.

Track Layout Diagrams Of The Great Western Railway And BR (WR) Section 59 Central And Mid Wales.

(Reference #W2263)
Price:£5.90

Cooke.
Very large, 33 pages, large-scale diagrams, soft back.

Vale Of Glamorgan Railway.

(Reference #W0476)
Price:£11.95

Chapman.
Medium, 176 pages. Soft back.