New
Bargains!
We have just added 28 books of doubtful character to our Bargain Basement.
These are mostly ancient-and-don't-they-look-it bound Railway Magazines
and Locomotive Magazines; there are also three world-weary Railway Clearing
House maps and two regrettable books. All described in hideous detail
so you know what you are getting.
Check the Basement to see
whether we have listed the very volume you wanted for a working copy.
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Michael
Portillo's Bradshaw
For his television
programme Mr Portillo is using a copy of Bradshaw's Tourist Handbook.
He refers to it as a "Bradshaw's Guide", but the
real Bradshaw's Guide is the well-known series of monthly time
tables published between 1839 and 1960, of which we have a few in stock
including some listed in the Secondhand
Showcase on this site (scroll down about 1/3 of the page). This
Bradshaw's Guide contains no tourist information, except for
hotel advertising.
Bradshaw's
Tourist Handbook, Mr Portillo's guide, is unfortunately extremely
scarce. The individual parts turn up from time to time, but to get all
four together is most unusual. The one Mr Portillo is using came from
us (of course!) but it is the only complete set we have ever seen. Sadly
we have no more, even of the individual parts, to offer at present.
Bradshaw also produced an
annual publication called Bradshaw's Railway Manual, Shareholders'
Guide And Directory. This doesn't have any tourist information,
either.
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Catalogue
96: Railways
Our
next paper catalogue will be Catalogue 96 which we hope to issue in
spring 2010.
The catalogue will cost £5.00 posted first class to addresses
in the UK,
£6.00
airmailed to Europe and £8.00 airmailed elsewhere.
You can order a copy by post or phone (details on the Contact
page).
To order a copy on-line, follow one of these links:
to
send for Catalogue 96 alone,
or
to
take out a subscription to Catalogue 96 and our next three printed
catalogues.
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Magazine
Advertisement Listings
It
is now possible to order online the items listed in out current magazine
advertisements. Just
follow this link.
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Puzzle
Just
fallen from an LNER time table, a quarto form headed Foreign Companies'
Empty Wagons On Hand And Required. There is a blank table for recording
wagon numbers by owning company. The companies listed are:
GC;
GE; GN; GW; LB≻ L&Y; L&NW; L&SW; Midland; NE; All
other Companies via London.
So
not an LNER form; but it does not say whose though there are clues in
the Instructions on the reverse. Guesses on one side of an e-mail please.
Consensus
opinion posted here next week.
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Titles
of Bradshaw British time tables
Recently a question arose about the several changes of
title of the classic Bradshaw time table over the years. I thought it
would be easy to trace the changes from the data from old Showcases,
but I was wrong.
The
table below is compiled from time tables catalogued for our web site
since 2001 and from some in stock at the time of writing. It only gives
a rough guide as to when changes of name took place. The title on a
Bradshaw title page is never the same as the one on the cover and I
didn't realise this back in 2001. The title page title is of course
the correct one but it is not always clear now whether I have catalogued
the title page or the cover title; where this is uncertain I have noted
it.
| Dates |
Title page |
Added to title on cover
/ Alternative title on cover |
| >1928 |
Bradshaw's General Railway And Steam Navigation
Guide |
For Great Britain And Ireland |
| 1930 - Nov 1937 |
Bradshaw's General Railway, Steam Navigation, &
Hotel Guide |
For Great Britain And Ireland |
| Jul 1938 - Jun 1939 |
Bradshaw's Railway, Shipping &
Hotel Guide (uncertain whether this is from cover or title page)
|
|
| Oct 1939 - Jul 1946 |
Bradshaw's Guide For Great Britain And Ireland |
Bradshaw's Guide To The British Railways |
| Feb 1947 |
Bradshaw's [Official]* Guide For Great Britain
And Ireland (uncertain whether this is from cover or title page)
|
|
| Jul 1947 - |
Bradshaw's British Railways [Official] Guide |
See below |
| Jul 1948 |
Bradshaw's Guide To The British Railways (uncertain
whether this is from cover or title page) |
|
| Aug 1949 - Mar 1953 |
Bradshaw's [Official] Guide For Great Britain And
Ireland |
See below |
| By Feb 1961 |
Bradshaw's British Railways [Official] Guide |
See below |
| Jul 1947 - 1961 |
|
Bradshaw's British Railways [Official] Guide and
hotel directory |
* Post-war issues bear the
decorative addition in a smaller typeface of the words "Official"
and "Every Month" on either side of the word "Guide"
on the cover and on the title page; I disdained the addition of "Every
Month" to the title, but kept "Official"; however in
a reference to the copyright the publishers leave "Official"
out of the title too.
