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Atock/Attock Family. Ref: BM2620  

A worldwide railway engineering dynasty.
Shepherd.
Medium, 264 pages, photo and other illustrations, soft back. ** An ordinary family with a remarkably persistent engineering gene, the Attocks and Atocks served the Eastern Counties, GER, L&Y, LMS, and other undertakings in Ireland, Australasia, Burma, North Africa, Cuba and elsewhere.
Price: £15.95
 

Behind The Steam. Ref: BM1592  


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.
Price: £14.95
 

Lawson Billinton. Ref: BM2345  

A career cut short. OL142.
Marx.
Medium, 192 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. **Last of the LBSCR locomotive engineers. Displaced at the grouping, at the age of only 40, he took early retirement.
Price: £13.95
 

Coey/Cowie Brothers. Ref: BM1404  

All railwaymen.
Chacksfield, J E.
Medium, 176 pages, photos, drawings, soft back. OL124.
Price: £12.95
 

Testing Times At Derby. Ref: BM1869  

A 'privileged' view of steam. RS14.
Rimmer.
Medium, 120 pages, some photo illustrations, soft back. **A locomotive engineer in the 1950s.
Price: £9.95
 

Elephants On The Line. Ref: BM2926  

Tales of a Cumbrian railwayman (1947-95).
Cottam
Medium, 111 pages, illustrated, soft back.
Price: £7.99
 

From Bridges To Big 'Uns. Ref: BM3527  

A sort of West Side Story.
Coster.
Very large, 176 pages, many photo illustrations with some period colour, glazed boards. **Engaging reminiscences of the author's career as a civil engineer with BR (LM), illustrated with his own photos which include many fine shots of steam workings as well as examples of civil engineering work.
Price: £27.95
 

Steel Wheels And Rubber Tyres. Volume One. Ref: BM1626  

Transport around Oldham in the 1930s; locomotives at Gorton in the 1940s; Leeds trams in the 1950s.
Hilditch, G.
Medium, 168 pages, photo illustrations, maps. Soft back. *How one uninformed schoolboy tried to attain his early and overriding ambition to see his name in gold leaf on the side of a municipal tramcar, against those almost magic words "General Manager". RS10.
Price: £12.95
 

Steel Wheels And Rubber Tyres. Volume Two. Ref: BM1778  

A General Manager's journey: Manchester, Plymouth, Great Yarmouth, Halifax.
Hilditch, G.
Medium, 184 pages, photo illustrations, maps. Soft back. *How one uninformed schoolboy tried to attain his early and overriding ambition to see his name in gold leaf on the side of a municipal tramcar, against those almost magic words "General Manager". RS11.
Price: £12.95
 

The Toy Story. Life And Times Of Frank Hornby. Ref: BM1166  


McReavy.
Medium, 288 pages, hard back.
Price: £17.99
 

William James (1771 - 1837). Ref: BM2418  

The man who discovered George Stephenson.
Macnair.
Medium, 144 pages, illustrated, hard back. ** "William James played a crucial, but largely unremembered, role in the development of inland transport in the industrial revolution. What set him apart from his better-known contemporaries was the scale of his vision and the range of activities he pursued during his long career: as a lawyer, surveyor, land agent and estate manager, geologist, coal-miner, inventor and civil engineer." This carefully researched and nicely-written book sets the record straight.
Price: £24.95
 

Ron Jarvis. Ref: BM1788  

From Midland compound to the HST.
Chacksfield, J E.
Medium, 176 pages, photos, drawings, soft back. OL130. **Jarvis was born in 1911, began his career as locomotive engineer at Derby in 1928, saw service in Turkey, Brighton, Derby again as Mechanical Engineer, Design, retired in 1971, devoting his spare time to the Festiniog Railway. He died in 1994. Jarvis's career with locomotives covered the enormous range laconically hinted at in the sub-title; John Chacksfield has described his interesting life with insight of a fellow engineer.
Price: £12.95
 

Engineer Of Revolutionary Russia. Ref: BM2799  

Iurii V Lomonosov (1876-1952) and the railways.
Heywood.
Large, 400 pages + 24 pages of photo plates, other black and white illustrations, six diagrams in text. Hard back. **A remarkable man, whose career embraced science, engineering and diplomacy. He played a major role in the shaping and administration of Russian railways, was a pioneer of diesel traction, defected to the west in 1927, afterwards working in Britain and America. He died in Canada in 1952.
Price: £75.00
 

Douglas Earle Marsh. Ref: BM1979  

His life and times. OL134.
Marx.
Medium, 160 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. **Locomotive Superintendent on the LBSCR.
Price: £12.95
 

Over The Alps On The Watercress Line. Ref: BM2684  

Realising a boyhood dream in the 21st century.
Richardson.
Medium, 143 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. ** Reminiscences of a driver on the Mid-Hants.
Price: £11.95
 

Steaming Ambitions. Ref: BM1415  

The recollections of a Preston engineman.
Jackson, B.
Large, 96 pages, photo illustrations, map, hard back.
Price: £13.95
 

Archibald Sturrock. Ref: BM2363  

Pioneer locomotive engineer.
Vernon.
Medium, 192 pages, photo illustrations and locomotive drawings, soft back. **By 1840 Sturrock was working with Brunel and Gooch on the GWR; later he was locomotive engineer for the GNR and subsequently played a lead role in founding the Yorkshire engine company. The author is his great great grandson.
Price: £14.99
 

Edward Thompson. Ref: BM2414  

of the LNER.
Grafton.
Medium, 131 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. **Thompson was in railway service for nearly 45 years and was CME of the LNER during the 1940s. The biography naturally also provides much information about LNER locomotives.
Price: £12.95
 

F W Webb. Ref: BM2292  

In the right place at the right time. OL141.
Chacksfield.
Medium, 144 pages, photo illustrations, soft back.
Price: £11.95
 

William Dean. Ref: BM2960  

The greatest of them all.
Clements.
Very large, 228 pages, photo illustrations, drawings, allocations and other tabulated data, bibliography, glazed boards. ** Dean's life, locomotives and his legacy, including the story of the "Dean Goods" at home and at war.
Price: £30.00
 

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