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This includes stations and locomotive sheds as well as track, bridges, tunnels etc.
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The Book Of The Great Northern. Part Two. Ref: CE2854  

The main line. An engineering commentary part two: Welwyn North to Doncaster.
Coster, P.
Very large, 240 pages, pictorial: photos, large scale maps, glazed boards. ** Not a history, rather "a book about the GNR particularly from the engineering and operational aspects, continuing from the last days of the GNR up to the present time."
Price: £26.95
 

British Railway Infrastructure In Colour. Ref: CE1993  

For the modeller and historian.
Hendry.
Very large, 96 page colour album, soft back. **A welcome addition to the British Railway ... In Colour series, this book provides recent and many period colour views of all aspects of railway environment. Intriguingly it also offers a tenuous link between the London & Birmingham Railway and the Enigma machine. OUT OF PRINT - LAST COPY.
Price: £14.99
 

Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge. Ref: CE0575  


Binding.
Very large, 152 pages, 118 illustrations. Soft back.
Price: £19.50
 

Channel Tunnel. Ref: CE2122  

And its high-speed links. OL138.
Comfort.
Medium, 256 pages + large folding map, photos (mostly colour), maps, track plans, soft back. **A very detailed study of the origins, construction, operation and future of this monumental enterprise. Some fascinating illustrations.
Price: £19.95
 

Crewe Locomotive Works And Its Men. Ref: CE3954  


Reed, B.
Medium, 256 pages, photos, diagrams, drawings and numerous site plans, hard back.
Was £22, the final price will be £8 at the checkout.
Price: £11.43
 

Davies & Metcalfe Limited. Ref: CE0582  

Railway Engineers To The World.
Metcalfe.
Very large, 208 pages. Hard back.
Price: £30.00
 

Double Track. Ref: CE2980  

The vision becomes reality.
Holley (ed).
Large, landscape, 50 pages, many photo illustrations, some colour, hard back without jacket. **The Main Line Steam Trust's line from Loughborough to Rothley, the first preserved railway to operate on double track. This book describes the project, including construction and signalling.
Price: £8.00
 

Essex Railway Heritage. Supplement. Ref: CE2386  


Kay.
Very large, 71 pages, pictorial, soft back. ** "Includes full listing of all surviving railway structures in Essex and an appendix covering all station buildings now demolished. With many previously unpublished period illustrations.
Price: £9.95
 

From Bridges To Big 'Uns. Ref: CE3527  

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
 

Glasgow Central; Central To Glasgow Ref: CE2265  


Cameron (comp).
Very large, 120 pages, plan, photos (some colour), soft back. ** "An affectionate tribute in the form of facts, recollections, images and miscellanea from some admirers of Glasgow Central, upon the 100th anniversary of the expansion of the station under whose spell we have fallen." 36 articles on historical and contemporary aspects of the great station.
Price: £19.95
 

Great Western Railway Architecture In Colour Volume 1. Ref: CE3615  

Buildings From Brunel To Beeching.
Crump.
Very large, square format, 174 pages, pictorial, colour photos throughout, hard back. **Volume one of a two part survey of GWR architecture, this is a chronological study of station buildings. The illustrations are all colour photographs taken between the 1970s and the present and include many shots of details as well as overall views of the buildings. There is a useful section on the several paint colours used by the GW. An indispensible resource for anyone modelling the Great Western, but of keen interest to anyone with a liking for railway architecture and / or the GWR.
Price: £25.00
 

Lincolnshire Railway Stations. Ref: CE0007  

On old picture postcards.
Croft, E.
Medium, 36 pages, album, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the last century, with informative captions."
Price: £3.50
 

London's Railway Heritage. Volume One: East. Ref: CE3739  

Architecture, engineering and industrial archaeology.
Kay.
Very large, 86 pages, pictorial, soft back. ** "This book is principally an architectural and industrial archaeology survey of the railway buildings and viaducts/bridges that still exist." The author defines East London as the area bounded by the City of London boundary, the Thames, the current Essex / Thurrock county boundary and the Liverpool St - Harold Wood main line (which he excludes). Some fascinating photos here.
Price: £12.95
 

London's Railway Heritage. Volume Two: North East. Ref: CE3740  

Architecture, engineering and industrial archaeology.
Kay.
Very large, 93 pages, pictorial, soft back. ** An architectural and industrial archaeology survey of extant railway buildings, viaducts and bridges on the GER Shenfield line, the Fairlop loop and the Ongar line.
Price: £13.95
 

London's Railway Heritage. Volume Three: North (GER). Ref: CE3741  

Architecture, engineering and industrial archaeology.
Kay.
Very large, 92 pages, pictorial, soft back. ** An architectural and industrial archaeology survey of extant railway buildings, viaducts and bridges on the GER Lea Valley, Chingford, Enfield and Southbury Loop lines: Tottenham & Forest Gate railway.
Price: £13.95
 

Manchester London Road. Ref: CE0335  

An illustrated historical survey of a great provincial station.
Hooper
Very large, 64 pages, pictorial, soft back.
Price: £8.95
 

Midland Railway In Nottingham. Volume 1. 1839 - 1907. Ref: CE0987  

Buildings, Locomotives and Men.
Perkins & Padgett.
Medium, 144 pages, illustrated, soft back.
Price: £16.50
 

Monorails Of The 19th Century. Ref: CE2859  


Garner.
Very large, 288 pages, well illustrated with photographs, contemporary illustrations, vehicle drawings, and maps, glazed boards. ** The monorail was conceived in the 1820s when conventional two-rail lines were still a recent idea. Here is its history up to the construction of the successful Wuppertal Schwebebahn at end of the 19th century. There is a history and a full technical description of each system. Many of the designs were eccentric and few were commercially successful but this energetic period of industrial growth encouraged novelty.
Price: £24.99
 

Narrow Gauge In The Arras Sector. Ref: CE3433  

Before, during and after the first world war.
Farebrother & Farebrother.
Very large, 274 pages, illustrated with good photographs and large, clear maps and track diagrams, hard back. **The book is also headed Allied Railways Of The Western Front, which suggests it is part of a larger - or future - series, but I can find no other reference to a series of this name.
The Arras sector included countryside to the south, but the north was a major part of the industrial and mining area around Lens and Béthune. The authors examine the build-up of 60mm lines from 1916 is studied in detail by area and the contribution of meter gauge lines is reassessed.The role of these railways in the reconstruction and recovery of the area after the war is described. The book includes information on how to find key locations, where preserved rolling stock can been seen and routes for six walks and an urban tour.
Price: £30.00
 

The Railway. Ref: CE3344  

British track since 1804.
Dow.
Very large, 458 pages, illustrated with good photographs and large, clear specially drawn diagrams, hard back. **Here is a hugely detailed treatise on the history of permanent way by an expert. It is erudite, lucidly written and a handsome production. Along with the examination of the many and complex developments which led from wooden rails to modern permanent way and mechanical track-laying, there are chapters devoted to third rail electrification, tramway track, narrow gauge lines and such peculiarities as portable railways, funiculars and rack railways. It will surely be a standard work of reference but also rather a good read, though at well over 2kg hardly suitable for reading on the train.
Price: £40.00
 

The Railways Of Carnforth. Ref: CE3239  

The town and its ironworks.
Grosse.
Very large, 173 pages, well illustrated with photos (some colour), track and signalling plans, large clear coloured maps, excellent drawings of the station buildings and signal box, time table extracts, glazed boards. **A well-presented local railway history. The ironworks closed in 1930; the works and its traffic get two of the fifteen chapters. The Brief Encounter connection also gets a chapter.
Price: £25.00
 

Scenes From The Past 49. Delph, Saddleworth And Greenfield To Oldham. Ref: CE2098  

Including Lees motive power depot motor trains and the OA&GB to Ashton.
Goddard & Wells.
160 pages, very large, many photo illustrations, large clear station track plans, some carriage drawings, soft back.
Price: £18.95
 

An Illustrated History Of The Severn & Wye Railway Volume 5. Ref: CE3815  


Pope.
Very large, 205 pages, illustrated with photos, large scale maps, site plans, junction and other diagrams, glazed boards. **Fifth volume of a projected six-volume work looks at all the facets of the harbour at Lydney, where most of the Forest of Dean coal was transhipped into small coasting vessels for shipment to Bristol, the west country and Ireland.
Volume 6 is to cover the Severn Bridge Railway and Sharpness Docks.
Price: £25.00
 

Underground Stations Of Leslie Green. Ref: CE0784  


Leboff, D.
Large, 96 pages, illustrated with b/w and coloured photos, glazed boards. Green designed the distinctive deep red terra-cotta, round-arched underground stations, built 1905-7, which are instantly recognisable even when no longer used as stations. Excellent photographs, showing many internal and exterior details, and a knowledgeable text.The main purpose of the book is to create a photographic record of Green's surviving work. It therefore focuses on the stations where most of the original fabric survives but for completeness also includes the twelve which have lost most, if not all, their original features.
Price: £16.95
 

Yellow Trains. Ref: CE3721  

Ten years of testing.
Royle.
Very large, 160 pages, many photos: colour throughout, glazed boards. **The author worked as an on-train technician for Network Rail between 2002 and 2012. He took his camera wherever he went and recorded the trains, the equipment and the people - this lucid description of the work involved is therefore singularly well illustrated.
Price: £25.00
 

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