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Great Western Railway Engines, Names, Numbers, Types And Classes. (1940 to preservation). Ref: S4955  

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GWR Magazine, 1929.
Small octavo, 64 pages, photo illustrations, light card covers, VG+. **Name/number lists with photos, dimensions etc. Introductory article on naming of locomotives.
Price: £20.00

The Coronation Scot Ref: S7483  

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Railway Gazette, 1937 offprint.
Folio, 16 pages + a very large fold-out engineering drawing of the locomotive, photo illustrations, two line drawings, light card covers, VG.
Price: £16.00

The Locomotive Magazine Volume 32, 1926. Ref: S8011  

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Locomotive Publishing Co.
Large quarto, 407 pages + selection of advertising pages, countless photo and line illustrations, some on folding plates or sepia plates, comprehensive index, dark green silk cloth, a fine copy. **The premier monthly magazine of locomotive history and technology published 1896-1959.
Price: £40.00

The Locomotive Magazine Volume 36, 1930. Ref: S7928  

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Locomotive Publishing Co.
Large quarto, 432 pages, countless photographs and line drawings, some on folding plates or sepia plates, comprehensive index. Dark green silk cloth, a fine copy. **The premier monthly magazine of locomotive history and technology published 1896-1959.
Price: £40.00

The Locomotive Railway Carriage And Wagon Review Volume XIII January - December 1907. Ref: S5428  

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The Locomotive Publishing Co, 1907
Quarto, 226 pages, 3 of 3 coloured illustrations, some art paper, drawings, photos etc, no souvenirs, original decorated (a pacific) green cloth boards, VG+ a lovely bright volume.
Price: £45.00

The Locomotive Railway Carriage And Wagon Review Volume XV January - December 1909. Ref: S4983  

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The Locomotive Publishing Co, 1909
Quarto, 238 pages, 3 of 3 coloured plates, art paper, drawings, photos etc, no souvenirs, original decorated (a 4-4-2T) green cloth boards, VG+ a lovely bright volume.
Price: £45.00

Fowler & Stanier Locomotives Of The LMS. A brief descriptive illustrated souvenir of types. Ref: S6253  

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Aldrich, C L.
Published by the author, 1947.
Small octavo, 71 pages, photos, technical details, lists etc, card covers. VG. **"Langloco series" item 4.
Price: £5.00

The ABC Of LMS Locomotives February 1947. Ref: S6330  

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Allan, Ian & MacLeod, A B.
IA, 1947.
Small format, 64 pages, cover yellow and black showing 6207 photo, fair number of pencil Xs, a bright copy, VG+.
Price: £10.00

The ABC Of British Locomotives Part 3 [London Midland Region] 1948. Ref: S2835  

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Allan, Ian.
IA, 1948.
Small format, 68 pages, cover red, yellow, 46100 in target. Clean bright copy with a few light pencil underlinings. Correct to 31st August.
Price: £15.00

The ABC Of British Railways Locomotives Part 2 [Southern Region] 1949. Ref: S4561  

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Allan, Ian.
IA, 1949.
Small format, 56 pages, 1949, correct to 31/10/48, green, yellow, black cover, 30861 and 10000 in target, very fine.
Price: £22.00

The ABC Of LMS Locomotives April 1946. Ref: S2887  

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Allan, Ian.
IA, 1946, 6th edition.
Small format, 64 pages, cover blue, red, white, 6110. Few pencil markings, typed list of new engines pasted to one of the blank leaves at back, ink additions on same page, bright copy.
Price: £16.00

The Churchward 2-6-0s. Great Western's most widely used tender engine. Ref: S7832  

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Andrews, D.
Line One, 1985.
Large octavo, 144 pages, illustrated with photos and some drawings, loco lists with completion/withdrawal dates, first and final allocations and other information, jacket, near fine. **In-depth class history.
Price: £18.00

Industrial Locomotives Of North Staffordshire. Ref: S8056  

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Baker, A C.
Industrial Railway Society, 1997.
Octavo, 473 pages including 72 pages of photos, 28 location maps, laminated hard covers, fading on spine otherwise a fine copy. **Includes all industrial sites past and present in Staffordshire north of (and including) Rugeley and Stafford, and comprehensive listings of locomotives.
Price: £20.00

Metro-Cammell. 150 years of craftmanship. Ref: S6571  

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Beddoes, K & Wheeler, C & S.
Runpast, 1999.
Large quarto, 112 pages, photo illustrations, bibliography, jacket, fine. **Manufacturers primarily of rolling stock, but some motive power and other vehicles. The book concentrates on railway products, including those of companies taken over, such as the Leeds Forge Co, but there are chapters on military vehicles and buses.
Price: £19.00

Locomotives By Beyer Peacock. Ref: S6430  

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Beyer Peacock & Co.
1946.
Landscape quarto, 64 pages with photo illustrations and specifications. Thin card covers, stylish illustration, VG. **Covers all types of non-articulated locomotives. Short section of works photos. A desirable item.
Price: £55.00

A Treatise On The Steam Engine. In its various applications to mines, mills, steam navigation, railways and agriculture....and practical instructions for the manufacture and management of every species of engine in actual use. Ref: S3351  

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Bourne, J.
1862, Longman Green, 6th edition.
Large quarto, 495 pages, 37 large plates of technical drawings (some folding) and 546 drawings and diagrams in the text. Publisher's original brown cloth with blindstamped decorated cloth, some fading on spine, some straining on inner front joint. a very good copy for its age.
Price: £300.00

The Drummond Greyhounds Of The LSWR. Ref: S6653  

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Bradley, D L.
D&C Locomotive Studies series, 1977.
Large octavo, 96 pages, photos, drawings, tables, jacket, near fine. **One of the highly regarded David & Charles series, better known as the Locomotive Monographs. Essential reference.
Price: £15.00

Dampflokomotiven In Frankreich. Staats-, Privat- und Werkbahnen in den Jarhren 1960-1975. Ref: S7497  

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Broncard, Y.
Stuttgart, 1977 : Franckh.
Large quarto, 192 pages, a largely pictorial survey of French steam motive power, laminated boards, one corner bumped otherwise a fine copy. **German language edition of 'Last Steam Locomotives Of France.' 321 photos and six system maps.
Price: £17.00

Steam To Silver. An illustrated history of London Transport surface railway rolling stock. Ref: S2873  

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Bruce, J G.
London Transport, 1975.
Small landscape quarto, 168 pages, photo illustrations and line diagrams, jacket, ex IA library but VG. **Development of LT surface stock from the days of independent companies; with a note on electric braking.
Price: £12.00

The Steam Engine, Its History And Mechanism. Being descriptions and illustrations of the stationary, locomotive, and marine engine. Ref: S3396  

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Burn, R S.
Ward Lock, undated, c1865, 7th edn.
Octavo, 142 pages, 133 text diagrams, engraved frontispiece. Publisher's cloth, blindstamped decoration and gilt locomotive device. Faded on spine, contents clean and tight, a much better copy than most others seen. Ottley 2955 lists only the 1st, 2nd, 5th and 8th editions.
Price: £50.00

Locomotive Cavalcade. Ref: S7202  

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Casserley, H C.
Berkhamsted, 1952, published by the author.
Octavo, 216 pages, coloured frontispiece and two coloured plates, many photo illustrations, lists, jacket chipped and neatly repaired with clear tape, front board slightly bowed, book otherwise near fine. ** "A comprehensive review year by year of the changes in steam locomotive development and design which have taken place on the railways of the British Isles between the years 1920 and 1951."
Price: £20.00

Industrial Locomotives Of Western France. Ref: S5747  

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Clingan, K.
IRS, 1997.
Octavo, 192 pages + 16 pages of photos, small map of region, card covers, fine. ** Handbook WF: usual IRS style of listings.
Price: £12.00

Steam Locomotives Of The Burlington Route. Ref: S3618  

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Corbin, B & Kerka, W.
1960, privately published by the authors.
Quarto, 304 pages, many illustrations, colour frontispiece, drawings, extensive listings, hard back, bright copy of a scarce book.
Price: £70.00

Catalogue Of Rod-Driven Locomotives. Ref: S6234  

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Davenport Locomotive Works.
Davenport, Ia, undated but possibly c1929, 10th edition.
Oblong quarto, 72 pages arranged in the usual fashion: photo and brief description on the left hand side, technical specification opposite. Grained and embossed card cover, VG+. **DLW of Davenport, Iowa, were one of the smaller locomotive builders (and one of the few not in the Eastern states). They concentrated on locomotives for the smaller common carriers and for industry. The largest products were 2-6-2s and 2-8-0s. Scarce.
Price: £95.00

The Exhaust Steam Injector Class H. Ref: S7568  

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Davies & Metcalfe Ltd.
c1935.
Large quarto, 44 pages with photo illustrations and colour diagrams, large folding page of diagrams, decorated card covers, near fine copy. together witha large folded sheet of coloured diagrams and instructions for working and fixing of the Company's Class F injector, loosely inserted. **Manufacturer's advertising literature, a handsome item.
Price: £15.00

Die Lokomotiven Der Bulgarischen Staatsbahnen. Ref: S5349  

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Dejanov, D.
Vienna, 1990, Slezak.
Large octavo, 176 pages, many photo illustrations, diagrams and locomotive lists, German text, laminated boards, fine. **Standard reference.
Price: £21.00

PNKA Power Parade. Indonesian steam locomotives. Ref: S5620  

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Durrant, A E.
CRC, 1974.
Quarto, 100 pages, album interspersed with much tabular statistical information. Card covers, VG. *Locomotives of the Perusahaan Negara Kereta Api.
Price: £16.00

Ransomes And Rapier Locomotives. Ref: S4479  

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Fisher, C & Halton, K.
NGRS, nd.
Large octavo, 70 pages, photos, some drawings, site plans, works list. **This Ipswich company was formed in 1869, an offshoot of an existing agricultural machinery builder, and built engines and other equipment for narrow gauge railways. This is a narrative history of the company and its locomotives. The firm built the ill-starred Woosung - Shanghai Railway, the first railway in China; the authors give a brief history of this.
Price: £8.00

The Effect Of Brakes Upon Railway Trains. Ref: S1325  

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Galton, Capt. D.
1894, reprinted by Westinghouse from the Proceedings of the IME.
Tall octavo, about 200 pages (not continuously numbered), plates of drawings, original cloth, front free endpaper partly loose, else a sound copy. Ex-reference library but not much used. **Papers presented to the IME 1878-9, reprinted to boost sales of the Westinghouse air brake.
Price: £40.00

Die Ära Nach Gölsdorf. Die letzten drei jahrzehnte des Osterreichschen dampflokomotivbaus. Ref: S7172  

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Giesl-Gieslingen, A.
Vienna, 1981, Slezak.
Large octavo, 288 pages including 96 pages of photo plates, many drawings, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Ronald Jarvis (British locomotive engineer), glazed boards, VG+. **German text: the last three decades of Austrian steam building.
Price: £20.00

Stromlinie. Deutsche Dampflokomotiven der 30er Jahre. 1998. Ref: S8010  

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Gottwaldt, A B.
Stuttgart, 1998 : Transpress, 2nd edition revised.
Square quarto, 295 pages, many photo illustrations and diagrams, some colour, German text, laminated boards, fine copy. **The best work on the German streamlined locomotives of the 1930s.They included several experimental types including a pulverised fuel cab forward, a direct drive 2-8-2 and a streamlined 4-6-6 tank locomotive.
Price: £28.00

The GWR Engine Book. Names, numbers, types and classes. Ref: S2282  

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Great Western Railway.
GWR, 1932.
Small octavo, 72 pages, card covers, photo illustrations (mainly works photos, with main dimensions added), loco lists. VG+. **Nice copy of this GW publicity item.
Price: £14.00

Heavy Freight Locomotives Of Great Britain. Ref: S7066  

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Griffiths, D.
PSL, 1993.
Quarto, 191 pages with many photos and locomotive drawings, jacket, fine. **From the GW 28xx to the Class 60.
Price: £16.00

+ Locomotive Engineers Of The LMS. And its major constituent companies. Ref: S8156  

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Griffiths, Denis.
Patrick Stephens 1991.
Small quarto, 183 pages, many illustrations and diagrams, jacket, fine copy. **A readable book with many insights, e.g, the chapter on Webb. But despite the title there are no entries for the three Scottish constituents.
Price: £16.00

The Locomotives Of Jugoslavia. Die Lokomotiven Jugoslawiens. Ref: S7234  

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Halliwell, C J and others.
Malmö, 1973: Frank Stenvalls.
Octavo, 208 pages, photos, English and German text, slight wear to jacket, generally VG+. **A number list, with introductory text and technical details. First 192 pages are listing, remainder is photo section. This is volume 1, covering the standard gauge state railways; Volume 2 was not published.
Price: £22.00

Bill Harvey's 60 Years In Steam. Ref: S8058  

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Harvey, D W.
David & Charles 1986.
Octavo, 208 pages, photo illustrations and line drawings, tables, jacket, VG. **Memoirs of a railway engineer, whose career was mainly on the LNER, and at Norwich.
Price: £12.00

The Hasler Speed Recorder And Indicator For Locomotives. General description and details of construction, its application, and instructions for reading diagrams. Ref: S4475  

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Hasler & Co.
c 1909.
Large octavo, 24 pages, diagrams, loose folding plates and other insertions, near fine.
Price: £20.00

The History Of The Electric Locomotive. Ref: S7782  

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Haut, F G J.
Allen & Unwin, 1969.
Large quarto, 147 pages + 68 pages photographic section, 6 colour plates, 4 folding drawings, other line drawings in text, jacket, near fine. ** Professor Haut's erudite and handsome classic study.
Price: £22.00

Des Lokomotiv-Ingenieurs Taschenbuch. Ref: S3077  

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Henchel & Sohn.
1923 edition.
Duodecimo, 174 pages, 191 diagrams, tables, etc. German text. Contemporary leather case, fine copy. **Equivalent to our Locomotive Engineers' Pocket Book. Several editions published over the years.
Price: £25.00

The Locomotive Engineer's Pocket Book. Ref: S2854  

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Henschel-Werke GmbH.
Henschel 1925.
Duodecimo, 174 pages, some photos, tables, many diagrams in text, English text, limp cloth covers, binding strained and a little worn; there are old tape reinforcements. **Although there is a photo of an electric locomotive the copious information appears to relate solely to steam engines.
Price: £20.00

Industrial Locomotives Of Gwent. Ref: S8007  

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Hill, G & Green, G.
Industrial Railway Society, 1999.
Octavo, 400 pages including 40 pages of photos (80 photos), 23 location maps, laminated hard covers, fine copy. **Comprehensive listing of locomotives past and present 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. The standard reference series, in progress in this format since 1976.
Price: £20.00

North Road Locomotive Works Darlington 1863 - 1966. Ref: S7320  

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Hoole, K.
Roundhouse, 1967.
Octavo, 102 pages + numerous photo plates, loco lists, wear and repair to dust jacket, else VG+.
Price: £28.00

Private Owner Wagons Volume Three. Ref: S5066  

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Hudson, B.
OPC, 1984.
Quarto, about124 pages, mostly one photo per page, with wagon descriptions and dimensions, some drawings, lists, card covers, VG+
Price: £15.00

Elementary Manual On Steam And The Steam Engine. Specially arranged for the use of first-year science and art, City and Guilds of London Institute, and other elementary engineering students. Ref: S6059  

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Jamieson, A.
Griffin, 1890, 2nd edition.
Crown octavo, 248 pages, numerous diagrams, red cloth, front endpaper split at joint, but clean, sound and tight, G+. ** "With numerous diagrams, arithmetical examples and examination questions." Also answers.
Price: £15.00

Midland Carriages. An illustrated review 1877 onwards. Ref: S7329  

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Jenkinson, D & Essery, R.
OPC, 1984.
Folio, 184 pages, 252 photos, 40 sets of line drawings, tabulated data, jacket, near fine.
Price: £24.00

Tandem Compound Locomotives. A historical review. Ref: S4590  

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Kalla-Bishop, P.
1949, privately published by the author.
Octavo, 66 pages, photo illustrations and clear line drawings, card covers, VG.
Price: £12.00

Russian Steam Locomotives. Ref: S8059  

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Le Fleming, H, & Price, J H.
D&C, 1972, 2nd, revised edition (ie 2nd D&C edition, the 1st edn was in 1960 by Marshbank).
Tall octavo, 112 pages + 28 pages of photo plates, large folding map, locomotive drawings, jacket, VG. *Still the best available reference work in English. The big map shows the whole soviet railway system, in some detail, coding the lines to show steam/diesel/AC/DC working and lines under construction.
Price: £16.00

British Steam Locomotive Builders Ref: S4409  

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Lowe, J W
1989, Guild reprint.
Octavo, 704 pages, photos, tables, diagrams, locomotive lists, jacket, fine; together with its scarce Supplement: same format, 56 pages, photo illustrations, card covers, VG; **Comprehensive standard reference.
Price: £48.00

Building Britain's Locomotives. Ref: S7067  

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Lowe, J W.
Moorland, 1979.
Quarto, no page numbers, 150 photographs of all stages of steam locomotive building, including many unusual shots inside loco works, lengthy captions and short introductory text to each section, glazed boards, VG+.
Price: £16.00

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