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Narrow gauge, industrial and miniature railways

Industrial railways, light railways, narrow gauge railways and miniature (5" - 15") railways. Trams are in the Trams and Buses section; a light railway calling itself a tramway, such as Wantage, may be in this section as well.
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British Industrial Steam In The 1960s. Ref: NG3890  

The collected industrial colour photography of Terence Dorrity.
Dorrity.
Very large, 224 page colour album, glazed boards. ** The author developed an interest in industrial steam as a boy growing up in the west midlands and it is the coal, ironstone and steel industries there that form the backbone of this work. When older he photographed industries further afield in England, Wales and Scotland and so has produced a powerful record of steam at work from Dorset to Morayshire. Some terrific images here, including some fairly unusual engines.
Price: £30.00
 

Built In Britain. Ref: NG3852  

The independent locomotive manufacturing industry in the nineteenth century.
Bailey
Very large, 221 pages, illustrated with photos (some colour) and images from contemporary sources, chapter references, list of independent workshops, bibliography, glazed boards. **The first comprehensive study of this important subject, Dr Bailey's research covers the development of the locomotive market from 1825, technology, design and manufacturing, management, industrial relations and administration. The tabular list of workshops (there are 108) is arranged by town (57) and includes valuable information for further study.
Endorsed by the presidents/chairman of the Newcomen Society, RCHS and SLS in a joint foreword : ... a triumph of business and engineering history, beautifully illustrated with telling drawings and photographs, well supported with statistical evidence and scrupulously referenced. Without doubt the best railway book of 2021.
Price: £30.00
 

Castleford Colliery Railways. Ref: NG2644  

Ackton Hall, Allerton Bywater, Allerton Main, Fryston, Glasshoughton, Ledston Luck, Peckfield, Prince of Wales, Savile, Wheldale, Whitwood.
Rockett, R.
Large, 64 pages, pictorial, area map, some colliery plans. Soft back.
Price: £9.95
 

Cliffe Hill Mineral Railway. Ref: NG507  


Billington.
Large, 77 pages. Soft back.
Price: £9.95
 

Crewe Works Narrow Gauge System. Ref: NG2043  


Talbot & Taylor.
Very large, 64 pages, photo illustrations, many track and works plans, locomotive drawings, soft back. **Second edition of a book first published in 1986; this was produced for the Crewe open days, September 2005. The Crewe narrow gauge system was introduced by Ramsbottom in 1861 and was revolutionary at the time.
Price: £8.95
 

Decauville Steam Locomotives. Ref: NG3855  

A works list.
Clingan & Lanham, revised & enlarged by Fresné & Down.
Very large, 156 pages, illustrations from Decauville catalogues, parallel text in English and French, glazed boards. **This new edition includes detailed information on the Decauville Type 17 design and its Kerr, Stuart variants, the 'Joffre' and 'Haig' classes. This and a history of the company occupy the first 42 pages, the remainder of the book contains the works lists themselves, giving works and boiler numbers, dates, type, weight, gauge, purchaser and given names and numbers.
Price: £35.00
 

Early Years Of The Motor Rail & Tram Car Company 1913-1931. Ref: NG2552  


Davies.
Large, 116 pages, photos, drawings, hard back. *Manufacturers of some of Britain's most successful small petrol and diesel locomotives. This deeply researched history studies the progress of the company up to ists name change (to Motor Rail Ltd) in 1931. During the first decade of this period the production of tramcars was as important as that of petrol locomotives. Useful appendices, essential reference.
Price: £22.95
 

East European Narrow Gauge. Ref: NG0010  


Chester, K.
Medium, 116 pages, album. Soft back. ** Locomotives International Special.Out of print, last copy.
Price: £14.95
 

Festiniog Railway Volume Two. Ref: NG0792  

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
Price: £25.00
 

Festiniog Railway Locomotives. Ref: NG1571  


"Taliesin"
Very large, 52 pages, many photo illustrations (some colour), soft back.
Price: £4.50
 

Fortress Railways Of The Baltic Shores. Ref: NG1467  


Helme, M.
Medium, 80 pages, soft back. ** Volume 3 of Narrow Gauge Railways Of Europe.
Price: £8.95
 

The Hendre Ddu Tramway. Ref: NG3908  

'Blue stones and green trees'.
Quine.
Very large, 224 pages, illustrated with documents, maps and images from contemporary sources and photographs old and recent, glazed boards. ** History of an obscure narrow gauge railway built to carry slate to the Mawddwy Railway and of associated tramways and forestry in the neighbourhood. Each quarry is covered in detail and timber operations are described and there are chapters on rolling stock, permanent way and operating methods. Interesting photos and excellent clear maps add to the information.
Price: £35.00
 

Here Be Dragons. Ref: NG3592  

A journey with steam to the end of the world.
Girdlestone.
Very large, 136 pages, photo illustrations, chiefly colour, maps, hard back. **Phil Girdlestone, who died untimely in 2016 at the age of 61, was a locomotive engineer, described by David Wardale in the foreword as "one of a small band of adventurers with steam for a vocation and anywhere in the world for a home - provided of course there was a steam railway nearby." Girdlestone chronicles his remarkable career, which started at the Festiniog in 1969 and took in Africa, Russia and South America, and describes his technical work in detail. A fascinating read.
Price: £33.95
 

Indian Narrow Gauge Steam Remembered. Ref: NG1020  


Marshall.
Medium, 216 pages, very many photo illustrations (some colour), maps. Hard back. *Includes private, industrial and sugar factory railways.
Price: £29.95
 

Indian Metre Gauge Steam Remembered. Ref: NG2061  


Marshall.
Medium, 178 pages, pictorial (some colour), maps, locomotive lists. Hard back. *Includes public and industrial railways.
Price: £29.95
 

Industrial Tramways Of The Vale Of Llangollen. Ref: NG3063  

LP238.
Thomas & Southern.
Medium, 72 pages, many photos, maps, bibliography, soft back. **Fascinating survey of the numerous obscure and often shortlived industrial (mostly quarry) lines around Llangollen.
Price: £9.95
 

The Lee Moor Tramway. Ref: NG0578  

SOLD

A pictorial record.
Taylor.
Medium square, 96 pages. Hard back. **Over 130 previously unpublished photos of this ideosyncratic railway. The line served the Lee Moor clay works and was built in 1859 with horse-drawn sections linked by cable-worked inclines. Steam traction was introduced in 1899 and both its locos are preserved. The line's two remarkable features were its 4' 6" gauge (for it was built as a branch of the 1823 Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway) and its level crossing with the GWR main line at Laira. Being the older line it had priority over main line traffic until 1960.
Out of print but we still have a few copies.
Price: £16.00

Light Railways Explored. Ref: NG1210  

A photographic diary 1931 - 38.
Simpson, J E.
Medium, 106 pages, pictorial. **In his school and university holidays the author visited 24 non-grouped light railways in England and Wales, exploring and photographing. This fascinating book is the fruit of time well spent.
Price: £10.00
 

The Minehead Branch 1848-1971. Ref: NG2882  

The history of the West Somerset and Minehead railway companies.
Coleby.
Very large, 392 pages, well illustrated with photographs and contemporary illustrations, structure drawings, site plans and maps, hard back. ** Second edition of this exhaustive line history which includes operation, detailed line descriptions, and an original and interesting extra - an alphabetical list of employees.
Price: £24.99
 

Monorails Of The 19th Century. Ref: NG2859  


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
 

Mont Cenis Fell Railway. Ref: NG708  


Ransom.
Very large, 92 pages. Hard back.
Price: £16.00
 

Mountain Railways And Locomotives From Old Picture Postcards. Ref: NG0508  


Taylorson.
Medium, 64 pages. Soft back.
Price: £9.95
 

Narrow Gauge By The Sudanese Red Sea Coast. Ref: NG1147  

The Tokar-Trinkitat light railway and other small railways.
Gunston.
Large, 67 pages, photos, maps, soft back.
Price: £8.95
 

Narrow Gauge Common Carrier Railways Of The Former Soviet Union Ref: NG3331  


Englebert.
Very large, 224 pages, photo illustrations (much in colour), many maps, hard back. **An introduction and a general overview of the narrow gauge lines in the former USSR, where there were once thousands of miles of narrow gauge railway.The book focuses on the lines, their operation, historical social-economic background and role in the transport system. A basic knowledge of USSR narrow gauge locomotives and rolling stock is assumed.
Price: £32.00
 

Narrow Gauge In The Arras Sector. Ref: NG3433  

SOLD

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

Narrow Gauge In The Former Yugoslavia. Ref: NG3805  

Narrow Gauge Album No 5.
Waite.
Medium, square format, 119 page colour album, glazed boards. **21st century narrow gauge steam in the Balkans. The earliest photos here date from 2005, when there were still steam locomotives operating in coal extraction sites - the last working steam in Europe. This provides many of the excellent photos in the album; there are also pictures of static preserved locos and of the lovely Šargan 8 line, now a tourist railway.
Author's profits from the sale of this book are donated to help support the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway during the Covid 19 crisis.
Price: £19.95
 

Narrow Gauge Rails Through The Cordillera. Ref: NG0696  


Bent.
Very large, 144 pages. Soft back.
Was £17.95 now £8, this price will apply when the checkout has automatically applied the discount.
Price: £11.43
 

Narrow Gauge Steam Locomotives Of Estonia. Ref: NG2134  


Klaus & Chester.
Medium, 128 pages, photo illustrations, map, loco lists, glazed boards. **The Estonian narrow gauge network continued to expand during the Soviet era, until 1966 when a decree ordered the closure or re-gauging to broad gauge of all 750mm lines. Some engines survive in the Estonian railway museum and elsewhere.
Price: £15.95
 

Narrow Gauge Tracks In The Sand. Ref: NG3939  

The Leighton Buzzard Light Railway.
Dingwall.
Medium, 160 pages. Soft back.
Price: £10.95
 

North Devon Clay. Ref: NG3564  

The story of an industry and its railways.
Messenger.
Very large, 120 pages, photo illustrations, maps, track and junction plans, locomotive and rolling stock drawings, hard back. **A complex history of a private line originally engineered by the notable J B Fell which subsequently became part of the light railway empire of H F Stephens. Idiosyncratically run, and worked by an eclectic assortment of motive power, it served the Marland clay works and the local community, eventually becoming part of BR who closed it finally in 1982.
Price: £21.00
 

Northern Northumberland's Minor Railways: Volume One. Ref: NG2834  

Brickworks, forestry, contractors, military target railways and various other lines.
Jermy.
Medium, 128 pages, maps, photos, soft back. **LP234A
Price: £10.95
 

Northern Northumberland's Minor Railways: Volume Three. Ref: NG3153  

Sandstone, whinstone & gravel lines
Jermy.
Medium, 160 pages, maps, photos, soft back. **LP234C.
Price: £12.95
 

Northern Northumberland's Minor Railways: Volume Four. Ref: NG3162  

Limestone industry lines.
Jermy.
Medium, 136 pages, maps, photos, soft back. **LP234D.
Price: £11.95
 

Preserved Standard Gauge Steam Locomotives Of Great Britain A Working History. Ref: NG3515  


Randall
Medium, 144 pages, a few photo illustrations, soft back. ** Useful reference book lists all preserved standard gauge locomotives (whether restored or not) by manufacturer. Dates, numbers (including works numbers), past owners and present whereabouts are given for each engine. Appendices list imported locomotives, list every main line engine by number (referenced to the main entry), and list the places of work of the preserved ex-industrial locomotives.
Price: £13.50
 

Rails Through Majorca. Ref: NG1629  


Barnabe, G.
Large, 248 pages, illustrated with photos, maps, track plans and line drawings of rolling stock. Hard back. *This handsome work brings up to date the author's "Railways And Tramways Of Majorca", now out of print, history of a narrow gauge paradise.
Price: £21.95
 

Rails To The Dales. Ref: NG1953  

Skipton - Embsay - Bolton Abbey - Ilkley; Embsay Junction - Grassington; The Embsay Steam Railway; Quarry Tramways - Massa Flats and Haw Bank.
Binns.
Large, 72 pages, pictorial: photos, maps etcetera, soft back.
Price: £10.95
 

The Railway. Ref: NG3344  

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 Purbeck. Ref: NG3911  

LP68, fourth edition.
Kidner.
Medium, 120 pages, photos, maps, bibliography, soft back. **This fourth edition of Kidner's classic history includes new information on the New Swanage Railway and an updated selection of photos.
Price: £15.95
 

Ratty - A History Of The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway. Ref: NG0512  


Gradon.
Medium, 49 pages, 2nd edition, revised. Soft back.
Price: £7.95
 

Redlake Tramway & China Clay Works. Ref: NG1299  

SOLD

The story of a Dartmoor railway.
Wade.
Medium square, 84 pages, photo illustrations, maps, some loco drawings, soft back. **New edition.
Price: £8.00

The Sand Hutton Light Railway. Ref: NG3121  

Third revised and enlarged edition.
Hartley & Ingham.
Large, 228 pages, contemporary photographs and some recent colour, maps (also some colour), clear locomotive and rolling stock drawings, glazed boards. **A handsome third edition of this old favourite, originally produced for the NGRS by Ken Hartley in 1962. The railway was built by Sir R Walker at his family seat, Sand Hutton Hall in Yorkshire, as a 15 inch line. Subsequently it was enlarged to 18 inches and conveyed coal, agricultural produce and bricks. It closed in 1932, two years after Walker's early death.
Price: £29.96
 

Schmalspurig Durch Bulgarien. Ref: NG2129  


Engelbert.
Medium, 112 pages, illustrated with photos & maps, loco lists, German text, extensive bibliography includes English language sources, glazed boards. **Narrow gauge in Bulgaria.
Price: £16.95
 

Slate Quarry Railways Of Gwynedd. Ref: NG2630  

SOLD


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.
Price: £14.00

South Shields, Marsden & Whitburn Colliery Railway. Ref: NG1131  

OL120
Hatcher.
Medium, 128 pages, soft back.
Price: £9.95
 

Warwickshire Lime And Cement Works Railways. Ref: NG3316  


Leleux.
Medium, 288 pages, photo illustrations, large-scale OS maps of sites and other site plans, locomotive list, soft back. **LP240. Histories of some dozen or so undertakings - quarries, lime works and cement works and the intricate networks of railway systems, and a canal, that served them.
Price: £19.95
 

The Whipsnade & Umfolozi Railway and The Great Whipsnade Railway. Ref: NG3393  

OL93.
Thomas.
Medium, 140 pages, photos, maps, locomotive drawings, bibliography, soft back. **The narrow gauge railway at Whipsnade zoo. Last copy, old stock, some shelf wear to covers.
Price: £9.95
 

Whitehaven. Ref: NG2440  

The railways and waggonways of a unique Cumberland port.
Quayle.
Very large, 101 pages, large map, photos, station drawing, numerous track plans, soft back.** "Whitehaven is unquestionably the capital of industrial Cumberland. Few mining towns have a more exciting history; none have greater character". Excellent local history.
Price: £13.50
 

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