Stamford Shop

On-Line Bookshop

We don't want to leave you but we think we ought to go.

Robert started this business from a back bedroom in our Chiswick flat in 1974 and it has kept us harmlessly occupied now for fifty years. That seems enough, our joints are rusting and striding about carrying several kilos of books no longer appeals. Reluctantly we shall soon be pulling down the shutters for the last time. Do come and say good bye and take the opportunity to view our sale stock

Retirement Sale - All Stock Must Go!
Thousands of good clean railway books, British and foreign, booklets, time tables, bound periodicals.
Sale prices for shop callers only:
Old and recent : 50% off marked prices
New : 30% off cover prices
Plus many special bargains.
Please note that we continue to be open to casual callers on Tuesdays only. If Tuesdays don't suit you phone or e-mail for an appointment.

Robert Humm & Co specialises in rare and out-of-print books about railways, other transport and industrial history. We also stock a wide selection of new books on railways.
For over a quarter of a century our shop was in the former station master's house at Stamford railway station but with the end of our lease there we moved to 59 Scotgate, Stamford PE9 2YQ in 2016.

Our Scotgate shop is convenient for the town centre, parking, the A1 Great North Road and the railway - Stamford station, with an hourly service on the cross-country Birmingham to East Anglia railway, is ten minutes walk. Stamford itself is a handsome town with fine architecture, excellent shopping and restaurants - it is well worth a day out in its own right.

We offer a mail order service and welcome enquiries by phone, post or e-mail. Our knowledgeable and helpful staff are always happy to help.This is not primarily an on-line business, however most of our new books and a little selection of our second-hand stock are listed on this site; most of the listings can be ordered on-line.
So far as the new books go, we have stopped re-stocking and much that is listed is no longer available from us. I'm working on bringing the listing up-to-date : when out-of-stock books have been weeded out the New Books sections will reward a browse because there is quite a lot there which is now out of print, still at publishers' original prices.

Best Selling Items

Russian & Soviet Steam Locomotives. Vol 1. £12.95 E class 0-10-0, S class 2-6-2, P36 class 4-8-4. Chester. Large, 72 pages. Soft back. find out more	Brookwood Necropolis Railway. £12.95 LP 143. Clarke. Medium, 192 pages, illustrated with photos, rolling stock drawings, track plans and maps; folding plan of cemetary. Soft back. **Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. A work of considerable interest, both from the railway and the socialogical points of view. As well as his exhaustive history of the cemetary and its railway the author provides much incidental information on funereal transport in general. find out more	Bradshaw's General Railway, Steam Navigation, & Hotel Guide March 1935. £65.00 Bradshaw Issue 1220. Issue 1220. 1136 pages, complete from the index page to the end, including the hotel advertising. No map. Newly rebound in dark red cloth, very good. Note that this is a book of time tables, not a tourist guide. find out more

Cromford And High Peak Railway. £14.95 Revised edition featuring Wirksworth and Steeple Grange. Marshall. Large, 112 pages, photo illustrations, map, soft back. **Enlarged, with a new section on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway. find out more	The Peak Forest Tramway. Including the Peak Forest Canal. £8.00 Ripley, D. Oakwood Press, 1989, 3rd edn. Octavo, 72 pages, photo illustrations, large scale and other maps, card covers, near fine. **LP38. find out more	Leeds City Transport Department Time Table Autumn 1961. £14.00 Bus: Leeds City Transport Department. Small format, 96 pages, slight wear and soiling to cover, contents VG+. **17.9.61 - 2.11.61. find out more

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