Stamford Shop

On-Line Bookshop

WE SHALL BE CLOSED TO CALLERS FOR THE TIME BEING, BUT WE ARE STILL HERE RUNNING OUR MAIL ORDER BUSINESS AS USUAL; YOU ARE WELCOME TO PHONE US DURING OUR NORMAL OPENING HOURS.

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 we have moved to new premises in Stamford and the shop at the station is closed. We opened at 59 Scotgate, Stamford PE9 2YQ on 15 February 2016.
The new premises are no great distance from Station House and remain convenient for 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, as always, a mail order service and welcome enquiries by phone, post or e-mail. Our knowledgeable and helpful staff are always happy to help. Good News! We have a new parcels contract and our UK mainland postage rates are now significantly lower.
In addition to the excellent shop stock we issue printed catalogues of our choicest rare and out-of-print books once or twice a year. The contents of the catalogues are not listed on this web site - they have to be ordered directly from the shop.
You will have gathered that 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.

Checkout Quirks
1. If you have been whizzed back to the Home page while placing an order you'll need to find your way back to the Checkout. To do this use the Checkout link at the top left of this page.
2. To remove an item from your order (or to alter the quantity of any item) you have to leave the Checkout pages. At the top of any other page (including this one) is a link to the View Order page : here you can alter your order. Remember to click Update and Save when it is correct. The View Order page has is a link back to the Checkout.

Best Selling Items

Belfast Corporation Tramways 1905-1954. £9.00 Maybin, J M. LRTA, nd (1970s?). Octavo, 83 pages, photo illustrations and maps, paper covers, VG+. **Story of Belfast tramways from the time of the take-over by the Corporation up to closure. find out more		The Birth Of The Tubes. £16.95 Badsey-Ellis. Large, 96 pages, illustrated with photos and maps, bibliography, glazed boards. **Warmly recommended. The development of the deep level tube railway did not lag far behind the invention of the electric locomotive, which freed underground railways from the disadvantages of steam traction. This is a brief but fact-packed history of the first twenty-five years of electric tube operation in London, between 1890 - 1914 and covers the routes, the personalities, the technologies of tunnelling and traction and much else. find out more		Immingham. A Lincolnshire Railway Centre. £6.95 Ludlam. Medium, 48 pages, photo illustrations, map, soft back. **One of a useful series of neat, well-illustrated local histories. find out more

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