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

Cane Train. The sugar-cane railways of Fiji. £20.00 Dyer & Hodge. NZ Railway & Locomotive Soc, 1988. Large octavo, 178 pages, photos, drawings, coloured frontispiece, map endpapers, locomotive lists and diagrams, jacket, fine. **Narrow gauge in the South Seas. This work updates the authors' earlier volumei>Balloon Stacks And Sugar Cane find out more		+ BR Passenger Time Tables Southern Region Winter 1957-58. £20.00 British Railways. Medium format, 788 pages, map, VG. **16.9.57 - 8.6.58. find out more		Ironstone Quarries Of The Midlands. History, Operation And Railways. £100.00 Tonks, E S Runpast, 1988 - 1992. Nine volumes, uniform octavo, average 250 pages per volume, photo illustrations and maps, one jacket faded on spine otherwise a very fine set (and a bargain compared with the new paperback edition). **Eric Tonks's definitive series on these unobtrusive but unexpectedly interesting Midlands industrial byways. Covers all ironstone operations between Oxfordshire and Lincolnshire with descriptions and details of every quarry - ownership, photos, maps and plans and locomotive lists. Volumes are: Part I: Introduction Part II: The Oxfordshire Field Part III: The Northampton Area Part IV: The Wellingborough Area Part V: The Kettering Area Part VI: The Corby Area Part VII: Rutland Part VIII: South Lincolnshire Part IX: Leicestershire Price includes £15 inland shipping. find out more

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