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Includes histories of railway companies (including specific aspects of their operation), locomotive builders and other engineering companies. For line histories see the Regional sections.
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The Barry Railway. Ref: CH3770  

Its docks & successors.
Mills.
Very large, 272 pages, maps, colour photos, glazed boards. **An original treatment of a company history, this volume sets out the purposes and development of the railway in the first 58 pages; the remainder of the book comprises a colour album section showing the lines in modern times, copiously annotated.
Price: £35.00
 

Belfast And County Down Railway. Ref: CH2805  


Coakham, D.
Very large, 256 pages, photo illustrations, maps, track plans, loco and rolling stock drawings. Soft back. **A comprehensive history handsomely produced at a very fair price.
Price: £25.00
 

Brotherhoods, Engineers For Power, Transport & Weapons. Ref: CH3714  

X102
Leleux.
Medium, 312 pages, photo and other illustrations, appendices, bibliography, soft back. **A history of the varied fortunes of an engineering family and their company, which after 150 years is still a respected manufacturer of engineering products. The work was originally published by David & Charles in 1965 as Brotherhoods, Engineers. The author has since updated and enlarged the book. A notable inclusion is the 50 pages of Rowland Brotherhood's history of his own life (1812-1883) written in 1881, an interesting and remarkable document.
Price: £26.00
 

Cambrian Railways. Ref: CH3112  

A new history.
Johnson, P.
Very large, 200 pages, photos, map endpapers, pictures of paperwork, ephemera etc (some colour), stock lists, bibliography. Paper-covered boards. ** Peter Johnson's history of the Cambrian, carefully researched and amply illustrated.
Price: £30.00
 

Caradon & Looe. Ref: CH1422  

The canal, railways and mines.
Messenger, M.
Very large, 168 pages, illustrated with maps and photographs, soft back. **The definitive history of the Liskeard & Looe Union Canal, the Liskeard & Caradon Railway and the Liskeard & Looe Railway, now fully revised.
Price: £16.00
 

Castleman's Corkscrew. Volume Two: The Twentieth Century And Beyond. Ref: CH2617  

Including the railways of Bournemouth & associated lines. OL 144B.
Jackson, B L.
Medium, 320 pages, photos, maps, soft back. ** Castleman's Corkscrew was the Southampton & Dorchester Railway, 60 miles of rural line.
Price: £19.95
 

Crewe Locomotive Works. Ref: CH1582  

Description of the London & North Western Railway's locomotive works at Crewe.
LNWR
Medium, 32 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. **Reprint from an original LNWR publicity publication of 1903.
Price: £4.95
 

Crewe Works Narrow Gauge System. Ref: CH2043  


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
 

East Kent Railway Volume One. Ref: CH1588  

The history of the independent railway. OL 127A.
Finch, M L & Garrett, S R.
Medium, 232 pages, photos, maps. Soft back. ** "The East Kent Light Railways Company began as but one enterprise in a complex federation of enterprises whose ultimate goal was to transform East Kent into a thriving industrial centre to rival Glamorgan or Lancashire." A lively and thorough history.
Price: £14.95
 

East Kent Railway Volume Two. Ref: CH1606  

Nationalisation, the route, rolling stock and operation.
Finch, M L & Garrett, S R.
Medium, 237 pages, photos, maps. Soft back. ** This volume contains chapters thirteen to seventeen of the work. It brings the history of the line up to its closure following the miners' strike of 1984, gives a very detailed description of the line as it was built and describes the locomotives and rolling stock.
Price: £14.95
 

Festiniog Railway Volume Two. Ref: CH0792  

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
 

Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway. Ref: CH1395  

OL125
Maycock, R J & Silsbury, R.
Medium, 176 pages, illustrated with photos, maps, track plans, hard back. **A very solid line history.
Price: £14.95
 

The Great North Of Scotland Railway. Ref: CH3423  

A new history.
Ross.
Very large, 256 pages, maps, photo illustrations, chronology, bibliography, notes and sources, glazed boards. **The "Great North" was the railway of Scotland's north east until 1923. The company was set up in 1845 to join Aberdeen and Inverness, but the first stretch of line did not open until 1854. After the 1870s it became one of the most efficient and innovotive regional railway systems in Britain. This comprehensive history of the company explores its contribution to the development of Aberdeen and its hinterland.
Price: £30.00
 

Great Western Railway Architecture In Colour Volume 1. Ref: CH3615  

Buildings From Brunel To Beeching.
Crump.
Very large, square format, 174 pages, pictorial, colour photos throughout, hard back. **Volume one of a two part survey of GWR architecture, this is a chronological study of station buildings. The illustrations are all colour photographs taken between the 1970s and the present and include many shots of details as well as overall views of the buildings. There is a useful section on the several paint colours used by the GW. An indispensible resource for anyone modelling the Great Western, but of keen interest to anyone with a liking for railway architecture and / or the GWR.
Price: £25.00
 

The GWR And The General Strike. Ref: CH3166  

LP194.
Potts.
Medium, 136 pages, photo illustrations, soft back.
Price: £8.95
 

History Of The London & Birmingham Railway Volume One. Ref: CH1896  

Euston to Bletchley.
Richards & Simpson.
Very large, 158 pages, pictorial: photos (some colour), track plans, maps etc, soft back. **The first main line to the north from London. With the tremendous engineering genius of Robert Stephenson it was successfully completed and opened throughout in 1838, taking only four years. This is primarily a history of the development of the line itself, taking it place by place, northwards.
Price: £18.95
 

History Of The Port Talbot Railway & Docks Company And The South Wales Mineral Railway Company Volume 1. Ref: CH3064  

1853 - 1907.
Simmonds.
Very large, 258 pages, photo illustrations, maps, loco lists, locomotive and rolling stock drawings, hard back. ** Detailed history of two enterprises, the first an important player in the development of industrial South Wales, the second - a line taking coal to a new port at Briton Ferry - a less successful venture but a useful source of traffic to the PTR, who took it over. This volume takes the history of the lines to the point where they were taken over by the Great Western.
Price: £25.00
 

History Of The Port Talbot Railway & Docks Company And The South Wales Mineral Railway Company Volume 2. Ref: CH3213  

1894-1971.
Simmonds.
Very large, 300 pages, photo illustrations, maps, loco list, hard back. ** Detailed history of South Wales enterprises. This volume continues the history of the companies from the point where they were taken over by the Great Western. It also covers the construction of the new dock at Port Talbot and continues the history under the GWR and BR. The railways were mostly closed by the 1960s but the docks and the industries around them continued to expand.
Price: £30.00
 

The Hull & Barnsley Railway Volume 1. Ref: CH3816  

Formation and the early years.
Deacon.
Very large, 230 pages, generously illustrated with photos, contemporarary illustrations, double page line map, glazed boards. ** Conceived to carry coal from the south Yorkshire collieries to the port of Hull the company had a rough and at times dramatic start before settling down to a settled, indeed profitable, existence. As well as the history up to 1899 this volume has chapters on the Alexandra Dock, the company's passenger stations, the locomotives and the rolling stock.
Price: £25.00
 

Isle Of Wight Here We Come. Ref: CH3163  

The story of the Southern Railway's Isle Of Wight ships during the war 1939-1945. X58.
Compton.
Medium, 80 pages, illustrated with photos, boat plans and drawings and a plan of Portsmouth harbour, soft back. Out of print, one copy left.
Price: £6.95
 

LMS Central Division Miscellany. Part One 1921-1930. Ref: CH3693  

A portrait of the L&Y's lines and property in the LMS period.
Coates.
Very large, 115 page photo album, glazed boards. **After the LMS took over it might have seemed that the old L&Y remained unchanged, but it did change, probably much as it would have done if left to itself. This series of photos, the first of a planned series, illustrates the start of that process, particularly with regard to locomotives and rolling stock.
Price: £15.00
 

LMS In Ireland. Ref: CH1025  

An Irish railway pictorial.
Kennedy, M.
Very large, 96 pages, album. Soft back. **The LMS inherited from the MR the Belfast & Northern Counties Railway and the Donegal Railways; from the LNWR the Dundalk, Newry & Greenore Railway and various shipping interests. The book also covers road services, air services, the effects of the war and much else.
Price: £12.99
 

Midland Railway in Nottingham. Volume 2. 1908 - 1947. Ref: CH1095  

Decades Of Change.
Perkins & Padgett.
Medium, 158 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. **History of the MR locomotive sheds, engines and staff in Nottingham.
Price: £12.95
 

Midland Railway in Nottingham. Volume IV. Ref: CH3301  

Far down the shining line.
Perkins & Padgett.
Very large, landscape, map, 158 page album with extra information in several appendices, glazed boards.
Price: £16.50
 

Nasmyth, Wilson & Co. Ref: CH2091  

Patricroft locomotive builders.
Cantrell.
Medium, 134 pages + a 24 page locomotive list, soft back. **A short history of one of the most famous steam locomotive builders in Britain.
Price: £12.99
 

Neyland. Ref: CH0857  

A Great Western outpost.
Parker.
Very large, 144 pages, photo illustrations, hard back. **Formerly known as New Milford, and the port of embarkation to Ireland from the Welsh coast.
Price: £19.95
 

North Devon Clay. Ref: CH3564  

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
 

The Ocean Coal Company And "The Barry". Ref: CH3877  

David Davies's extraordinary South Wales enterprises.
Shore.
Very large, 272 pages, photo illustrations, maps, glazed boards. **The "finest seams of coal in the world" were exploited by David Davies' Ocean Coal Co collieries in Rhondda Fawr and adjacent valleys; Davies was also "arch promoter" of the Barry Railway which transported the coal to the docks and became Great Britain's greatest shipper of coal. Closely researched and related in detail here is another engrossing history of South Wales rail and mining enterprise.
This work stands with the author's Peerless Powell Duffryn (W3015) and The Tredegar Company (W3566) as a chronicle of the "Big Three" South Wales coal undertakings.
Price: £35.00
 

Peerless Powell Duffryn. Ref: CH3015  

Of the South Wales coalfield.
Shore.
Very large, 240 pages, many photo and other illustrations, colliery site plans, bibliography, glazed boards. ** The first full history of Powell Duffryn, Britain's foremost coal company.
Price: £24.99
 

The Railways Of Jamaica. Ref: CH3269  

Through the Blue Mountains to the blue Caribbean Seas - a history of the Jamaica Government Railway.
Horsford.
Large, 166 pages, maps, photos (much colour), tables, stocklists. Soft back.
Out of print, last copy.
Price: £25.00
 

The Sand Hutton Light Railway. Ref: CH3121  

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
 

Signalling The Caledonian Railway. Ref: CH3350  


Summers.
Very large, 328 pages, many photo illustrations, diagrams, maps, glazed boards. ** Surely the most comprehensive of company signalling studies. The author describes the block system and the controlling of single lines under the Caledonian; he explains the working of points, signals, level crossings, and the management of a signal box; he examines the organisation of signalling operations. There are chapters on early signalling developments and on modelling, and there are copious appendices on a wide range of topics. The book is crammed with useful and fascinating detail and warmly recommended.
Price: £30.00
 

Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway Ref: CH3357  

An Irish railway pictorial.
Sprinks.
Very large, 80 page album, photos, station layouts, soft back. **With historical introduction.
Price: £12.99
 

The Tredegar Company Ref: CH3566  

One of the South Wales Coalfield's 'Big Three'.
Shore.
Very large, 208 pages, photo illustrations, maps, glazed boards. ** The Tredegar Company earned its wealth from iron and coal. This detailed history of the concern and its industries from early nineteenth century beginnings to NCB ownership is a sequel to the author's Peerless Powell Duffryn (W3015).
Price: £25.00
 

Waterford, Limerick & Western Railway. Ref: CH2161  


Shepherd.
Very large, 160 pages, photo illlustrations, map, track diagram, stock lists and other tabulated statistical information, glazed boards. **Complex history of the fourth largest Irish railway company of its day, railway politics, line descriptions, locomotive history, economic and social influence. Out of print - LAST COPY.
Price: £19.99
 

Weymouth To The Channel Islands. Ref: CH0800  

A Great Western Railway shipping history. X76.
Jackson, B L.
Medium, 208 pages, photos, maps, line drawings, soft back.
Price: £13.95
 

Yorkshire Engine Company. Ref: CH2616  

Sheffield's locomotive manufacturer.
Vernon.
Medium, 160 pages, many photo illustrations, some drawings, works lists, soft back. **The company was founded in 1865, had the technical expertise of Sir Archibald Sturrock and Charles Sacré, was a leading manufacturer of Fairlie locomotives but had no success with marine or tramway engines, or with motor cars; it began making diesel locomotives after the war and ceased business in 1965: an unfortunate centenary. Some of its diesel locomotives are still at work.
Price: £12.99
 

Yorkshire's First Main Line. Ref: CH3749  

The Leeds & Selby Railway.
Dawson.
Medium, 112 pages, photos and illustrations from contemporary sources, chapter notes, bibliography, soft back. **A strangely neglected early railway which made provision for a four track main line but was largely closed down by George Hudson, its demise being arguably the fault of inexperienced management. A heroic failure!
Price: £15.00
 

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