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Armoured Trains. Ref: IN3550

An illustrated encyclopedia 1825-2016.
Malmassari.
Very large, squarish format, 527 pages, photos, author's clear drawings (in HO scale), comtemporary drawings and other illustrations, some colour, hard back. **This is a translation of Les Trains Blindés, originally published in 1989. The work has been revised, expanded and brought up to date for the English edition. The introduction outlines the history of the armoured train (with illustrations including some of imaginatively sabotaged track). It proceeds to cover in detail, country by country, the huge range of fighting equipment that rode the rails over nearly two centuries.

Price: £50.00

Atlantic. The Well Beloved Engine. Ref: IN1152

Hennessey.
Large, 192 pages, hard back. *International coverage. 2nd edition.

Price: £20.00

The Barbados Railway. Ref: IN3664

From the Caribbean to the Atlantic.
Horsford
Very large, 70 pages, illustrated with maps, drawing and photos, soft back. ** A brief history.Out of print, last copy.

Price: £9.95

British Military Railways Overseas In The Great War. Ref: IN3623

Compiled by the British Overseas Railways Historic Trust to mark the Centenary of the Great War.
Waters & Rainbow, eds.
Very large, 400 pages, drawings, maps and many photo illustrations, glazed boards. **Scholarly, in-depth history. The work covers railway operations in Belgium, France and Italy, the Levant, the Middle East, Africa, and southern ocean islands. There are chapters on locomotives and rolling stock, including armoured trains, on the aftermath of the war and on preservation of railways and stock. Limited edition of 500 copies.

Price: £50.00

Broad Gauge Steam Locomotives Of Portugal. Ref: IN2169

Walker, J R
Very large, 103 pages, photo illustrations, some locomotive drawings, diagrammatic system map, glazed boards. **The Portuguese broad gauge is 1668mm, as in Spain. This is a survey of all locomotive types, with brief technical and historical details plus a photo or photos (or drawing if no photo, in two cases neither was available).

Price: £18.95

Channel Tunnel. Ref: IN2122

And its high-speed links. OL138.
Comfort.
Medium, 256 pages + large folding map, photos (mostly colour), maps, track plans, soft back. **A very detailed study of the origins, construction, operation and future of this monumental enterprise. Some fascinating illustrations.

Price: £19.95

China Railway Atlas. Ref: IN2465

Mongolia. Taiwan.
Yonge.
Very large, 46 map pages, coloured; + 16 pages station index, line register etc, soft back. **Third edition, much enlarged.

Price: £20.00

Contrast In Islands. The Narrow Gauge Railways Of Corsica And Sardinia. Ref: IN1268

Davies.
Medium, 263 pages, photos (some colour), maps, track plans, hard back. *Good history of the systems.

Price: £27.95

Decauville Steam Locomotives. Ref: IN3855

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

Diesels & Electrics. Ref: IN3901

Locomotives International special edition no 1.
Catchpole, P and others.
Very large, 80 pages, many photo illustrations, some colour, soft back. **A collection of articles about overseas "modern" traction of unusual interest.
Out of print, last copy.

Price: £14.95

Diesels & Electrics. Ref: IN1822

Locomotives International special edition no 2.
Catchpole, P and others.
Very large, 80 pages, many photo illustrations, some colour, soft back. **A second collection of articles about overseas "modern" traction of unusual interest.

Price: £14.95

East European Narrow Gauge. Ref: IN0010

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

Price: £14.95

Engineer Of Revolutionary Russia. Ref: IN2799

Iurii V Lomonosov (1876-1952) and the railways.
Heywood.
Large, 400 pages + 24 pages of photo plates, other black and white illustrations, six diagrams in text. Hard back. **A remarkable man, whose career embraced science, engineering and diplomacy. He played a major role in the shaping and administration of Russian railways, was a pioneer of diesel traction, defected to the west in 1927, afterwards working in Britain and America. He died in Canada in 1952.

Price: £75.00

Essential Guide To French Heritage And Tourist Railways. Ref: IN2123

X83.
Jones, M.
Medium, 191 pages, map, colour photos, soft back. **A very useful guide to all the preserved railways in France, by département, with notes on access, length, journey time, motive power, operating dates, tarriffs etc.

Price: £15.95

Fortress Railways Of The Baltic Shores. Ref: IN1467

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

Price: £8.95

French Narrow Gauge Album. Ref: IN3904

Lemmey & Whitehouse.
Very large, 224 pages, pictorial: photos (much period colour), area maps, glazed boards. **A treat for rail francophiles, here is a collection of postwar photographs by keen British photographers (naturally including Pat Whitehouse, father of one of the authors) together with entertaining accounts of their travels and adventures, far more than just a photo album. France was once, of course, a narrow gauge nation par excellence, having nearly 12000 miles of route.

Price: £35.00

Gari La Moshi. Ref: IN2229

Steam locomotives of the East African Railways.
Ramaer.
Very large, 216 pages, photo illustrations including 16-page colour section, maps, locomotive drawings, loco lists, hard back. **The development and operation of the steam locomotives which in 1948 formed the EAR, set against the political background, extension of the network, availability of fuel and water and constraints of the permanent way.

Price: £32.00

Grand Crimean Central Railway. Ref: IN1218

The railway that won a war.
Cooke
Medium, 180 pages, illustrated with maps & photos, soft back.

Price: £7.99

Here Be Dragons. Ref: IN3592

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

The Incredible Darjeeling 'B' Class. Ref: IN3627

A historical and continuing story.
Churchill.
Very large, 128 pages, pictorial : photos (much colour), drawings, diagrams, soft back. ** A comprehensive history of these locomotives, in use since 1889 and still at work.

Price: £22.50

Indian Locomotives Part 2 - Meter Gauge 1872-1940. Ref: IN0005

Hughes, H.
Large, 112 pages, illustrated, soft back.

Price: £9.00

Indian Locomotives Part 3 - Narrow Gauge 1863 - 1940. Ref: IN0267

Hughes.
Large, 112 pages, soft back.

Price: £9.90

Indian Narrow Gauge Steam Remembered. Ref: IN1020

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: IN2061

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

Price: £29.95

Indian Broad Gauge Steam Remembered. Ref: IN2736

Marshall.
Medium, 166 pages, pictorial (some colour), maps, locomotive lists, hard back.

Price: £29.95

Industrial & Preserved Locomotives Of Belgium, The Netherlands And Luxembourg. Ref: IN2952

Known locomotives from 1970 onwards.
Leach.
Medium, 234 pages plus photo section, soft back.

Price: £14.95

Industrial Locomotives Of Picardy, France. Ref: IN2953

Clingan.
Medium, 120 pages, photo illustrations, some text also in French, soft back. **Handbook PNF, covers the departments of Aisne, Oise & Somme.

Price: £9.00

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of India And South Asia. Ref: IN3058

Darvill.
Medium, 556 pages, many photographs (with separate colour section), excellent maps, lists, hard back. **Records over 6500 steam, diesel, petrol and electric locomotives at over 1200 sites in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. As well as industrial sites the author includes chapters on military railways and railways used in main line construction projects.

Price: £29.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of Spain. Ref: IN3649

Spencer.
Medium, 518 pages, maps and site plans (some colour), photo illustrations (some period colour), hardback. **Lists the industrial railways of each province, giving a brief history of each company and a locomotive list. After this basic information the book gives lists of locomotives used in track maintenance and in major engineering projects including construction of new metros and RENFE high speed lines. Lastly there are also lists of locomotives known to have been built in Spain whose use and owners are unknown, and of preserved locomotives.

Price: £28.00

Light Railway Railcar In Western Europe. Ref: IN2198

From inception to maturity.
Davies.
Large, 310 pages, photos (some colour), maps, car drawings, hard back. *Excellent history, useful appendices, essential reference.

Price: £29.95

Locomotivas Articuladas. (Brazilian Articulated Steam Locomotives). Ref: IN1630

As gigantes da era do vapor no Brasil.
Coelho, E J J.
Very large, 192 pages, many photo illustrations, map, Portuguese text, English translations provided for all photo captions and technical data. Soft back.

Price: £24.95

Locomotives International Issue 90. Ref: IN3289

June / July 2014
McCall (editor).
Very large, 66 pages, many black & white and colour photo illustrations, soft back journal. **2014 working steam in China and Bosnia, Burma mines, 19th century Chile, CRC news, and much else.

Price: £4.95

Locomotives International Issue 113. Ref: IN3766

April/May 2018
McCall (editor).
Very large, 66 pages, many black & white and colour photo illustrations, soft back journal. **German 2-10-2Ts, Brazilian preservation at Perus-Pirapora, An unusual special train in Asturias, Odontotos Railway and much else.

Price: £5.30

Locomotives International Issue 122. Ref: IN3767

December 2019 / January 2020
McCall (editor).
Very large, 66 pages, many black & white and colour photo illustrations, soft back journal. **Steam in Zimbabwe, Shays into the Andes, Environmentally friendly 2-6-0 and much else.

Price: £5.30

Locomotives International Issue 123. Ref: IN3768

February - March 2020
McCall (editor).
Very large, 66 pages, many black & white and colour photo illustrations, soft back journal. **Railways of the Congo, Steam Locos of the Taiwan Machinery Co, Ukranian forestry railway and much else.

Price: £5.30

Locomotives International Issue 124. Ref: IN3769

April - May 2020
McCall (editor).
Very large, 66 pages, many black & white and colour photo illustrations, soft back journal. **Gauge change in India, Last winter of Finnish steam, Pithiviers, Budapest gasworks loco preservation and much else.

Price: £5.95

Locomotives Of Zimbabwe And Botswana. Ref: IN3358

Hamer.
Very large, 224 pages, many photo illustrations including a 16-page colour section, some locomotive drawings, extensive locomotive listings, bibliography, hardback. ** History of the development of the initially British but later much more cosmopolitan locomotive stock of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Includes much unpublished material concerning the 'sanctions-busting' engines imported into Rhodesia during the 1970s.

Price: £30.00

Monorails Of The 19th Century. Ref: IN2859

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

Monorails Of The Early 20th Century. Ref: IN3503

Garner.
Very large, 208 pages, copiously illustrated with photographs, contemporary illustrations, diagrams, vehicle drawings, and maps, glazed boards. ** This volume follows on from Monorails Of The 19th Century (CE2859) and continues the history of monorails from 1900 to just after the second world war. Among others it provides a detailed history and explanation of the gyroscopic monorails by Brennan, Scherl and Schilovsky and the Bennie Railplane. Monorails built outside the UK are included, notably the American Magnesium Co line in the Death Valley desert in the 1920s. There are also updates to the 19th Century volume including the Schwebebahn and the reborn Listowel and Ballybunion Railway.

Price: £25.00

Narrow Gauge By The Sudanese Red Sea Coast. Ref: IN1147

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

Price: £8.95

Narrow Gauge In The Former Yugoslavia. Ref: IN3805

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 Steam Locomotives Of Estonia. Ref: IN2134

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 Steam Locomotives Russia. Ref: IN3558

Moskalev, Bochenkov & Dorozhkov.
Very large, 416 pages, many photos, simple measured drawings, lists, dual Russian / English text, glazed boards. ** The development of the narrow gauge steam locomotive in the Russian empire from the first steps until the end of 1926. This very detailed study covers Russian-built and foreign locomotives and is illustrated with some fascinating photographs. A further volume covering the Soviet period is planned.

Price: £60.00

Norwegian Railways. Ref: IN0981

From Stephenson to high-speed.
Owen.
Large, 260 pages, photos, maps. Glazed boards. **Solid history of a system so far neglected by railway chroniclers.

Price: £27.50

Rails Across The Sea / Sporen over de Zee. Ref: IN3841

The Harwich - Zeebrugge train ferry story / Het verhaal van het treinveer Harwich - Zeebrugge.
Hoggett.
Very large, 80 pages, English and Flemish text, copiously illustrated with photos, maps and plans, soft back. ** "A long overdue history of the train ferry service between Harwich and Zeebrugge, its precursers and its legacy." The author was the BR Rolling Stock Inspector at Zeebrugge, so there is plenty of inside information and a fine collection of fascinating photos.

Price: £14.95

Rails Through Majorca. Ref: IN1629

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

The Railway Gazette Special War Transportation Number. Ref: IN3185

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Very large, 160 pages, illustrated with photos and drawings, soft back. **This is a reprint of the Railway Gazette Special Issue of 21 September 1920. The Gazette's current editor writes that it : "provides a fascinating insight into the work of the British Government's Directorate of Movement and Railways, bringing together 'the first connected account' of the role of railways and water transport during the Great War of 1914-18. It remains one of the few comprehensive studies of the colossal transport efforts that supported the British military campaign, both on the Western front and in other theatres of war." The hardback edition is now out of print.

Price: £14.95

Railway Guns. Ref: IN3552

British and German guns at war.
Goodwin.
Large, 121 pages, many photos, diagrams, maps, bibliography, hard back. ** Railway guns were developed as a means of transporting massive long-range guns overland during the first world war. This books covers the guns, the locomotives that hauled them, the locations and targets and what it was like when firing took place.

Price: £19.99

Railways And Motive Power Of Argentina. Ref: IN2170

Complete listing of public railways with basic details and comprehensive locomotive lists.
Carter, Reg.
Medium, 513 pages, soft back. **Now REDUCED from £28.95.

Price: £14.95

Railways Around Lake Luzern. Ref: IN2297

Bairstow.
Large, 80 pages, generously illustrated, some colour, map. Soft back.

Price: £9.95

Railways In The Austrian Tirol. Ref: IN2299

Bairstow, M.
Large, 80 pages, pictorial, some colour, maps, soft back.

Price: £8.95

The Railways Of Jamaica. Ref: IN3269

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

Railways Of Peru Volume 2. Ref: IN3258

The Central and Southern Lines.
Whetham.
Very large, 96 pages, pictorial: maps, photos (some colour), stocklists, glazed boards. There is also a hard back edition available to order at £26.95.** The railways described in volume 1, along the northern coast, have now disappeared. But the mountain railways east of Lima and in the southern part of the country are still important. The Central and Southern railway systems along with a number of more obscure public and private lines, many of these now closed, form the basis for this volume.

Price: £20.95

Railways Of The Andes. Ref: IN0510

Fawcett.
Large, 224 pages, 2nd edition. Hard back. **The first major survey in English of the planning, contruction, and operation of the major Andean railroads. Originally published in 1963, this new edition has a new preface and introduction and additional illustrations.

Price: £22.95

Réseau Breton. Ref: IN2012

A rail network in Brittany. X65.
Gravett.
Medium, 176 pages + large folding map, photos, maps, track plans, scale drawings of locomotives and buildings, soft back.

Price: £10.95

Rope & Chain Haulage. Ref: IN3046

The forgotten element of railway history.
Mountford.
Medium, 384 pages, illustrated: photos and contemporary illustrations (some colour) maps and plans, glazed boards. **Remarkably, in the whole history of railways, across now more than two hundred years, it would seem that there has never been a book devoted solely to rope haulage. This fascinating volume covers the field, at home and abroad, from the earliest days right up to the 21st century. A final chapter describes some preservation schemes. Now in print again.

Price: £29.95

Russian & Soviet Steam Locomotives. Vol 1. Ref: IN0757

E class 0-10-0, S class 2-6-2, P36 class 4-8-4.
Chester.
Large, 72 pages. Soft back.

Price: £12.95

Russian & Soviet Steam Locomotives. Vol 3. Ref: IN1541

Narrow Gauge Steam Locomotives In Russia And The Soviet Union.
Chester.
Large, 112 pages, soft back.

Price: £15.95

Sierra Leone Narrow Gauge. (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines) Ref: IN1879

Beale & Mitchell.
Medium, 96 page album, maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Simplex Locomotives At Work. Ref: IN3738

Keef.
Very large, 96 page album, soft back. ** Motor Rail Ltd started building Simplex locomotives in 1916, for use behind the trenches, and continued to produce light industrial locos for some 70 years. This is an album of black and white and colour photos, many previously unpublished, showing the engines at work in locations around the world and knowledgeably captioned at some length. The author's company, Alan Keef Ltd, bought Motor Rail's business in 1987.

Price: £15.00

Standard Gauge Locomotives In Russia And The Soviet Union. Ref: IN3880

Altbergs.
Very large, 144 pages, photo illustratations, map, bibliography, English text, hard back. **Russia's main railway system, as is well known, was built to a gauge of 1524mm, nevertheless a 1435mm gauge railway was built in 1838; later many standard gauge locomotives were acquired by border changes and as war reparations. Here is the unusually complicated but always fascinating story of standard gauge locomotives in the USSR, detailing the origin and fates of engines of many nations and types.

Price: £25.00

Steam And Rail In Germany. Ref: IN3086

Catchpole.
Very large, 72 pages, soft back.
Out of print, last copy.

Price: £9.95

Steam And Rail In Indonesia. Ref: IN3663

Rozendaal.
Very large, 67 pages, illustrated with maps, drawing and photos (some colour), soft back. **Useful survey, strong on locomotives.
Out of print, last copy.

Price: £9.95

Steam And Rail In Slovakia. Ref: IN0233

Catchpole.
Very large, 72 pages, soft back.
Out of print, last copy.

Price: £9.95

Steam In Europe 1894 - 1947. Ref: IN3653

The photographs of Lodewijk Derens.
Muller & Veenendaal.
Very large, 248 page album, map, bibliography, English text, glazed boards. **Derens took up railway photography in 1894 when he was a lad of about 14, and continued until WW2, a photo from 1947 is also included. Most of his pictures were taken in his native Holland, but he travelled in Belgium, France, Germany and Britain before and after WW1; there are some excellent photos of British railways including a fine study of the Euston Arch. The photographs are presented mostly one to a page, with copious annotation; the authors also provide a brief biography of Derens and a short history and map of the Dutch railways.

Price: £32.00

Supporting The British Expeditionary Force. Ref: IN2969

The Royal Engineer railway units in France 1939-1940.
Aves.
Very large, 96 pages, illustrated with photos and some drawings, map, lists, glazed boards. ** An account of the use of railways to support the BEF in France 1939 - 40 up to the evacuation at Dunkirk, and a chronicle of the fate of the abandoned engines during the remainder of the war and their eventual return to Britain.

Price: £19.95

Tales From The Fast Trains. Ref: IN2898

Europe at 186 mph.
Chesshyre.
Octavo, 315 pages, map, soft back. ** "Tired of airport security queues, delays ... Tom Chesshyre embarks on a series of high-speed adventures across the continent on its fast trains instead. He discovers the hidden delights of mysterious Luxembourg, super-trendy Rotterdam, much-maligned Frankfurt and lovely lakeside Lausanne, via a pop concert in Lille".

Price: £8.99

Taltal Railway. Ref: IN2785

A Chilean mineral line.
Binns & Middleton.
Very large, 64 pages, generously illustrated: photos, maps, loco list, soft back. **Also available in glazed boards, qv.

Price: £12.50

Taltal Railway. Ref: IN2853

A Chilean mineral line.
Binns & Middleton.
Very large, 64 pages, generously illustrated: photos, maps, loco list, glazed boards. **Also available as a soft back, qv.

Price: £16.95

Tortillards Of Artois. Ref: IN2504

The metre gauge railways and tramways of the western Pas-de-Calais. X90.
Farebrother & Farebrother.
Medium, 335 pages, photos, maps, track plan, scale drawings of locomotives, station gazetteer, soft back. Out of print, one copy left.

Price: £19.95

Train Ferries Of Europe. Ref: IN3831

Barron.
Very large, 288 pages, well illustrated with photos, maps, ship diagrams, train deck plans etc, glazed boards. **Not before time the compelling history of the train ferry is brought up to date. This welcome volume encompasses, with technical and operational detail, the story of more than 100 train ferries in Europe; a history going back to 1850, when the first train ferry crossed the Firth of Forth (and remnants of it may still be seen).
A companion volume covers train ferries beyond Europe.

Price: £35.00

Train Ferries Of The Americas, Asia & Africa. Ref: IN3830

Barron.
Very large, 192 pages, well illustrated with photos, maps, ship diagrams, train deck plans etc, glazed boards. **First point to note here is that Australasia is included, despite the title. The book encompasses, with technical and operational detail, the story of more than 300 train ferries outside Europe; a history going back over the last 170 years - and it is a fascinating one which has all but disappeared.
A companion volume covers the train ferries of Europe.

Price: £25.00

Tramways A Vapeur Du Tarn. Ref: IN1200

A 60cm railway in South West France. X70.
Wright.
Medium, 208 pages, soft back.

Price: £13.95

Transandine Railway In 1931. Ref: IN2633

A facsimile reprint.
Taylorson (comp).
Medium, 32 pages, illustrated with photographs, map, soft back. **This is a reprint of an article in the April 1931 issue of the Beyer Peacock Quarterly Review, with some extra photos, a map. There also some of the later history of the line, parts of which remain open in industrial use. It is metre gauge and ran from Mendoza in Argentina to Los Andes in Chile, reaching a summit of 10450 ft. There are proposals for re-opening it.
Out of print, last copy.

Price: £4.95

WDLR Companion. Ref: IN3642

Further material covering the British 60cm gauge light railways that served the western front during the Great War.
Ronald & Link.
Very large, landscape, 183 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and drawings, silk ribbon marker, glazed boards. **Companion volume to WDLR Album, this compelling book takes a "top-down" approach to the history of the WW1 light railways to address two questions : How did the WDLR come to be implemented so quickly? and, How could its organisation - a major transport undertaking - disappear from the face of the earth in little more than a year from the Armistice? The book also includes the major part of the text of what is likely to be the missing report for which the photographs in WDLR Album were taken and a large portfolio of good clear scale drawings of WDLR rolling stock. An exceptionally interesting study, and - as a bonus - a nicely produced volume.

Price: £31.95

Yatakli - Vagon. Ref: IN3662

Turkish steam travel.
Behrend & Kelly.
Very large, 103 pages, photo illustrations, maps, glazed boards. **A reprinting of George Behrend's engrossing narrative of his and Kelly's adventurous trip by Wagon-Lit to and around Turkey in 1968. This is no longer (I suppose) much use as a guide to the modern rail traveller in Turkey but surely must be compulsory historical background for anyone going there. Yatakli-vagon is the Turkish for sleeping-car.

Price: £16.95

21st Century Extreme Steam. Ref: IN1604

Le Cheminant, S; Murphy, V & Rhodes, M.
Very large, 168 page colour album, hard back. **Wonderful evocative book of recent Chinese steam, now all more or less gone.

Price: £40.00

China. The World's Last Steam Railway. Ref: IN2457

A photographic essay.
Tickner, Edgar, Freeman.
Very large, landscape, 176 page album, mainly colour. Hardback. **Another superlative collection of Chinese steam photos.

Price: £29.99

Death Rode The Rails. Ref: IN2144

American railroad accidents and safety 1828-1965.
Aldrich.
Large, 446 pages + 16 pages of photo illustrations, hardback. **Academic study of rail accidents in the USA, immensely interesting. Two statistical appendices, copious notes on sources etc.

Price: £40.00

Famous Last Lines 3. Ref: IN2039

Bambery (compiler).
Very large, 128 page colour album, hard back. **From Australia: we are sorry not to have brought you numbers 1 and 2 of this superb series. The lines covered here are Rio Turbio, Saalfeld, Kimberley, the Coal Road (private lines in NSW) and Jingpeng. Magnificent views of late 20th and early 21st century steam at work.

Price: £21.95

Ferry Boat De Nuit 1936 - 1980 / Night Ferry 1936 - 1980. Ref: IN2913

A brief history of the train which carried you asleep from London to Paris and Brussels.
Elliott & Duvoskeldt.
Very large, 118 pages, photo illustrations, maps, other illustrations, dual French / English text and captions, soft back. **Une guide historique du train que vous avez emprunté endormi(e) de Paris et Bruxelles à Londres. Not sure about endormi(e). When we went there was a metal bucket rolling around on the train deck all night. Jolly good thorough history though, and thank you Mr Elliott for including our e-mail address with the bibliography.

Price: £17.99

Industrial Locomotives Of The People's Republic Of China. Ref: IN2472

Including preserved and local railway locomotives.
Pritchard.
Medium, 252 pages + 14 page photo section and double page map, soft back. IRS Handbook 2PRC. ** Second edition, double the size of the first. Also available in glazed boards @ £19.95 (item 2576)

Price: £16.95

Industrial Locomotives Of The People's Republic Of China. Ref: IN2576

Including preserved and local railway locomotives.
Pritchard.
Medium, 252 pages + 14 page photo section and double page map, glazed boards. IRS Handbook 2PRC. ** Second edition, double the size of the first. Also available in softback @ £16.95 (item 2472)

Price: £19.95

Lignes Disparues De L'Hérault. The Lost Railway Lines Of L'Hérault. Ref: IN2523

A brief history and guide to the railway lines of l'Hérault long departed.
Elliott.
Very large, 96 pages, many photo illustrations, maps, other illustrations, dual French / English text and captions, soft back. **Hérault is a Mediterranean coastal département of France.

Price: £12.99

Locomotives Beyond The Polar Circle. Ref: IN2827

Ilyin.
Very large, 48 page album, some colour, map, dual Russian/English text, soft back. **Album prefaced by brief line history. Shows mostly elecric locomotives working the northern part of the line between Petrozavodsk and Murmansk, and its branches.

Price: £12.95

Mixed Gauges. Ref: IN2774

Travels in the years of steam.
Snell.
Very large, landscape, 256 pages, many photos, hard back. **Numerous photos mainly in colour taken by the author in many parts of the world. Some stunning images here.

Price: £46.95

Narrow Gauge Railways Of Cuba. Ref: IN2652

From the 1860s to the present day.
Walker, C.
Very large, 200 pages, photo illustrations, some colour, maps, stock lists, hardback. Also available in soft back, qv. **General history of these fascinating railways.

Price: £36.95

Ransomes And Rapier Locomotives. Ref: IN1305

Fisher & Halton
Medium, 70 pages, illustrated with photographs and some technical drawings, site plans, works list. **History of Ipswich agricultural machinery company which also built engines and other equipment for narrow gauge railways. Distinguished for building the first railway in China.

Price: £8.95

Schmalspurig Durch Bulgarien. Ref: IN2129

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

Sleepers, Diners & Pullmans Ref: IN2443

Trains and vehicles of the International Sleeping Car Company.
Spark
Large horizontal, 64 pages, pictorial - photos and drawings. Soft back. **Now back in stock after a considerable absence.

Price: £12.50

Steam In Serbia 1882 - 2007. Ref: IN2586

Veresic.
Medium square, 200 pages, illustrated throughout, largely in colour, hard back. ** "Serbia's narrow and standard gauge railways were once graced by an astonishing variety of steam engines manufactured by some of the leading locomotive factories in Europe and the USA. Today it is one of the last places in Europe where steam locomotives can still be found in regular service." This book offers a history of Serbian railways, an account of the development of railway preservation there and a list of every existing steam locomotive. LAST COPY.

Price: £41.95

Street Railways: Their Construction, Operation And Maintenance. Ref: IN2074

A practical handbook for street railway men.
Fairchild, C B.
Very large, 486 pages (incl 44 pages of advertisements), many line drawings and diagrams, smart blue cloth hard back, not supplied with jacket. **Reprint of the very scarce original which was published in New York, 1892; the author was editor of the Street Railway Journal. There are chapters on electric, cable and horse traction and steam, air and gas motors. There is information about inclined planes, rack systems, elevated roads and track construction. There is an enormous and detailed section on car building (the author was quite fervent about lettering and decoration on the car sides). Also a load of stuff about operation and management.

Price: £40.00

Transcaucasian Railway And The Royal Engineers. Ref: IN2216

With the Sappers to Baku.
Hennessey.
Large, 72 pages, photos, locomotive drawings, map. Soft back. **A brief record of largely forgotten events, 1918-20, when British Forces occupied Transcaucasia and the Royal Engineers set about putting the railways of the region onto a reasonable working basis after a long period of war and civil commotion. Now Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia.

Price: £13.95

Vidzeme Railway. Ref: IN2603

Stukmani (Plavinas) - Vecgulbene - Aluksne - Valka.
Altbergs & Biedrins.
Very large, 101 pages, photo illustrations, map endpapers, glazed boards. **History of a narrow gauge line in Latvia. This is an English version of a Latvian book.

Price: £25.00

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