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All books catalogued in the last year. Not all these are listed elsewhere in the on-line catalogue.
Latest update 4 June 2022.
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Alnmouth To Alnwick, Coldstream and Berwick (Country Railway Routes). Ref: A3850

Darsley & Lovett.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, gradient diagram, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

The Barnstaple And Ilfracombe Railway. Ref: A3859

LP111.
Maggs.
Medium, 136 pages, many photos, maps, timetable extracts, appendices, soft back. **Third edition of this detailed line history, with new photographs added.

Price: £15.95

Bolton To Preston (Northern Lines). Ref: A3862

Including Horwich Locomotive Works and the Ribble Steam Railway.
Heavyside.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, gradient diagram, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

The Book Of The B17 4-6-0s. Ref: A3839

61600 - 61672.
Coster, P J.
Very large, 200 pages, many photo illustrations, tabulated data, glazed boards. Individual histories of these engines.

Price: £29.95

The Book Of The Stanier 8F 2-8-0s. Part Four: Swindon, The LNER And The Southern 48440-48633. Ref: A3864

Sixsmith & Derry.
Very large, 304 pages, many photo illustrations, glazed boards. **The class history for the Stanier 8Fs is in Part One; here are individual histories of engines built at Swindon, Horwich, Darlington, Doncaster, Ashford, Brighton and Eastleigh 1943-45. A fifth and final volume is planned.

Price: £30.95

The Brighton Line. Ref: A3879

Brighton to Coulsdon North : a signalling perspective.
Durrant.
Very large, 360 pages, signalling diagrams, photo illustrations, maps, glazed boards. **The development of the LBSCR from Brighton to Coulsdon North with - as the author is a signalling engineer - a natural focus on signalling.

Price: £45.00

British Railways : The First 25 Years. Volume 11 North Wales, Chester And The Wirral. Ref: A3833

Allan & Murray.
Very large, 208 pages, album with area maps and notes, detailed captions, glazed boards. **Volume 11 of this notable series keeps up the standard of sharp clear photos, two to a page and showing an excellent variety of locations, locomotives and other motive power, all expounded with well researched captions.

Price: £22.50

The Broad Gauge Engines Of The Great Western Railway Part 3. Ref: A3878

1846-1852.
Arman.
Very large, 208 pages, illustrated with good reproductions of contemporary locomotive drawings, other drawings, contemporary photographs and illustrations, appendices, glazed boards. **Part 3 commences with the first engines built at Swindon Works. Between 1846 and 1852 under Gooch's guidance seven new designs or developments of prototypes were produced culminating in the Iron Duke and Courier classes. Gooch was the pioneer of locomotive testing and designed and built the first dynamometer car in 1847. The book opens with an account of the development of Swindon itself and continues with close examination of the various classes of locomotives built in this period.

Price: £30.00

Built In Britain. Ref: A3852

The independent locomotive manufacturing industry in the nineteenth century.
Bailey
Very large, 221 pages, illustrated with photos (some colour) and images from contemporary sources, chapter references, list of independent workshops, bibliography, glazed boards. **The first comprehensive study of this important subject, Dr Bailey's research covers the development of the locomotive market from 1825, technology, design and manufacturing, management, industrial relations and administration. The tabular list of workshops (there are 108) is arranged by town (57) and includes valuable information for further study.
Endorsed by the presidents/chairman of the Newcomen Society, RCHS and SLS in a joint foreword : ... a triumph of business and engineering history, beautifully illustrated with telling drawings and photographs, well supported with statistical evidence and scrupulously referenced. Without doubt the best railway book of 2021.

Price: £30.00

The Campbeltown & Machrihanish Light Railway Ref: A3849

LP 249
Macmillan.
Medium, 136 pages, maps, track diagrams, locomotive and rolling stock drawings, photo and other illustrations, bibliography, soft back. **"Scotland too had a narrow gauge railway as fine as anything in the south", and so popular has its history been that it is now in its third edition, using the text of the second edition (1993) with minor updates and new photographs.

Price: £15.95

A Celebration Of BR Standard Pacifics. Ref: A3834

Britannias, Clans and Duke Of Gloucester.
Jennison.
Very large landscape, 144 page album, glazed boards. **The third of this new series of albums depicting some of the best-loved steam classes. Fine black and white photos of BR Standard 4-6-2s, one to a page, in chronological order starting with the batches of each class as built. The emphasis is on the engines in service and all engines are illustrated at least once (71000 is x 6).

Price: £27.95

Decauville Steam Locomotives. Ref: A3855

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

East Midlands Steam 1950-1966. Ref: A3867

Tuffrey.
Large, 128 page album (some period colour), short bibliography, hardback. **A nice selection of photos of steam at work, arranged alphabetically by location from Alfreton to Worksop

Price: £19.99

Final Journey. Ref: A3856

The untold story of funeral trains.
Wheatley.
Large, 304 pages, well illustrated with photographs, some recent colour, gazetteer, extensive bibliography, endnotes, index, soft back. **This is an unexpected aspect of railway history - the London Necropolis Company's railway is well known but the general use of railways (and trams) to carry coffins has not been much studied. While we remember the funeral trains of royalty and of VIPs like Sir Winston Churchill it may not be realised that ordinary people also made their last journeys by train, the service only ceasing in the 1980s; indeed ceremonial funeral transport still continues on heritage railway. This is a wide-ranging study of the social and operating aspects of funeral trains and includes a section on rolling stock and equipment.

Price: £20.00

From Hereford To Three Cocks Junction. Ref: A3832

The Hereford, Hay and Brecon Branch. OL 166.
Mair.
Medium, 104 pages, photo illustrations, maps, station plans, signalling diagrams, good bibliography, soft back. **Nicely done line history, thorough yet commendably consise.

Price: £13.95

Gorton Tank. Ref: A3847

A pictorial review of the Gorton Locomotive Works, Manchester. 1847-1963.
Gosling.
Very large, 296 pages, profusely illustrated with official and unofficial photos, locomotive and structure drawings, site plan, short bibliography, glazed boards. **Originally the works of the MS&LR, Gorton works was owned successively by the Great Central, LNER and BR and was one of the finest locomotive workshops in the country, according to the author who worked there. His closely researched book is a review of the locomotive works itself, not just of its products (which are, of course, included).

Price: £30.00

Harwich Ferries. Ref: A3842

Parkeston Quay under railway ownership. New revised edition.
Brown, S.
Very large, 292 pages, well illustrated with photos, plans etc, some colour, alphabetical fleet list with statistics and brief history of each ship, soft back. **A very detailed history of the port of Harwich, and particularly Parkeston Quay, eventually the most versatile of British ports. At no other port was there such a variety of passenger ferries, freight and container ships, train ferries and car boats. The book takes the story to 1990.

Price: £22.95

Great Northern Railway Branches Hatfield To Hertford. Ref: A3843

Paye.
Very large, 280 pages, photo illustrations, maps, large diagrams of station areas and junctions, signalling diagrams, time table extracts, rolling stock and locomotive drawings, lists of level crossings, bridges and culverts, short bibliography, glazed boards. ** Detailed history of the line from Hatfield to Hertford via Welwyn Garden City.

Price: £30.00

The History And Development Of Railway Signalling In The British Isles. Volume 5. Ref: A3837

Train detection and control.
Pinkstone & Peart.
Very large, 176 pages, photo illustrations and diagrams, several appendices including abbreviations, glossary, biographical notes, bibliography etc, hard back: *Another excellent work in this magisterial series, everything you could wish to know about track circuits, axle counters, ATC, AWS and other means of detecting trains and warning their crews of danger.

Price: £30.00

Hull To Scarborough. (Country Railway Routes). Ref: A3854

Including the Filey Holiday Camp branch.
Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, gradient diagram, time table extracts, glazed boards.
Dedication This album is dedicated to my dear friend and longtime co-author, Vic Mitchell, who sadly passed away at the beginning of 2021. We worked together for some 40 years producing over 300 titles in the Middleton Press series, evolving the 'ultimate rail encyclopedia'. Vic's enthusiasm was tireless, and I am sure he would wish that this legacy continues.

Price: £18.95

Lancaster's Line To The Sea. Ref: A3883

A history of the Glasson Branch of the LNWR.
Richardson.
Very large, 87 pages, excellent coloured maps and structure drawings, signalling diagrams, photo illustrations, soft back. ** Good line history, including route description and details of operation, signalling and rolling stock. And doubly interesting for being a harbour line.

Price: £15.00

Locomotives Of The Great Southern & Western Railway. Ref: A3835

Clements, McMahon & O'Rourke.
Very large, 284 pages, illustrated with photos and locomotive drawings, loco lists, tabulated data, glazed boards. **The GS&WR grew to be the largest independent company in Ireland, with a complex motive power story. This impressive book catalogues every locomotive that was operated by the company, providing dimensional details, drawings and photographs and analysing the patterns of construction, rebuilding and renewal. The locomotive stock of the companies taken over by the GS&WR 1866 - 1901 are also included.

Price: £35.00

Locomotives Of The Isle Of Wight Railways. Ref: A3838

Cooper & others.
Very large, 192 pages, photo illustrations, some colour, tabulated locomotive data, glazed boards. **The Island's locomotive history from the first tank engines of 1862 to the reconditioned LT D78 stock. Includes industrial and preserved locomotives.

Price: £25.00

London's Disused Underground Stations. Ref: A1170

Connor.
Very large, 128 pages, colour and black & white photos, plans, glazed boards. **The present issue of this perennially and deservedly popular book is a new impression although there is no mention of this in the publishing data. There are in fact only 26 stations, not surprising as there can be few places in London where a station is de trop. These range from the famous Down Street to the unheard-of South Acton (well I'd never heard of it and I lived there). Each station gets a history and a selection of engrossing photos. Super book.

Price: £19.95

The Mansfield-Southwell-Rolleston Railway. Ref: A3863

LP248
Western.
Medium, 112 pages, photos, maps, large scale OS extracts of station areas, signalling diagrams, time table extracts, soft back. **Good local history of this Midland Railway line in the Nottinghamshire coalfield.

Price: £15.95

No Way Through. Ref: A3865

Great Glen railway schemes.
McGregor.
Very large, 128 pages, maps, photo illustrations, bibliography, boards. **Transport politics in nineteenth century Scotland made a battle ground of the Great Glen. Most of the major companies contended for the route but the only line eventually built - the Invergarry & Fort Augustus Railway was an ill-judged speculation, out of tune with the changing times. An academic study and excellent addition to Scottish railway history.

Price: £20.00

The Ocean Coal Company And "The Barry". Ref: A3877

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

Piercing The Pennines. Ref: A3853

Heroic railways linking Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Joy.
Large, 127 pages, map, photo illustrations, hardback. **Nicely illustrated history of the railway tunnels between Walsden and Littleborough (Summit), and at Woodhead, Standedge, Totley and Cowburn, opening with a short examination of pioneering canal tunnels in the area.

Price: £19.99

Rails Through Connemara. Ref: A3848

The Galway-Clifden Railway. LP250.
Beaumont.
Medium, 192 pages, photos, maps, time table extracts, locomotive lists and drawings, rolling stock drawings, soft back. ** A natural follow-up to the author's history of the railway from Westport to Achill, this is a history and description of the line and its operation.

Price: £15.95

Railway Memories No 31. Retford, Worksop & Sherwood Forest. Ref: A3836

Chapman
Large, 112 pages, pictorial, map, station layouts, soft back. **A collection of steam-era black and white photos from the Dukeries.

Price: £16.99

Railway Memories No 32. The East Riding Of Yorkshire. Ref: A3868

Chapman
Large, 144 pages, pictorial, map, some station layouts, soft back. **A collection of steam-era black and white photos from the East Riding, an area bounded by Scarborough, Malton, York, Goole and the Humber. Basically an album, but with a substantial (30 page) historical introduction.

Price: £18.99

The Railways Of Manchester. Ref: A3840

The evolution and development of the city's railways.
Chard.
Very large, 272 pages, photo illustrations (much in colour), maps, glazed boards. **A thorough examination of the railways, trains, tramways, stations, depots and railway builders of the region over two centuries, including many industrial and narrow gauge lines. A tour de force, with some fine photographs, essential reference and very readable. Should be on everyone's bookshelves.

Price: £40.00

The Railways Of North East Lincolnshire A celebration of the days of steam. Part Four. Ref: A3857

Comforts and fish.
King.
Very large, 144 page album : photos, mainly 3 to a page interspersed with working timetable extracts; area map, brief bibliography, softback. **This part is intended to the steam locomotive and train outside the shed and station and is a study of operations. Comforts and Fish refer to excursion and goods traffic respectively, Fish being self-explanatory and Comforts deriving from "come for't day".
A fifth part, provisionally titled The World Beyond Wrawby, and concerning the coming of the diesels is also planned.

Price: £19.95

The Railways Of North East Lincolnshire A celebration of the days of steam. Part Five. Ref: A3886

The world beyond Wrawby (and south from Willoughby).
King.
Very large, 144 page album : photos, mainly 3 to a page interspersed with working timetable extracts; area maps, brief bibliography, softback. **The final part of this set of steam albums expands the territory to an area bounded by Boston, Lincoln, Gainsborough and Goole and even includes local (mainly Immingham) engines working away beyond these boundaries. Although diesels were mentioned in the advertisement for this part in Part Four, only six dmus, one class 31 and an experimental diesel hydraulic shunter appear in this book. In the end the author had too much diesel material and hopes to produce a further book to accommodate it.

Price: £19.95

John Rennie. Ref: A3882

'Engineer of many splendid and useful works'.
Cross-Rudkin.
Very large, 208 pages, illustrated with photos, images from contemporary sources and maps, chapter notes, list of works, bibliography, glazed boards. ** John Rennie was a leading civil engineer for thirty years from the canal mania of the 1790s to his death in 1821. Originally (and continually) a millwright, he applied his engineering talents to canals, bridges, fenland drainage and the planning of ports, harbours and naval dockyards. This closely researched biography includes details of Rennie's early life, extended family, health problems and death but is primarily concerned with his engineering achievements; thus the central chapters are arranged by type of work - Canals, Bridges, Civil Engineering Management et cetera, rather than chronologically, a system which helps to give a clearer insight into the development of his various engineering techniques.

Price: £30.00

Robinson Eight-Coupled Locomotives. Ref: A3884

Clements.
Very large, 224 pages, illustrated with photos, diagrams and drawings, tabulated loco histories, glazed boards. ** The evolution and history of large and complex family of heavy freight locomotives which saw service on four continents between 1902 and the early 1970s, including adoption by the ROD in 1917.

Price: £25.00

Manchester To Crewe Part Three. Ref: A3887

Stockport & Wilmslow to Crewe via Alderley Edge, Chelford, Goostrey, Holmes Chapel & Sandbach.
Johnson.
152 pages, very large, many photo illustrations, diagrammatic area map, massive 4-page fold-out plan of Crewe Works, soft back. **The first two parts of this work were published in the Scenes From The Past series. It covers traction ancient and modern and looks at the infrastructure. Strong on Crewe and the Works.

Price: £21.95

Scottish Railway Atlas Then And Now. Ref: A3861

Smith & Jordan.
Very large, 144 pages, 42 pages of colour maps, extra photos, illustrated index, glazed boards. **This atlas is based on the Official Railway Map of Scotland produced by the Railway Clearing House in 1920, just before the grouping took place. The map is divided into 20 sheets, one to a page and placed opposite a map of the same area showing the network as at 1 January 2021. There are also enlargements for Edinburgh and Glasgow showing the 1/1/21 system (including Edinburgh trams). Setting this atlas apart is the Index of Stations which includes a snip of the OS late C19 25" map or a small modern photo of most stations plus a brief chronology; this section accounts for some 86 pages. Further sections include mpds and preservation. Absolutely vital reference work and great value.

Price: £20.00

The Somerset & Dorset Railway. Ref: A3851

Bath To Bournemouth. The main line and branches.
Phillips.
Very large, 336 pages, album with brief line history, many photos, station track plans, signalling diagrams, reproductions of large scale ordnance survey maps, glazed boards. **A feast of Somerset & Dorset photos, covering the entire system and given context by large track and signalling diagrams.

Price: £35.95

Stamford's Industrial Past. Ref: A3858

An untold story.
Birch.
Very large, 172 pages, photo, maps and other illustrations, soft back. **Here's a book which clearly should be on every bookshelf in Stamford, but it will please anyone interested in industrial history. Anyone who supposed Stamford was just a pretty face of Georgian buildings will be surprised to learn of its heavy engineering industry. Other industries included plastic, textiles, brewing and printing. The book also covers the various transport and public services in the town (the photo of Stamford railway station dates back to when our shop was there). The photos and maps are well chosen and full of interest. Also it is terrifically good value for a substantial book.

Price: £14.95

Standard Gauge Locomotives In Russia And The Soviet Union. Ref: A3880

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

The Tyseley Story. Ref: A3866

Seventy years of railway pioneering in Birmingham.
Whitehouse.
Very large, 248 pages, lavishly illustrated with photos, mostly colour, glazed boards. **The story of those Birmingham entrepreneurs who had so much to do with post war railway preservation, notably the Talyllyn and Dart Valley railways and main line steam working from Tyseley, with which the author himself has been closely involved.

Price: £25.00

Wennington To Morecambe And Heysham. (Northern Lines). Ref: A3845

Via Lancaster.
Davies.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

The Witham To Yatton Branch. Ref: A3860

The story of the East Somerset Railway and the Cheddar Valley Railway. LP251.
Maggs.
Medium, 208 pages, many photos, map, track diagrams, timetable extracts, appendices including industrial locomotive lists and BR allocations, soft back. **A detailed history of a line of complex origins.

Price: £15.95

The Woodhead Line. Ref: A3881

Electric pioneer.
Whitehouse & Batty.
Very large, 192 pages, many photo illustrations : mostly in colour, signalling diagrams, map, glazed boards. ** Lucid and well illustrated history of this characterful line, its electrification and operation.

Price: £35.00

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