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London and South East England

Includes Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex.
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Atlas Of The Southern Railway. Ref: L3471

Harman & Nichols.
Very large, landscape, 224 pages, including a 68-page gazetteer, glazed boards.**Detailed maps of the SR network throughout its period of operation; completely comprehensive, including single and double lines, sidings, stations, tunnels, signalboxes, level crossings, bridges, viaducts and industrial lines.

Price: £30.00

The Aylesbury Railway. Ref: L3950

The first branch line Cheddington - Aylesbury opened 1839.
Simpson, B.
Very large, 112 pages, maps, station layouts, structure drawings, photos, hard back. **A generously illustrated line history.
Was £18, price at checkout will be £9.

Price: £12.86

British Railways : The First 25 Years. Volume 9 London. Ref: L3753

The London Midland Region including the London, Tilbury & Southend line.
Allan & Murray.
Large, 208 pages, album with area maps and notes, detailed captions, glazed boards. **The pictures illustrate the LM Region lines from London including St Pancras and Euston and outlying stations out to Watford and St Albans. Also covered is the North London line and the LTS line from Fenchurch St to Shoeburyness.

Price: £22.50

Channel Tunnel. Ref: L2122

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

The Croydon, Oxted & East Grinstead Railway. Ref: L3165

OL123.
Gould.
Medium, 208 pages, photos, headcode diagrams, station plans, map, soft back.

Price: £13.95

East Kent Railway Volume One. Ref: L1588

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: L1606

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

Essex Railway Heritage. Supplement. Ref: L2386

Kay.
Very large, 71 pages, pictorial, soft back. ** "Includes full listing of all surviving railway structures in Essex and an appendix covering all station buildings now demolished. With many previously unpublished period illustrations.

Price: £9.95

Goodbye To Victoria The Last Queen Empress. Ref: L3149

The story of Queen Victoria's funeral train.
Keat.
Medium, 96 pages, photos, drawings from contemporary news coverage, soft back.

Price: £8.95

The Great Western & Great Central Joint Railway. Ref: L3167

OL46.
Jenkins.
Medium, 256 pages, illustrated with photos, track diagrams and map, soft back. 2nd edition, revised.

Price: £15.95

Great Western Railway Architecture In Colour Volume 1. Ref: L3615

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

Hadleigh Branch. Ref: L2195

LP230.
Paye.
Medium, 208 pages, photos, map, scale drawings. Soft back. **A very short railway on the Essex - Suffolk border.

Price: £13.95

Harrow & Wealdstone 50 Years On. Ref: L3148

Clearing up the aftermath. X75.
Tatlow.
Medium, 128 pages, many track plans, photos and drawings. Soft back. **2nd edition. A detailed examination of the second worst railway accident in this country. The driver of an up express overran signals in fog, crashed into the rear of a crowded train; almost at once a down express ran into the wreckage now fouling the adjacent line.

Price: £9.95

History Of The London & Birmingham Railway Volume One. Ref: L1896

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

London Steam. Ref: L2930

Scenes From The 50's And 60's.
Welch.
Medium square, 80 pages, colour album, soft back.

Price: £8.95

London, Tilbury & Southend Album. Ref: L3938

Dow, G.
Large, 120 page album, colour frontispiece, hard back. **A varied selection of illustrations with a page or so of introductory text for each of the three sections.A couple of new copies of this 1981 Ian Allan album, published at £8.95, selling secondhand at £15, now £5 (the list price £7.14 will be reduced to £5 at the checkout).

Price: £7.14

London's Railway Heritage. Volume One: East. Ref: L3739

Architecture, engineering and industrial archaeology.
Kay.
Very large, 86 pages, pictorial, soft back. ** "This book is principally an architectural and industrial archaeology survey of the railway buildings and viaducts/bridges that still exist." The author defines East London as the area bounded by the City of London boundary, the Thames, the current Essex / Thurrock county boundary and the Liverpool St - Harold Wood main line (which he excludes). Some fascinating photos here.

Price: £12.95

London's Railway Heritage. Volume Two: North East. Ref: L3740

Architecture, engineering and industrial archaeology.
Kay.
Very large, 93 pages, pictorial, soft back. ** An architectural and industrial archaeology survey of extant railway buildings, viaducts and bridges on the GER Shenfield line, the Fairlop loop and the Ongar line.

Price: £13.95

London's Railway Heritage. Volume Three: North (GER). Ref: L3741

Architecture, engineering and industrial archaeology.
Kay.
Very large, 92 pages, pictorial, soft back. ** An architectural and industrial archaeology survey of extant railway buildings, viaducts and bridges on the GER Lea Valley, Chingford, Enfield and Southbury Loop lines: Tottenham & Forest Gate railway.

Price: £13.95

Piccadilly Tube. Ref: L2309

A history of the first 100 years.
Horne, M.
Large, squarish, 144 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), hard back. **Good, solid history,with many interesting photos, in particular of station sites and construction.

Price: £19.95

Railways Of Hammersmith And West London. Ref: L1037

Goudie & Stuckey
see Railways And Transport Of Hammersmith And West London. #0650.

Price: £7.50

The Saffron Walden Branch. Ref: L3554

LP241.
Paye.
Medium, 232 pages, photos, area map, locomotive, rolling stock and structure drawings, track and signalling diagrams, time table extracts, tabulated bridge and motive power data, soft back. **Comprehensive reference and line history for this Essex railway, and notably the first Oakwood Press publication from the new regime, altogether in keeping with the previous house style.

Price: £18.95

The South Wales Direct Line. Ref: L3603

History and working.
Rendall.
Large, 208 pages, photo illustrations, some period colour, large-scale plans of station areas, signalling diagrams, soft back. ** A history of the GWR's direct line from London to South Wales, from the early 1900s onwards, focussing on the people who worked the line. It includes the 'Badminton' line route and all the stations and junctions between Patchway and the Severn Tunnel.

Price: £19.99

Southern Way Special Issue No 8. Ref: L3174

The other side of the Southern. Accidents, incidents and occasions.
Robertson.
Very large, 100 pages, many photo illustrations, soft back.

Price: £16.50

Stanmore Village Branch. Ref: L0272

A photographic journey.
Baker & Connor.
Medium, 60 pages, soft back.

Price: £7.95

Underground Stations Of Leslie Green. Ref: L0784

Leboff, D.
Large, 96 pages, illustrated with b/w and coloured photos, glazed boards. Green designed the distinctive deep red terra-cotta, round-arched underground stations, built 1905-7, which are instantly recognisable even when no longer used as stations. Excellent photographs, showing many internal and exterior details, and a knowledgeable text.The main purpose of the book is to create a photographic record of Green's surviving work. It therefore focuses on the stations where most of the original fabric survives but for completeness also includes the twelve which have lost most, if not all, their original features.

Price: £16.95

The Westerham Valley Railway. Ref: L3128

LP72.
Gould.
Medium, 128 pages, photos, structure drawings, station plans, map, soft back. LP 72 : 2nd edition, revised.

Price: £8.95

The Whipsnade & Umfolozi Railway and The Great Whipsnade Railway. Ref: L3393

OL93.
Thomas.
Medium, 140 pages, photos, maps, locomotive drawings, bibliography, soft back. **The narrow gauge railway at Whipsnade zoo. Last copy, old stock, some shelf wear to covers.

Price: £9.95

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