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London and South East England

Includes Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex.
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Ashford From Steam To Eurostar. Ref: L0135

From rural station to international junction.
Mitchell.
Medium, 96 pages, many photos. Glazed boards. **Great Railway Eras No 1.

Price: £18.95

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

Baker Street To Uxbridge & Stanmore. (London Suburban Railways). Ref: L2408

Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Barking To Southend. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: L1138

Course.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Beckton's Railways And Locomotives Ref: L3425

Marden.
Very large, 132 pages, many photos, maps, site plans, soft back. **Local industrial lines : the gas works, products works and water works. Beckton Gas Works was the largest in Europe, with a huge internal railway. Plenty of interesting photos and details of the various locomotive stocks.

Price: £17.95

The Birth Of The Tubes. Ref: L3690

Badsey-Ellis.
Large, 96 pages, illustrated with photos and maps, bibliography, glazed boards. **Warmly recommended. The development of the deep level tube railway did not lag far behind the invention of the electric locomotive, which freed underground railways from the disadvantages of steam traction. This is a brief but fact-packed history of the first twenty-five years of electric tube operation in London, between 1890 - 1914 and covers the routes, the personalities, the technologies of tunnelling and traction and much else.

Price: £16.95

Bishop's Waltham Branch. Ref: L0060

Simmonds, R & Robertson, K.
Very large, 92 pages, pictorial, soft back.

Price: £7.95

The Book Of The Great Northern. Part One Ref: L2782

The main line. An engineering commentary part one: Kings Cross to Welwyn Garden City.
Coster, P.
Very large, 224 pages, pictorial: photos, large scale maps, glazed boards. ** "This is certainly not a closely-researched railway history... [It] is a book about the GNR particularly from the engineering and operational aspects, continuing from the last days of the GNR up to the present time."

Price: £26.95

Branch Line To Ongar. Ref: L2626

Including the Hainault Loop.
Connor.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, large scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Branch Lines Around Hertford And Hatfield. Ref: L2723

To Broxbourne, St Albans and Buntingford.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96 pages, album: photos, large- and small-scale maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Branch Lines Around North Woolwich. Ref: L2014

From Victoria Park to Beckton and Gallions.
Connor.
Medium, 96 pages, album with some maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Branch Lines To Enfield Town And Palace Gates. Ref: L1885

Connor.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Branch Lines To Harwich And Hadleigh. Ref: L2998

Mitchell.
Medium, 96-page album, photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Branch Lines To Southend And Southminster. Ref: L2849

Mitchell.
Medium, about 96 unnumbered pages, album, photos, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Branch Lines To Clacton and Walton. Ref: L3544

Including Brightlinsea.
Mitchell.
Medium, 96-page album, photos, area map, time table extracts, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Branch Lines To Sudbury. Ref: L3936

From Marks Tey, Haverhill and Bury St Edmunds.
Mitchell.
Medium, 96-page album, photos, area map, time table extracts, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

The Brighton Belle. Ref: L2950

The story of a famous and much-loved train.
Grant & Jeffs.
Large square, 96 pages, photo illustrations with period and recent colour, map, timings, menus, posters, etc, glazed boards. **Excellent history giving the story from the first Brighton line Pullmans up to the latest word on preservation of Brighton Belle stock. A handsome and keenly-priced book. 2nd edition.

Price: £12.95

The Brighton Line. Ref: L3879

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 6 Central London Southern Region. Ref: L3754

Allan & Murray.
Large, 208 pages, album with area maps and notes, detailed captions, glazed boards. **Covers the Southern Region lines from the terminus stations approximately to the edge of the area bounded by the South London line, around only four miles out. Includes Nine Elms, Stewarts Lane, Bricklayers Arms and of course Clapham Junction.

Price: £22.50

British Railways : The First 25 Years. Volume 7 London Western Region. Ref: L3755

Including the West London line.
Allan & Murray.
Large, 208 pages, album with area maps and notes, detailed captions, glazed boards. **Follows the main line from Paddington to Langley, and the branches to Greenford, Staines West and Uxbridge Vine Street. Also the servicing point at Ranelagh Bridge and Old Oak Common and Southall depots.

Price: £22.50

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

Brookwood Necropolis Railway. Ref: L2193

LP 143.
Clarke.
Medium, 192 pages, illustrated with photos, rolling stock drawings, track plans and maps; folding plan of cemetary. Soft back. **Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. A work of considerable interest, both from the railway and the socialogical points of view. As well as his exhaustive history of the cemetary and its railway the author provides much incidental information on funereal transport in general.

Price: £12.95

Brunel (Great Railway Eras). Ref: L2119

A railtour of his achievements.
Mitchell.
Medium, about 96 pages, album. Glazed boards. ** Six fascinating railtours of Brunel's crowning glory, the Great Western Railway.

Price: £18.95

Building London's Underground. Ref: L3529

From cut-and-cover to Crossrail.
Badsey-Ellis.
Large, 376 pages, illustrated with photos and maps, appendices, bibliography, hard back. **This is a first-rate study of the history and methods of construction of the various underground railways in London. It is full of technical detail, but not beyond the grasp of the interested layman. There are some fascinating illustrations and a detailed bibliography. Out of print, last copy.

Price: £30.00

Camden Goods Station. Ref: L3221

Through time.
Darley.
Medium, 96 pages, pictorial with colour and b/w photos, illustrations from contemporary sources, excellent purpose drawn plans and diagrams, soft back. **The works undertaken by the London & Birmingham Railway for their London terminus were titanic, even by today's standard and included massive brickwork, superb tunnel portals, and tremendous vaulted underground works. The author ventures beyond his remit to include the rope-worked lines out of Euston, the famous Roundhouse, the Regents Canal in Camden, and other local industry. The selection of illustrations is superbly fascinating.

Price: £14.99

Cathedrals Of Steam. Ref: L3872

How London's great stations were built - and how they transformed the city.
Wolmar.
Medium, 337 pages + 16 pages of photo and other illustrations, some colour. Hard back. *Christian Wolmar turns his attention to the origins and development of the twelve main line termini in London; the result is a nicely researched and eminently readable history.

Price: £25.00

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 Corringham Light Railway. Ref: L3265

A new history.
Kay.
Very large, 96 pages, pictorial : photos, maps, site plans, drawings, soft back. ** Including Kynoch's works, Kynochtown/Coryton, and the oil industry.

Price: £12.95

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

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

Price: £13.95

District Controller's View 9. The Kent Coast. Ref: L2092

Victoria - Chatham - Ramsgate/Dover.
Becket & Bradshaw.
Very large, 132 pages, soft back. * "Train and traffic operations over the ex-LC&DR during the 1950s; working timetable (passenger and goods) including the London suburban area; engine workings including allocations and shed movements 1950-60."

Price: £13.95

District Controller's View 13. The North London Railway. Ref: L2887

London (Broad Street) - Willesden - Richmond. All east-west cross London goods services.
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Very large, 104 pages, photos, many diagrams, soft back. * "Train and traffic operations over the North London Railway during the 1950s; full working timetable (passenger, goods and trip workings); engine diagrams, carriage workings and locomotive allocations 1950-60."

Price: £14.95

District Controller's View 17. West London. Ref: L3078

The West London Railway; Kensington Olympia; The West London Extension Railway; Willesden/Old Oak Common - Kensington Olympia - Clapham Junction.
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Very large, 80 pages, photos, many diagrams, soft back. * "Train and traffic operations in 1955; full working timetable (passenger, goods and trip workings) and engine diagrams. Full details of the summer Saturday holiday express workings."

Price: £14.95

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

The End Of The Line. Ref: L3101

The story of the railway service to the Great Northern London Cemetery.
Dawes
Medium, 116 pages, photo illustrations, soft back.

Price: £7.50

Euston To Harrow & Wealdstone. (Midland Main Lines). Ref: L0802

Scholey, K.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Fenchurch Street To Barking. Ref: L0421

Connor.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards. **Now out of print - last copy (at old price!).

Price: £15.95

From Construction To Destruction. Ref: L1957

An authentic history of the Colne Valley and Halstead Railway.
Willingham.
Very large, 256 pages, photos, maps, station plans, soft back.

Price: £12.50

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 British Railway Station King's Cross. Ref: L3501

Including 'The Ladykillers'.
Anderson, P.
Very large, 240 pages, pictorial, glazed boards. **This is an updated and expanded edition of Chris Hawkins' book of 1990. In his preface Hawkins explains that he wrote the original shortly before the King's Cross renewal project got underway, as a lament for the seedy and grimy surroundings about to vanish, and adds "but in the end it has all gone rather well".

Price: £27.95

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

Harpenden To Hemel Hempstead Railway. Ref: L1132

The Nickey Line. LP197
Woodward.
Medium, 160 pages, soft back. Reissue.

Price: £14.95

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

Harrow To Watford. (Midland Main Lines). Ref: L1593

And the branches to St Albans Abbey, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth and Stanmore Village.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Harwich Ferries. Ref: L3842

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

Hertford Loop. (Country Railway Routes). Ref: L2721

From the suburbs to the country.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, maps, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

A History Of The East Coast Main Line. Ref: L3582

Jones, R.
Large, 240 pages, photo illustrations, some colour, diagrammatic map, soft back. ** Takes the history of the line from the end of the coaching era to the present, it covers route and locomotive history and includes a chapter on the National Railway Museum. The book is generously and imaginatively illustrated - there are three photos of Stamford alone, despite not being on the route (they are of coaching inns). A good read.

Price: £25.00

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

A History Of The Metropolitan Railway & Metroland. Ref: L3624

Hawkes.
Very large, 160 pages, generously illustrated with photos, maps, adverts etc, exhaustive bibliography, glazed boards. **There have been previous histories of the Met, and of Metroland. I think this is the first to chronicle both these ambitious and groundbreaking undertakings in the light of each other.

Price: £30.00

History Of The Metropolitan Railway Volume One. Ref: L1569

The Circle and the extended lines to Rickmansworth.
Simpson, W.
Very large, 158 pages, pictorial: photos (some colour), maps etc, soft back. **By the middle of the nineteenth century London's unique problems of overcrowding and density of traffic called for some revolutionary form of transport, the answer proved to be an underground railway. The Metropolitan Railway as the first underground railway in the world acquired a pioneering ethos from the beginning. The story of that railway and its subsequent extension into Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Buckinghamshire is to be detailed in three books of which this is the first.

Price: £17.95

History Of The North London Railway Volume 1. Ref: L3844

London's North Western Electrics.
Atkinson, Adams & Clarke.
Very large, 152 pages, many photo illustrations, maps, softback. **The first two named authors' detailed history, London's North Western Electric was published in 1962 by the Electric Railway Society; the work, long out of print, has now been updated by the third author, with new photos.

Price: £22.50

History Of The North London Railway Volume 2. Ref: L3745

Stations of the City extension.
Connor & Hanson.
Very large, 172 pages, illustrated with photos, plans diagrams and drawings, map, softback. **This is announced as the first of four volumes on stations of the NLR. For a start it contains everything you might wish to know about the history of Broad Street, and covers the other three stations on the City extension : Shoreditch, Haggerston and Dalston Junction. There is also an essay on NLR architecture in general. It is lavishly illustrated with some fascinating photos and many drawings.

Price: £25.00

Hitchin To Peterborough. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: L1083

Including the Ramsey North branch.
Mitchell, V & Mott, A.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Hythe And Sandgate Railway. Ref: L0066

Hart, B.
Very large, 176 pages, pictorial photos, maps, station elevations etc. Hard back. **Thorough history of this railway together with a shorter history of the Hythe and Sandgate Horse tramway.

Price: £18.95

Ilford To Shenfield. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: L0803

Brennand.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Industrial Locomotives Of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire & Northamptonshire. Ref: L1289

Waywell
Medium, 432 pages, soft back. (Also available as a hard back, qv.) **The information about Bedfordshire was previously published in Pocket Book C (SE England) and the other two counties in Pocket Book D (Eastern England); it has all been greatly amplified in this volume. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive, contractors' and preservation sites within in the three counties.

Price: £22.50

Industrial Locomotives Of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire & Northamptonshire. Ref: L1288

Waywell
Medium, 464 pages. Glazed boards. (Also available as a paperback, qv.) **The information about Bedfordshire was previously published in Pocket Book C (SE England) and the other two counties in Pocket Book D (Eastern England); it has all been greatly amplified in this volume. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive, contractors' and preservation sites within in the three counties.

Price: £27.50

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of Hertfordshire & Middlesex. Ref: L2306

Waywell.
Medium, 408 pages, maps and site plans (some colour), photo section, softback.

Price: £19.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of Kent. Ref: L3528

Waywell.
Medium, 458 pages, maps and site plans (some colour), photo illustrations (some colour), additional booklet of maps loosely inserted, hardback. **The extra maps are due to three additional sites being discovered when the production of the book was well advanced.

Price: £35.00

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of Sussex & Surrey. Ref: L3381

Jux & Hateley.
Medium, 287 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), good map sections for both counties including some detailed local area, good site plans, locomotive, and location and owner indexes, glazed boards. **Indispensible reference.

Price: £27.95

Kent Narrow Gauge (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: L2405

Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

King's Cross Station. Ref: L3016

Through time.
Christopher.
Medium, 96 page album of colour and b/w photos, soft back. **A record of the revamped station combiing new and historic photos.

Price: £14.99

The King's Cross Story. Ref: L3670

200 years of history in the railway lands.
Darley.
Large, squarish landscape format, 215 pages, well illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps, some colour, bibliography, soft back with fold-in covers. ** "The area of King's Cross has witnessed a dramatic transformation, with a new city rising above, alongside and within some of the country's most compelling railway heritage. The former Railway Lands remain extraordinarily rich in historical features."

Price: £20.00

King's Cross to Potters Bar. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: L2686

Connor & Connor.
Medium, probably 96 pages, album with 4-page historical introduction, photos, some maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

LBSC Footplate Experiences. Ref: L3145

Reminiscences at New Cross. RS4.
Lawrence, Marks.
Medium, 96 pages, photos, large scale plan of depot, soft back. **The reminiscences of 'Curly' Lawrence, the noted model engineer, who started his railway career at New Cross in the 1890s.

Price: £7.95

Liverpool Street To Chingford. (London Suburban Railways.) Ref: L0840

Connor.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

London & South Western Railway Miscellany. Ref: L1965

Scott-Morgan.
Very large, 128 page album, hard back. **About 250 photos of LSWR operations, including locos, workshops and sheds, rolling stock, docks and shipping, bridges, viaducts, and signalling. The aim is to give a picture of the LSWR in the period leading up to the grouping. Out of print - last copy.

Price: £19.99

The London Railway Atlas Then And Now. Ref: L3500

Jordan & Smith.
Very large, square format, 112 pages, 45 double-page colour maps, photo illustrations, gazetteer, hard back. **Another instructive and engrossing atlas. This one provides, on facing pages, the 1921 Railway Clearing House London map in 45 sections, each opposite a 2016 map of the lines and stations of precisely the same area. A selection of appropriate 20th and 21st century photo vignettes is included on each page.

Price: £21.95

The London, Tilbury And Southend Railway. Volume 4. Ref: L3488

A history of the company and line: 1939 - 1959.
Kay.
Very large, 94 pages, illustrated with photos, large scale maps, track and signalling diagrams, soft back. **Covers the war years, postwar operations to 1959, and planning for electification. Includes features on Plaistow shed 1911-1962, Purfleet, West Thurrock and Grays.

Price: £13.95

The London, Tilbury And Southend Railway. Volume 5 Tilbury. Ref: L3510

A history of the company and line.
Kay.
Very large, 95 pages, illustrated with photos, large scale maps, track and signalling diagrams, soft back. **The history of the LTSR at Tilbury, its various stations, docks and maritime services. Excellent and detailed local history. The plan for the remaining volumes in the series is now that Volume 6 : Gravesend Ferry and piers will appear in 2017 and Volume 7 : General History of the LTSR 1959 - 1970s will appear on an unspecified date.

Price: £13.95

The London, Tilbury And Southend Railway. Volume 6 The Gravesend Ferry. Ref: L3602

A history of the company and line.
Kay.
Very large, 78 pages, illustrated with photos, large scale maps, structure drawings and diagrams, soft back. **The history of the LTSR at Tilbury, its various stations, docks and maritime services. Excellent and detailed local history. This history of the ancient ferry between Tilbury and the Gravesend confines itself to the period from the 1850s when it was owned by the railway company. The development, piers, ships and operation are all covered in depth and generously illustrated with some remarkable photos.

Price: £11.95

The London, Tilbury And Southend Railway. Volume 7. Ref: L3716

A history of the company and line: Modernisation 1959-1962.
Kay.
Very large, 95 pages, illustrated with photos, maps, structure drawings, soft back. ** Includes full histories of the railway at Little Ilford and Barking.
A (possibly final) volume 8 is planned, to take the story up to the 1980s.

Price: £13.95

The London, Tilbury And Southend Railway. Volume 8. Ref: L3790

A history of the company and line: 1963-1975.
Kay.
Very large, 80 pages, illustrated with photos, maps, signalling diagrams, soft back. ** The final volume of this epic series. Although 1975 is given as the final date in the title some aspects of the history are taken to the 1980s and histories of individual locations continue into the 21st century. The volume includes a feature on the Ripple Lane yards and, most welcome, a full index to the series.

Price: £11.95

London's District Railway. Volume One : Nineteenth Century. Ref: L3686

A history of the Metropolitan District Railway.
Horne, M.
Medium, 320 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), many maps, hard back. **An early and important component of the London Underground, the District Railway was impractically designed and largely mismanaged, a sad state of affairs for a line which provided good and useful services. Here is an readable history which will doubtless become a classic reference work. Excellent photos, notably of construction works, and an interesting selections of maps.

Price: £30.00

London's District Railway. Volume Two: Twentieth Century. Ref: L3723

A history of the Metropolitan District Railway.
Horne, M.
Medium, 416 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), many maps, hard back. **Volume One ended while steam haulage was still the only choice for District trains. Volume Two takes on the story of the financial headache caused by the need to electrify, and tells how an American team came to save the day. This team went on to adapt and extend the District and associated lines to create the system still familiar to us. Finally the Company's business was taken on by the London Passenger Transport Board and the history comes to an end. However Appendix 1 briefly takes the story on to the present day so as to provide context and reference for the earlier history.

Price: £35.00

London's Disused Railway Stations. Ref: L3669

The East End.
Connor.
Very large squarish format, 176 pages, many photo illustrations,some colour, drawings and maps, glazed boards. **Covers passenger stations in an area bounded on west and east by Broad Street and Blackwall, and north and south by Hackney and North Greenwich & Cubitt Town. Some fascinating photos here.

Price: £25.00

London's Disused Railway Stations. Ref: L3846

Inner South East London.
Connor.
Very large squarish format, 128 pages, many photo illustrations, some colour, maps, glazed boards. **Covers passenger stations in an area roughly bounded by Blackfriars, Greenwich Park and East Brixton. Includes the Waterloo Necropolis stations and Blackfriars Bridge. Some more fascinating photos. Out of print, last copy.

Price: £19.95

London's Disused Railway Stations. Ref: L3907

Outer South East London.
Connor.
Very large squarish format, 160 pages, many photo illustrations, some colour, maps, glazed boards. **Covers passenger stations in an area roughly bounded by Honor Oak, Eltham Park, Chislehurst and Selsdon, arranged by pre-grouping company. Some more fascinating photos.

Price: £30.00

London's Disused Stations, Volume Four. Ref: L1770

The South Eastern Railway.
Connor, J E.
Medium, 72 pages, photo illustrations, map, soft back.

Price: £8.50

London's Disused Underground Stations. Ref: L1170

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

London's East End Railways. Part 1. Ref: L2873

Liverpool Street, Stratford, Ilford & Temple Mills Yard.
Brennand.
Very large, 174 page album, hard back. **The former GER lines bounded between Liverpool Street and Ilford. The author, a driver, grew up in the area and has prefaced his interesting selection of photos with a 39-page introduction. The photos are mostly from BR days, and include steam and diesel traction, and quite a bit of period colour. A solid study of a surprisingly neglected area of intense railway activitiy.

Price: £29.99

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

Marylebone To Rickmansworth (Midland Main Lines). Ref: L1974

Including the Watford Branch.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96 page album, maps, glazed boards

Price: £18.95

Narrow Gauge Album 1950-1965 In Colour. Ref: L3786

Whitehouse.
Very large, 208 pages, pictorial, glazed boards. ** Although the book title describes itself as an album there is quite a bit of explanatory text between the photos, as well as the captions. And such photos! Colour views of the early days of preservation on the Festiniog and Talyllyn, and the Midlands ironstone workings, to name but three. All totally fascinating.

Price: £25.00

North London Trams. Ref: L3487

The Metropolitan Electric Tramways Company in Middlesex and the north London suburbs.
Harley, R J.
Large square format, 160 pages, photo illustrations, maps, glazed boards. **Thorough and well illustrated history of the MET, covering routes, vehicles and operation. Out of print, last copy.

Price: £19.95

On The Footplate At Bushbury 1947-1962. Ref: L2136

An engineman's tale. RS15.
Terry.
Medium, 224 pages, some photo illustrations, diagrams and map of Wolverhampton area railways, soft back. **Reminiscences of a West Midlands fireman; includes a detailed chapter on the functioning of a steam locomotive.

Price: £13.95

Poster To Poster. Volume 5 London And The South East. Ref: L2968

Railway journeys in art.
Furness.
Very large landscape, 256 pages, colour images, discursive text, poster database in county order, bibliography, hardback. **Fifth of a planned series of seven volumes intended to catalogue British railway posters throughout the twentieth century, and based largely on the magnificent collection of the NRM.

Price: £38.00

Potters Bar To Cambridge. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: L2120

Mitchell & Mott.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Rails Across The Sea / Sporen over de Zee. Ref: L3841

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

Railway Track Diagrams Book 5. Ref: L3727

Southern & TfL.
Munsey (ed).
Very large, 49 map pages + 19 pages of text: introduction, index (gazetteer) and other information, coloured diagrams, area index map, soft back. **Fourth edition.

Price: £15.95

Railways And Transport Of Hammersmith And West London. Ref: L0650

Goudie & Stuckey.
Large, 88 pages, maps, photo illustrations. Soft back.

Price: £7.50

The Ramsey East Branch. Ref: L3635

LP243.
Paye.
Medium, 184 pages, photos, area map, drawings, track and signalling diagrams, time table extracts, tabulated bridge and crossing data, bibliography, soft back. **Comprehensive line history for this Huntingdonshire railway alternatively known as the Ramsey High Street Branch or the Ramsey and Somersham Junction Railway, a wealth of nomenclature for a seven mile line.

Price: £17.95

Rickmansworth To Aylesbury (Midland Main Lines). Ref: L2059

Including the Chesham branch.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Romney Rail. Ref: L0432

A Journey Through Time.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

The Royal Arsenal Railways. Ref: L3467

The rise and fall of a military railway network.
Smithers.
Very large, 214 pages, illustrated with good photographs and large, clear specially drawn diagrams, locomotive drawings, tabulated loco histories, hard back. **The railways of Woolwich Arsenal evolved into three separate systems serving the Gun Factory, Laboratory and the Carriage Department, each a different gauge with its own locomotives and rolling stock. The Arsenal and its railways continued to hold an important place in gun and propellant manufacture until the late 1950s, when the complex began gradually to be run down, finally closing in 1967. The story of the Arsenal is fraught with intererest for railway and military historians alike and this well-written and choicely illustrated chronicle is sure to please both. It is particularly strong on locomotive history and includes a survey of the remains still to be seen.

Price: £30.00

The Rye And Camber Tramway. Ref: L1565

PS4.
Judge, C.
Medium, 64 pages, many photos, plans, maps. Soft back. **History of a long lost 3ft gauge railway built to serve the fishing industry and, conveniently, the local golf course. It carried its last passengers in 1939, was pretty well worked to death in the second world war, and has the dubious distinction of being possibly the first public railway in Britain to convert from steam to petrol traction.

Price: £5.95

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

Selsey Tramway Volume One. Ref: L2273

Cooksey
Very large, 188 pages, many photo illustrations, large scale maps showing track layouts, hard back. **This volume covers the full history of Colonel Stephens' impecunious tramway from opening in 1897 to closure in 1935. Volume two (qv) describes the route - Chichester to Selsey Beach -, steam locomotives, railmotors and rolling stock.

Price: £31.95

Selsey Tramway Volume Two. Ref: L2274

Cooksey
Very large, 145 pages, many photo illustrations, large scale maps showing track layouts, drawings of structures and rolling stock, hard back. **This volume describes the route of Colonel Stephens' impecunious tramway - Chichester to Selsey Beach -, steam locomotives, railmotors and rolling stock. Volume One (qv) covers the full history from opening in 1897 to closure in 1935.

Price: £29.95

Shenfield To Ipswich. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: L2996

Mitchell.
Medium, 96-page album : photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Single To The Seashore. Ref: L2730

The Jaywick miniature railway.
Little, L.
Medium, 50 pages, map, photo illustrations, soft back.

Price: £5.95

Slough Estates Railway. Ref: L2804

Isherwood.
Very large, 168 pages, pictorial, map, loco drawings, lists, soft back. **Slough Industrial Estates had an bizarre genesis, and were singularly well served by official and unofficial photographers. The railway built to serve the extensive area survived until 1973. The household names one meets along the way are legion - Mars, Odo-ro-no, Citroen, Black & Decker...

Price: £24.95

South London Line. (London Suburban Railways). Ref: L2410

London Bridge to Victoria.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

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 Nouveau. Ref: L3785

And the lineside.
Reeve & Tibble.
Very large, 392 pages, copiously illustrated with photos and drawings, glazed boards. **Classic study back in print The Southern Railway inherited an incongruous set of buildings and other structures from its three consitituents and unsurprisingly decided to rationalise its house style. All replacements and new work, from signal boxes to fencing would be done using standard components produced by the company in reinforced and pre-stressed concrete. These were manufactured at the special concrete works at Exmouth Junction which provided not only components for larger structures but entire footbridges and huts. A wealth of illustration shows these buildings in great detail. Fascinating background for all interested in railway architecture and essential reference for modellers.

Price: £29.95

Southern Steam Operations 1966-67. Ref: L3579

Simpson.
Very large, 336 pages, photos, allocations, diagrams etc, glazed boards. ** The final months of steam on the Southern Region. Some terrific pictures. Robert, who knew every back way into Eastleigh shed, was in raptures.

Price: £27.95

St Albans To Bedford. (Midland Main Lines). Ref: L1543

Including the Hemel Hempstead Branch.
Goslin.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

St John's Lewisham 50 Years On. Ref: L2415

Restoring the traffic. X87.
Tatlow.
Medium, 160 pages + large folding track plan tipped inside rear cover, many other track plans, photos and drawings. Soft back. **A detailed examination of the third worst railway accident in this country. An engine driver missed two signals in a fog, crashed into the rear of another train; the derailed tender brought down an overbridge onto the wreckage of the two trains.

Price: £12.95

St Pancras Station. Ref: L1598

Simmons, J; rev by Thorne, R.
Large, 184 pages, photo and other illustrations, some colour, hard back. **This is a new edition of Professor Simmons book, which was first published in 1968 when the future of St Pancras was in doubt, and described by John Betjeman as "readable, learned and inspiring". Robert Thorne has added to Simmons' text and provided a new chapter to bring the story of the station up to date.

Price: £15.95

St Pancras To Barking. (London Suburban Railways). Ref: L2058

Connor.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

The Story Of Crossrail. Ref: L3648

Wolmar, C.
Medium, 307 pages + 16 pages of colour illustrations, hard back. **It's not often a railway merits a history before it is even opened, but the genesis and gestation of Crossrail - or as future ages will know it, the Elizabeth line - have been an epic in their own right. Christian Wolmar, a transport journalist of the old school, provides a deep level insight into the politics, economics and exceptional engineering achievements of the project.

Price: £20.00

Stratford To Cheshunt. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: L3209

Including the Southbury loop.
Mitchell & Brennand.
Medium, approximately 96 pages, album : photos, large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Subterranean Railway. Ref: L1825

How the London underground was built and how it changed the city forever.
Wolmar, C.
Medium, 351 pages + 20 pages of illustrations, some colour. Hard back. *A fine serious history of the underground, bringing the story right up to date. Out of print - last copy.

Price: £17.99

Surrey Narrow Gauge (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: L2404

Including South London.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Sussex Narrow Gauge. Ref: L0988

Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96 pages, album: photos, numerous maps. Glazed boards. **Includes industrial sites, Rye & Camber tramway, Volks Electric Railway, amazing historic collection at Amberley, Rye harbour line.

Price: £18.95

Swanscombe Cement Works And Its Railways. Ref: L3894

Down.
Medium, 412 pages, photo illustrations (some colour) maps and site plans, chronology, glazed boards. **A history of the works incorporating very detailed information about their remarkable railways and the narrow and standard gauge locomotives which worked them.

Price: £36.00

The Steam And The Gaslight. Ref: L3076

Travelling by train in late Victorian London 1871 - 1900.
Hodge.
Medium, 108 pages, illustrations from contemporary sources, map, soft back. **Metropolitan rail travel from the passenger's point of view.

Price: £9.99

Tilbury Loop. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: L1658

Including the Romford branch.
Course, E.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

The Underground Pioneers. Ref: L0721

Victorian London and its first underground railways.
Emmerson.
Very large, oblong, 72 pages. Glazed boards. **Fine engravings taken from Illustrated London News and similar contemporary publications.

Price: £16.95

Watford To Leighton Buzzard. (Midland Main Lines). Ref: L1878

Including Aylesbury High Street and Dunstable North branches.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Watford To St Albans Branch. Ref: L2194

OL 177
Jenkins.
Medium, 128 pages, illustrated with photos, track diagrams and map, soft back. 2nd edition, updated.

Price: £10.95

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

Wimbledon To Beckenham. Ref: L0977

Before Tramlink.
Gillham.
Medium, album: 120 photos on about 90 pages. Glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Don't Knock The Southern. Ref: L0452

Behrend.
Medium, 223 pages, illustrated with photos & maps. Hard back. **Recollections of the SR from the 1920s to the present day. Includes observations on SR ships and the various bus companies which competed with the trains.

Price: £14.99

Down The Tube. Ref: L0791

The battle for London's underground.
Wolmar, C.
Medium, 246 pages, paperback. ** "Why do ministers still believe, after the collapse of Railtrack, that the separation of operations from maintenance and renewal is anything other than a recipe for inefficiency and a threat to safety?". Christian Wolmar is transport correspondent for the Independent, contributes to many other journals and also broadcasts.

Price: £9.99

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

Ferry Boat De Nuit 1936 - 1980 / Night Ferry 1936 - 1980. Ref: L2913

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

History Of The Metropolitan Railway Volume Two. Ref: L1817

The railway from Rickmansworth to Aylesbury including Halton Camp Railway.
Simpson, W.
Very large, 158 pages, pictorial: photos (some period colour), maps etc, soft back. **This second volume of the history of the Met continues the story beyond the confines of London as the line reaches north through the Chess and Misbourne valleys and climbs the Chilterns to reach Aylesbury. It includes a comprehensive account of the RAF Halton Camp Railway.

Price: £18.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of Essex. Ref: L2847

Waywell & Jux.
Medium, 372 pages + about 90 pages of photographs, good map section including some detailed local area and site plans, lists, glazed boards. (Also available as a soft back, qv.). **Information is set out thus: Industrial locations where privately owned locomotives were used; Civil engineering contracts using locomotives (including railway works): Locomotive builders, repairers and dealers; Preservation and pleasure lines over 15" gauge; Non-locomotive worked railways of significant length.

Price: £27.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of Essex. Ref: L2848

Waywell & Jux.
Medium, 372 pages + about 90 pages of photographs, good map section including some detailed local area and site plans, lists, soft back. (Also available in glazed boards, qv.). **Information is set out thus: Industrial locations where privately owned locomotives were used; Civil engineering contracts using locomotives (including railway works): Locomotive builders, repairers and dealers; Preservation and pleasure lines over 15" gauge; Non-locomotive worked railways of significant length.

Price: £23.95

Kent & East Sussex Railway. Ref: L2671

Hart.
Very large, 282 pages, photo illustrations, maps, hard back. ** "The life and times of a local railway" - a history of Col Stephens' favourite line.

Price: £34.95

Lifetime In Traction Ref: L1664

An engineer on the Southern diesels and electrics.
Tayler, A.
Very large, 96-page album with 4-page introduction and brief biography, large photo illustrations, soft back. ** The author's own photographs, with interesting descriptions, of various types of locomotives and multiple units with which he was involved over forty-one years: 5½ years with the Southern Railway, 16½ years with BR(SR), and 19 years with Sulzer, which included 7 years in the IME serving as Chairman of the Divisional Board Visits Committee.

Price: £14.95

London & North Eastern Railway In Focus. Ref: L1021

Crawley, J.
Large, 192 pages, pictorial, hard back. **Compilation of official and unofficial photographs, promotional booklets, accident reports, LNER committee minutes and other unusual items from the author's extensive archives of LNER memorabilia.

Price: £25.00

The London, Tilbury And Southend Railway. Volume 3. Ref: L2828

A history of the company and line: 1912-1939 the Midland and LMS years.
Kay.
Very large, 90 pages, illustrated with photos, maps, structure drawings, soft back. **Includes features on stations between Barking and Shoeburyness.

Price: £12.95

London's Disused Stations, Volume Five. Ref: L1915

The London & South Western Railway. Including the Tooting Merton & Wimbledon and West London Extension Railways.
Connor, J E.
Medium, 80 pages, photo illustrations, map, soft back.

Price: £8.75

LSWR At Nine Elms. The Curl Collection Volume 1. Ref: L1779

The works and its products 1830 - 1909.
Curl, B.
Very large, 360 pages, many photos and drawings, plan of works, hard back. ** "A unique insight into the locomotive history of a major railway company, largely using material from a hitherto unseen collection." This is no less than the LSWR's own negatives, drawings etc, preserved from destruction by the author's father, and supplemented by material from other previously untapped sources.

Price: £35.00

Red Panniers. Ref: L2551

Last steam on the Underground.
Scott-Morgan & Martin.
Very large, 176 pages, pictorial, some colour, glazed boards. ** The story of thirteen ex GWR 57xx pannier tanks that LT acquired and based at Neasden and Lillie Bridge between 1957 & 1971. The last working main line steam locomotives in Britain.

Price: £27.00

South For Sunshine. Ref: L0232

Southern Railway Publicity And Posters 1923 - 1947.
Hillman & Cole.
Large square, 64 pages, colour album, soft back. **From a golden age of graphic design.

Price: £7.95

St Pancras Station. Ref: L2348

Bradley, S.
Medium, 193 pages, photo and other illustrations, soft back. **A new history to commemorate the transformation of this iconic landmark into London's main gateway to the continent. Much critical acclaim.

Price: £8.99

Tunnel Vision. Ref: L2564

Cordner.
Very large, 96 pages, colour photo illustrations, track diagrams, soft back. **History of the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, route, chronology, etc. Ground-breaking engineering project, it says, and who can argue with that?

Price: £14.99

Underground Bullseyes 1972 - 2000. Ref: L2387

Clarke.
Very large, 64 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. **Identification and location of the many different sorts of Underground station sign.

Price: £8.75

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