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Essays, fiction, humour, tickets, collecting, rail travel, walking. Also includes other transport subjects and industrial history.
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Barry Railway Steamers. Ref: MS2011

X80.
Tedstone.
Medium, 224 pages, illustrated with photos and some drawings, dock plans and dock track layouts, very large folding page of scale boat drawings, soft back.

Price: £14.95

Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book Of Great Britain And Ireland. Ref: MS2893

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Small, 452 pages, plus 8 double-page maps in a final section, hard back without jacket. **The title above is that given on the title page; the cover bears the title Bradshaw's Hand Book 1. 2. 3. 4.. This is a reprint of the actual book used on Michael Portillo's BBC TV programme containing four issues of Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Handbook, bound especially for the series. Together the four parts of the book cover Great Britain plus all of Ireland and describe the main features and historic buildings of the principal towns. Here, then, is a reprint of Mr Portillo's own Bradshaw. It contains the indexes and descriptive text and most of the illustrations. The advertisements, all but one, are omitted. Eight of the town maps are included: Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Hull, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The price is very reasonable.
The book does not, of course, contain any time tables.

Price: £12.99

Bridgescapes. Ref: MS3608

A personal journey through history celebrating Scotland's bridge-building heritage.
Keith.
Large landscape, 184 pages, colour and mono photos, some line drawings, maps, bibliography, hard back. **This is not a railway book, but is likely to be of interest to many of our customers. It is a chronological survey of bridges and bridgebuilding in Scotland, beautifully illustrated with photographs by Lewis Matheson. Sketch maps show the sites of bridges in each chapter, grid references are also given. The text gives historical and technical background, and is - as the subtitle acknowledges - written from a personal point of view. It is a handsome production, and a snip at £18.

Price: £18.00

Brotherhoods, Engineers For Power, Transport & Weapons. Ref: MS3714

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

Price: £26.00

Caradon & Looe. Ref: MS1422

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

Price: £16.00

Cliff Railways Of The British Isles. Ref: MS0801

LP223.
Turner, K.
Medium, 176 pages, photos, some line drawings, soft back. Out of print, one copy left.

Price: £11.95

Great Western Railway Road Vehicles. Ref: MS0700

Famous Fleets volume 4.
Aldridge & Earnshaw.
Medium square, 48 pages, pictorial. Soft back.

Price: £6.50

Garrett Wagons Part 3. Electrics & Motors. Ref: MS1520

Whitehead, R W.
Very large, 144 pages, photo illustrations, some line drawings, stock lists. Glazed boards.

Price: £18.00

Goodbye To Victoria The Last Queen Empress. Ref: MS3149

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

Price: £8.95

Isle Of Wight Here We Come. Ref: MS3163

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

Price: £6.95

LMS Central Division Miscellany. Part One 1921-1930. Ref: MS3693

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

Price: £15.00

Locomotive Headboards. Ref: MS2438

The complete story.
Peel
Large, 294 pages, pictorial: photos (some colour) and drawings, hard back. **The first headboards for trains were introduced by the NBR in 1912, the last by Virgin in 1996; however the practice was only common nationally for about 15 years of that period. This comprehensive history covers all named trains running with headboards and explores the minutiae of design, materials, shapes and styles.

Price: £25.00

The Melton To Oakham Canal. Ref: MS3436

Tew.
Medium, 127 pages, map endpapers, photos illustrations in text, notes and sources, glazed boards. **This history was first published in 1968 as The Oakham Canal. This is the second, revised edition of 1984, of which we have a small stock. Our copies are new in the sense that they are not pre-owned, but they no longer sparkle and a slight yellowing of the pages is discernible.
Was £11, now £5. This price will appear at the checkout which automatically applies a discount.

Price: £7.14

The Minehead Branch 1848-1971. Ref: MS2882

The history of the West Somerset and Minehead railway companies.
Coleby.
Very large, 392 pages, well illustrated with photographs and contemporary illustrations, structure drawings, site plans and maps, hard back. ** Second edition of this exhaustive line history which includes operation, detailed line descriptions, and an original and interesting extra - an alphabetical list of employees.

Price: £24.99

Modelling Further Aspects Of The Coal Industry. Ref: MS2242

Johnson, R.
Very large, 96 pages, illustrated mainly with photographs, hard back. **Follow-up to the author's Modelling Aspects Of The Coal Industry, this too is mainly an album of colliery railway views, and also includes photos of models and some advertisements

Price: £19.99

The Ocean Coal Company And "The Barry". Ref: MS3877

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

Ottley's Bibliography Of British Railway History. Ref: MS0455

(Second Supplement).
Railway & Canal Historical Society.
Medium, 647 pages, glazed boards.** Books, parts of books, pamphlets and academic theses on the history and description of public rail transport in the British Isles published up to the end of 1995, with corrigenda and addenda to the entries in the previous volumes. The first edition of George Ottley's masterly bibliography was published in 1966; the second edition appeared in 1983 and he produced a supplement bringing the work up to date in 1988. At this point George handed over his work to the RCHS who have continued it and produced this second supplement of publications up to 1995. No further supplement has been published : the Bibliography stands at three volumes of which this is the third. Essential reference, it goes without saying.
Was £49.50, now £15, which is how the price will appear at the checkout after the automatic discount has been applied.

Price: £21.43

Peerless Powell Duffryn. Ref: MS3015

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

Price: £24.99

Railway & Tramway Tickets. Ref: MS3953

Fairchild & Wootton.
Large 158 pages, many photo illustrations, some colour, hard back.
Was £24, price at checkout will be £12

Price: £17.14

An Illustrated History Of The Severn & Wye Railway Volume 5. Ref: MS3815

Pope.
Very large, 205 pages, illustrated with photos, large scale maps, site plans, junction and other diagrams, glazed boards. **Fifth volume of a projected six-volume work looks at all the facets of the harbour at Lydney, where most of the Forest of Dean coal was transhipped into small coasting vessels for shipment to Bristol, the west country and Ireland.
Volume 6 is to cover the Severn Bridge Railway and Sharpness Docks.

Price: £25.00

Shakespeare's Avon. Ref: MS3130

C9.
Davies.
Medium, 152 pages, illustrated with photos and maps. Soft back.

Price: £8.95

Shildon-Newport In Retrospect. Ref: MS0113

The Fore-runner of Main Line Electrification.
Appleby, K C.
Medium, 90 pages, illustrated. Soft back.

Price: £10.95

Stamford On Old Picture Postcards. Ref: MS1139

Jenkins.
Medium, 36 pages, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the last century, with informative captions."

Price: £3.95

The Stephenson Locomotive Society. Ref: MS3532

A centenary celebration 1909-2009.
Hennessey, Fell & Lewis, eds.
Medium, 86 pages, illustrated with photographs and locomotive drawings soft back. **Charming miscellany including a history of the Society's founding and early development, and articles about notable members. Also lots of locomotives.

Price: £3.00

Story Of Queen's Engineering Works, Bedford. Ref: MS1514

Lane, M R.
Very large, 160 pages, illustrated. Hard back. **History of W. H. Allen Sons & Co Ltd.

Price: £28.00

Train Ferries Of The Americas, Asia & Africa. Ref: MS3830

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

The Tredegar Company Ref: MS3566

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

Price: £25.00

Weymouth To The Channel Islands. Ref: MS0800

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

Price: £13.95

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