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4mm Wagon Part Two: General Merchandise Vans, Special Purpose Vans and Tank Wagons. Ref: MD0171

Kent, G.
Very large, 160 pages, pictorial. Soft back.

Price: £14.95

Airfix. Ref: MD3353

Celebrating 50 years of the greatest plastic kits in the world.
Ward.
Very large, 192 pages, well illustrated in colour, hard back, handsome production.

Price: £19.99

BR Air-Braked Wagons In Colour. Ref: MD3340

Ratcliffe.
Very large, 96 page colour album, with 3-page introduction, glazed boards. **All BR air-braked wagons from the 1970s to privatisation and beyond. Over 200 photographs informatively captioned with detailed technical data for each type covered.

Price: £20.00

BR Parcels And Passenger-Rated Stock. Volume 1. Ref: MD3273

Full brakes, parcels and miscellaneous vans & car-carrying vehicles.
Larkin.
Very large, 92 pages, many photo illustrations, stocklists with building dates etc, softback. **Volume 2 will cover livestock vans and vehicles for carrying perishables such as fruit, milk and fish.

Price: £15.00

BR Parcels And Passenger-Rated Stock. Volume 3. Ref: MD3489

Self-propelled parcels vans, TPOs and car-carrying vehicles for motorail services.
Larkin.
Very large, 92 pages, many photo illustrations, batch lists with building dates as known, softback. **Volume 2 will cover livestock vans and vehicles for carrying perishables such as fruit, milk and fish.

Price: £15.00

British Railway Infrastructure In Colour. Ref: MD1993

For the modeller and historian.
Hendry.
Very large, 96 page colour album, soft back. **A welcome addition to the British Railway ... In Colour series, this book provides recent and many period colour views of all aspects of railway environment. Intriguingly it also offers a tenuous link between the London & Birmingham Railway and the Enigma machine. OUT OF PRINT - LAST COPY.

Price: £14.99

British Railway Signalling In Colour. Ref: MD1518

For the modeller and historian.
Hendry, R.
Large, 80 pages period colour album, captioned at length. Soft back.

Price: £14.99

British Railway Stations In Colour. Ref: MD1123

For the modeller and historian.
Jardine, N.
Large, 80 pages period colour album. Soft back.

Price: £14.99

Great Western Branch Line Modelling Part 2: Prototype Buildings, Fittings & Traffic Operation. Ref: MD3396

Williams, S.
Very large, 110 pages, pictorial : mostly photo illustrations, some drawings. Soft back.

Price: £12.95

Hornby. Ref: MD0818

The official illustrated history.
Harrison.
Very large, 192 pages, well illustrated in colour, hard back, handsome production.

Price: £20.00

LMS Lineside. Part One: Stations, Crossing The Line, Station Lamps And Station Nameboards. Ref: MD2437

An LMS Journal handbook.
Anderson & Twells.
Very large, 112 page album, mostly photos, some drawings, soft back. **Generously captioned pictures, essential reference for modellers, plenty of interest for the rest of us.

Price: £16.95

Locomotive Modelling Part One. Ref: MD2985

From scratch and etched kits.
Holt.
Very large, 108 pages, many photos and drawings, soft back. **A personal approach.

Price: £24.95

Locomotive Modelling Part Two. Ref: MD3228

From scratch and etched kits.
Holt.
Very large, 134 pages, many photos and drawings, soft back. **A personal approach.

Price: £26.95

Designs For Urban Layouts. Ref: MD3254

Model Railways Handbook 1
Rice.
Very large, 80 pages, photos, drawings, diagrams, soft back. **2nd edition. Out of print - last copy.

Price: £14.99

Modelling Further Aspects Of The Coal Industry. Ref: MD2242

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

Modelling Grassland And Landscape Detailing. Ref: MD3108

Featuring weeds & wild flowers, hedges, roads & pavements, mud, puddles and rivers.
Gravett, G.
Very large, 108 pages, many colour photos, colour patches, soft back. ** More superb modelling techniques from Gordon Gravett.

Price: £24.95

Modelling Trees Part 2. Ref: MD2984

Conifers.
Gravett, G.
Very large, 92 pages, many photos, soft back. **Superb, inspiring modelling. You hardly need a railway.

Price: £21.95

Narrow Gauge Adventure. Ref: MD2975

A modelmaking journey.
Kazer.
Very large, 159 pages, pictorial : colour and b/w photos, some layout plans. Soft back. **History and details of author's layouts of English and Welsh narrow gauge lines, unattempted projects, advice on tools, materials and techniques.

Price: £26.95

Private Owner Wagons A Seventh Collection. Ref: MD2511

Turton, K.
Very large, 160 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Another wide range of wagons and their operators. Short histories of over seventy more businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; a further section reviews all the previous volumes adding information and pictures which have come to light since their original publication.

Price: £19.95

Private Owner Wagons A Ninth Collection. Ref: MD2783

Turton, K.
Very large, 160 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Another wide range of wagons and their operators: the author was particularly pleased with a find of glass plate negatives from wagon builders Thos Burnett & Co of Doncaster. Short histories of over eighty more businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; as usual there is also further information and pictures on companies featured in earlier volumes.

Price: £19.95

Private Owner Wagons A Tenth Collection. Ref: MD3267

Turton, K.
Very large, 160 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Another wide range of wagons and their operators: short histories of over sixty more businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; as usual there is also further information and pictures on companies featured in earlier volumes.

Price: £21.00

Private Owner Wagons An Eleventh Collection. Ref: MD2977

Turton, K.
Very large, 168 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Another wide range of wagons and their operators: a large proportion were built by the Gloucester RC&W Co. Important owners included the major coal firm of Settle Speakman & Co and the Blaenavon Co, the remains of whose collieries and ironworks is now a World Heritage site. Short histories of over sixty more businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; as usual there is also further information and pictures on companies featured in earlier volumes.

Price: £21.00

Private Owner Wagons A Twelfth Collection. Ref: MD3192

Turton, K.
Very large, 160 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Another wide range of wagons and their operators: from builders Gloucester RC&W Co, Charles Roberts and others. This volume features wagons of some of the more obscure - even surprising - undertakings to own their own fleets (and occasionally just the one wagon). Short histories of over sixty more businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; as usual there is also further information and pictures on companies featured in earlier volumes.

Price: £21.00

Private Owner Wagons A Thirteenth Collection. Ref: MD3343

Turton, K.
Very large, 160 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **The penultimate volume. Another wide range of wagons and their operators of some of the more obscure undertakings to own their own fleets. Short histories of over sixty more businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; as usual there is also further information and pictures on companies featured in earlier volumes.

Price: £22.50

Private Owner Wagons A Fourteenth Collection. Ref: MD3675

Turton, K.
Very large, 152 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **The final volume (not). Extended coverage of the Staveley Company of Derbyshire and Dowlais in South Wales. Short histories of numerous businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; as usual there is also further information and pictures on companies featured in earlier volumes.

Price: £22.50

Private Owner Wagons A Fifteenth Collection. Ref: MD3676

Pope & Turton.
Very large, 152 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Intended as the first of a new series, but Keith Turton found not only new photos but new identification of previously unknown GW wagons, so this volume is a combined effort. It contains short histories of some hundred or so businesses, together with details of their wagon fleets

Price: £22.50

Southern Wagons In Colour. Ref: MD3230

King.
Very large, 112 page colour album, soft back. **An ample selection of large period colour photographs, mostly one or two to the page, showing a wide range of Southern wagons and some cranes, copiously and knowledgeably annotated.

Price: £17.50

Robinson's Locomotive Liveries On The Great Central Railway. Ref: MD3115

Quick, J.
Very large, 136 pages, photos, some colour, colour patches and splasher livery diagrams, glazed boards. ** Detailed descriptions of the full range of liveries applied by the GC to the 28 classes of locomotive, and the railcars, designed by Robinson. Brief histories of each class, and notes of the changes made to the liveries.

Price: £19.50

Whitemetal Locos. Ref: MD0129

A Kitbuilder's Guide.
Rice, I.
Very large, 64 pages, pictorial. Soft back.

Price: £10.95

Britain's Railway Liveries. Ref: MD0937

Colours, crests and linings, 1825 - 1948.
Carter, E F.
Medium, 350 pages, diagrams, colour chart, hard back. **Current (3rd) edition of a long established reference work; note, though, that the content of this edition is identical to that of the first two.

Price: £19.95

British Railway Goods Wagons In Colour 1960 - 2003. Ref: MD0934

For the modeller and historian.
Hendry.
Very large, 96 pages, pictorial, colour photos, line drawings, soft back. ** For earlier wagons see the companion British Railway Goods Wagons In Colour, reference 2003, which covers vehicles in use during the period from 1948 to the early eighties.

Price: £14.99

British Railway Goods Wagons In Colour. Ref: MD2003

For the modeller and historian.
Hendry.
Very large, 96 pages, pictorial: over 200 colour photographs plus b/w line drawings, soft back. **The first all-colour book devoted to the British goods wagon, covering a broadly representative selection of the wagons which made up the bulk of goods trains from the formation of BR in 1948 to the early 1980s. For more recent models see the companion British Railway Goods Wagons In Colour 1960 - 2003 reference 0934.

Price: £14.99

LMS Lineside. Part Two: Railway Signage, Timetables And Poster Boards, Platform Numbering, Station Seats, Barrows And Trolleys. Ref: MD2681

An LMS Journal handbook.
Anderson & Twells.
Very large, 102 page album, mostly photos, some drawings, soft back. **Generously captioned pictures, essential reference for modellers, plenty of interest for the rest of us.

Price: £17.95

Model Railway Planning And Design Handbook. Ref: MD1796

Burnard, Flint, Gibbons, Lunn, Ripley.
Very large, 96 pages, photos, drawings and diagrams: colour throughout, soft back. **A very desirable book, nicely produced and fired with enthusiasm. Takes the modeller though the design process and describes layouts from simple beginner's systems through industrial themes, contemporary schemes and lastly, some larger-scale exhibition layouts.

Price: £18.95

Peter's Railway. Ref: MD2526

The story of a new railway; some stories from the old railways; and how-it-works.
Vine.
Large, landscape, 93 pages, coloured illustrations throughout, hard back. **Here is a book designed to inspire youngsters with enthusiasm for model engineering. Peter's grandfather is a farmer with a love of railways; together they survey and lay 1km of track through the fields. Grandpa built the wagons, Mr Esmond lent his engine, but would Grandma agree to ride on the train? The story is presented side-by-side with excellent technical explanations; this is the first of a series, so with luck Peter will soon be learning to drive.

Price: £11.99

Private Owner Wagons A Fourth Collection. Ref: MD2068

Welsh Anthracite.
Turton, K.
Very large, 184 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Information about the wagons of the various collieries, agents and shippers supplying the best coal from South Wales. Includes a comprehensive list of sources and models available of the wagons featured.

Price: £19.95

Private Owner Wagons A Fifth Collection. Ref: MD2244

Readers contributions.
Turton, K.
Very large, 184 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **This volume reverts to the original formula: some 60 owners are described and their wagons illustrated with 170 photographs. The difference is that almost every owner depicted is included because of reader response in the form of photographs or other information.

Price: £19.95

Private Owner Wagons A Sixth Collection. Ref: MD2481

Turton, K.
Very large, 184 pages, many photo illustrations. Glazed boards. **Another wide range of wagons and their operators. Short histories of over eighty businesses, together with all known details of their wagon fleets; illustrated with some 250 photographs of wagons and sites.

Price: £21.00

Railfreight In Colour. Ref: MD2572

For the modeller and historian.
Cable.
Very large, 96 page album, soft back. **Covers the years 1983 - 1996; describes the classes of locomotives used, showing a wide range of rolling stock at locations ranging from the north of Scotland to Cornwall.

Price: £14.99

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