Search Our Website

Stamford Shop

On-Line Bookshop

Narrow gauge & industrial

Online Catalogue | New Books | Narrow gauge & industrial

Narrow gauge, industrial and miniature railways

Industrial railways, light railways, narrow gauge railways and miniature (5" - 15") railways. Trams are in the Trams and Buses section; a light railway calling itself a tramway, such as Wantage, may be in this section as well.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________

Austrian Narrow Gauge. (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines) Ref: NG2084

Featuring steam in the alps.
Organ.
Medium, 96 page album, maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Bagnall Locomotives. Ref: NG1086

A pictorial album of Bagnall standard gauge locomotives.
Baker, A C, & Civil, T D A.
Very large, 106 pages, album, hard back. **Introduced by a 6-page history of the firm, this is a collection of photographs of their engines accompanied by lengthy descriptive captions. A soft back edition is also available.

Price: £21.95

Bagnall Locomotives. Ref: NG1027

A pictorial album of Bagnall standard gauge locomotives.
Baker, A C, & Civil, T D A.
Very large, 106 pages, album, soft back. **Introduced by a 6-page history of the firm, this is a collection of photographs of their engines accompanied by lengthy descriptive captions. A hard back edition is also available.

Price: £16.95

Beckton's Railways And Locomotives Ref: NG3425

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

Beyond '68. Ref: NG3695

The last years of BR steam on the Vale Of Rheidol line.
Jamieson.
Very large, square format, 103 page album, hard back. **Here is a delightful book: a photographic record of the Vale of Rheidol line under BR during the 1970s and 1980s. The photos are one to a large page, black and white, crisp and beautifully balanced. The book starts with ten pictures of eastern European narrow gauge steam of the same period, as this was where the author came to appreciate narrow gauge as "real" railways, not just a holiday jaunt. As well as the magnificent pictures you get seven pages of extended captions at the back, and an introduction, of course. A handsome production in every way.

Price: £27.50

Saga By Rail: Ireland. Ref: NG2285

RS16.
Boyd, J I C.
Medium, 288 pages, photos, maps, soft back. **Mr Boyd's reminiscences of Irish narrow gauge, 1933 - 1962.

Price: £16.95

Saga By Rail: Great Britain And The Isle Of Man. Ref: NG2344

RS17.
Boyd, J I C.
Medium, 192 pages, photos, maps, soft back. **Mr Boyd's reminiscences of railways, mainly narrow gauge, from 1925 onwards. He made a virtue of finding out and poking around the most obscure lines. There are some splendid photos.

Price: £14.95

Miniature Railway Album. Ref: NG3572

England & Wales - one foot and above.
Green
Large, square format, 112 page colour album, soft back. **This has been so popular I have been asked to return the cataloguing copy pronto as we are in danger of running out. First rate pictures of 30 of England and Wales's miniature lines from the 21" Blackpool Pleasure Beach Express (featuring 1933 diesel hydraulic locos masquerading as steam traction) to the delightful 12" Ruislip Lido Railway. Naturally the majority of lines are of the 15" gauge, and these include everyone's favourites - the majestic Romney Hythe & Dymchurch and the marvellously scenic Ravenglass & Eskdale (the Ratty to its friends).

Price: £14.95

British Industrial Steam In The 1960s. Ref: NG3890

The collected industrial colour photography of Terence Dorrity.
Dorrity.
Very large, 224 page colour album, glazed boards. ** The author developed an interest in industrial steam as a boy growing up in the west midlands and it is the coal, ironstone and steel industries there that form the backbone of this work. When older he photographed industries further afield in England, Wales and Scotland and so has produced a powerful record of steam at work from Dorset to Morayshire. Some terrific images here, including some fairly unusual engines.

Price: £30.00

British Rail Departmental Locomotives 1948-1968. Ref: NG3320

Includes depots and stabling points.
Smith & Smith.
Very large, 96 pages, photo illustrations, site plans, glazed boards.**A single reference to all the departmental locomotives - steam, diesel, electric and battery - both standard and narrow gauge, operated by BR to the end of steam in 1968. Full details of each locomotive's record in departmental service, together with information about the locations at which the locomotives worked and including large-scale OS maps of depots etc.

Price: £20.00

British Small Mines (North). Ref: NG0665

Booth.
Large, 112 pages with 142 photos and site plans. Hard back. **Studies of 28 representative drift mines working a variety of minerals in northern England and southern Scotland.

Price: £18.00

British Small Mines (South). Ref: NG3074

Booth
Medium, 96 pages, album with photos and site plans, hard back.

Price: £18.00

Built In Britain. Ref: NG3852

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: NG3849

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

Castleford Colliery Railways. Ref: NG2644

Ackton Hall, Allerton Bywater, Allerton Main, Fryston, Glasshoughton, Ledston Luck, Peckfield, Prince of Wales, Savile, Wheldale, Whitwood.
Rockett, R.
Large, 64 pages, pictorial, area map, some colliery plans. Soft back.

Price: £9.95

Contrast In Islands. The Narrow Gauge Railways Of Corsica And Sardinia. Ref: NG1268

Davies.
Medium, 263 pages, photos (some colour), maps, track plans, hard back. *Good history of the systems.

Price: £27.95

The Corringham Light Railway. Ref: NG3265

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

Reservoir Builders Of South Wales. Ref: NG2126

Bowtell & Hill
Medium, 130 pages, photos, area and system maps, glazed boards. **Book six of Bowtell's Dam Builders In The Age Of Steam series. A specialised but fascinating subject.

Price: £14.95

De Winton Of Caernarfon. Ref: NG2884

Engineers of excellence.
Fisher, Fisher & Jones.
Large, 342 pages, contemporary and present-day photographs (some recent colour), maps, original technical drawings and fine, clear, recent ones by one of the authors, locomotive list, hard back. **A handsomely produced book and a superb deeply researched history of this engineering firm who produced vertical boiler locomotives and much else besides.

Price: £58.00

Decauville Steam Locomotives. Ref: NG3855

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

Devon Narrow Gauge (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: NG2528

Featuring the Lee Moor Tramway.
Dart.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Dorset & Somerset Narrow Gauge. (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines) Ref: NG2340

Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, maps, site plans, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Douglas To Peel (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: NG2192

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

Price: £18.95

Douglas To Port Erin (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: NG2406

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

Price: £18.95

Douglas To Ramsey (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: NG2407

Including the Foxdale branch.
Heavyside.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £15.95

East European Narrow Gauge. Ref: NG0010

Chester, K.
Medium, 116 pages, album. Soft back. ** Locomotives International Special.Out of print, last copy.

Price: £14.95

Eastern Spain Narrow Gauge. (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: NG2725

From Gerona to Málaga.
Organ.
Medium, 96 page album, maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Eclectic Electrics. Ref: NG3600

From the Stephenson Locomotive Society Archives (Vol 2).
Hennessey.
Very large, 63 pages, photo illustrations and drawings, soft back. **A collection of archive articles covering different forms of electric locomotive, the first of an intended series illustrating the development of this form of traction.

Price: £9.50

Eritrean Narrow Gauge. (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: NG2563

An amazing reinstatement.
Mitchell, D.
Medium, 96 page all-colour album, maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Festiniog Railway Volume Two. Ref: NG0792

Locomotives and rolling stock; quarries and branches: rebirth 1954-1974.
Boyd.
Medium, 329 pages + 54 pages photo plates, maps & diagrams in text, 2nd impression of 1975 edition. Hard back. ** "A history of the narrow gauge railway linking the slate quarries of Blaenau Ffestiniog with Portmadoc, North Wales: together with outline histories of quarry undertakings connected to the Railway". The British Narrow Gauge Railway series no 1. B1B

Price: £25.00

Fortress Railways Of The Baltic Shores. Ref: NG1467

Helme, M.
Medium, 80 pages, soft back. ** Volume 3 of Narrow Gauge Railways Of Europe.

Price: £8.95

French Narrow Gauge Album. Ref: NG3904

Lemmey & Whitehouse.
Very large, 224 pages, pictorial: photos (much period colour), area maps, glazed boards. **A treat for rail francophiles, here is a collection of postwar photographs by keen British photographers (naturally including Pat Whitehouse, father of one of the authors) together with entertaining accounts of their travels and adventures, far more than just a photo album. France was once, of course, a narrow gauge nation par excellence, having nearly 12000 miles of route.

Price: £35.00

Greece Narrow Gauge. (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines) Ref: NG2121

Featuring the Thessaly and the Peloponnese systems.
Organ.
Medium, 96 page album, maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Hampshire Narrow Gauge (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: NG1880

Including the Isle of Wight.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Harton Electric Railway. Ref: NG0100

Hatcher, W J.
Medium, 136 pages, many photos, drawings, plans, maps. Hard back. **History of the first electrified colliery railway.

Price: £14.95

The Hendre Ddu Tramway. Ref: NG3908

'Blue stones and green trees'.
Quine.
Very large, 224 pages, illustrated with documents, maps and images from contemporary sources and photographs old and recent, glazed boards. ** History of an obscure narrow gauge railway built to carry slate to the Mawddwy Railway and of associated tramways and forestry in the neighbourhood. Each quarry is covered in detail and timber operations are described and there are chapters on rolling stock, permanent way and operating methods. Interesting photos and excellent clear maps add to the information.

Price: £35.00

Here Be Dragons. Ref: NG3592

A journey with steam to the end of the world.
Girdlestone.
Very large, 136 pages, photo illustrations, chiefly colour, maps, hard back. **Phil Girdlestone, who died untimely in 2016 at the age of 61, was a locomotive engineer, described by David Wardale in the foreword as "one of a small band of adventurers with steam for a vocation and anywhere in the world for a home - provided of course there was a steam railway nearby." Girdlestone chronicles his remarkable career, which started at the Festiniog in 1969 and took in Africa, Russia and South America, and describes his technical work in detail. A fascinating read.

Price: £33.95

Hidden Railways Of Portsmouth & Gosport. Ref: NG2912

Marden.
Very large, 154 pages, photos, maps, site plans, soft back. **Some fascinating systems, including many naval and military lines, contractors' and other industrial railways. Gives locomotive stock details.

Price: £17.95

Illustrated History Of The Port Of Goole And Its Railways. Ref: NG3466

Fell, M.G.
Very large, 120 pages, photo illustrations, some colour, dock plans, track layout, soft back. **The author was Port Manager at Goole and Hull between 1998 and 2003. As with his book on King's Lynn, he does not claim this as a definitive history but an informative and graphic portrayal of the port from its inception until the present day, including its railway connections past and present. The port thrives, and this record of it does it ample justice.
We were privileged to be shown over the port by the author, an unforgettable experience, the fascination intensified by the sight of more timber than one could have imagined possible.

Price: £16.95

Illustrated History Of The Port Of Hull And Its Railways. Ref: NG3626

Fell, M.G.
Very large, 168 pages, photo and other illustrations, some colour, dock plans, track layout, soft back. **The author was Port Manager/Director at Hull until 2003. This history completes the trilogy begun with his books on Goole and King's Lynn. Again it is not intended as a definitive history, rather a description of Hull's docks and riverside installations and of the railways that connected them to the national network. It does, in fact, offer a considerable body of historical information, and is a lively portrait of the workings of an important port.

Price: £22.95

Illustrated History Of The Welsh Highland Railway. Ref: NG1294

Johnson, P.
Very large, 128 pages, photos, maps, pictures of paperwork, ephemera etc. Hardback. Excellent value. Out of print - last copy.

Price: £19.99

The Incredible Darjeeling 'B' Class. Ref: NG3627

A historical and continuing story.
Churchill.
Very large, 128 pages, pictorial : photos (much colour), drawings, diagrams, soft back. ** A comprehensive history of these locomotives, in use since 1889 and still at work.

Price: £22.50

Indian Narrow Gauge Steam Remembered. Ref: NG1020

Marshall.
Medium, 216 pages, very many photo illustrations (some colour), maps. Hard back. *Includes private, industrial and sugar factory railways.

Price: £29.95

Indian Metre Gauge Steam Remembered. Ref: NG2061

Marshall.
Medium, 178 pages, pictorial (some colour), maps, locomotive lists. Hard back. *Includes public and industrial railways.

Price: £29.95

Indian Broad Gauge Steam Remembered. Ref: NG2736

Marshall.
Medium, 166 pages, pictorial (some colour), maps, locomotive lists, hard back.

Price: £29.95

Industrial & Preserved Locomotives Of Belgium, The Netherlands And Luxembourg. Ref: NG2952

Known locomotives from 1970 onwards.
Leach.
Medium, 234 pages plus photo section, soft back.

Price: £14.95

Industrial Locomotives Of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire & Northamptonshire. Ref: NG1289

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: NG1288

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 Locomotives Of Lancashire Part A. The National Coal Board. Ref: NG1162

Including opencast disposal points & British Coal. Interim Pocket Book 7A.
Bradley & Hindley.
Medium, 100 pages, maps, soft back.

Price: £7.50

Industrial Locomotives Of Mid And South Glamorgan. Ref: NG2954

Hill.
Medium, 424 pages, maps (some colour), photo section, glazed boards.
Also available in softback, see 2307.

Price: £24.95

Industrial Locomotives Of Mid And South Glamorgan. Ref: NG2307

Hill.
Medium, 424 pages, maps (some colour), photo section, softback.
Also available in hardback, see 2954.

Price: £19.95

Industrial Locomotives Of North Staffordshire. Ref: NG0350

Baker.
Medium, 392 pages, illustrated: maps and photos, glazed boards. **Includes histories of locomotives, locomotive worked systems, and non locomotive systems. Also background company histories and descriptions of track layouts.

Price: £24.00

Industrial Locomotives Of Nottinghamshire. Ref: NG0358

Bendall.
Medium, 432 pages. Glazed boards. (Also available as a paperback, qv.) **Information previously published in Pocket Book E has been greatly amplified. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive, contractor's and preservation sites within in the county.

Price: £27.50

Industrial Locomotives Of Picardy, France. Ref: NG2953

Clingan.
Medium, 120 pages, photo illustrations, some text also in French, soft back. **Handbook PNF, covers the departments of Aisne, Oise & Somme.

Price: £9.00

Industrial Locomotives Of South Staffordshire. Ref: NG1302

Shill, R.
Medium, 172 pages, + 24 pages photos, maps. Soft back. Also available hard back, qv.

Price: £14.95

Industrial Locomotives Of South Staffordshire. Ref: NG0154

Shill, R.
Medium, 172 pages, + 24 pages photos, maps. Glazed boards. Also available in soft back, qv.

Price: £17.95

Industrial Locomotives Of West Glamorgan. Ref: NG2956

Potts & Green.
Medium, 260 pages, illustrated: photos and maps, soft back. **Includes information previously published in Pocket Book 6, but in a greatly amplified state. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive, contractors' and preservation sites within the county. Also available in glazed boards, qv.

Price: £14.95

Industrial Locomotives Of West Glamorgan. Ref: NG0349

Potts & Green.
Medium, 260 pages, illustrated: photos and maps, glazed boards. **Includes information previously published in Pocket Book 6, but in a greatly amplified state. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive, contractors' and preservation sites within the county. Also available in softback, qv.

Price: £20.00

Industrial Railway Locomotive Sheds. Ref: NG3486

A second selection.
Booth.
Medium, 80 pages, album, soft back. **145 industrial locomotive sheds visited between 1967 - 1999. The author has provided basic descriptions of what are frequently pretty basic structures. Fascinating and totally addictive.

Price: £12.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of County Durham Part 3. Ref: NG3829

The fluorspar industry, contractors, dealers and preservation.
Mountford.
Medium, 280 pages, illustrated with photos (some colour), 21 pages of coloured maps and plans, glazed boards. **Comprehensive account of Durham's industrial railways and locomotives, together with the history of the sites which they served. i> Parts 1 and 2 now out of print.

Price: £35.00

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of Cumberland. Ref: NG3596

Holmes.
Medium, 463 pages, maps and site plans (some colour), photo illustrations (some colour), hardback. **A survey of locomotive worked sites in the former county of Cumberland, arranged by company name. Locomotive lists and brief histories are given, along with many site and area plans. Additional information includes NCB, contractors' locomotives, preservation sites, non-locomotive worked sites, locomotive dealers, hirers, manufacturers and repairers. This book is well indexed by locomotives, owners and locations. Cumberland boasted some mighty collieries and iron and steel works, the limestone quarries were a sine qua non, but among these prevalent industries were others, including timber works, atomic energy and peat extraction. The remaining areas of Cumbria : Westmorland and Furness, will be covered in a second volume which will also include the Isle of Man. Essential reference for exploring the area.

Price: £35.00

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of The Northumberland Coalfield. Ref: NG3802

Waywell & Holroyde.
Medium, 390 pages, maps and site plans (colour), photo illustrations (some colour), hardback. **A survey of locomotive worked mines in Northumberland, divided into (1) private coal companies where locomotives were used, (2) NCB and (3) private small mines. Brief histories and descriptions of the mines are followed by locomotive lists and - usually - photos and site and area plans. The book is thoroughly indexed by locomotives, owners and locations. Essential reference for exploring the area.

Price: £30.00

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of Hertfordshire & Middlesex. Ref: NG2306

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

Price: £19.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of India And South Asia. Ref: NG3058

Darvill.
Medium, 556 pages, many photographs (with separate colour section), excellent maps, lists, hard back. **Records over 6500 steam, diesel, petrol and electric locomotives at over 1200 sites in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. As well as industrial sites the author includes chapters on military railways and railways used in main line construction projects.

Price: £29.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of Kent. Ref: NG3528

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 Leicestershire & South Derbyshire. Ref: NG3814

Reprint of the 2006 edition.
Etherington & Bendall.
Medium, 169 pages + 7 pages of maps (some colour), glazed boards. **Descriptions of a variety of industrial railways and the industries they served in Leicestershire and Derbyshire south of the Trent. The railways associated with mineral extraction feature prominently: in the west and in S Derbyshire it was coal; in the east it was ironstone; in the central area, granite and stone. A general distribution of light engineering, public utilities and a locomotive builder complete the picture.

Price: £29.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of Lincolnshire & Rutland. Ref: NG2769

Ashforth, Bendall & Plant.
Medium, 320 pages + 64 pages of photographs (some period colour), good map section including some detailed local area plans, glazed boards. (Also available as a soft back, qv.) **Information previously published in Pocket Book E has been greatly amplified. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive-worked systems, contractor's and preservation sites within the two counties.

Price: £25.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of Lincolnshire & Rutland. Ref: NG2770

Ashforth, Bendall & Plant.
Medium, 320 pages + 64 pages of photographs (some period colour), good map section including some detailed local area plans, soft back. (Also available in glazed boards, qv.) **Information previously published in Pocket Book E has been greatly amplified. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive-worked systems, contractor's and preservation sites within the two counties.

Price: £21.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of The County Of London. Ref: NG2577

Waywell & Jux.
Medium, 232 pages + 40 pages of photographs, good map section including some site plans, soft back. (Also available as a hard back, qv.) **Information previously published in Pocket Book C has been greatly amplified. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive-worked systems, contractor's and preservation sites within the county.

Price: £16.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of The County Of London. Ref: NG2578

Waywell & Jux.
Medium, 232 pages + 40 pages of photographs, good map section including some site plans, glazed boards. (Also available as a soft back, qv.) **Information previously published in Pocket Book C has been greatly amplified. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive-worked systems, contractor's and preservation sites within the county.

Price: £19.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of South Western England. Ref: NG2962

Hateley.
Medium, 383 pages, many photographs (mostly coloured), good map sections for each county including some detailed local area and site plans, lists, glazed boards. **Covers Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. Information for each county is set out in three sections: First industrial locomotive worked systems, minor public railways and preservation sites; secondly known details of non-locomotive worked systems; thirdly known details of locomotives used on civil engineering contracts.

Price: £29.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of Spain. Ref: NG3649

Spencer.
Medium, 518 pages, maps and site plans (some colour), photo illustrations (some period colour), hardback. **Lists the industrial railways of each province, giving a brief history of each company and a locomotive list. After this basic information the book gives lists of locomotives used in track maintenance and in major engineering projects including construction of new metros and RENFE high speed lines. Lastly there are also lists of locomotives known to have been built in Spain whose use and owners are unknown, and of preserved locomotives.

Price: £28.00

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of Sussex & Surrey. Ref: NG3381

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

Industrial Railways In Colour South. Ref: NG2910

Poulter
Large, 64 page colour album, glazed boards. **Early post war pictures with a lot of steam interest.

Price: £11.95

Industrial Railways Of Bolton, Bury And The Manchester Coalfield. Part 1 Bolton And Bury. Ref: NG0055

Townley, Appleton, Smith & Peden.
Medium, 206 pages, illustrated, hard back.

Price: £25.00

Industrial Railways Of Manvers Main And Barnburgh Main. Ref: NG0357

Booth.
Large, 128 pages, album, track diagrams, plans, many photos. Hard back. **Descriptive captions provide historical detail. Appendices give loco and wagon lists.

Price: £7.50

Industrial Railways Of St Helens, Widnes And Warrington. Ref: NG0353

Part 1: St Helens.
Townley & Peden.
Medium, 272 pages. Hard back. **The railways which served the glass and chemical works at St Helens. Photos and 40 large scale maps whch illustrate the industrial develpoment of the area from the 1820s to the present.
Price now reduced from £24.

Price: £19.95

Industrial Railways Of St Helens, Widnes And Warrington. Ref: NG1417

Part 2: St Helens coalfield and the Sandfields.
Townley & Peden.
Medium, 309 pages, illustrated with maps and photos, tables of locomotives. Hard back. **Discusses the industrial railways and locomotives that worked on the St Helens coalfield and includes the first detailed published account of Pilkington's 2' gauge sand railways.
Price now reduced from £25

Price: £19.95

Industrial Steam In Action. Ref: NG3356

Siviter.
Very large, 80 page mainly colour album, glazed boards. **The collection of excellent pictures shows steam at work at thirty-five locations across the country, at sites ranging from breweries to collieries.

Price: £16.99

Industrial Tramways Of The Vale Of Llangollen. Ref: NG3063

LP238.
Thomas & Southern.
Medium, 72 pages, many photos, maps, bibliography, soft back. **Fascinating survey of the numerous obscure and often shortlived industrial (mostly quarry) lines around Llangollen.

Price: £9.95

Irish Narrow Gauge Album. Ref: NG3813

Whitehouse.
Very large, 224 pages, pictorial: photos, area maps, glazed boards. **Not just a photo album, but also an anthology of writing on the various (and they were) Irish narrow gauge railways, with an erudite historical introduction by the compiler. J I C Boyd, George Behrend and of course the compiler's father, Patrick Whitehouse, are among the authors included.

Price: £25.00

Kent Narrow Gauge (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: NG2405

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

Price: £18.95

Kerr, Stuart's Internal Combustion Locomotives. Ref: NG3644

Baker.
Large, 146 pages, illustrated: photos, drawings, copies of paperwork, bibliography, list, hardback. **Kerr, Stuart built 25 diesel locomotives between 1928 and the company's winding-up in 1930, mainly narrow gauge. This is a history and description of these engines. It includes a substantial illustrated appendix covering earlier internal combustion engines built by the firm, some notes on other projects and a progress report on the restoration of No 4415 at the Festiniog Railway.

Price: £30.00

Kerr's Miniature Railway. Ref: NG3126

Scotland's oldest small-scale line.
Little, L.
Medium, 46 pages, maps, photo illustrations, soft back. **It's at Arbroath.

Price: £6.95

The Lane End Plateway. Ref: NG3870

An early railway in the Staffordshire potteries. OL162.
Patel.
Medium, 84 pages, maps, diagrams, photo and other illustrations, soft back. **History and archaeology of one of the oldest railways in the Stoke on Trent area. It was built by the Trent & Mersey Canal Co in 1804 to link Lane End, close to Longton and now part of it, to the canal at a wharf near Fenton.

Price: £13.95

The Lee Moor Tramway. Ref: NG0578

A pictorial record.
Taylor.
Medium square, 96 pages. Hard back. **Over 130 previously unpublished photos of this ideosyncratic railway. The line served the Lee Moor clay works and was built in 1859 with horse-drawn sections linked by cable-worked inclines. Steam traction was introduced in 1899 and both its locos are preserved. The line's two remarkable features were its 4' 6" gauge (for it was built as a branch of the 1823 Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway) and its level crossing with the GWR main line at Laira. Being the older line it had priority over main line traffic until 1960.
Out of print but we still have a few copies.

Price: £16.00

Light Railways Explored. Ref: NG1210

A photographic diary 1931 - 38.
Simpson, J E.
Medium, 106 pages, pictorial. **In his school and university holidays the author visited 24 non-grouped light railways in England and Wales, exploring and photographing. This fascinating book is the fruit of time well spent.

Price: £10.00

Little Giants. Ref: NG3629

A history of the Ffestiniog Railway's pre-revival locomotives, their mentors, manufacture and maintenance.
Jones & Dennis.
Very large, 592 pages, well illustrated with plans, maps, locomotive drawings, contemporary illustrations and photographs, some colour, bibliography, appendices, glazed boards. ** Surely the most substantial book I have catalogued in many a year, this history will be of great interest to all lovers of narrow gauge railways. Unarguably this book should be in at least two volumes and considerable space might have been saved by recording sources in end- or footnotes, but that may be its only fault. It is considerably more than a locomotive history; the origin and development of the line and its motive power has been researched in great depth and illustrated with some remarkable pictures.

Price: £60.00

Locomotives And Railways Of The Mersey Docks & Harbour Board. Ref: NG3589

Marden
Very large, 104 pages, many photos, large plan of Liverpool docks and railways, other site and track plans from large scale maps, stock lists, soft back. **The Mersey Docks & Harbour Board railway was brought into being in 1904 following dissasisfaction by the ship-owners with the prices and inefficiency of the railway companies. The new system was highly organised and ran until 1973.

Price: £16.95

Locomotives Of Severn-Lamb Ltd. Ref: NG2729

A special issue of The Narrow Gauge.
Holroyde & Little.
Medium, 85 pages, photo illustrations (mainly colour), list, soft back. ** "Leisure train builders to the world". A history of the firm, with a very details list of their products.

Price: £9.95

Miniature Locomotives Of David Curwen. Ref: NG2532

Little & Holroyde.
Medium, 118 pages, drawings, photographs (some colour), soft back. **A catalogue of all locomotives built by Curwen, and all designed by him and built by others. Gives dates of building, rebuilds, transfers, current status and other interesting details.

Price: £9.95

Monorails Of The 19th Century. Ref: NG2859

Garner.
Very large, 288 pages, well illustrated with photographs, contemporary illustrations, vehicle drawings, and maps, glazed boards. ** The monorail was conceived in the 1820s when conventional two-rail lines were still a recent idea. Here is its history up to the construction of the successful Wuppertal Schwebebahn at end of the 19th century. There is a history and a full technical description of each system. Many of the designs were eccentric and few were commercially successful but this energetic period of industrial growth encouraged novelty.

Price: £24.99

Monorails Of The Early 20th Century. Ref: NG3503

Garner.
Very large, 208 pages, copiously illustrated with photographs, contemporary illustrations, diagrams, vehicle drawings, and maps, glazed boards. ** This volume follows on from Monorails Of The 19th Century (CE2859) and continues the history of monorails from 1900 to just after the second world war. Among others it provides a detailed history and explanation of the gyroscopic monorails by Brennan, Scherl and Schilovsky and the Bennie Railplane. Monorails built outside the UK are included, notably the American Magnesium Co line in the Death Valley desert in the 1920s. There are also updates to the 19th Century volume including the Schwebebahn and the reborn Listowel and Ballybunion Railway.

Price: £25.00

Motor Rail Ltd. Ref: NG3474

Simplex Motor Rail & Tramcar Co Ltd Bedford - England.
Keef.
Very large, 152 pages, photo illustrations, glazed boards. ** History of the Bedford locomotive builders and light engineers, formed in 1884 to build tramcars for Karachi. The author's company, Alan Keef Ltd, bought the business in 1987. This readable account covers the full history and product ranges of the company together with individual histories of some of its extant locomotives.

Price: £22.50

Mountain Railways And Locomotives From Old Picture Postcards. Ref: NG0508

Taylorson.
Medium, 64 pages. Soft back.

Price: £9.95

Mountsorrel. Ref: NG2974

And its associated quarry railways.
Peaty.
Very large, 88 pages, pictorial: photo illustrations, map, large scale OS maps, track layout, soft back.

Price: £19.95

Moving Mountains By Rail. Ref: NG3104

A history of quarry railways.
Peaty.
Medium, 188 pages, photo illustrations, some site plans, soft back. **A history of the railways of the quarries which now form part of the Hanson Aggregates Group, arranged regionally.

Price: £17.99

The Narrow Gauge 2-8-2s Of Patagonia. Ref: NG3207

Humm.
Medium, 50 pages, maps, photo illustrations, some colour, soft back. **The guvnor's masterwork. Dissatisfied with the theories of why 75 locomotives were required to run the sparse lines of Patagonia, and spurred to action by a visit to most of what is left of them, he has assembled an account of each engine and lots of wonderful pictures. It would not be out of place here to record our gratitude to correspondents in four continents who have assisted the research with memories, records and photographs.

Price: £5.99

Narrow Gauge Album 1950-1965 In Colour. Ref: NG3786

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

Narrow Gauge Album 1965-1985 In Colour. Ref: NG3715

Whitehouse.
Very large, 224 pages, pictorial, glazed boards. ** This book is rather more than an album, containing a good deal of descriptive text which gives the background to this set of superb colour photos. Lines depicted include the Talyllyn, Festiniog (with some photos which will raise many memories for former deviationists), Isle of Man, Leighton Buzzard, Vale of Rheidol and Welshpool. Off these well-beaten tracks was the last slate incline in Wales at Maenofferen, which provides an exceptionally interesting chapter. Super book!

Price: £25.00

Narrow Gauge By The Sudanese Red Sea Coast. Ref: NG1147

The Tokar-Trinkitat light railway and other small railways.
Gunston.
Large, 67 pages, photos, maps, soft back.

Price: £8.95

Narrow Gauge In The Arras Sector. Ref: NG3433

Before, during and after the first world war.
Farebrother & Farebrother.
Very large, 274 pages, illustrated with good photographs and large, clear maps and track diagrams, hard back. **The book is also headed Allied Railways Of The Western Front, which suggests it is part of a larger - or future - series, but I can find no other reference to a series of this name.
The Arras sector included countryside to the south, but the north was a major part of the industrial and mining area around Lens and Béthune. The authors examine the build-up of 60mm lines from 1916 is studied in detail by area and the contribution of meter gauge lines is reassessed.The role of these railways in the reconstruction and recovery of the area after the war is described. The book includes information on how to find key locations, where preserved rolling stock can been seen and routes for six walks and an urban tour.

Price: £30.00

Narrow Gauge In The Former Yugoslavia. Ref: NG3805

Narrow Gauge Album No 5.
Waite.
Medium, square format, 119 page colour album, glazed boards. **21st century narrow gauge steam in the Balkans. The earliest photos here date from 2005, when there were still steam locomotives operating in coal extraction sites - the last working steam in Europe. This provides many of the excellent photos in the album; there are also pictures of static preserved locos and of the lovely Šargan 8 line, now a tourist railway.
Author's profits from the sale of this book are donated to help support the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway during the Covid 19 crisis.

Price: £19.95

Narrow Gauge Lines Of The British Isles. Ref: NG3347

Johnson, P.
Very large, 160 page album, some colour, glazed boards. **A handsome photo album with a historical introduction and apposite essays heading each chapter; these are on parliamentary railways, light railways, industrial railways and tourist railways. Ireland and the Isle of Man have their own chapter. As may be expected Peter Johnson's choice of photographs is excellent.

Price: £25.00

Narrow Gauge Railways In North Caernarvonshire. Volume 2 The Penrhyn Quarry Railways. Ref: NG1207

Boyd.
Medium, 164 pages, illustrated, hard back. Reissue.

Price: £18.95

Narrow Gauge Railways In North Caernarvonshire. Volume 3. Ref: NG1208

The Dinorwic quarry and railways, the Great Orme tramway and other rail systems..
Boyd.
Medium, 228 pages, illustrated, hard back. Reissue.

Price: £22.95

Narrow Gauge Steam Locomotives Of Estonia. Ref: NG2134

Klaus & Chester.
Medium, 128 pages, photo illustrations, map, loco lists, glazed boards. **The Estonian narrow gauge network continued to expand during the Soviet era, until 1966 when a decree ordered the closure or re-gauging to broad gauge of all 750mm lines. Some engines survive in the Estonian railway museum and elsewhere.

Price: £15.95

Narrow Gauge Steam Locomotives Russia. Ref: NG3558

Moskalev, Bochenkov & Dorozhkov.
Very large, 416 pages, many photos, simple measured drawings, lists, dual Russian / English text, glazed boards. ** The development of the narrow gauge steam locomotive in the Russian empire from the first steps until the end of 1926. This very detailed study covers Russian-built and foreign locomotives and is illustrated with some fascinating photographs. A further volume covering the Soviet period is planned.

Price: £60.00

North Devon Clay. Ref: NG3564

The story of an industry and its railways.
Messenger.
Very large, 120 pages, photo illustrations, maps, track and junction plans, locomotive and rolling stock drawings, hard back. **A complex history of a private line originally engineered by the notable J B Fell which subsequently became part of the light railway empire of H F Stephens. Idiosyncratically run, and worked by an eclectic assortment of motive power, it served the Marland clay works and the local community, eventually becoming part of BR who closed it finally in 1982.

Price: £21.00

North East German Narrow Gauge. (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines) Ref: NG2083

Harz Mountains and Baltic region
Organ.
Medium, 96 page album, maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

North Staffordshire Collieries On The Hill North Of Chell. Ref: NG3243

The mines and railways at Chell, Turnhurst, Oxford, Wedgwood and Newchapel, at the northernmost extremity of the North Staffordshire coalfield.
Baker, A C.
Very large, 64 pages, many photo illustrations, maps, site plans, soft back. **The terse title and snappy sub-title only need the additional remark that this is a proper history of the industry and its lines, not simply a collection of photographs. Very good value.

Price: £7.50

Northamptonshire Narrow Gauge Railways In The 1960s. Ref: NG3824

PS13.
Leleux.
Very large, 96-page album with introduction and detailed captions, some period colour, map, soft back. **Mostly industrial railways, and what a wide variety there were in Northants. A fascinating survey.

Price: £24.95

Northern Northumberland's Minor Railways: Volume One. Ref: NG2834

Brickworks, forestry, contractors, military target railways and various other lines.
Jermy.
Medium, 128 pages, maps, photos, soft back. **LP234A

Price: £10.95

Northern Northumberland's Minor Railways: Volume Two. Ref: NG2835

Colliery and associated lines.
Jermy.
Medium, 128 pages, maps, photos, soft back. **LP234B.

Price: £10.95

Northern Northumberland's Minor Railways: Volume Three. Ref: NG3153

Sandstone, whinstone & gravel lines
Jermy.
Medium, 160 pages, maps, photos, soft back. **LP234C.

Price: £12.95

Northern Northumberland's Minor Railways: Volume Four. Ref: NG3162

Limestone industry lines.
Jermy.
Medium, 136 pages, maps, photos, soft back. **LP234D.

Price: £11.95

The Pentewan Railway. Ref: NG3617

Lewis & Messenger.
Very large, 128 pages, photo and other illustrations, maps, plans, hard back. **This fascinating line was opened in 1829 as a horse drawn tramway for carrying china clay, and converted to a narrow gauge steam railway in 1873. This is an updated version of M J T Lewis's original 1960 history, with additions by Michael Messenger. Lewis was also the author of the seminal Early Wooden Railways.

Price: £25.00

Preserved Standard Gauge Steam Locomotives Of Great Britain A Working History. Ref: NG3515

Randall
Medium, 144 pages, a few photo illustrations, soft back. ** Useful reference book lists all preserved standard gauge locomotives (whether restored or not) by manufacturer. Dates, numbers (including works numbers), past owners and present whereabouts are given for each engine. Appendices list imported locomotives, list every main line engine by number (referenced to the main entry), and list the places of work of the preserved ex-industrial locomotives.

Price: £13.50

Rails Along The Fathew. Ref: NG3468

The story of the Talyllyn Railway.
Drummond.
Very large, 224 pages, very generously illustrated with photos (some period colour), excellent clear specially drawn maps and station plans, bibliography, glazed boards. **New line history to mark the 150th anniversary of this, the very first preserved railway.

Price: £25.95

Rails Through Majorca. Ref: NG1629

Barnabe, G.
Large, 248 pages, illustrated with photos, maps, track plans and line drawings of rolling stock. Hard back. *This handsome work brings up to date the author's "Railways And Tramways Of Majorca", now out of print, history of a narrow gauge paradise.

Price: £21.95

Railway Products Of Baguley-Drewry Ltd And Its Predecessors. Ref: NG2478

Civil & Etherington.
Very large, 372 pages, site plans, photos, lists, substantial text, hard back. **Manufacturers of road and rail vehicles at Burton-upon-Trent from the early 1900s to 1984.

Price: £29.99

The Railway. Ref: NG3344

British track since 1804.
Dow.
Very large, 458 pages, illustrated with good photographs and large, clear specially drawn diagrams, hard back. **Here is a hugely detailed treatise on the history of permanent way by an expert. It is erudite, lucidly written and a handsome production. Along with the examination of the many and complex developments which led from wooden rails to modern permanent way and mechanical track-laying, there are chapters devoted to third rail electrification, tramway track, narrow gauge lines and such peculiarities as portable railways, funiculars and rack railways. It will surely be a standard work of reference but also rather a good read, though at well over 2kg hardly suitable for reading on the train.

Price: £40.00

Railways At The End Of The World. Ref: NG3275

In Patagonia and the South Atlantic islands.
Coombs & Sinclair.
Very large, landscape, 348 pages, lavishly illustrated with black & white and colour photos and purpose-drawn maps and scale drawings, hard back. **A work of huge interest, studying the railways of southern Chile and Argentina, and the South Atlantic islands. Lines large and small are comprehensively described in careful detail; the authors have taken great pains to sift the facts from the hearsay and legend which enticingly but irrelevantly pervades the history of railways in this remote and barren region. The locomotive and rolling stock drawings have been produced to 1:50 scale with modellers in mind. The book will be required reading for anyone who has visited the railway at Ushaia or La Trochita or who is interested in the Patagonian Welsh colony with which some of the lines are closely connected.

Price: £49.95

The Railways Of Purbeck. Ref: NG3911

LP68, fourth edition.
Kidner.
Medium, 120 pages, photos, maps, bibliography, soft back. **This fourth edition of Kidner's classic history includes new information on the New Swanage Railway and an updated selection of photos.

Price: £15.95

The Railways Of Sir Arthur Percival Heywood. Volume 1. Ref: NG3757

Duffield Bank and Dove Leys.
Waterfield.
Very large, landscape, 323 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and drawings, specially drawn scale drawings of engines and rolling stock, bibliography, silk ribbon marker, glazed boards. ** The author has spent many years researching the work of Sir Arthur Heywood and has also built full size working replicas of Heywood's engines Effie and Ursula. Volume One of this comprehensive survey provides a biography of Heywood and the history of his two railways - Dove Leys of his adolescence and Duffield Bank the showpiece of his minimum gauge experiments. The author has assembled an outstanding collection of contemporary photographs, papers and drawings, later images of the surviving locos and rolling stock and has surveyed and photographed the two sites. Many of the old photos are previously unpublished and most of those that are not have been rescanned to high resolution. The locomotives and rolling stock are described in detail with over 40 specially prepared large, clear scale drawings.
Volume Two will cover the Eaton Hall Railway.

Price: £47.50

Ratty - A History Of The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway. Ref: NG0512

Gradon.
Medium, 49 pages, 2nd edition, revised. Soft back.

Price: £7.95

Redlake Tramway & China Clay Works. Ref: NG1299

The story of a Dartmoor railway.
Wade.
Medium square, 84 pages, photo illustrations, maps, some loco drawings, soft back. **New edition.

Price: £8.00

John Rennie. Ref: NG3882

'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

The Rise And Fall Of King Coal. Ref: NG3892

Mines - miners - mining - the full story. A tribute to mark the end of one of Britain's greatest industries.
Pigott
Very large, 256 pages, generously illustrated with much in colour : photos, diagrams, map, glossary of mining terms, index, glazed boards. **The history of coal from its origins in prehistoric swamps via primitive mediaeval workings to the increasingly intensive extraction of coal from the industrial revolution onwards into the 20th century. All aspects of extraction are covered including (from a very incomplete summary of the contents list) seams and coalfaces themselves, underground transport, ventilation, headstocks and shafts, above-ground operations: washeries, spoil heaps, surface railways, opencast and drift mines, disasters, mining communities, strikes and closures. As may be seen this is a complex and fascinating story, compellingly told and rich in detail - a book to be warmly recommended.

Price: £29.99

Romania & Bulgaria Narrow Gauge. (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines) Ref: NG2561

Organ.
Medium, 96 page album, maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Romney Rail. Ref: NG0432

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

Price: £18.95

Rope & Chain Haulage. Ref: NG3046

The forgotten element of railway history.
Mountford.
Medium, 384 pages, illustrated: photos and contemporary illustrations (some colour) maps and plans, glazed boards. **Remarkably, in the whole history of railways, across now more than two hundred years, it would seem that there has never been a book devoted solely to rope haulage. This fascinating volume covers the field, at home and abroad, from the earliest days right up to the 21st century. A final chapter describes some preservation schemes. Now in print again.

Price: £29.95

The Royal Arsenal Railways. Ref: NG3467

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

Russian & Soviet Steam Locomotives. Vol 3. Ref: NG1541

Narrow Gauge Steam Locomotives In Russia And The Soviet Union.
Chester.
Large, 112 pages, soft back.

Price: £15.95

Ruston & Hornsby Diesel Locomotive Album. Ref: NG3292

Neale.
Very large, 112 page album, hard back. **In 1931 Ruston & Hornsby, an amalgamation of two pioneer internal combustion engine manufacturers, embarked on the production of small narrow gauge diesel locomotives. From this initiative, intended to increase the sales of their engines, they became Britain's largest builders of diesel locomotives and had built over 6500 by the time the firm closed in 1969. Here Andrew Neale describes and illustrates the range and scope of these locomotives using a combination of official and privately taken photographs and other materials.

Price: £28.00

Ruston & Hornsby Locomotives. Ref: NG3906

Second edition with additional information, articles and photographs.
Tonks, E S.
Very large, iv + 244 pages, lavishly illustrated in colour and black & white, loco list, glazed boards. ** Eric Tonks's classic history of Ruston & Hornsby and its locomotives, first published in 1974 as a small softback, has been transformed into a major work by the addition of many photos and data, including a comprehensive list of locomotives. In addition to the company history and the descriptions of the various classes of engines there are studies of the use of R&H locos at three major undertakings.

Price: £37.00

The Rye And Camber Tramway. Ref: NG1565

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

Saxony Narrow Gauge. (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines) Ref: NG2082

Featuring the extensive 75cm, 60cm and 38cm lines.
Organ.
Medium, 96 page album, maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Scottish Colliery Pugs In The Seventies. Ref: NG1572

Roberton, W.
Very large, 48 page album, soft back. **This book, although published over 20 years ago, is still a "new" copy, As it has been on our shelves for a couple of decades it has naturally developed what is known in the trade as "shelf wear" to the cover. It is still offered at the original price, inflation and shelf wear balancing each other out.

Price: £4.95

Scottish Shale Oil Industry & Mineral Railway Lines. Ref: NG3051

Knox.
Very large, 232 pages, photo illustrations, maps, plans, loco lists, glazed boards. ** This enterprise, from beginnings in 1851 expanded into an extensive oil producing and refining industry which held its own against imported oil until the 1960s. An unsuspected and fascinating industry.

Price: £25.00

Sentinel Locomotives And Sentinel-Cammell Railcars. Ref: NG3750

Their design and development.
Hutchings.
Very large, 347 pages, photos, drawings, diagrams, appendices, bibliography, hard back. **A comprehensive and well illustrated account of the railway locomotives produced by Sentinel, including tabulated works lists.

Price: £39.00

Simplex Locomotives At Work. Ref: NG3738

Keef.
Very large, 96 page album, soft back. ** Motor Rail Ltd started building Simplex locomotives in 1916, for use behind the trenches, and continued to produce light industrial locos for some 70 years. This is an album of black and white and colour photos, many previously unpublished, showing the engines at work in locations around the world and knowledgeably captioned at some length. The author's company, Alan Keef Ltd, bought Motor Rail's business in 1987.

Price: £15.00

Single To The Seashore. Ref: NG2730

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

Price: £5.95

Skinningrove Iron And Steel Works. Ref: NG3013

Its history, railways and locomotives.
Shepherd.
Very large, 200 pages, photo illustrations, maps, large scale site plans, drawings, locomotive list, bibliography, glazed boards. **Skinningrove is on the North Yorkshire coast, between Whitby and Saltburn. The ironworks was established in the early 1870s, over the years it developed a considerable railway system. It is good to report that the works and some of the railway continue to function to this day.

Price: £24.95

Slate Quarry Railways Of Gwynedd. Ref: NG2630

Messenger.
Medium square, 96 pages, album with 3-page introduction and notes about the individual quarries, some colour, site maps, soft back. ** Interesting period photographs.

Price: £14.00

Slough Estates Railway. Ref: NG2804

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

Narrow Gauge & Miniature. Ref: NG3599

From the Stephenson Locomotive Society Archives (Vol 1).
Fell.
Very large, 56 pages, photo illustrations and drawings, soft back. **thirteen archive articles on eight narrow gauge and miniature lines :Bure Valley; Leek & Manifold, Isle of Man, Talyllyn, Welshpool & Llanfair, Campbeltown & Machrihanish, Bari-Barletta tramway and one of the 2ft gauge locomotives Dugald Drummond built for the Glasgow Gas Works.

Price: £9.50

Small Mines Of South Wales. Volume 2. Ref: NG2948

Booth.
Large, 112 pages. Soft back. **On the same principle as the first volume, this book describes a further 34 working coal mines, all visited by the author in the mid '90s. An appendix lists all mines known by the author to have been working at some point between 1980 and 1997 with grid references. (Also available in hard back, qv.)

Price: £15.00

Small Mines Of South Wales. Volume 2. Ref: NG0348

Booth.
Large, 112 pages. Hard back. **On the same principle as the first volume, this book describes a further 34 working coal mines, all visited by the author in the mid '90s. An appendix lists all mines known by the author to have been working at some point between 1980 and 1997 with grid references. (Also available in soft back, qv.)

Price: £17.50

South African Two-Foot Gauge (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: NG2623

Featuring the last Garratts.
Ballantyne.
Medium, 96-page album, mostly colour, maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

South Shields, Marsden & Whitburn Colliery Railway. Ref: NG1131

OL120
Hatcher.
Medium, 128 pages, soft back.

Price: £9.95

Steam On The Sirhowy Tramroad And Its Neighbours. Ref: NG3771

Lewis
Very large, 176 pages, illustrated with photos, diagrams, drawings and images from contemporary sources including original engine builders drawings, stock lists, extensive bibliography, glazed boards. **When opened (1804) the Sirhowy Tramroad, built to carry iron and coal from Tredegar to Newport, was the longest railway anywhere in the world and originated the largest system of plateways that ever existed. Some eighty steam locomotives served this system, including many of unusual design and construction. This impressive volume studies the various locomotives in depth with excellently illustrations and also gives a good background history of the lines and provides a section on the operation of the tramroads.

Price: £25.00

Surrey Narrow Gauge (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: NG2404

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

Price: £18.95

Sussex Narrow Gauge. Ref: NG0988

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: NG3894

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

Swiss Narrow Gauge. (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines) Ref: NG2341

Featuring steam in the Alps.
Organ.
Medium, 96 page album, maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Taltal Railway. Ref: NG2853

A Chilean mineral line.
Binns & Middleton.
Very large, 64 pages, generously illustrated: photos, maps, loco list, glazed boards. **Also available as a soft back, qv.

Price: £16.95

Taltal Railway. Ref: NG2785

A Chilean mineral line.
Binns & Middleton.
Very large, 64 pages, generously illustrated: photos, maps, loco list, soft back. **Also available in glazed boards, qv.

Price: £12.50

Teesside Cast Products. Ref: NG3482

Its railways and their origins.
Cowburn.
Medium, 88 pages, photo illustrations (mostly colour) several site plans, loco list, soft back. **The Corus Teeside works became a major supplier of steel slab to international markets and its railway expanded to support the new outbound supply chain. This history and study of the new operations provides a rare insight into the day to day running of an internal railway at a modern integrated steelworks. The mothballing of the plant in 2010 and its resuscitation under Sahaviriya Steel Industries is also covered.

Price: £10.00

Tortillards Of Artois. Ref: NG2504

The metre gauge railways and tramways of the western Pas-de-Calais. X90.
Farebrother & Farebrother.
Medium, 335 pages, photos, maps, track plan, scale drawings of locomotives, station gazetteer, soft back. Out of print, one copy left.

Price: £19.95

Trams Across The Wear. Ref: NG3355

Remembering Sunderland's electric trams.
Lockwood.
Very large, 160 pages, photo album with fleet list and maps, glazed boards.

Price: £35.00

Tramways A Vapeur Du Tarn. Ref: NG1200

A 60cm railway in South West France. X70.
Wright.
Medium, 208 pages, soft back.

Price: £13.95

Vertical Boiler Locomotives And Railmotors Built In Great Britain. Volume Two Ref: NG3514

Ashforth & Bradley.
Very large, 290 pages, well illustrated with photographs (some colour), glazed boards. ** The first volume of this book, by the late R A S Abbott, was published by the Oakwood Press in 1989 and has long been out of print (we do have second hand copies from time to time). This second volume, a collaboration of various members of the Industrial Locomotive Society, is a companion to the original volume, adding corrections and so much new information that it is almost double the size of its predecessor. As before the material is listed by manufacturer; the locomotives are diverse in design and generally fascinating in operation.

Price: £29.95

Vivarais Revisited. Ref: NG2403

Featuring the Ardèche and Haute-Loire regions.
Organ.
Medium, 96-page colour album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Warwickshire Lime And Cement Works Railways. Ref: NG3316

Leleux.
Medium, 288 pages, photo illustrations, large-scale OS maps of sites and other site plans, locomotive list, soft back. **LP240. Histories of some dozen or so undertakings - quarries, lime works and cement works and the intricate networks of railway systems, and a canal, that served them.

Price: £19.95

WDLR Companion. Ref: NG3642

Further material covering the British 60cm gauge light railways that served the western front during the Great War.
Ronald & Link.
Very large, landscape, 183 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and drawings, silk ribbon marker, glazed boards. **Companion volume to WDLR Album, this compelling book takes a "top-down" approach to the history of the WW1 light railways to address two questions : How did the WDLR come to be implemented so quickly? and, How could its organisation - a major transport undertaking - disappear from the face of the earth in little more than a year from the Armistice? The book also includes the major part of the text of what is likely to be the missing report for which the photographs in WDLR Album were taken and a large portfolio of good clear scale drawings of WDLR rolling stock. An exceptionally interesting study, and - as a bonus - a nicely produced volume.

Price: £31.95

West Cornwall Mineral Railways. Ref: NG1975

Dart.
Medium, approx 96 pages, album with extra text and several maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

West German Narrow Gauge. (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines) Ref: NG2276

Featuring the many and varied metre gauge and 75cm lines.
Organ.
Medium, 96 page album, maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

West Shropshire Mining Fields. Ref: NG2211

Brown.
Medium, 128 pages, pictorial with many interesting period photographs. Soft back. **Primarily about the mines and includes views of the mineral railways.

Price: £10.99

The Whipsnade & Umfolozi Railway and The Great Whipsnade Railway. Ref: NG3393

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

Conside Trilogy. Ref: NG2917

A story of iron and coal in north west Durham and the railways that linked them to the outside world.
O'Hagan.
Very large, 191 pages, illustrated with photos (some colour); diagrams, map, soft back. **A book packed with information on these industries in and around Consett. There are also chapters on docks and shipping and on local interests in the Spanish steel industry.

Price: £12.95

Early Years Of The Motor Rail & Tram Car Company 1913-1931. Ref: NG2552

Davies.
Large, 116 pages, photos, drawings, hard back. *Manufacturers of some of Britain's most successful small petrol and diesel locomotives. This deeply researched history studies the progress of the company up to ists name change (to Motor Rail Ltd) in 1931. During the first decade of this period the production of tramcars was as important as that of petrol locomotives. Useful appendices, essential reference.

Price: £22.95

Groudle Glen Railway. Ref: NG1934

Smith, D M.
Medium, 56 pages, photo and line illustrations. Soft back. **Narrow gauge in the Isle of Man. The line originally lasted from 1896 to 1962 and was re-opened in the 1980s.

Price: £5.75

Industrial Locomotives Of Dyfed And Powys. Ref: NG0158

de Havilland, J.
Medium, 342 pages, + 40 pages of photos, 29 maps. Glazed boards. **Describes not only locomotives and their locations, but also non-locomotive and contractors' sites.

Price: £19.95

Industrial Locomotives Of Gwent. Ref: NG0354

Hill & Green.
Medium, 400 pages. Glazed boards. (Also available as a paperback, qv.) **Includes information previously published in Pocket Book Six, Industrial Locomotives In South Wales with many additions. Known locomotives are listed on a site-by-site basis, and the industrial history of each site is described as far as it is known.

Price: £27.50

Industrial Locomotives Of Nottinghamshire. Ref: NG0359

Bendall.
Medium, 432 pages, soft back. (Also available as a hard back, qv.) **Information previously published in Pocket Book E has been greatly amplified. Locomotives and their locations are described as well as non-locomotive, contractor's and preservation sites within in the county.

Price: £22.50

Industrial Locomotives Of The People's Republic Of China. Ref: NG2576

Including preserved and local railway locomotives.
Pritchard.
Medium, 252 pages + 14 page photo section and double page map, glazed boards. IRS Handbook 2PRC. ** Second edition, double the size of the first. Also available in softback @ £16.95 (item 2472)

Price: £19.95

Industrial Locomotives Of The People's Republic Of China. Ref: NG2472

Including preserved and local railway locomotives.
Pritchard.
Medium, 252 pages + 14 page photo section and double page map, soft back. IRS Handbook 2PRC. ** Second edition, double the size of the first. Also available in glazed boards @ £19.95 (item 2576)

Price: £16.95

Industrial Narrow Gauge Album. Ref: NG2661

Neale, A.
Large, 108 pages, soft back. **A fine selection of photographs from the length and breadth of Great Britain showing many industrial lines with a variety of motive power and gauges. The majority of pictures have not been published before. Each is extensively and knowledgeably captioned, and each area section has a brief introductory essay.

Price: £19.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of Essex. Ref: NG2847

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: NG2848

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

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of South Yorkshire The Coal Industry - 1947-1964. Ref: NG2621

-
Medium, 124 pages + 16 pages of photos, soft back. ** Usual IRS format: Sites and lines are briefly described and locomotives listed.

Price: £15.00

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of West Yorkshire. Ref: NG2417

Preliminary draft.
Smith & Etherington.
Medium, 200 pages including 12 pages of maps, softback. ** Usual IRS format: Sites and lines are briefly described and locomotives listed. The introductory notes mention that the NCB element is covered by IPB 8A and that non-locomotive worked systems are not included.

Price: £15.00

A Tale Of Many Railways. Ref: NG2593

An autobiography & history of Alan Keef Ltd.
Keef.
Very large, 192 pages, photo illustrations, some colour, glazed boards. ** History of the Herefordshire locomotive builders and light engineers.

Price: £30.00

Kerr, Stuart & Co Ltd Fifteen Shillings Change Reprint. Ref: NG2599

Being a description of the new Kerr Stuart diesel locomotive.
Hunslet Engine Co / IRS.
Very large, 30 pages, photos and line drawings, soft back. ** "Fifteen shillings out of every pound you at present spend on locomotive fuel will be yours, if you replace you obsolescent steam equipment by the super-ecomomical Kerr Stuart Diesel locomotive". Kerr Stuart closed in 1930 and the goodwill was purchased by the Hunslet Engine Co who are now cataloguing the company archive.

Price: £6.95

Locomotives of the Ministry of Defence. Ref: NG0003

Hateley, R K.
Medium, 150 pages, photos. Soft back. **History of locomotives operated by the War Department and MoD from 1952 to 1992.

Price: £9.95

Merthyr Tydfil Tramroads And Their Locomotives. Ref: NG1785

Rattenbury, G & Lewis, M J T.
Medium, 88 pages, illustrated with photographs, line drawings, reproductions of contemporary views and maps, soft back. **The Merthyr (or Penydarren) Tramroad was opened in 1802 to convey the products of Merthyr's four large ironworks to the canal at Abercynon. Its place in the history of railways is fundamental: it was the site of the 1804 run of Trevithick's locomotive - the first steam engine to run on rails. Later many more engines were used on the road, most of them highly idiosyncratic designs from the Neath Abbey Irorworks. This book, which marks the bicentenary, combines two works on this system: Gordon Rattenbury's history of the tramroad, not previously published, and Michael Lewis's history of the motive power, an extensively revised and enlarged verion of his 1975 work Steam On The Penydarren.

Price: £14.50

The Minehead Branch 1848-1971. Ref: NG2882

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

Narrow Gauge Railways Of Cuba. Ref: NG2652

From the 1860s to the present day.
Walker, C.
Very large, 200 pages, photo illustrations, some colour, maps, stock lists, hardback. Also available in soft back, qv. **General history of these fascinating railways.

Price: £36.95

Peat Railways Of Thorne And Hatfield Moor. Ref: NG0356

Booth.
Large, 112 pages, illustrated: photos, maps, and plans. Hard back. **The history of the narrow gauge railways which have been used for over a century to transport peat from the moors east of Doncaster to the mills where it is turned into horticultural compost.

Price: £18.00

Ransomes And Rapier Locomotives. Ref: NG1305

Fisher & Halton
Medium, 70 pages, illustrated with photographs and some technical drawings, site plans, works list. **History of Ipswich agricultural machinery company which also built engines and other equipment for narrow gauge railways. Distinguished for building the first railway in China.

Price: £8.95

Ruston Proctor And Hornsby Akroyd Oil-Engined Locomotives. Ref: NG1589

Parkinson, R J.
Medium, 50 pages, photo and line illustrations, site plans (of gunpowder mills where locos were in use). Soft back. **Industrial Narrow Gauge Heritage series number 5. In 1896 Hornsby Akroyd produced the first commercially successful oil-engine locomotive for the Royal Arsenal Railway at Greenwich. This booklet records the early development of the oil-engined loco.

Price: £4.95

Schmalspurig Durch Bulgarien. Ref: NG2129

Engelbert.
Medium, 112 pages, illustrated with photos & maps, loco lists, German text, extensive bibliography includes English language sources, glazed boards. **Narrow gauge in Bulgaria.

Price: £16.95

Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway. Ref: NG2500

Tonks.
Medium, 102 pages, photo illustrations, map, loco lists, soft back. *Second printing of the IRS 1972 edition (the first was published by the author in 1949).

Price: £8.95

Snailbeach District Railways. Ref: NG2733

Tonks.
Medium, 52 pages, photo illustrations, map, plans, loco and wagon drawings, soft back. *Second reprinting of the IRS 1974 edition (the first was published by the author in 1950).

Price: £6.95

Tramways And Railways Of John Knowles (Wooden Box) Ltd. Ref: NG0345

Etherington & West.
Medium, 104 pages, illustrated with photos (some in colour), line drawings and maps. Hard back. **History of the railway operations of a clay products works in Derbyshire, at the town of Wooden Box, now Woodville.

Price: £14.00

Vidzeme Railway. Ref: NG2603

Stukmani (Plavinas) - Vecgulbene - Aluksne - Valka.
Altbergs & Biedrins.
Very large, 101 pages, photo illustrations, map endpapers, glazed boards. **History of a narrow gauge line in Latvia. This is an English version of a Latvian book.

Price: £25.00

Whitehaven. Ref: NG2440

The railways and waggonways of a unique Cumberland port.
Quayle.
Very large, 101 pages, large map, photos, station drawing, numerous track plans, soft back.** "Whitehaven is unquestionably the capital of industrial Cumberland. Few mining towns have a more exciting history; none have greater character". Excellent local history.

Price: £13.50

Online Catalogue | New Books | Narrow gauge & industrial

Home | Contact | Terms | Cookies