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Northern England

Cheshire, Cumberland, Co Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire. The Isle of Man is also in this section.
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All Stations To Longridge. Ref: N2811  

A history of the Preston to Longridge branch line and associated railways.
Hindle.
Large, 224 pages, photo illustrations, map, chronology, soft back. **Detailed line history.
Price: £21.99
 

The Alston Branch. Ref: N976  

OL80.
Jenkins.
Medium, 120 pages, photos, map, line drawings of buildings, track diagrams etc. Soft back. **2nd edition. Detailed line history.
Price: £8.95
 

Amble Branch. Ref: N2328  


Rippon.
Large, 68 pages, pictorial line history. Photos, maps, track plans, time table extracts. Soft back. **A five mile mineral branch line in Northumberland.
Price: £10.95
 

Birkenhead Railways. Ref: N3919  

A photographic history.
Merseyside Railway History Group.
Very large, 168 page album, diagramatic map, glazed boards. ** Period black & white photos of:
GWR and LNWR joint line (Mollington to Birkenhead Woodside),
Birkenhead Docks Extension Railway,
Birkenhead Docks,
MDHB Cross-Dock route and the Mersey and Wirral Railways (Rock Ferry to Birkenhead North)
with a brief introduction to each section.
Price: £25.00
 

The Book Of The Great Northern. Part Two. Ref: N2854  

The main line. An engineering commentary part two: Welwyn North to Doncaster.
Coster, P.
Very large, 240 pages, pictorial: photos, large scale maps, glazed boards. ** Not a history, rather "a book about the GNR particularly from the engineering and operational aspects, continuing from the last days of the GNR up to the present time."
Price: £26.95
 

Bradford Railways In Colour Volume 1 : Ref: N3704  

The Midland Lines.
Whitaker & Rapacz.
Medium landscape colour album, 112 pages, introduction, area map, glazed boards. **First of a planned series of three, high-quality colour photos of the area by various photographers, collected, arranged and knowledgeably captioned by the authors.
Price: £19.95
 

Bradford Railways In Colour Volume 2 : Ref: N3703  

The Lancashire & Yorkshire and Great Northern Lines.
Whitaker & Rapacz.
Medium landscape colour album, 128 pages, introduction, area map, glazed boards. **Second of a planned series of three, high-quality colour photos of the area by various photographers, collected, arranged and knowledgeably captioned by the authors.
Price: £21.95
 

Bradford Railways In Colour Volume 4 : Ref: N3902  

The Midland lines after steam.
Whitaker & Rapacz.
Medium landscape colour album, 112 pages, introduction, area map, glazed boards. **Fourth of a planned series of three, high-quality colour photos of the area by various photographers, collected, arranged and knowledgeably captioned by the authors.
Price: £21.95
 

Branchlines Of The L & Y R No 2. The Holmfirth Branch. Ref: N1455  


Lane, B C.
Large, 33 pages, illustrated. Soft back. **'A history of the line from Brockholes to Holmfirth with period photographs, plans, track layouts, signalling diagrams and drawings of all the major buildings'. One of a series of studies of branch lines produced by the L&YR Society.
Price: £4.50
 

Branchlines Of The L & Y R No 13. The Middleton Branch. Ref: N3264  

The urban industrial branch from Middleton Junction to Middleton.
Wray.
Large, 40 pages, soft back.
Price: £4.95
 

British Industrial Steam In The 1960s. Ref: N3890  

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 Railways : The First 25 Years. Volume 11 North Wales, Chester And The Wirral. Ref: N3833  


Allan & Murray.
Very large, 208 pages, album with area maps and notes, detailed captions, glazed boards. **Volume 11 of this notable series keeps up the standard of sharp clear photos, two to a page and showing an excellent variety of locations, locomotives and other motive power, all expounded with well researched captions.
Price: £22.50
 

By Great Western To Crewe. Ref: N2125  

The story of the Wellington to Nantwich and Crewe line.
Yate, R.
Medium, 208 pages, photo illustrations, maps. Soft back.
Price: £13.95
 

Castleford Colliery Railways. Ref: N2644  

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
 

The Cheshire Lines Committee. Ref: N3937  

Then and now.
Dyckhoff
Large album, 112 pages, 10-page introduction, map, bibliography, hard back./n A little block of new copies of this 1984 Ian Allan album, published at £6.95, more recently selling secondhand at £14, now £3 (the automatic discount will reduce the list price to a final sale price of £3).
Price: £4.29
 

The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway. Ref: N0975  

OL113.
Western.
Medium, 200 pages, photos, maps etc. Soft back. **A thorough history of this line which was closed in 1972. Revised edition
Price: £12.95
 

Crewe Locomotive Works. Ref: N1582  

Description of the London & North Western Railway's locomotive works at Crewe.
LNWR
Medium, 32 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. **Reprint from an original LNWR publicity publication of 1903.
Price: £4.95
 

District Controller's View 6. The Peak District. Ref: N1231  

Manchester - Matlock - Derby; Manchester - Chinley - Sheffield.
Bentley.
Very large, 120 pages, soft back.
Price: £12.95
 

District Controller's View 7. York - Newcastle. Ref: N1563  


Millar, M.
Very large, 124 pages, soft back. * "Train and traffic operations over the North Eastern main line during the 1950s; working timetable (passenger and goods); engine workings: engine allocation and movements 1950-60."
Price: £13.95
 

Elephants On The Line. Ref: N2926  

Tales of a Cumbrian railwayman (1947-95).
Cottam
Medium, 111 pages, illustrated, soft back.
Price: £7.99
 

The Eleven Towns Railway. Ref: N0631  

The Manchester And Leeds Main Line.
Wells.
Large, oblong, 96 pages. Soft back.
Price: £12.95
 

Steel Wheels And Rubber Tyres. Volume One. Ref: N1626  

Transport around Oldham in the 1930s; locomotives at Gorton in the 1940s; Leeds trams in the 1950s.
Hilditch, G.
Medium, 168 pages, photo illustrations, maps. Soft back. *How one uninformed schoolboy tried to attain his early and overriding ambition to see his name in gold leaf on the side of a municipal tramcar, against those almost magic words "General Manager". RS10.
Price: £12.95
 

Steel Wheels And Rubber Tyres. Volume Two. Ref: N1778  

A General Manager's journey: Manchester, Plymouth, Great Yarmouth, Halifax.
Hilditch, G.
Medium, 184 pages, photo illustrations, maps. Soft back. *How one uninformed schoolboy tried to attain his early and overriding ambition to see his name in gold leaf on the side of a municipal tramcar, against those almost magic words "General Manager". RS11.
Price: £12.95
 

History Of The Hull & Scarborough Railway. Ref: N3061  


Addyman & others.
Very large, 152 pages, maps, photos, station track layouts and drawings of structures, some illustrations coloured, tabulated signalling data, glazed boards. **A detailed line history.
Price: £24.95
 

History Of The Newcastle & Berwick Railway. Ref: N2806  

Also known as the Alnwick & Coldstream.
Addyman & others.
Very large, 120 pages, maps, photos, station track layouts and drawings of structures, glazed boards. **A section of the ECML oddly neglected by historians, even, the authors say, omitted from the D&C Regional History North East England volume.
Price: £18.50
 

The Hull & Barnsley Railway Volume 1. Ref: N3816  

Formation and the early years.
Deacon.
Very large, 230 pages, generously illustrated with photos, contemporarary illustrations, double page line map, glazed boards. ** Conceived to carry coal from the south Yorkshire collieries to the port of Hull the company had a rough and at times dramatic start before settling down to a settled, indeed profitable, existence. As well as the history up to 1899 this volume has chapters on the Alexandra Dock, the company's passenger stations, the locomotives and the rolling stock.
Price: £25.00
 

An Illustrated History Of The North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Ref: N3311  


Benham, P.
Very large, 144 pages, photo illustrations, signalling/station diagrams, bibliography, time table extracts etc, hard back. **A comprehensive line history. Out of print - last copy.
Price: £19.99
 

Kendal & Windermere Railway. Ref: N3003  

Gateway to the Lakes. LP156.
Western.
Medium, 240 pages, photos, maps, time table extracts, soft back. **Oxenholme to Windermere.
Price: £15.95
 

Kendal & Windermere Railway. Ref: N0811  

2nd Edition.
Smith, D.
Very large, 104 pages, photos, some colour, track plans, map. **Line history, vastly expanded since the first edition to include developments and study the influence of the railway on the area. Excellent value.
Price: £16.50
 

Last Levers On The Fylde. Ref: N3606  

A commemoration and celebration of railway operation in the age of mechanical signalling.
Littleworth and others.
Very large, 192 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), maps, many signalling diagrams, appendices, glazed boards. ** Detailed analysis of traffic and signalling in the Fylde, up to the 1960s; includes many photos of boxes and equipment, time table extracts, etc. Remarkable value.
Price: £15.00
 

Leeds, Castleford & Pontefract Junction Railway. Ref: N1795  

The Ledston Branch.
Rockett, R.
Large, 48 pages, photo illustrations, map, station layouts. Soft back.
Price: £7.95
 

The 'Little' North Western Railway. Ref: N3640  

Skipton - Lancaster - Morecambe - Heysham Clapham - Ingleton - Low Gill.
Bairstow.
Large, 112 pages, well illustrated with photos, some maps, soft back. **Second, enlarged, edition of this study of the Skipton to Lancaster line and the branch from Clapham to Low Gill.
Price: £10.95
 

Liverpool To Goole. Ref: N3736  

A pictorial journey along the Lancashire & Yorkshire main line in the late 20th century.
Chapman
Large, 128 page album, soft back. **A collection of black and white photos, not quite as described in the sub-title because interspersed with more recent pictures are older How it used to be images.
Price: £16.99
 

LMS Central Division Miscellany. Part One 1921-1930. Ref: N3693  

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
 

Locomotives Of Quality. Ref: N982  

A pictorial history of Manning Wardle & Co.
Simpson.
Medium, 143 pages, many photos, soft back. **The development of the locomotives produced by this Leeds firm and their spread across the world. The author has tried to find all preserved Manning Wardle engines and lists these in a substantial final chapter.
Price: £8.95
 

Main Line Railways Around Wigan. Ref: N0530  


Pixton
Very large, 110 pages, album. Hard back.
Price: £17.99
 

Malton & Driffield Junction Railway. Ref: N1914  

SOLD


Burton, W.
Large, 88 pages, illustrated, soft back.
Price: £9.95

Manchester London Road. Ref: N0335  

An illustrated historical survey of a great provincial station.
Hooper
Very large, 64 pages, pictorial, soft back.
Price: £8.95
 

The North Eastern Region. Ref: N3154  

Pictorial reminscences. PS5.
Goult.
Medium, 80 page album, a little narrative text, photos, map, soft back.
Price: £7.95
 

Northern Northumberland's Minor Railways: Volume One. Ref: N2834  

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 Three. Ref: N3153  

Sandstone, whinstone & gravel lines
Jermy.
Medium, 160 pages, maps, photos, soft back. **LP234C.
Price: £12.95
 

Northern Northumberland's Minor Railways: Volume Four. Ref: N3162  

Limestone industry lines.
Jermy.
Medium, 136 pages, maps, photos, soft back. **LP234D.
Price: £11.95
 

Past And Present No 41. Manchester And South Lancashire. Ref: N3921  

Manchester, Oldham, Bury, Bolton, Wigan, St Helens, Warrington
Shannon & Hillmer.
Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.
Out of print, last copy.
Price: £17.99
 

Past And Present No 43. West, East And North Lancashire. Ref: N1902  

Southport, Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Blackpool, Lancaster, Barrow.
Shannon & Hillmer.
Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.
Out of print, last copy.
Price: £17.99
 

Past And Present No 49. Yorkshire, The West Riding Part 2. Ref: N3043  

Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Wakefield, Penistone, Goole, Selby.
Hillmer & Shannon.
Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.
Out of print, last copy.
Price: £17.99
 

Past And Present No 50. North Staffordshire. Ref: N2028  

Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Rugeley, Colwich, Uttoxeter, Alton Towers, Cheadle.
Ballantyne.
Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view.
Out of print, last copy.
Price: £16.99
 

Rails To The Dales. Ref: N1953  

Skipton - Embsay - Bolton Abbey - Ilkley; Embsay Junction - Grassington; The Embsay Steam Railway; Quarry Tramways - Massa Flats and Haw Bank.
Binns.
Large, 72 pages, pictorial: photos, maps etcetera, soft back.
Price: £10.95
 

Railway Memories No 19 York To Scarborough, Whitby & Ryedale. Ref: N2760  


Chapman.
Large, 112 pages, pictorial, soft back.
Price: £13.95
 

Railway Memories No 24 Harrogate & Wetherby. Ref: N3875  


Chapman.
Large, 112 page album, soft back.
Price: £14.99
 

Railway Memories No 28 Tyneside. Ref: N3370  

And the Tyne Valley line.
Chapman
Large, 128 pages, pictorial, some colour, map, station layouts, soft back.
Price: £17.99
 

Railway Memories No 29 The Blyth & Tyne. Ref: N3507  

And associated colliery railways.
Chapman
Large, 112 pages, pictorial, map, station layouts, soft back.
Price: £15.99
 

The Railways Of Carnforth. Ref: N3239  

The town and its ironworks.
Grosse.
Very large, 173 pages, well illustrated with photos (some colour), track and signalling plans, large clear coloured maps, excellent drawings of the station buildings and signal box, time table extracts, glazed boards. **A well-presented local railway history. The ironworks closed in 1930; the works and its traffic get two of the fifteen chapters. The Brief Encounter connection also gets a chapter.
Price: £25.00
 

Ratty - A History Of The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway. Ref: N0512  


Gradon.
Medium, 49 pages, 2nd edition, revised. Soft back.
Price: £7.95
 

The Sand Hutton Light Railway. Ref: N3121  

Third revised and enlarged edition.
Hartley & Ingham.
Large, 228 pages, contemporary photographs and some recent colour, maps (also some colour), clear locomotive and rolling stock drawings, glazed boards. **A handsome third edition of this old favourite, originally produced for the NGRS by Ken Hartley in 1962. The railway was built by Sir R Walker at his family seat, Sand Hutton Hall in Yorkshire, as a 15 inch line. Subsequently it was enlarged to 18 inches and conveyed coal, agricultural produce and bricks. It closed in 1932, two years after Walker's early death.
Price: £29.96
 

Scenes From The Past 49. Delph, Saddleworth And Greenfield To Oldham. Ref: N2098  

Including Lees motive power depot motor trains and the OA&GB to Ashton.
Goddard & Wells.
160 pages, very large, many photo illustrations, large clear station track plans, some carriage drawings, soft back.
Price: £18.95
 

The Shrewsbury To Crewe Line. Ref: N3281  

A detailed history.
Yate.
Very large, 160 pages, photo illustrations, maps, soft back. **A thorough and solid line history.
Price: £23.99
 

Signal Boxes On Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Lines : North And West Of Manchester. Part One. Ref: N3068  

L&YR Western District Lines, Salford to Wigan (No 1) via Atherton, Salford to Euxton via Bolton and branches.
Littleworth.
Very large, 114 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), map, many signalling diagrams, soft back. ** This work is in two parts. The present volume includes the introductory sections and covers lines 1 - 5A, which formed part of the L&Ys Western District. Part Two (see SS3304) covers lines 6 - 10, which formed part of the Central District. The information for each box includes location, details of the equipment, brief history and opening times. For many boxes there is also one or more signalling diagram.
Price: £15.00
 

Signal Boxes On Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Lines : North And West Of Manchester. Part Two. Ref: N3304  

L&YR Central District Lines, Clifton to Bacup and Castleton to Bolton via Bury, Manchester (Irk Valley) to Radcliffe, Rochdale to Bacup and branches.
Littleworth.
Very large, 148 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), map, many signalling diagrams, soft back. ** This work is in two parts. This second part covers lines 6 - 10, which formed part of the Central District. The information for each box includes location, details of the equipment, brief history and opening times. For many boxes there is also one or more signalling diagram. For Part 1 - which included the introductory sections and covered lines 1 - 5A, which formed part of the L&Ys Western District - see SS3068.
Price: £15.00
 

South Shields, Marsden & Whitburn Colliery Railway. Ref: N1131  

OL120
Hatcher.
Medium, 128 pages, soft back.
Price: £9.95
 

South Yorkshire Joint Railway And The Coalfield. Ref: N0798  

OL33
Elliott, B J.
Medium, 183 pages, photo illustration and maps. Soft back. **First published as South Yorkshire Joint Railway in 1971; this is the second edition.
Price: £13.95
 

Steam On Merseyside ...And Beyond. Ref: N3509  


Bryant & Bannon.
Very large, 410 pages, photo illustrations with much period colour, glazed boards. **A compendium of information on Liverpool's railways in the 1960s. The mix includes spotting notes, railwaymen's reminiscences, traffic notes, locomotive performance, Grand National day, railtours and many photos of the wider area.
Price: £38.95
 

Steaming Ambitions. Ref: N1415  

The recollections of a Preston engineman.
Jackson, B.
Large, 96 pages, photo illustrations, map, hard back.
Price: £13.95
 

The Track Of The Ironmasters. Ref: N1860  

A history of the Cleator & Workington Junction Railway.
Gradon, W McG.
Very large, 72 pages, photos, track plans, gradient diagrams, map. **Line history, good value. Second edition with extra material by P Robinson.
Price: £8.95
 

Train Control And Passenger Workings On The L&YR. Ref: N2321  

LYR Focus 64.
Mills.
Very large, 114 pages, some photo illustrations, soft back. ** "The late Bob Mills actually worked for the L&Y Railway in the train control office at Manchester Victoria during the final years of its independent existence. During that period he made copious notes from primary documents of locomotive allocations and each individual locomotive duty roster. His records proved a unique insight into the daily workings of a major pre-grouping railway and are a major step forward in our understanding of how the L&Y operated."
Price: £9.95
 

The Tramways Of Lytham St Annes. Ref: N3152  

LP189.
Abell, Garnham & McLoughlin.
Medium, 128 pages, illustrated with photos and maps, diagrams, depot site plans, soft back. **System history.
Price: £8.95
 

The Wensleydale Branch. Ref: N1142  

A new history.
Jenkins.
Medium, 192 pages, soft back. Reissue.
Price: £12.95
 

Whitehaven. Ref: N2440  

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
 

Winsford And Over Branch. Ref: N0629  


Miller.
Medium, 104 pages. Soft back.
Price: £8.95
 

Yorkshire's First Main Line. Ref: N3749  

The Leeds & Selby Railway.
Dawson.
Medium, 112 pages, photos and illustrations from contemporary sources, chapter notes, bibliography, soft back. **A strangely neglected early railway which made provision for a four track main line but was largely closed down by George Hudson, its demise being arguably the fault of inexperienced management. A heroic failure!
Price: £15.00
 

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