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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

Alnmouth To Alnwick, Coldstream and Berwick (Country Railway Routes). Ref: N3850

Darsley & Lovett.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, gradient diagram, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Alnmouth To Berwick. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: N3822

Including the Seahouses and Tweed Dock branches.
Darsley & Lovett.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, large scale station maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

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

Barrow-In-Furness And Its Railway. Ref: N3783

Andrews.
Large, 150 pages, well illustrated with photos (some colour, mainly recent) and large clear coloured maps, soft back. **A history of the development of the railway, docks and industries at Barrow, particularly strong on the railway aspect.

Price: £15.50

Berwick To St Boswells (Country Railway Routes). Ref: N3547

Via Kelso. Including the Jedburgh branch.
Darsley & Lovett.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Birkenhead To West Kirby (Country Railway Routes). Ref: N3925

and on to Hooton.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Blackburn To Hellifield. (Northern Lines). Ref: N3502

The Ribble Valley line.
Matthews.
Medium, 96 pages, album : photos, area map (from RCH), large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Blackpool Trams. Ref: N3142

The first half century 1885 - 1932.
Abell & McLoughlin.
Medium, 224 pages, illustrated with photos and maps, diagrams, depot site plans, hard back. **History, strong on car details.

Price: £18.95

Bolton To Preston (Northern Lines). Ref: N3862

Including Horwich Locomotive Works and the Ribble Steam Railway.
Heavyside.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, gradient diagram, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

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

Branch Line To The Derwent Valley. Ref: N1376

Including the Foss Islands branch.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards. *Derwent Valley light railway, Yorkshire.

Price: £18.95

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 8 North East England. Ref: N3756

County Durham and North Yorkshire (between York and Newcastle).
Allan & Murray.
Large, 208 pages, album with area maps and notes, detailed captions, glazed boards. **Covers the North Eastern Region in Co Durham and North Yorkshire to the south of Newcastle and across to the coast from Sunderland down to Whitby and Scarborough.

Price: £22.50

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

British Railways Steam 1968. Ref: N3671

The final chapters
Leyland.
Very large, 256 pages, photo illustrations, some colour, appendices, glazed boards. **Opening in January 1968, a personal account of the activities of four Bolton colleagues making the most of the final months of steam.

Price: £25.00

British Small Mines (North). Ref: N0665

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

Buxton To Stockport. (Northern Lines). Ref: N3701

including Chinley and Peak Forest.
Shannon.
Medium, 96 pages, album : photos, area map (from RCH), gradient diagram, large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

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

Carlisle To Beattock (Scottish Main Lines). Ref: N3888

Including the Dumfries Branch.
Darsley & Lovett.
Medium, approximately 96 pages, album, photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Carlisle To Hawick (Scottish Main Lines). Ref: N2906

The Waverley Route.
Darsley & Lovett.
Medium, 96-page album, large-scale maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

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

Chester Northgate To Manchester. (Northern Lines). Ref: N3210

Via Hale and Sale.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, approximately 96 pages, album : photos, area map (from RCH), large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Chesterfield To Rotherham (Northern Lines). Ref: N3823

Via Sheffield.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, gradient diagram, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

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

Consett To South Shields. (Country Railway Routes). Ref: N3361

Via Beamish.
Darsley
Medium, 96-page album, large-scale maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Crewe To Wigan. (Northern Lines). Ref: N3591

Including Over & Wharton.
Hartless.
Medium, 96 pages, album : photos, area map (from RCH), large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Cumberland & Westmorland. Ref: N3274

Railway pictorial 1948-1968.
Dickson.
Very large, 96 page album, softback. **Fine collection of classic views from the early BR period with a good range of locations and motive power. Two-page introduction; informative captions. Out of print, last copy.

Price: £14.95

Darlington - Leamside - Newcastle (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: N2622

Darsley.
Medium, 96-page album, large-scale maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

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

Doncaster To Hull (Northern Lines). Ref: N3820

and Gilberdyke to Selby.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, gradient diagram, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Douglas To Peel (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: N2192

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

Price: £18.95

Douglas To Port Erin (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: N2406

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

Price: £18.95

Douglas To Ramsey (Narrow Gauge Branch Lines). Ref: N2407

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

Price: £15.95

The Eden Valley Railway. Ref: N3277

LP 201.
Western.
Medium, 128 pages, photos, maps, large scale OS extracts of station areas, time table extracts, soft back. **Kirkby Stephen to Penrith via Appleby. The line history concludes with notes on the present-day revival.

Price: £9.95

The Eleven Towns Railway. Ref: N0631

The Manchester And Leeds Main Line.
Wells.
Large, oblong, 96 pages. Soft back.

Price: £12.95

Furness Railway. Ref: N2946

A history.
Andrews.
Very large, 248 pages, well illustrated with photos, track plans, large clear coloured maps, drawings, glazed boards. **A properly researched history, essential reference for the Furness and remarkable value.

Price: £25.00

The Glasgow & South Western Railway. Ref: N3306

A history.
Ross.
Very large, 252 pages, maps, photo illustrations, chronology, bibliography, notes and sources, glazed boards. **A comprehensive history of the railways of south west Scotland, drawing on original sources and fully referenced, with clear purpose-drawn maps and site plans. The G&SWR played a vital role in the development of ironworks, coal mining, ferry-ports, fishing harbours, agriculture and holiday resorts, but was continually frustrated in its striving for monopoly in the area. Another entirely readable history by David Ross who has already chronicled the Highland, Caledonian and North British Railways and has made himself a niche as the historian of Scottish railways.

Price: £30.00

Gorton Tank. Ref: N3847

A pictorial review of the Gorton Locomotive Works, Manchester. 1847-1963.
Gosling.
Very large, 296 pages, profusely illustrated with official and unofficial photos, locomotive and structure drawings, site plan, short bibliography, glazed boards. **Originally the works of the MS&LR, Gorton works was owned successively by the Great Central, LNER and BR and was one of the finest locomotive workshops in the country, according to the author who worked there. His closely researched book is a review of the locomotive works itself, not just of its products (which are, of course, included).

Price: £30.00

Great Northern Outpost. Volume 3. Ref: N3803

Faded glory. The Bradford, Queensbury, Halifax, Thornton & Keighley lines.
Bairstow.
Large landscape, 112 page colour album, map, soft back. **Haunting period colour pictures, mostly one to a page, of freight and passenger operations by British Railways, infrastructure and landscape.

Price: £19.95

The Great Northern Railway In The West Riding. Part One. Ref: N3454

Doncaster - Wakefield - Leeds - Bradford. Dewsbury - Batley - Pudsey - Methley Joint.
Bairstow.
Large, 96 pages, photo illustrations, map, soft back. **Well-illustrated area history.

Price: £15.95

The Queensbury Lines. The Great Northern Railway In The West Riding. Part Two. Ref: N3455

Bradford - Halifax - Keighley. Halifax High Level - Shipley & Windhill.
Bairstow.
Large, 64 pages, photo illustrations, map, soft back. **Well-illustrated area history.

Price: £11.95

Hellifield & Its Railways. Ref: N1542

Wilson, A.
Medium, 128 page album of local photographs. Soft back.

Price: £10.99

Hexham To Carlisle. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: N2142

Including Alston and Brampton branches.
Darsley.
Medium, about 96 pages, album, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Hexham To Hawick (Country Railway Routes). Ref: N2907

The border counties railway.
Darsley & Lovett.
Medium, 96-page album, large-scale maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

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 British Railways' North Eastern Region. Ref: N2591

Teasdale (ed).
Very large, 192 pages, photos (some colour), drawings, glazed boards. ** This is the work of a number of authors. Background is supplied by a general history of BR and description of the organisation of the NE Region. This is followed by detailed studies of freight and passenger operations, locomotives, civil engineering, architecture, signalling and shipping.

Price: £19.95

History Of North Eastern Railway Architecture Volume 3. Ref: N1995

Bell and beyond.
Fawcett.
Very large, 256 pages, illustrated with photos (including 80 excellent colour pictures) and drawings, glazed boards. **"The aim ... is to look at the development of railway architecture on the North Eastern Railway and those companies which became part of it together with the story of the Architect's Office [originally established in 1854 under Thomas Prosser] down to 1995." This volume covers the history from 1877 to the present, examining the work of William Bell, Henry Field and the less well-funded LNER and BR architects, in particular the York Architect's Office. A serious work, nicely produced and excellent value. See also Volume 1, The Pioneers and Volume 2, A Mature Art.

Price: £23.95

A History Of The East Coast Main Line. Ref: N3582

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

Price: £25.00

History Of The 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

History Of The Newcastle & Carlisle Railway 1824 To 1870. Ref: N2509

The first line across Britain.
Fawcett.
Very large, 248 pages, illustrated with photos, contemporary illustrations and drawings, some colour, glazed boards. **The railway was opened in 1838 and is therefore very much an early railway in character, engineering and operation. Much of its interest derives from the fact that we can see how the directors, their engineers and officers were still learning the ropes and making up the rules as they went along. This is an excellent throrough history, and a nicely-produced book.

Price: £24.95

The Hope Valley Line Dore To Chinley Volume One. Ref: N3688

From the dawn of the railways to the end of the grouping in 1947.
Hancock.
Very large, 296 pages, photo illustrations, maps, boards. **This is the first of three volumes of material which Ted Hancock has gathered together to record the history of this line which crossed the north Peak District to connect Sheffield with the Midland line to Manchester. There are masses of photos, historic and recent, and good clear maps and diagrams.

Price: £30.00

Horwich Locomotive Works Re-Visited. Ref: N3825

Smith.
Very large, 192-page album, glazed boards. **This is an update of the author's earlier work Horwich Locomotive Works which is now out of print. It is a terrific photographic history of the Works.

Price: £20.00

The Huddersfield And Kirkburton Branch. Ref: N3146

LP202.
Fisher.
Medium, 80 pages, photos, maps, soft back.

Price: £6.95

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

The Hull & Barnsley Railway Volume 2. Ref: N3817

Expansion, pride, prosperity, eclipse.
Deacon.
Very large, 318 pages, generously illustrated with photos, contemporarary illustrations, double page line map, glazed boards. ** Volume 2 of this history chronicles the fortunes of the railway into the twentieth century : amalgamation with the NER and the grouping. There are also chapters on Springhead Works, major sheds, the Denaby and Wath branches, signalling and accidents, King George Dock and Neptune St depot in Hull. Some terrific images in both volumes.

Price: £35.00

Hull To Hornsea & Withernsea. (Country Railway Routes). Ref: N3668

Plus The Spurn Head Railway.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, photos, area map, time table extracts, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards. **The Spurn Head section is exceptionally interesting. That strange and remote peninsula is well worth a visit.

Price: £18.95

Hull To Scarborough. (Country Railway Routes). Ref: N3854

Including the Filey Holiday Camp branch.
Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, gradient diagram, time table extracts, glazed boards.
Dedication This album is dedicated to my dear friend and longtime co-author, Vic Mitchell, who sadly passed away at the beginning of 2021. We worked together for some 40 years producing over 300 titles in the Middleton Press series, evolving the 'ultimate rail encyclopedia'. Vic's enthusiasm was tireless, and I am sure he would wish that this legacy continues.

Price: £18.95

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

Illustrated History Of The Port Of Goole And Its Railways. Ref: N3466

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: N3626

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

Industrial Locomotives Of Lancashire Part A. The National Coal Board. Ref: N1162

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

Price: £7.50

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of County Durham Part 3. Ref: N3829

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: N3596

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: N3802

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 Of Manvers Main And Barnburgh Main. Ref: N0357

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: N0353

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: N1417

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

The Ingleton Branch. Ref: N3873

A lost route to Scotland. LP175.
Western.
Medium, 104 pages, photos, maps, large scale OS extracts of station areas, time table extracts, soft back. **The Lune Valley Line was built by the Lancaster & Carlisle Railway between Ingleton and Low Gill, thus completing a route to Carlisle west of and parallel to the Settle & Carlisle line. Well illustrated line history and description. The book was first published in 1971 as The Lowgill Branch, this is the third edition.

Price: £14.95

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

King's Cross Station. Ref: N3016

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

Price: £14.99

Kingston-upon-Hull. Images Of A Rich Transport Heritage. Ref: N3506

Road - rail - water.
Stead.
Large, 112 page album, soft back. **A fine assemblage of photos - mostly taken by the author in the 1950s and 1960s - of buses, trains and ships.

Price: £15.99

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Miscellany 2. Ref: N2202

Coates.
Very large, 188 page album. Soft back.

Price: £18.95

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Signalling. Ref: N1529

Wray, T.
Very large, 64 pages, illustrated with photos and many line drawings and diagrams. Soft back. LYR Focus No 3. **Last copy at the old price, we must have had it a while, it is a little darkened at the edges.

Price: £7.95

Lancaster's Line To The Sea. Ref: N3883

A history of the Glasson Branch of the LNWR.
Richardson.
Very large, 87 pages, excellent coloured maps and structure drawings, signalling diagrams, photo illustrations, soft back. ** Good line history, including route description and details of operation, signalling and rolling stock. And doubly interesting for being a harbour line.

Price: £15.00

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 To Selby And Goole. (Northern Lines). Ref: N3926

Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96 pages, album : photos, area map (from RCH), large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

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

Limestone Industries Of The Yorkshire Dales. Ref: N1407

Johnson, D.
Medium, 192 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), diagrams of kilns etc. Soft back. **A wide-ranging history of the industry in the area.

Price: £16.99

Lincoln To Doncaster. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: N3562

Featuring Gainsborough.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96 pages, album : photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

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 & Manchester Railway Atlas. Ref: N3808

Brown.
Very large, 186 map pages + unpaginated (c50 pages) station and site index, glazed boards. A new atlas by the master of the indispensible London and Birmingham & West Midlands atlases. This one covers an area bounded by the Irish Sea and the Pennines north from Buxton as far as Fleetwood and provides the same detailed mapping to be found in the earlier atlases. The detail embraces tracks and platforms and overall provides a diagrammatic representation of the area's railway history. All maps give current and past track detail with dates, and the index gives opening and closure dates and other details. As well as the railway network the atlas maps the many past and present tramway systems of the area.

Price: £30.00

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

Liverpool To Runcorn. (Northern Lines). Ref: N3889

Including branches to Garston, Widnes and Warrington.
Hartless.
Medium, 96 pages, album : photos, area map (from RCH), large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

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 And Railways Of The Mersey Docks & Harbour Board. Ref: N3589

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

Manchester & Leeds Railway. Ref: N1436

The Calder Valley line.
Bairstow.
Large, 104 pages, photos, maps. Soft back.

Price: £10.95

Manchester To Bacup (Northern Lines). Ref: N3776

Including Bury and the East Lancashire Railway.
Heavyside & Mitchell.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, gradient diagram, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Midland Railway Outpost. Ref: N3709

Lancaster - Morecambe - Heysham.
Bairstow.
Large landscape, 112 page colour album, map, soft back. **Some lovely period colour pictures, mostly one to a page, of freight, passenger and maritime operations by British Railways.

Price: £21.95

Midland Railway. Ref: N1550

On old picture postcards.
Waite, G.
Medium, 36 pages, album, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes during the past century, with informative captions." Many station views of course, but lots of other subjects, starting naturally with the Sun Inn at Eastwood. But who could possibly have wanted to send anyone a postcard featuring Toton sidings?

Price: £3.50

Midland Steam Journey Volume Two. Ref: N3075

Conway.
Medium, 154 page album, photos, map, hard back. **Album of the author's photographs, based on an imaginary London Midland Region journey from Crewe to Carlisle.

Price: £19.99

Millom. Ref: N3032

A Cumberland iron town and its railways.
Atkinson.
Very large, 112 pages, excellent coloured maps, station and junction plans etc, drawings of structures, photos (some colour), soft back. ** Attractive local history. It is predominantly a railway book.

Price: £14.00

Morpeth To Bellingham (Country Railway Routes). Ref: N3546

And the Rothbury branch.
Darsley & Lovett.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Narrow Gauge Album 1950-1965 In Colour. Ref: N3786

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: N3715

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

New Mills To Sheffield And Hayfield. (Northern Lines). Ref: N3778

Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album, photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, gradient diagram, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Newcastle To Alnmouth. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: N3699

and the Amble branch.
Darsley & Lovett.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, large scale station maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Newcastle To Hexham. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: N2488

Including the Allandale branch.
Darsley.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, large scale station maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

The North British Railway. Ref: N3285

A history.
Ross.
Very large, 288 pages, maps, photo illustrations, chronology, bibliography, notes and sources, glazed boards. **The first continuous chronological account of the company, from its pre-history, its incorporation as a joint stock company (eventually Scotland's biggest), to its assimilation into the LNER, and of its important role in the unevenly expanding economic life of Scotland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author has already produced thorough histories of the Highland and Caledonian Railways and this eminently readable book is a worthy successor.

Price: £30.00

North Eastern Railway Branch Lines : Lesser Railways Around Darlington. Ref: N3620

Fighting Cocks, Croft Depot, Forcet and Merrybent Branches.
Maynard.
Very large, 96 pages, well illustrated with photos (a few in colour), drawings, signalling diagrams, station layouts, time table extracts, map, bibliography, soft back. **Useful line history.

Price: £12.95

North Eastern Railway Engine Sheds. Ref: N3791

Addyman (ed).
Very large, 216 pages, maps, photos, yard and shed plans and track layouts, drawings of structures, some illustrations coloured, bibliography, glazed boards. **A comprehensive site by site descriptive survey of NER sheds is preceded by notes on turntables, coaling, water supply, working conditions et cetera. Invaluable reference.

Price: £24.95

The North Eastern Railway In The First World War. Ref: N3205

Langham.
Medium, 186 pages plus 16 pages of photo plates, hard back. **In addition to the mighty staffing changes - 34% of the NER workforce were released for military service while the number of female staff was more than quintupled - the NER had its own war work, including the Darlington National Projectile Factory, and its own encounter with the enemy when the Imperial German Navy bombarded Whitby, Scarborough and Hartlepool damaging the railway and killing four of its staff.

Price: £18.99

A History Of North Eastern Railway Signalling. Ref: N3678

2nd impression with minor corrections.
Mackay (editor).
Very large, 320 pages, illustrated with photos (some colour), structure drawings, signalling diagrams, extensive bibliography, glazed boards. **The history and development of railway signalling in north east England from the earliest waggon-ways to the highly complex installations of the first decade of the 20th century, continuing to 1922. It omits the Hull & Barnsley Railway (which has its own book) and private industrial lines after the formation of the NER.

Price: £27.00

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

A North Lancashire Railway Album. Ref: N3199

From the cameras of Ian and Alan Pearsall.
Gilpin.
Very large, 112 pages, clear coloured maps, photos, glazed boards. ** More excellent black & white photos taken during the 1950s.

Price: £14.50

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 Two. Ref: N2835

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

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

The Peak Forest Tramway. Ref: N3819

Including the Peak Forest Canal. LP38.
Ripley.
Medium, 80 pages, illustrated with photos and maps, very detailed chronology, soft back. 4th revised edition. **The canal and tramway were built in the late C18 - early C19 to bring limestone from the peak district to Manchester, a fascinating operation.

Price: £13.95

Piercing The Pennines. Ref: N3853

Heroic railways linking Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Joy.
Large, 127 pages, map, photo illustrations, hardback. **Nicely illustrated history of the railway tunnels between Walsden and Littleborough (Summit), and at Woodhead, Standedge, Totley and Cowburn, opening with a short examination of pioneering canal tunnels in the area.

Price: £19.99

The Pilling Pig. Ref: N3672

A history of the Garstang & Knott End Railway.
Richardson.
Very large, 112 pages, excellent coloured maps and station plans, structure drawings, signalling diagrams, photo illustrations, soft back. ** Good line history, including route description and details of operation and rolling stock.

Price: £15.00

Rails Along The Derwent. Ref: N3123

The story of the Derwent Valley Light Railway.
Stockwell & Drummond.
Very large, 160 pages, pictorial: photo illustrations, some period colour, excellent clear specially drawn maps and station plans, bibliography, glazed boards. **Richly illustrated line history.

Price: £22.95

Railway Memories No 14 Selby & Goole. Ref: N1118

Chapman.
Large, 112 pages, pictorial, map, soft back.

Price: £12.95

Railway Memories No 15 Pontefract, Castleford & Knottingley. Ref: N1429

Cookson, P & Chapman, S.
Large, 112 pages, pictorial, map, soft back.

Price: £12.95

Railway Memories No 18 Cleveland & Whitby. Ref: N2759

Chapman.
Large, 112 pages, pictorial, soft back.

Price: £13.95

Railway Memories No 20 West Riding Steam Pictorial. Ref: N2515

A photographic journey
Anderson.
Large, 112 page album, soft back.

Price: £13.95

Railway Memories No 25 Steam Age Diesels Across Yorkshire. Ref: N2908

Firth & Cookson.
Large, 96 page album, soft back.

Price: £13.95

Railway Memories No 27 Sheffield. Ref: N3047

Chapman
Large, 128 pages, pictorial, some colour, map, station layouts, soft back.

Price: £16.99

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

Railway Memories No 30. Chesterfield Staveley. Ref: N3722

And the Hope Valley.
Chapman
Large, 128 pages, pictorial, map, station layouts, soft back. **A collection of steam-era black and white photos from the Chesterfield area.

Price: £17.99

Railway Snowploughs In The North East. Ref: N3240

Williamson & Williamson.
Very large, 88 pages, well illustrated with photos (a few in colour), drawings, map, soft back. **Because of the exposed position of many of its lines the North Eastern Railway needed a fleet o f 24 heavy-duty snowploughs to drive through the deep drifts that accumulated. This book traces the history of the snow ploughs in the north east from before the blocking of th East Coast main line in 1886/88 to British Railways days, as well as LNER proposals, post-nationalisation deliberations and the North Eastern Region ploughs. Snow plough developments elsewhere in Britain are compared with north eastern equipment. Working methods are described, as is the disruptive influence of snow on the railways of the north east.

Price: £12.95

Railway Track Diagrams 2. Eastern England. Ref: N3530

Fourth Edition.
-
Very large, 50 map pages, coloured + about 18 pages index, bibliography etc, soft back. **Fourth edition.

Price: £15.95

Railway Track Diagrams Book 4. Ref: N3224

Midlands & North West.
Bridge (ed).
Very large, 52 map pages + 17 pages of text: introduction, index (gazetteer) and other information, coloured diagrams, area index map, soft back. **Third edition.

Price: £15.95

Railway Track Diagrams Book 5. Ref: N3727

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

Price: £15.95

Railways In East Yorkshire. Volume One. Ref: N0018

Bairstow, M.
Large, 96 pages, photo illustrations. Soft back. *2nd edition.

Price: £10.95

Railways In West Yorkshire. Ref: N3252

Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield & the West Riding.
Haigh.
Very large, 80 pages, maps, photos, network diagram, time table extracts, soft back. ** An illustrated general history of the railways in the West Riding from the grouping to the present time.

Price: £13.95

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

The Railways Of Manchester. Ref: N3840

The evolution and development of the city's railways.
Chard.
Very large, 272 pages, photo illustrations (much in colour), maps, glazed boards. **A thorough examination of the railways, trains, tramways, stations, depots and railway builders of the region over two centuries, including many industrial and narrow gauge lines. A tour de force, with some fine photographs, essential reference and very readable. Should be on everyone's bookshelves.

Price: £40.00

Railways, Ports and Resorts Of Morecambe Bay. Ref: N3760

Including the Ulverston Canal.
Biddle.
Medium, 64 pages, photos and illustrations from contemporary sources, some modern colour, bibliography, soft back. **Railways transformed Morecambe Bay, creating the industrial town of Barrow, the resorts of Grange-over-Sands and Morecambe and culminating in the new deepwater port at Heysham. The author also chronicles the forgotten ports of Milnthorpe, Greenodd and Ulverston (with its ship canal) and the Leven, Kent and Bela viaducts. Some super double-page photos.

Price: £10.00

Railways Through Summer Wine Country. Ref: N3253

Huddersfield - Penistone - Barnsley - Sheffield.
Haigh.
Very large, 76 pages, maps, line diagrams, photos, time table extracts, soft back. ** An illustrated general history of the railways in the South Yorkshire area from the grouping to the present time. NB. Although the text and photographs are clear, the maps and other non-photographic illustrations have not printed well : in most the blacks are greyish and in some the effect is distinctly smudged. All are perfectly readable. It appears to be a fault affecting the entire print run.

Price: £12.95

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

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

Price: £7.95

The Rishworth Branch. Ref: N3827

LP 174.
Fisher.
Medium, 80 pages, photos, maps, soft back. **History of the Lancashire & Yorkshire branch from Sowerby Bridge reprinted.

Price: £13.95

Manchester To Crewe Part Three. Ref: N3887

Stockport & Wilmslow to Crewe via Alderley Edge, Chelford, Goostrey, Holmes Chapel & Sandbach.
Johnson.
152 pages, very large, many photo illustrations, diagrammatic area map, massive 4-page fold-out plan of Crewe Works, soft back. **The first two parts of this work were published in the Scenes From The Past series. It covers traction ancient and modern and looks at the infrastructure. Strong on Crewe and the Works.

Price: £21.95

Scunthorpe To Doncaster. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: N3698

Including the Axholme Joint Railway plus the Whitton and Elsham lines.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96 pages, album : photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

Shrewsbury To Crewe. (Midland Main Lines). Ref: N3208

Including the Tattenhall route.
Mitchell & Smith
Medium, approximately 96 pages, album: photos, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

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

Skinningrove Iron And Steel Works. Ref: N3013

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

South Lynn To Norwich City. (Country Railway Routes). Ref: N3363

Via Melton Constable.
Adderson & Kenworthy.
Medium, 96-page album, large-scale maps, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

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

St Boswells To Berwick. (Country Railway Routes). Ref: N3362

Via Duns. The Berwickshire Railway.
Darsley & Lovett.
Medium, approximately 96 pages, album: photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

The St Helens & Wigan Junction Railway. Ref: N3288

Sweeney.
Very large, 120 pages, well illustrated: photos (some colour), large scale maps, track diagrams, time table extracts, lists, hard back. ** The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway pursue their challenge to the LNWR in south Lancashire. The new line, first projected in 1877, was opened in 1890 with intermediate stations at Haydock, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Haydock Park and Golborne, serving the race course at Haydock Park and several collieries.

Price: £24.00

Stafford To Chester. (Midland Main Lines). Ref: N3364

Featuring Crewe.
Mitchell & Smith.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, maps, large-scale maps of station areas, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

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

Sunderland's Railways. Ref: N3705

OL163 third edition.
Sinclair.
Very large, 124 pages, including a 70-page album section, photos, area maps, drawings, bibliography, soft back. **First published in 1985 as The Railways Of Sunderland, second edition 1986, and now brought up to date, a good local history of an area where railways have a long history.

Price: £22.50

Swanscombe Cement Works And Its Railways. Ref: N3894

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

Teesside Cast Products. Ref: N3482

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

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

Wennington To Morecambe And Heysham. (Northern Lines). Ref: N3845

Via Lancaster.
Davies.
Medium, 96-page album: photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

West Yorkshire Railway Stations. Ref: N1400

On old picture postcards.
Ellis, N.
Medium, 36 pages, album, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the past century, with informative captions."

Price: £3.50

The Wigan Junction Railways. Ref: N3214

Sweeney.
Very large, 127 pages, well illustrated: photos (some colour), large scale maps, track diagrams, hard back. ** "The trials of constructing a railway from Glazebrook to Wigan were to test the resolve of the Wigan Company to the limit and without the financial clout of their paymasters, the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, they would have undoubtedly floundered in the attempt."

Price: £24.00

The Woodhead Route. Ref: N3271

Whitehouse.
Large, square, 96 pages, pictorial, full colour, maps, glazed boards. **A sixteen page history is followed by a colour album of scenes along the system.

Price: £22.50

Wrexham To New Brighton. (Country Railway Routes). Ref: N3212

Including Connah's Quay and Chester Northgate.
Mitchell & Robertson.
Medium, approximately 96 pages, album: photos, area map, large-scale maps of station areas, time table extracts, glazed boards.

Price: £18.95

York To Scarborough. (Eastern Main Lines). Ref: N2993

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

Price: £18.95

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, it's demise being arguably the fault of inexperienced management. A heroic failure!

Price: £15.00

Branchlines Of The L & Y R No 9: The Colne Branch. Ref: N0412

Coates & Harrison.
Large, 44 pages, illustrated with photos and plenty of maps and track diagrams. Soft back. **One of a series of studies of branch lines produced by the L&YR Society.

Price: £4.95

Branchlines Of The L & Y R No 12. Hollinwood Branch. Ref: N0716

A history of the L&Y's line form Thorpe's Bridge Junction to Oldham Werneth.
Wells.
Large, 24 pages, illustrated with photos and plenty of maps and track diagrams. Soft back. **One of a series of studies of branch lines produced by the L&YR Society.

Price: £4.95

British Rail Northern Scene. Ref: N2224

A 1970s railway album
Sparks, A.
Large, 154-page album with brief essays, hard back. **The seventies in grimy monochrome, very nostalgic. Suddenly they seem a very long time ago.

Price: £19.99

Conside Trilogy. Ref: N2917

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

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

Cumbrian Railway Album. Ref: N2876

From the cameras of Ian and Alan Pearsall.
Gilpin.
Very large, 112 pages, excellent coloured maps, photos, glazed boards. ** First-rate black & white photos taken during the 1950s.

Price: £14.50

Dalton-In-Furness, Mediaeval Capital To Mining Community. Ref: N2250

The story of the ancient capital of Furness and the influences which gave it importance.
Battye.
Very large, 69 pages, photos, signalling and track plans, maps, drawings. **Part of the Cumbrian Communities And Their Railways Series; despite the title this is a local railway history which pays plenty of attention to its earlier historical setting, rather than a local history with railway accompaniment. Excellent value.

Price: £8.45

Groudle Glen Railway. Ref: N1934

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

High Level Bridge And Newcastle Central Station. Ref: N1573

150 years across the Tyne.
Addyman, J & Fawcett, W.
Very large, 152 pages, illustrated with photos and contemporary prints (some colour), good structural drawings, maps, diagrams. Soft back. **Nicely done and thorough local history.

Price: £9.95

Industrial Railways And Locomotives Of South Yorkshire The Coal Industry - 1947-1964. Ref: N2621

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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: N2417

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

Lancashire Union Railway. Ref: N2821

Also includes the Lancashire Union and Lancashire & Yorkshire joint lines.
Sweeney.
Very large, 160 pages, well illustrated: photos (some colour), large scale maps, hard back.

Price: £25.00

Little North Western Railway - Skipton North Junction - Lancaster Volume I. Ref: N1495

Also The Ingleton - Low Gill Branch (L & NWR).
Binns, D.
Medium, 94 pages, pictorial, soft back. **A Locomotives International Special.

Price: £10.95

London & North Eastern Railway In Focus. Ref: N1021

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

Price: £25.00

Peat Railways Of Thorne And Hatfield Moor. Ref: N0356

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

Railways Of Ryedale. Ref: N1848

Malton - Gilling - Coxwold - Pilmoor; Gilling - Helmsley - Kirbymoorside - Pickering.
Howat, P.
Large, 112 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), station diagrams, map, soft back.

Price: £12.95

Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale. Ref: N1794

Leeds - Bradford Forster Square - Keighley - Skipton - Otley - Ilkley - Grassington - Worth Valley.
Bairstow, M.
Large, 112 pages, photo illustrations, maps, soft back.

Price: £12.95

Royal Visit To Crewe Works. Ref: N2072

An album of photographs edited by Edward Talbot.
Talbot.
Large, 48 pages, splendid photos, soft back. **A lucky survival of a souvenir album from a royal visit in 1913. The author notes: The photographs give a glimpse of life in England before the Great War; of the respect accorded to the royal family and of the enormous effort expended to make the visit a great success; of the working conditions of industry; of the interior of steel works, foundries, forges and machine shops; of the organisation of the works of a great railway and of engineering in the age of coal.

Price: £9.90

Ulverstone And Lancaster Railway. Ref: N2597

The challenge of Morecambe Bay.
Gilpin.
Very large, 95 pages, maps, photos (some colour), viaduct drawings, numerous track plans, soft back.** First-rate local history.

Price: £13.50

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

Wigan Branch Railway. Ref: N2784

Also includes the Platt Bridge and Bamfurlong Junctions Railways.
Sweeney.
Very large, 200 pages, well illustrated: photos, large scale maps, track diagrams, hard back. **A good line history.

Price: £28.00

Wirral Railway. Ref: N2690

And its predecessors.
Maund.
Large, 240 pages, many photo illustrations, some drawings and maps, hard back. **This is the first comprehensive history of the little railway which serves the far end of the Wirral, running between West Kirby and Wallasey and Birkenhead.

Price: £24.99

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