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South and South West England

Berkshire, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire, the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands.
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The Arrival, Departure And Return Of The Bodmin And Wadebridge Railway. Ref: SW2839

Burden.
Medium, 121 pages, photo illustrations (some colour), maps, soft back. **Line history together with detailed account of preservation activity.

Price: £7.50

Atlas Of The Southern Railway. Ref: SW3471

Harman & Nichols.
Very large, landscape, 224 pages, including a 68-page gazetteer, glazed boards.**Detailed maps of the SR network throughout its period of operation; completely comprehensive, including single and double lines, sidings, stations, tunnels, signalboxes, level crossings, bridges, viaducts and industrial lines.

Price: £30.00

The Axminster & Lyme Regis Light Railway. Ref: SW3453

OL160
Paye.
Medium, 144 pages, photos, map on back cover, locomotive, rolling stock and structure drawings, station plans, signalling diagrams, soft back.

Price: £13.95

The Barnstaple And Ilfracombe Railway. Ref: SW3859

LP111.
Maggs.
Medium, 136 pages, many photos, maps, timetable extracts, appendices, soft back. **Third edition of this detailed line history, with new photographs added.

Price: £15.95

Barry Railway Steamers. Ref: SW2011

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

Price: £14.95

The Bridgwater Railway. Ref: SW3137

LP132.
Harrison.
Medium, 96 pages, illustrated with photos, drawings and maps. Soft back. Out of print, one copy left.

Price: £4.95

Bristol-Radstock-Frome Line Ref: SW3062

LP237.
Maggs.
Medium, 240 pages, many photos, map, track plans, bibliography, soft back. **Thorough line history.

Price: £18.95

British Railway History In Colour. Volume 1 : West Gloucester & Wye Valley Lines. Ref: SW3113

Parkhouse
Very large, 280 pages, period colour album with introductory essays to each chapter, maps, hard back. ** Fresh colour material from the steam age continues to appear, but an truly astonishing amount has been gathered by Neil Parkhouse for the first volume of this ambitious series. It hardly needs to be said that most of it dates from the 1960s, but the range of sites and subjects is impressive. The cut-off date is the mid-seventies, when Gloucester Central was rebuilt.
Covers : Gloucester Central Station (west end), Llanthony Docks branch, Ledbury branch, Hereford, Ross and Gloucester line, Ross to Monmouth, Monmouth to Pontypool Road, Monmouth to Chepstow and Chepstow to Gloucester.
The next volume will cover the Forest of Dean. At present the series is not planned to extend beyond the Bristol and Gloucester area, although it is hoped other authors may be encouraged to extend the range.

Price: £25.00

British Railway History In Colour. Volume 3 : Gloucester Midland Lines Part 1 : North Ref: SW3586

Parkhouse.
Very large, 280 pages, period colour album with introductory essays to each chapter, maps, glazed boards. ** Another feast of unpublished colour material from the steam age, spanning the period from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s. This volume covers the Birmingham & Gloucester line south of Defford, the branches from Ashchurch to Evesham and Upton-on-Severn and Gloucester Eastgate station.

Price: £30.00

British Railway History In Colour. Volume 5B : Gloucester To Swindon And Branches Part 2 : Stroud To Swindon Ref: SW3913

Parkhouse.
Very large, 369 pages, period colour album with introductory essays, maps, glazed boards. ** More wonderful colour photos from the late 1950s to mid-1970s. The second and concluding part of the journey from Gloucester Central to Swindon starts at Stroud.

Price: £40.00

Built At Eastleigh. Ref: SW3263

An illustrated list of steam locomotives built of rebuilt 1910-1961.
Forge, G, (ed: Bowie)
Large, 32 pages, photo illustrations, soft back. *Includes a article on the historical background as well as the lists. Revised edition

Price: £4.95

Caradon & Looe. Ref: SW1422

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

Price: £16.00

Castleman's Corkscrew. Volume Two: The Twentieth Century And Beyond. Ref: SW2617

Including the railways of Bournemouth & associated lines. OL 144B.
Jackson, B L.
Medium, 320 pages, photos, maps, soft back. ** Castleman's Corkscrew was the Southampton & Dorchester Railway, 60 miles of rural line.

Price: £19.95

Culm Valley Light Railway. Ref: SW0187

Messenger, M.
Very large, 96 pages, many photos, graphs, line drawings and maps. Hard back. **History of pioneer light railway which survived into the 1970's.Tells the story of a Devonshire Light Railway engineered by Arthur Pain, which was later sold to the GWR.

Price: £15.00

Culm Valley Light Railway. Ref: SW2291

Tiverton Junction to Hemyock.
Maggs.
Medium, 144 pages, many photos, map, station layouts. Soft back. **A standard gauge light railway designed to test its promotor's scheme for building an economical railway. Promoted in 1872, completed eventually in 1876, the last passenger service ran in 1963 and the line closed in 1975 - had they managed to build it a bit faster it would have seen its centenary.-

Price: £11.95

Dorset Railways. Ref: SW1344

Gosling & Clement.
Medium, 126 page album, soft back. **Sutton's Photographic History Of Railways series.

Price: £10.99

Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway. Ref: SW1395

OL125
Maycock, R J & Silsbury, R.
Medium, 176 pages, illustrated with photos, maps, track plans, hard back. **A very solid line history.

Price: £14.95

Great Western Swindon. Ref: SW3091

Bryan, T (comp).
Medium, 128 pages, album, Archive Photographs series. Soft back.

Price: £9.99

Heathfield to Exeter (Teign Valley) Railway. Ref: SW0134

Pomroy, L W.
Medium, 160 photos, maps, drawings. Soft back.

Price: £9.95

Illustrated History Of Exmoor's Railways. Ref: SW0377

Smith, M.
Very large, 76 pages, maps, photos, time table extracts, soft back.

Price: £9.95

Isle Of Portland Railway Volume 3. Ref: SW0939

Railway associated and other bus services.
Jackson.
Medium, 224 pages, soft back.

Price: £13.95

Isle Of Wight Here We Come. Ref: SW3163

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

Price: £6.95

Isle Of Wight Railway. Ref: SW1211

OL109.
Maycock & Silsbury.
Medium, 240 pages, hard back. Out of print, one copy left.

Price: £19.95

The Jersey Eastern Railway. Ref: SW2346

OL143.
Paye.
Medium, 208 pages, photos, map, station layouts. Soft back.

Price: £14.95

The Lee Moor Tramway. Ref: SW0578

SOLD

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

The Minehead Branch 1848-1971. Ref: SW2882

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

The Minehead Branch And The West Somerset Railway. Ref: SW3156

LP206.
Maggs.
Medium, 176 pages, many photos, map, track plans, bibliography, soft back. **Thorough line history. Second, enlarged, edition.

Price: £12.95

The Newton Abbot To Kingswear Railway. Ref: SW3391

OL75.
Potts.
Medium, 352 pages, photos, map, plans etc, soft back. **Comprehensive line history.

Price: £19.95

North Devon Clay. Ref: SW3564

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

The Pannier Papers No 2. Ref: SW3733

The 57XX engines: 36XX, 37XX, 46XX.
Sixsmith & Derry.
Very large, 56 pages, captioned album with text notes, soft back. **Photos of GWR tank engines at work with class notes, remarks on detailing and liveries, and allocation listings.

Price: £12.95

Past And Present No 52. East Devon. Ref: SW2042

Mitchell.
Medium, 128 pages, soft back. **Matching pairs of "old" (mainly 50s and 60s) scenes contrasted with the present day view. Includes Exeter, Honiton, Axminster, Seaton, Sidmouth, Exmouth, Tiverton.

Price: £17.99

Past And Present No 53. North And West Devon. Ref: SW2175

Exeter, Crediton, Barnstaple, Ilfracombe, Okehampton, Tavistock, Lynton.
Mitchell.
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

Rails Across The Plain. Ref: SW3161

The Amesbury & Bulford branch; the Larkhill Military Railway.
Grayer.
Very large, 136 pages, maps, photos (some period colour), structure drawings, track diagrams, glazed boards.

Price: £19.95

Rails To Newquay. Ref: SW2501

Railways - Tramways - Town - Transport. OL148.
Vaughan.
Medium, 288 pages, photos, maps etc. Soft back. **An excellent local history. The first 60 pages give a brief history of the town, dwelling particularly on its industries and transport (including the charming Newquay Airport from which I once made an epic, but delightful, day trip to Essex). Subsequent chapters deal more fully with the Treffrey Tramway, the Newquay Tramway and harbour, the Cornwall Minerals Railway, the GWR and the numerous branch lines with which the area was blessed. Out of print, one copy left.

Price: £16.95

The Railways Of Purbeck. Ref: SW3911

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

Redlake Tramway & China Clay Works. Ref: SW1299

SOLD

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

Price: £8.00

Return To Ryde By Steam. Ref: SW2047

Volume 2.
Britton.
Very large, landscape 100 page colour album, glazed boards. **Full page period colour pictures of IOW lines in BR steam days. Volume 1 is titled Ryde By Steam; one further volume is planned.

Price: £18.99

An Illustrated History Of The Severn & Wye Railway Volume 5. Ref: SW3815

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

Price: £25.00

The South Wales Direct Line. Ref: SW3603

History and working.
Rendall.
Large, 208 pages, photo illustrations, some period colour, large-scale plans of station areas, signalling diagrams, soft back. ** A history of the GWR's direct line from London to South Wales, from the early 1900s onwards, focussing on the people who worked the line. It includes the 'Badminton' line route and all the stations and junctions between Patchway and the Severn Tunnel.

Price: £19.99

Weymouth To The Channel Islands. Ref: SW0800

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

Price: £13.95

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