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The Barry Railway. Ref: W3770  

Its docks & successors.
Mills.
Very large, 272 pages, maps, colour photos, glazed boards. **An original treatment of a company history, this volume sets out the purposes and development of the railway in the first 58 pages; the remainder of the book comprises a colour album section showing the lines in modern times, copiously annotated.
Price: £35.00
 

Barry Railway Steamers. Ref: W2011  

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
 

Behind The Steam. Ref: W1592  


Morgan, W & Meyrick, B.
Large, 222 pages + 16 pages of photo illustrations, hard back. **An old favourite - the reminiscences of Bill Morgan, who worked for the GWR at Neyland in Pembrokeshire, now in a new edition with extra photos.
Price: £14.95
 

British Railway History In Colour. Volume 1 : West Gloucester & Wye Valley Lines. Ref: W3113  


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 Railways : The First 25 Years. Volume 11 North Wales, Chester And The Wirral. Ref: W3833  


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
 

Cambrian Railways. Ref: W3112  

A new history.
Johnson, P.
Very large, 200 pages, photos, map endpapers, pictures of paperwork, ephemera etc (some colour), stock lists, bibliography. Paper-covered boards. ** Peter Johnson's history of the Cambrian, carefully researched and amply illustrated.
Price: £30.00
 

District Controller's View 2. Chester - Holyhead. Ref: W0765  


Williams.
Very large, 80 pages, soft back.
Price: £10.95
 

Festiniog Railway Volume Two. Ref: W0792  

Locomotives and rolling stock; quarries and branches: rebirth 1954-1974.
Boyd.
Medium, 329 pages + 54 pages photo plates, maps & diagrams in text, 2nd impression of 1975 edition. Hard back. ** "A history of the narrow gauge railway linking the slate quarries of Blaenau Ffestiniog with Portmadoc, North Wales: together with outline histories of quarry undertakings connected to the Railway". The British Narrow Gauge Railway series no 1. B1B
Price: £25.00
 

Festiniog Railway Locomotives. Ref: W1571  


"Taliesin"
Very large, 52 pages, many photo illustrations (some colour), soft back.
Price: £4.50
 

The Hendre Ddu Tramway. Ref: W3908  

'Blue stones and green trees'.
Quine.
Very large, 224 pages, illustrated with documents, maps and images from contemporary sources and photographs old and recent, glazed boards. ** History of an obscure narrow gauge railway built to carry slate to the Mawddwy Railway and of associated tramways and forestry in the neighbourhood. Each quarry is covered in detail and timber operations are described and there are chapters on rolling stock, permanent way and operating methods. Interesting photos and excellent clear maps add to the information.
Price: £35.00
 

Here Be Dragons. Ref: W3592  

A journey with steam to the end of the world.
Girdlestone.
Very large, 136 pages, photo illustrations, chiefly colour, maps, hard back. **Phil Girdlestone, who died untimely in 2016 at the age of 61, was a locomotive engineer, described by David Wardale in the foreword as "one of a small band of adventurers with steam for a vocation and anywhere in the world for a home - provided of course there was a steam railway nearby." Girdlestone chronicles his remarkable career, which started at the Festiniog in 1969 and took in Africa, Russia and South America, and describes his technical work in detail. A fascinating read.
Price: £33.95
 

History Of The Port Talbot Railway & Docks Company And The South Wales Mineral Railway Company Volume 1. Ref: W3064  

1853 - 1907.
Simmonds.
Very large, 258 pages, photo illustrations, maps, loco lists, locomotive and rolling stock drawings, hard back. ** Detailed history of two enterprises, the first an important player in the development of industrial South Wales, the second - a line taking coal to a new port at Briton Ferry - a less successful venture but a useful source of traffic to the PTR, who took it over. This volume takes the history of the lines to the point where they were taken over by the Great Western.
Price: £25.00
 

History Of The Port Talbot Railway & Docks Company And The South Wales Mineral Railway Company Volume 2. Ref: W3213  

1894-1971.
Simmonds.
Very large, 300 pages, photo illustrations, maps, loco list, hard back. ** Detailed history of South Wales enterprises. This volume continues the history of the companies from the point where they were taken over by the Great Western. It also covers the construction of the new dock at Port Talbot and continues the history under the GWR and BR. The railways were mostly closed by the 1960s but the docks and the industries around them continued to expand.
Price: £30.00
 

Industrial Tramways Of The Vale Of Llangollen. Ref: W3063  

LP238.
Thomas & Southern.
Medium, 72 pages, many photos, maps, bibliography, soft back. **Fascinating survey of the numerous obscure and often shortlived industrial (mostly quarry) lines around Llangollen.
Price: £9.95
 

The Llandudno & Colwyn Bay Electric Railway. Ref: W3144  

LP187
Turner, K.
Medium, 160 pages, photos, maps, fleet lists, soft back. **2nd edition. The only real tramway I ever travelled on, before the present tram revival that is. I found it spectacularly un-bus-like, partly because of the open top, but more because, after leaving the town conventionally on the road it would suddenly veer off into a field setting a cross-country course to Llandudno.
Price: £11.95
 

The Nelson And Ynysybwl Branches Of The Taff Vale Railway. Ref: W3155  

LP200.
Chapman.
Medium, 136 pages, photos, maps, extracts from large scale OS maps, time table extracts, rolling stock and structure drawings, soft back.
Price: £10.95
 

Neyland. Ref: W0857  

A Great Western outpost.
Parker.
Very large, 144 pages, photo illustrations, hard back. **Formerly known as New Milford, and the port of embarkation to Ireland from the Welsh coast.
Price: £19.95
 

North & West Route Volume 3A Hereford To Abergavenny Jct. Ref: W2773  


Hodge.
Very large, 140 pages, pictorial: photos, map, some large scale maps, hard back. **Third in the series on the North and West Route between Shrewsbury, Hereford and Newport (Maindee). This section of the route has been divided into two volumes to accommodate the large amount of photos available.
Price: £28.95
 

The Ocean Coal Company And "The Barry". Ref: W3877  

David Davies's extraordinary South Wales enterprises.
Shore.
Very large, 272 pages, photo illustrations, maps, glazed boards. **The "finest seams of coal in the world" were exploited by David Davies' Ocean Coal Co collieries in Rhondda Fawr and adjacent valleys; Davies was also "arch promoter" of the Barry Railway which transported the coal to the docks and became Great Britain's greatest shipper of coal. Closely researched and related in detail here is another engrossing history of South Wales rail and mining enterprise.
This work stands with the author's Peerless Powell Duffryn (W3015) and The Tredegar Company (W3566) as a chronicle of the "Big Three" South Wales coal undertakings.
Price: £35.00
 

Peerless Powell Duffryn. Ref: W3015  

Of the South Wales coalfield.
Shore.
Very large, 240 pages, many photo and other illustrations, colliery site plans, bibliography, glazed boards. ** The first full history of Powell Duffryn, Britain's foremost coal company.
Price: £24.99
 

Penmaenmawr: Rails Of Granite. Ref: W1505  


Hitches.
Very large, 52 pages, soft back.
Out of print, last copy.
Price: £5.95
 

Re-Shaping Rail In South Wales. Ref: W3696  

The railways of Briton Ferry and district - past, present and future.
Adams & Davies.
Very large, 288 pages, photos, including colour, maps, site plans, appendices, bibliography, soft back. **A compilation of history, enthusiasts', railwaymens' and locals' recollections, together with observations on future transport needs of the area.
Price: £25.00
 

Scenes From The Past 53. Return To Pwllheli Please. Ref: W2460  

Along the Cambrian coast.
Lowe.
120 pages, very large, many photo illustrations, station and junction track plans, soft back.
Price: £17.95
 

Slate Quarry Railways Of Gwynedd. Ref: W2630  

SOLD


Messenger.
Medium square, 96 pages, album with 3-page introduction and notes about the individual quarries, some colour, site maps, soft back. ** Interesting period photographs.
Price: £14.00

The South Wales Direct Line. Ref: W3603  

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
 

South Wales Main Line. Part 3. Cardiff (West) To Bridgend. Ref: W1907  


Hodge.
Very large, 100 pages, pictorial, hard back. **Survey of the main line in the 1950s and 60s.
Price: £22.95
 

South Wales Main Line. Part 4. Bridgend (West) To Swansea. Ref: W2101  


Hodge.
Very large, 172 pages, pictorial: photos, large scale maps, hard back. **Survey of the main line in the 1950s and 60s.
Price: £28.95
 

Special Traffic January - April 1962 Cardiff District. Ref: W2933  

A selection of special traffic notices from the Cardiff area.
Miller.
Medium, 148 pages, illustrated, soft back.
Price: £9.75
 

Steam In Mid Wales. Ref: W1826  


Hale, M.
Very large album, 284 photos on about 120 unnumbered pages, some maps, hard back. **A chronicle of the later years of steam. Includes much lineside detail.
Price: £25.00
 

Steam In South Wales. Ref: W587  

Series Index.
Hale & Miller.
Very large, 20 pages. Soft back.
Price: £3.75
 

The Swansea Vale Railway. Ref: W3567  

A Midland Railway outpost.
Miles, Thomas & Watkins.
Very large, 264 pages, photo illustrations, maps, plans, glazed boards. ** The authors produced a brief pictorial history of this line in 2004 : Midland Railway. Swansea Vale & Branches and have now assembled material for a full history, generously illustrated. The line ran from Swansea to Brynammon with several branches.
Price: £30.00
 

The Tredegar Company Ref: W3566  

One of the South Wales Coalfield's 'Big Three'.
Shore.
Very large, 208 pages, photo illustrations, maps, glazed boards. ** The Tredegar Company earned its wealth from iron and coal. This detailed history of the concern and its industries from early nineteenth century beginnings to NCB ownership is a sequel to the author's Peerless Powell Duffryn (W3015).
Price: £25.00
 

Trên Bach Y Llan, The Little Train To Llan Ffestiniog. Ref: W3900  

A history of the Festiniog & Blaenau railway, the area and its community.
Jones, C.
Very large, 208 pages, illustrated with documents, maps and images from contemporary sources and photographs old and recent, English text, although the foreword is also in Welsh, appendices, glazed boards. ** This handsomely illustrated history narrates the origins, construction, working and fate of the little narrow gauge railway opened in 1868 to connect Blaenau Ffestiniog with Llan Ffestiniog. The story ends in 1883, when the line was regauged to standard and became part of the Bala and Festiniog line of the GWR.
Already out of print, last few copies.
Price: £35.00
 

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