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The Last Years Of British Steam. Second series. Ref: B625

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Ian Allan, 1973.
Large quarto, approx 200 page album of classic steam b/w photos mostly one or two per page, jacket, VG+.

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Price: £9.00

A Locomotive Engineer's Album. Ref: B97

Abdill, G B.
NY 1965, Bonanza.
Quarto, 190 pages, album, hardback, VG+. **Mostly locomotive photos with long detailed captions.

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Price: £10.00

Rails West. Ref: B62

Abdill, G B.
Superior, 1960. (Seattle).
4to, 191 pages, album of railroad pioneering. VG.

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Price: £14.00

The Collector's Book Of The Locomotive. Ref: B84

Alexander, E P.
New York; Bramhall House, 1966.
Quarto, 197 pages, illustrated throughout, some colour, VG. **Unusual subject covering not only toy and model locomotives but also locomotives in art, photography, china, advertising etc.

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Price: £9.00

British Pacific Locomotives. Ref: B579

Allen, C J.
Ian Allan, 1963.
Octavo, 240 pages, photo illustrations, hardback, VG.

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Price: £8.00

+ Trains Illustrated 1955. Volume 8. Ref: B665

Allen, G F (ed).
Ian Allan.
Octavo, 530 pages + index, art paper, non-standard blue pebble cloth binding damp-marked, endpapers browned, remaining contents VG+.

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Price: £23.00

On The Old Lines. Locomotives around the world. Ref: B580

Allen, P.
1958, 2nd edn, Cleaver-Hume.
Small quarto, 192 pages, 171 photo illustrations, jacket worn, book VG+. ** Best edition.

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Price: £9.00

+ BR Passenger Time Tables Eastern Region 1969-70. Ref: B664

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British Railways.

Large format, 364 pages, no map but includes 19-page August Bank Holiday supplement, tear to cover otherwise VG. **Excludes London suburban services. 5.5.69 - 3.5.70.

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Price: £6.00

+ BR Passenger Time Tables Western Region Winter 1956-57. Ref: B666

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British Railways.

Medium format, 400 pages, no map, spine worn, indentation on back cover, contents VG+. **17.9.56 - 16.6.57.

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Price: £10.00

BR Passenger Time Tables Southern Region Summer 1960. Ref: B630

British Railways.

Medium format, 996 pages, map, alterations leaflet loosely inserted, sound and complete, but covers stained and spine scruffy. **13.6.60 - 11.9.60, main lines and suburban.

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Price: £8.00

BR Passenger Time Tables Southern Region Summer 1961. Ref: B631

British Railways.

Medium format, 1000 pages, map, cover soiled, complete and reasonably sound, but a fairly downmarket copy featuring old sellotape on cover, wear, wrinkles etc. **12.6.61 - 10.9.61, main line and suburban.

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Price: £8.00

BR Passenger Time Tables Southern Region Winter 1960-61. Ref: B632

British Railways.

Medium format, 892 pages, map, complete and sound, but spine totally covered with ageing tape. **Main Line And Suburban 12.9.60 - 11.6.61.

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Price: £7.00

+ Outline Of Irish Railway History. Ref: B667

Casserley, H C.
D&C, 1974.
Octavo, 303 pages, photo illustrations, maps, track diagrams, stock lists, folding map, top edge of jacket worn and chipped, G+.

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Price: £12.00

+ A Southern Region Chronology And Record 1803-1965. Ref: B668

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Clark, R H.
Oakwood, 1964.
Octavo, 164 pages, illustrated, jacket a bit worn and torn, otherwise VG. **Contents: Acts of Parliament; Opening/closure dates (lines and stations); Electification dates; Station renamings; Widening of lines; Named and unusual trains and services; Signalling; Engineering works; Motive power; Time tables; Bibliography. Facts, facts.

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Price: £8.00

Portrait Of The Dart Valley Railway. Ref: B238

Dart Valley Light Railway.
DVLA/IA, 1978.
Quarto, 96 page photo album, glazed boards, VG.

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Price: £5.00

Railway History In Pictures:The Chilterns and Cotswolds. Ref: B264

Davies & Grant.
1977 D&C.
Large octavo, 96 page album, jacket, VG.

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Price: £6.00

Buses, Trolleys & Trams. Ref: B629

Dunbar, C S.
Hamlyn, 1968.
Quarto, 141 pages, copiously illustrated, some colour, jacket torn, book VG+. **History and development over the previous century and a half of public road transport in all its many forms. Includes many foreign systems.

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Price: £3.00

Some Classic Locomotives. Ref: B3

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Ellis, C H.
Geo Allen & Unwin, 1949.
Octavo, 173 pages + 24 pages photo illustrations & 8 coloured plates from paintings by author, tape repair to p100 offset on p101 with slight damage to margin. Cloth dull, but otherwise sound and complete, G+.

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Price: £6.00

Great Western Progress 1835 - 1935. Ref: B471

Great Western Railway.
D&C 1972 reprint.
Octavo, 180 pages, some photo illustrations, cloth, fine, but lacks jacket. ** Material from the Times Great Western Railway Centenary Number, as reprinted contemporaneously by the GWR.

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Price: £6.00

GWR Passenger Time Tables July - September 1900. Ref: B569

Great Western Railway.

Large format, 180 pages, no map (possibly as issued), original red/blue pictorial covers unskilfully covered with clear protective film, contents appear complete but rodent attack to the corners of about 15 leaves slightly affects the text on some pages. The copy embodies most possible defects : rather like "J" of Three Men In A Boat, who considered that as he suffered from every disease except housemaid's knee he would be invaluable to medical schools, this time table would set a testing exercise for trainee book cataloguers. It's not worth the effort, however, so I'll just say the time tables are mostly complete and it's a reasonable working copy.

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Price: £15.00

Industrial Archaeology Of Dartmoor. Ref: B546

Harris, H.
D&C, 1968.
Octavo, 239 pages, photo plates, map, some site plans, drawings, gazetteer of sites, chronology, affected by damp throughout: pages somewhat cockled and many stained, jacket and boards also marked; the marks are light brown and all text is clear; a reasonable working copy. **One of the useful D&C blue jacket series.

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Price: £5.00

Trains. Ref: B16

Henry, R S.
Indianapolis, Bobs-Merrill, 1947.
Large quarto, 119 pages, illustrated. Green cloth worn at edges, some browning to page edges, sound, G+. **Nicely produced work on history & operation of US railroads for the general reader.

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Price: £10.00

Phantoms Of The Railways. Ref: B319

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Herbert, W B.
D&C, 1988.
Octavo, 128 pages, jacket, top edge slightly affected by damp, otherwise VG. **48 ghost stories, all true, naturally. A sequel to the author's Railway Ghosts.

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Price: £4.00

Machines Mills & Uncountable Costly Necessities. A short history of the drainage of the fens. Ref: B597

Hills, R L.
Goose, 1967.
Quarto, 178 pages, photos, maps, jacket somewhat worn, generally VG.

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Price: £16.00

+ Industrial Archaeology Of Southern England. Ref: B671

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Hudson, K.
David & Charles, 1968; second edition.
Octavo, 268 pages, photo illustrations, maps and plans in the text, paperback edition, VG+. ** Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset and Gloucestershire east of the Severn.

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Price: £6.00

The Southern Era. A collection of photographs of locomotives. Ref: B594

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Judge, C.
OPC, 1972.
Octavo, 96 page photo album, limited edn 528/1000, hardback, faded on spine else VG.

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Price: £6.00

Pictorial Supplement To Denver South Park & Pacific. Abridged Edition. Ref: B627

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Kindig, R H & Haley, E J (text and captions).
Lakewood, Co, 1959 : Trowbridge Press.
Quarto, 416 pages, mostly photographic but includes a fair amount of text, map, loco lists, card covers, VG+. ** If the original was larger than this you can see why an abridgement might be called for. A pencil note (not ours) on the title page explains "excludes Ohio Pass chapter and colour plates". Shame about the colour pictures, but chances are they would have been paintings, not photographs.

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Price: £18.00

+ Outlines Of Railway Economics. Ref: B672

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Knoop.
Macmillan, 1925.
Crown octavo, 224 pages, cloth, ex-lib with usual detriment to endpapers, otherwise VG. ** "A man can work harder during the seventh hour of a ten hours' day than during the seventh hour of a twelve hours' day..."

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Price: £4.00

The Locomotive Magazine Volume 4, 1899. Ref: B520

Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 200 pages + supplements (including Dec 98 supplement), 4/4 coloured plates (3 folding), quarter leather, stout but very worn, sporadic light foxing throughout, some soiling of pages and endpapers. G+

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Price: £16.00

The Locomotive Magazine Volume 4, 1899. Ref: B523

Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 200 pages + supplements, no plates, bound with wrong February (1900) issue, Feb 99 is loosely inserted, quarter morocco binding slightly shaky, spine damaged and reinforced with clear tape, mostly clean and bright throughout. G.

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Price: £12.00

The Locomotive Magazine Volume 4, 1899. Ref: B524

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Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 198 pages, index, no supplements or plates, and has completely lost its binding (the inner spine and stitching remain firm), outer pages (to p1) are slightly browned, some marked and creased but remainder is clean and bright.

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Price: £8.00

The Locomotive Magazine Volume 5, 1900. Ref: B522

Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 204 pages, one supplement (incl 1 colour plate), 4/4 folding coloured plates/diagram, plates worn and torn at folds, foxing to front endpaper and occasionally throughout, edges browned, front hinges mostly broken, front endpaper split, first section a bit loose, black pebble cloth binding, dark purple cloth boards worn at edges, discoloured at top edge. Poor.

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Price: £12.00

The Locomotive Magazine Volume 6, 1901. Ref: B525

Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 212 pages, lacks all prelims, supplement, 2/2 folding coloured plates, endpapers soiled, pages lightly browned, quarter leather very worn and lacks backstrip, cloth boards in good order. G.

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Price: £14.00

The Locomotive Magazine Volume 7, 1902. Ref: B529

Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 212 pages + supplements (art paper), 3/3 folding coloured plates + coloured plate in supplement, endpapers browned, publisher's light binding in red decorated (loco) boards with red cloth backstrip. G+.

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Price: £16.00

The Locomotive Magazine Volume 7, 1902. Ref: B530

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Locomotive Magazine.

Quarto, 212 pages + supplements, including the four fairly rare carriage supplements, 3/3 folding coloured plates (mostly split at folds) + coloured plate in supplement, art paper, binding weak and loose, small tears at edges of many pages, some old tape repairs, publisher's decorated green cloth binding in fairly good condition. G.

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Price: £20.00

Locomotive Superheating And Feed Water Heating. Ref: B163

Locomotive, Railway Carriage & Wagon Review, supplement.
LPC, 1925, or thereabouts.
Folio, xx + 142 pages + plates (cutaway drawings, coloured to show steam flow), many photo illustrations and clear diagrams.**This Locomotive Magazine supplement appears complete but the cover is a mess. From various inscriptions it seems to have spent the war at Longmoor. It had a rather bad war, the spine has disintegrated and the cover is held together with brown paper tape, parcels, for the use of.

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Price: £20.00

+ On Either Side. Ref: B673

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London & North Eastern Railway.
LNER, 1939.
Square quarto, 76 pages + folding map, centre fold, oversize card covers rather grubby and well worn, contents VG+. ** "Depicting & describing features of interest to be seen from the train between London (King's Cross) & Edinburgh (Waverley) Fort William Inverness & Aberdeen". Lovely Frank Newbould cover. Fortunately although it has been folded down the centre as intended it has not been stored in this way so the damage of the years is not as serious as it might have been.

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Price: £8.00

+ The Birmingham And Gloucester Railway. Ref: B669

Long, P J & Awdry, W V.
Sutton, 1987.
Octavo, 305 pages, maps, some loco drawings, some photos of buildings. Hardback, jacket, near fine copy. **Detailed and erudite history of this early line.

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Price: £9.00

Vintage Railtours. Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. A pictorial record 1954-69. Ref: B602

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Morrison, G.
SLP, 1993.
Large quarto, 192 pages, photo illustrations, maps, jacket, fine. **Out and about with the Royal Corps of Train Spotters, vintage trains and even some shots of vintage gricers.

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Price: £9.00

British Railways In Action. Ref: B130

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Nock, O S.
Nelson, 1956.
8vo, 228pp, illus, performance tables, cloth, G+

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Price: £8.00

The County Donegal Railways. A history of the narrow-gauge railways of north-west Ireland - part one. Ref: B214

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Patterson, E M.
D&C, 1962.
Octavo, 157 pages + folding page of locomotive & rolling stock statistics, coloured frontispiece (Alice), photo and line illustrations, track diagrams. Jacket damaged at corners, book VG.

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Price: £12.00

Two Centuries Of Industrial Welfare. The London (Quaker) Lead Company 1692 - 1905. Ref: B623

Raistrick, A.
1977, Moorland, revised second edition.
Octavo, 168 pages + 8 pages of photo plates, maps, drawings, jacket, VG. ** The social policy and work of the "Governor and Company for smelting down lead with pit coal and sea coal" mainly in Alston Moor and the Pennines. First published 1938, this edition has an additional chapter on technical developments by the Company.

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Price: £5.00

A Handbook Of Railway Photography. Ref: B258

Siviter, R.
D&C, 1983.
Quarto, 135 pages, photo and some line illustrations, including 8-page colour section. Jacket. Fine. *Obviously the references to equipment are now somewhat dated and are irrelevant to digital photography. Nonetheless this tome offers useful advice and information about traditional equipment and processing, and the advice on composition, weather, night photography etc etc is of interest and inspiration to all.

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Price: £10.00

+ Legends Of The Glasgow & South Western Railway In LMS Days. Ref: B670

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Smith, D L.
David & Charles, 1986, 2nd impression.
Octavo, 176 pages, photo illustrations, maps, gradient diagrams. Glazed boards. Fine. **Reminiscences of a GSW locoman.

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Price: £10.00

The Great Railway Bazaar. Ref: B304

Theroux, P.
Hamish Hamilton, 1976, 3rd impression.
Octavo, 342 pages, map endpapers, faint stain on endpaper, jacket worn, generally VG. ** "Paul Theroux, posssessed of an idiosyncratic and wholly admirable love for trains and dislike for planes and buses, set out one day from Victoria Station, with the intention of boarding every train that chugged into view between London and Tokyo, and eventually making the return trip on the Trans-Sibererian Express." A classic which has inspired many exciting journeys.

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Price: £6.00

The Callander & Oban Railway. Ref: B416

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Thomas.
D&C, 1966.
Octavo, 200 pages, illustrated, no jacket, VG.

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Price: £10.00

Trains Illustrated 1967-69. Ref: B649

Trains Illustrated.
Ian Allan.
Octavo, approximately 288 pages, covers bound in, standard blue cloth with silver titling, mark on rear endpapers otherwise fine. **Six issues : Summer 1967; Winter 1967-68; Spring 1968; Summer 1968; Autumn 1968; Winter 1968-69.

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Price: £12.00

Portrait Of Steam. Ref: B368

Treacy, E.
Ian Allan, 1967.
Quarto, 200-page album, small damp marks on boards and endpapers, binding weakened but intact, contents clean, G.

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Price: £9.00

Railway Anthology. Ref: B146

Whitehouse
IA, 1965.
8vo, 223pp, dw, bright.

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Price: £8.00

Round The World On The Narrow Gauge. Ref: B591

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Whitehouse, P B & Allen, P C.
IA, 1966.
Large quarto, 159 pages, photos, hardback, VG. **Copiously illustrated survey of narrow gauge in all continents.

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Price: £6.00

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