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By: Aitken, Jno (District Inspector)
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Glasgow, SB Aitken:
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 022261
Condition: Very Good
112pp, illustrations. Small softback, staples slightly rusty, light ageing, overall a VG copy of a scarce publication. Undated, circa 1944. View more info
By: Anon
Price: £75.00
Publisher: London, The London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London): 1913
Seller ID: 017118
Condition: Good
18pp + 444pp + 238pp. This volumes appears to be 3 documents bound together, relating to lectures and classes at the LSE for the session 1912-13. The 18pp section at the front is a mini prospectus of courses offered and previous students and their railway companies. Bound in are 2 further documents:- : 1st July 1913: Section 1: General Railway Classification of Goods By Merchandise Trains; Section 2: Special Classification of Explosives and Other Dangerous Goods By Merchandise Train. 1st January 1912: Special Instructions Relating to Goods, Mineral and Live Stock Traffic. An index to sections1... View more info
By: Anon
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Surrey, Ian Allan Publishing: 2011
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 021527
ISBN: 0711036551
Condition: Very Good
2011 reprint. Laminated boards, a VG clean copy. In 4 parts covering steam locomotives by pre-nationalisation company, plus sections on BR standards, Pullman Cars, Electric Units, DMUs. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, The Baynard Press: 1954
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 022022
Condition: Good+
59pp + 7pp plates at rear. bibliography, 5 data tables, plates. Brown cloth boards, slight mottling to rear, gentle crease to upper front corner of whole book, light ageing, a few marks, overall a Good+ copy. This is the second revised edition and stated to be for private circulation only. Includes a separate publication, 'Trinidad Lake Asphalt: Its Value as a Paving Material', a Trinidad Lake Asphalt publication (undated, illustrated, VG copy).Scarce. View more info
Price: £17.00
Publisher: Yeovil, OPC: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022578
ISBN: 0860935043
Condition: Very Good
144pp, index, black and white photographs and drawings throughout. Black boards, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Bick, David E.
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Newent, The Pound House: 1975
Edition: Reprint
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 020191
ISBN: 0950204013
Condition: Very Good
52pp, glossary, 3 appendices, drawings and photographs. Softback, card covers, light reading and edge wear, a VG copy. Flat signed by the author on 1/2 title page. View more info
By: Booth, AJ
Price: £16.50
Publisher: East Yorkshire, Industrial Railway Society: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021003
ISBN: 0901096822
Condition: Very Good
96pp, 4 appendices, map, track plans, black and white photographs throughout. Softback, light reading wear, a VG copy. Monograph of the railways in and around Seaham, a few miles south of Sunderland, the town had 3 collieries, 2 inclines, a wagon works, an NCB training centre and an antiquated harbour dock. View more info
By: Bush, KG
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018697
ISBN: 0632022264
Condition: Very Good
vi + 138pp, index, glossary, appendix, illustrations. Blue boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Carling, DR
Price: £10.00
Publisher: The Newcomen Society: 1973
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 017475
Condition: Good
78pp +2pp photographs at rear, illustrated with drawings, charts and tables, references. Blue card covers, stapled, paper spine is frayed and torn with some loss, otherwise a VG copy with light ageing only. In 2 parts, both read at a joint meeting with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, on 22 November 1972 and 16 May 1973. Uncommon. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Burke Publishing Co Ltd: 1952
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021852
ISBN: 0287669890
Condition: Very Good
xvi + 352pp, 8 colour plates, 8pp black and white plates, linings and diagrams in text, crests and coats-of-arms throughout. Black boards, spine dulled, light wear overall, some foxing mainly to page edges, overall a VG copy of the first edition, no dustwrapper. Useful reference for the railway modeller. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Usk, The Oakwood Press: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 030683
ISBN: 0853616884
Condition: Very Good
120pp, index, bibliography, 2 appendices, black and white photographs. Softback, a VG copy. View more info
By: Chapman, Colin
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Wales, Welsh Railways Research Circle: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022486
ISBN: 0952726734
Condition: Very Good
iv + 92pp, bibliography, index, 4 appendices, maps, track plans, photographs, some in colour. Green boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Cole, Beverley / Scott, Andrew / The Guild of Railway Artists
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Cornwall, Atlantic Publishers: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021036
ISBN: 1902827104
Condition: Very Good
127pp, index, biographies, colour illustrations throughout. Landscape format, blue boards, slight bumping to lower front corners, a VG copy in a price-clipped dustwrapper. View more info
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, A & C Black Publishers Ltd: 1996
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 021276
ISBN: 0713634200
Condition: Good
ix + 291pp, index, drawings, charts, illustrations. Landscape format softback, reading creases to spine and covers, a few marks to contents, overall a Good tight copy of a very scarce title. Excellent reference for those engaged in signalling and related activities. View more info
By: Compiled By the Late Bertram Baxter, Edited By David Baxter
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Derbyshire, Moorland Publishing: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022291
ISBN: 0903485508
Condition: Good
88pp, index of locomotive owning companies, arranged under the 1923 groupings. Card covers, reading creases, minor marks, a Good tight copy. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Essex, Connor & Butler Ltd: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021022
ISBN: 0947699309
Condition: Very Good
96pp, illustrations and photographs, many in colour. Softback, slight corner creasing to covers, overall a VG copy. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Essex, Connor & Butler Ltd: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021967
ISBN: 0947699309
Condition: Very Good
96pp, illustrations and photographs, many in colour. Softback, a VG copy. View more info
By: Coppin, Alan
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Historical Model Railway Society: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 020531
ISBN: 0902835173
Condition: Very Good
x + 162pp, bibliography, 3 appendices including scale wagon drawings, black and white photographs, drawings throughout. Laminated pictorial boards, a VG copy. View more info
By: Dart, Maurice
Price: £14.00
Publisher: Surrey, Ian Allan: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022558
ISBN: 0711027536
Condition: Very Good
80pp, standard format of captioned colour photographs throughout. Features a variety of motive power including classes 56, 08, 37, 50, 47, 60, 66, 25, Western, Warship and a host of private shunters. Landscape format pictorial boards, light wear only, a VG copy. View more info
By: Dixon, Philip H.
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Isle of Wight, Cross Publishing: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021554
ISBN: 1873295650
Condition: Very Good
95pp, bibliography, 4 appendices, tables, 35 illustrations. Softback, name neatly to bibliography page otherwise a VG copy. Interesting piece of industrial archaeology. View more info
By: Drake, Norman
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Southampton, Narrow Gauge Railway Society: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021712
Condition: Very Good
51pp, bibliography, track plans, colour photographs. Softback, corner crease to front cover and first page otherwise a VG copy. Excellent reference for the railway modeller. View more info
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Kidderminster, Kidderminster Railway Museum: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021271
ISBN: 0953477533
Condition: Very Good
184pp, black and white photographs and illustrations, bibliography, detailed listings with 4,508 entries produced from the GWR register. Landscape format hardback, red cloth boards, a VG copy in (slight edge fading to front) dustwrapper. View more info
By: Dutton, ST
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, The Technical Press Ltd: 1928
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 030158
Condition: Good
viii + 148pp + xv adverts at rear, diagrams in text, Red boards, slight fraying to part of rear spine joint, spine faded, a few rubs and bumps, small label (booksellers?) to front pastedown, general light foxing, occasional corner crease, overall a Good tight copy, without dustwrapper. Both a reference and textbook, contents cover:- fixed signals; single- and double-line working; signal cabins and signal connections; rod connections, point-locking and operating gear; rod compensators; locking charts and tables; interlocking of junctions, facing points, route locking. A valuable guide to the ba... View more info
By: Earnshaw, Alan
Price: £24.00
Publisher: Cumbria, Trans-Pennine Publishing Ltd: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 030525
ISBN: 1903016045
Condition: Very Good
72pp, fully illustrated with black and white photographs, Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. History of the company founded in 1846, producing cranes (railway breakdown to dockside and floating cranes for marine applications) in addition to railway turntables, traversers, water columns and steel work for the local market hall. Scarce. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: USA, Lindsay Publications Inc.: 2002
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 021354
ISBN: 1559182814
Condition: Very Good
96pp, illustrated with photographs and drawings throughout. Large format softback, slight creasing to upper front corner otherwise light wear only, a VG copy. Interesting mix of technical articles with fascinating period illustrations. View more info
By: Esau, Mike
Price: £36.00
Publisher: Kettering, Silver Link Publishing: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021257
Condition: Very Good
3 volume set, published 2005, 2008 and 2009. Over 200 superb black and white photographs in each book plus a colour section covering the latter days of steam from the 1950s to 1968. Black boards, occasional corner bumping, light ageing, VG in (slight spine fading) dustwrapper. Very heavy set, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost. View more info
Price: £40.00
Publisher: USA, James W Harris: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 020909
Condition: Very Good
136pp, 5 essays by various contributors, forward, black and white photographs, picture essay at rear. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. Published for an exhibition supported by a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and other bodies. A snapshot social history of the coal mining industry through photography. Signed by one of the contributors, Elizabeth Cocke, on the title page, her details to rear page also. View more info
By: Fiennes, Gerard
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Newton Abbot, David & Charles: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021534
ISBN: 0715389262
Condition: Very Good
190pp, black and white photographs. Grey boards, light ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper. The author was a former General Manager BR Western Region; BR Eastern Region; Chief Operating Officer BRB. View more info
By: Geo. R. Strong, Edited By W.J.W. Bourne
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, The Institution of Mining Engineers: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015352
ISBN: 0904905144
Condition: Very Good
vii + 117pp, 22 plates. Gilt on blue boards, a VG clean tight copy in (small edge rub, now in removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. View more info
By: Gibbins, E.A.
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Stoke-on-Trent, Leisure Products: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 020662
ISBN: 0952103907
Condition: Very Good
ii + 166pp. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. The 'inside' story of British Railways by the author who worked for the LMSR and BR for 40 years. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Chippenham, Picton Publishing: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021082
ISBN: 0902633341
Condition: Very Good
60pp, illustrated. Card covers, light wear only, general light ageing to contents, a VG copy. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Chippenham, Picton Publishing: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022621
ISBN: 0948251042
Condition: Very Good
v + 94pp, bibliography, stamps and details. Softback, light wear, a VG copy. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Chippenham, Picton Publishing: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022721
ISBN: 0902633341
Condition: Very Good
60pp, illustrated. Card covers, light wear only, general light ageing to contents, a VG copy. View more info
By: Gordon, Bob
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Buckinghamshire, Shire Publications Ltd: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 018366
ISBN: 0852637756
Condition: Very Good
32pp, illustrated throughout. Signed dedication from the author, to verso of front cover, to fellow author Basil Harley. Also included is a letter from the author to Basil Harley, who is mentioned by name in the acknowledgements section in the book. View more info
By: Gotheridge, Ivor
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Gemini Publishing: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 020993
Condition: Very Good
48pp, photographs, drawings, plans, 1 colour plate. Landscape format softback, light wear, slight browning to covers, overall a VG copy. View more info
By: Gottwaldt, Alfred B (Mit Beitragen Von Paul Dost, Walter Ess Und Karl Sander)
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Germany, Transpress Verlag: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 020299
ISBN: 3613708183
Condition: Very Good
416pp, maps, photographs, plans, drawings, pictorial endpapers. Laminated pictorial boards, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy, without dustwrapper, as issued. German text throughout. Comprehensive work, fully illustrated, valuable reference for railway and military modellers alike. Heavy book, extra shipping may be required to non-UK address. View more info
By: Gough, John / Foreword By Professor TC Barker
Price: £60.00
Publisher: Clwyd, Railway & Canal Historical Society: 1989
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 021478
ISBN: 0901461121
Condition: Very Good
392pp, corrections, track diagrams of lines covered in the chronology, the chronology itself in 11 sections, primary and secondary sources. Maroon boards, light ageing to contents, a VG copy in a near VG (clipping to corners, slightest spine fading) dustwrapper. This is the revised and expanded edition, illustrated with a set of line-diagrams. Superb reference for the historian and modeller. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Northamptonshire, Silver Link Publishing: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 020932
ISBN: 1857941977
Condition: Very Good
96pp, index, black and white photographs. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. View more info
By: Haddon, IJ / Haddon, H (Practical Boilermakers)
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Cardiff, IJ & H Haddon: 1913
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 030432
Condition: Very Good
A Practical Treatise for Boilermakers Consisting of Geometry, Development of Cylinders, Cones and Other Figures; Template Making, the Manipulation of Plates and Bars, Tables of Diameters, and Circumferences, and Many Notes, Rules and Formulae Necessary to Those Engaged in the Trades Embraced in the Term 'Boilermaking'. vii + 283pp, index, tables, charts, drawings, formulae. Mauve boards, a few minor marks, gilt titling, slight bumping, 1 corner rubbed, general ageing, overall a VG copy. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Bath, Millstream Books: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018736
ISBN: 094897527X
Condition: Very Good
2 volume set. Volume 1: 1991 1st edition. 160pp, bibliography. Volume 2: 1992 1st edition. 160pp. Both volumes in blue boards, light wear only, VG copies in dustwrapper. Each volume illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings, plans. Excellent reference for the railway modeller. Heavy books, extra shipping may be required to non-UK address. View more info
By: Hartwig, Dr. G.
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co: 1888
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021228
Condition: Good
126pp, 29 illustrations, all edges gilt. Pictorial boards, illustration to front board, a few rubs, nick to spine head, slight twist to spine, contemporary owner's details to verso of front endpaper, some pencilled annotation, overall a Good copy. View more info
By: Hayes, Geoffrey
Price: £14.00
Publisher: Ashbourne, Landmark Publishing Ltd: 2004
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 030575
ISBN: 184306135X
Condition: Very Good
208pp, index, bibliography, maps, track plans, black and white photographs. Red boards, VG in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Heywood, Arthur
Price: £24.00
Publisher: Sheffield, Turntable Publications: 1974
Edition: Facsimile Reprint
Seller ID: 030185
ISBN: 0902844261
Condition: Very Good
59pp + drawings, plans and black and white photographs. Gilt on grey boards, remains of small owner's label to front endpaper, light ageing, a VG copy in dustwrapper. This is a photo-litho reprint of the third and final edition of 1898. The full title is 'Minimum Gauge Railways: Their Application, Construction and Working. Being an Account of the Origin and Evolution of the 15 in. Gauge Line at Duffield Bank, Near Derby; Also of the Installation of a Similar Line at Eaton Hall, Near Chester; Together With Various Notes on the Uses of Such Railways, and on the Results of Some Experimental Inves... View more info
By: Hucknall, David
Price: £12.00
Publisher: Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 019713
ISBN: 0750924764
Condition: Very Good
x + 143pp, index, bibliography, captioned black and white photographs throughout, pictorial endpapers. Black boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Ian Allan Publishing Staff
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Surrey, Ian Allan Publishing: 1999
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 021529
ISBN: 0711005060
Condition: Very Good
378pp, reprints of Parts 1 -4 of the original abc, plus the abc Loco-Shed book. Laminated pictorial boards, a VG clean tight copy. View more info
By: Ian Allan Publishing Staff
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Surrey, Ian Allan:
Seller ID: 022603
Condition: Very Good
32pp, b+w photographs, illustrations, 16pp are unused jotting pages with pre-printed headings. Small booklet, light wear only, a few marks around rusty staples, a VG copy. Undated, early 1960s. Front cover shows 70020. View more info
By: Ian Allan Publishing Staff
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Surrey, Ian Allan:
Seller ID: 022604
Condition: Very Good
32pp, b+w photographs, illustrations, 16pp are unused jotting pages with pre-printed headings. Small booklet, light wear only, a few marks around rusty staples, a VG copy. Undated, circa 1966. Front cover shows a Deltic. View more info
By: Ian Allan Publishing Staff
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Ian Allan Publishing: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 030273
Condition: Good+
336pp, features steam, diesel and electric locomotives. Original April 1964 publication, laminated boards, small rub to spine, foxing mainly to end pages, no markings, a Good copy. View more info
By: Jackson, Alan A (Editor) / Borley, Harold V
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Mold, Railway & Canal Historical Society: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 020832
ISBN: 0901461164
Condition: Very Good
159pp, index, appendix, black and white photographs. Softback, light reading wear, a VG copy. HV Borley published his book 'Chronology of London Railways' seven years prior to his death, after extensive research and recording the history of the railways of London and its environs over many years. View more info
By: Johnson, Peter
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Chester, Rail Romances: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018081
ISBN: 1900622084
Condition: Very Good
223pp, index, bibliography, 10 appendices, extensively illustrated, some in colour, endpaper maps. Red boards, birthday gift inscription to verso of front endpaper otherwise a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Heavy book, extra shipping may be required to non-UK address. View more info
