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Rails to Poole Harbour (Locomotion Papers 213).
Stone, Colin, The Oakwood Press, 2007. 2nd Edition. ISBN: 9780853616627. 208 pages, 435g. Soft card covers FINE with previous owners name and date to reverse top corner of front cover. FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps including some track plans.
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Rails To Sheffield Park. .
Welch, Michael S. , Kingfisher Railway Productions, 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0946184488. Not paginated. 800g. Gray cloth boards Very Good in a Very Good d/w chipped to front edges. Fully illustrated with b/w photographs, track plans and scaled line drawings. A pictorial history of the Lewes to East Grindstead route from its opening in 1882 through to 1988. Includes the operation and organisation of the Blue Bell Railway which opened in line again in 1960.
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Rails to the Sea - A Celebration of Railway Journeys Past and Present.
John Hadrill, Atlantic Transport Publishers, 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0906899869. 192pp. 1.5Kg. Blue cloth boards MINT in a Near MINT d/w. Fully illustrated with specially drawn maps and holiday posters with colour & b/w photographs. A detail the efect of railways on many of our seaside resorts.
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Rails West - A Collectors Album of a Vanishing Era in Railroadiana..
Abdill, George B., Bonanza Books, . Reprint. ISBN: . 190 pages, 805g. Green cloth boards with slight age toning to free end-papers, Near FINE, in a Very Good slightly rubbed d/w with sunned spine. A reprint of the book first published in 1941. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings, ideal for the modeller of early American railroads.
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Railway Accidents of Great Britain and Europe.
Ascanio, Mase, Armin Schneider, David & Charles, 1970. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715347918. 334 pages, 735g. Brown cloth boards with very light foxing to egde of page block, Near FINE in a Very Good d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and track layouts. An invaluable reference work which deals with the operational problems of railways and safety measuers that result.
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RAILWAY ADVENTURE.
L. T. C. Rolt, Sutton Pub Ltd, 1998. 1st Paperback Edition. ISBN: 0750915781. 151 pages, 530g. Soft card covers with slight bump to top rear corner, Near FINE. Illustraetd with period b/w photographs. Describes how in the 1950s the Talyllyn Railway line was threatened with closure, but the author and a small group of amateur railway men made their dream of running their own railway come true by saving the line, now the oldest surviving railway of its kind in the world.
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Railway Album Number 1 - New South Wales Transport Museum, Australia. .
Merchant, Rick., New South Wales Transport Museum, 1995. 1st Edition. ISBN: . 40 pages, 115g. Stapled soft card covers a little edge-rubbed, Very Good with the contents tight and clean. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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The Railway and its Passengers - A Social History.
David Norman Smith, David & Charles, 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715386514. 192 pages, 450g. Blue cloth boards with slight foxing to prelims, Very good in a Very Good d/w with slightly sunned spine. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Examines the often uneasy relationship between the railway and its passengers from its beginnings in 1830, up until nationalisation in 1948.
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Railway Architecture.
Binney, Marcus & Pearce David (Editors), Bloomsbury Books, 1985. Reprint. ISBN: 0906223628. 256 pages. 880g. Black cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. The book is illustrated with over 200 b/w photographs, a unique pictorial record of the railways industrial architectural heritage.
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Railway Architecture.
F. G. Cockman, Shire Publications, 1989. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0852639171. 32 pages, 75g. Stapled soft card covers with light bump to top corner, Near FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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£2.50
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Railway Atlas of London 1935 (Railway Clearing House) - Facsimile Reprint..
Railway Clearing House, Ian Allan Publishing, 2001. Facsimile Reprint. ISBN: 0711027897. Contains 45 pages of maps plus index and gazetteer of the stations featured. 360g. Pictorial laminated Boards, FINE. A facsimile of the original 1935 edition.
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Railway blunders.
A. Vaughan, Ian Allan Ltd, 2008. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9780711031692. 160 pages, 550g. Soft card covers Near FINE with previous owners name and purchase location details to reverse top corner of front cover. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Railway Blunders.
Adrian. Vaughan, Ian Allan Ltd, 2003. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711028362. 160 pages, 795g. Red cloth boards MINT in a Near MINT d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Two hundred years of railway development has brought assorted designs, structures and schemes that have ultimately proved to be a disoster. In the early years of railway history, many of these blunders arose from the ignorance of those dealing with new technolog.
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Railway Bylines Annual - No. 1.
Smith. Martin [ Editor ]., Irwell Press, 1997. 1st Edition. ISBN: 187160883X. 96 pages, 635g. Pictorial laminated boards FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs and track plans. Covers SE&CR 'H' Class 0-4-4Ts, Waterside Colliery, On Furness Lines, Kent Cement and more.
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Railway Bylines Annual - No. 5.
Smith. Martin [ Editor ]., Irwell Press, 2002. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1903266246. 96 pages, 535g. Pictorial laminated boards with small dent to bottom edge, FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Covers Great Eastern 2-4-2Ts, Halesowen Branches, 'Russell' Bredlay Colliery, Dublin Bray etc.
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Railway Bylines Annual: No. 2.
Martin Smith (Edited by), Irwell Press, 1998. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1871608929. 96 pages, 640g. Pictorial laminated Boards Near MINT. Fully illustrated with b/w photographs and some track plans.
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Railway Bylines Summer Special - No. 2.
Smith. Martin [ Editor ]., Irwell Press, 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1871608961. 96 pages, 585g. Pictorial laminated Boards with slightly sunned spine, FINE. Illustrated with b/w photograph and track plans. Covers Peckett Locomotives, M&SWJR 2-4-0s, Diesel Railbuses in East Anglia etc.
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Railway Carriages 1839 - 1939 - Veteran & Vintage Series .
Kitchenside, G. M. , Ian Allan LTD, 1964. 1st Edition. ISBN: . 64 pages, 185g. Pictorial laminated boads with faint crease to front cover and slightly sunned spine, Very good. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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The Railway Carriers - the History of Wordie & Co., Carriers, Hauliers and Store Keepers, as Told to and Illustrated By the Author..
Edward Paget-Tomlinson, Terence Dalton Limited,, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0861380827. x + 178 pages. 600g. Gray cloth boards Near MINT in a FINE d/w with slightly sunned spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings plus maps.
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The Railway Centenary - A Retrospect..
Davies. Randall., London & North Eastern Railway Company., . 1st Edition. ISBN: . 49 pages. 460g. Not dated, but probably the 1925 1st edition. Green stiff card boards with cream cloth spine & paste-on to front cover, a little rubbed to edges and light foxing to prelims, Very Good. Illustrated with 15 b/w and 3 colour plates. Loosely inserted is a news paper cutting dated 1925.
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The Railway Data File.
unkown, Bookmart, 2000. Reprint. ISBN: 1856054993. 144 pages, 990g. Pictorial laminated boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with colour and b/w photographs and drawings.
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Railway Detectives : The 150 Years Saga of the Railway Inspectorate.
Stanley HALL, Ian Allan, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711019290. 146 pages. 500g. Red cloth boards FINE in a Very Good d/w with a repaired tear to front top of slightly sunned spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Describes the work of the Railway Inspectorate, on some of the most infamous British Railway accidents, Includes track plans of the sites.
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The Railway Dictionary : An A--Z for Railway Terminology.
Jackson, Alan A., Alan Sutton, 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0750900385. 340 pages, 795g. Black cloth boards Near MINT in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with line drawings.
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Railway Disasters - Cause and Effect.
STANLEY HALL, Promotional Reprint Company, 1992. . ISBN: 1856480496. 256 pages. 1.22Kg. Pictorial laminated Boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Previously published in two volumes, `Danger Signals' and `Danger On The Line'. by Ian Allan Fully illustrated with b/w photographs and line drawings.
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The Railway Enthusiast's Encyclopedia.
O.S. Nock, Hutchinson, 1968. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0090888707. 341 pages, 600g. Blue cloth boards a little rubbed to edges and with age toning to free end-papers, Very Good in a Very Good d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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The Railway Handbook 1942 - 1943.
Railway Gazette (Editor), The Railway Publishing Company Ltd, 1942. 1st Edition. ISBN: . 112 pages, 145g. Paper covers with masking tape used to re-inforced spine, and internally previous owners name to title page, also some stain marks to bottom edge of last few pages, and creasing to bottom fronbt edge, Overall in Good only condition with the contents o/w clean and tight. A rare survivor from the period.
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Railway Heritage: Portsmouth - Including Lines to East Southsea, Gosport, Fareham, the Meon Valley and Havant to Hayling Island..
Michael G.; Rooke, Eddie Harvey, Silver Link Publishing, 1999. Reprint. ISBN: 1857941047. 128 pages. 810g. Blue cloth boards FINE with previous owners name and date to top corner of front paste-down covered by d/w. FINE in a FINE d/w. Fully illustrated with b/w photographs and maps. 150 years of railways around Britain's principal naval port. Includes lines to East Southsea, Gosport, Fareham, the Meon Valley, and Havant to Hayling Island.
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Railway History in Pictures - The British Railway Station.
Biddle, Gordon, And Spence, Jeoffry , David & Charles, 1977. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715374672. 96 pages, 555g. Red cloth boards, with slight age toning to pages, and previous owners name to top of free end-paper. Very Good in a Very Good price-clipped d/w. Illustared with b/w photographs and line drawings. Details the development of the railway station that was unique in design to each railway company.
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Railway History in Pictures - Wessex.
Casserley, H. C., David & Charles, 1975. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715370588. 96 pages, 440g. Yellow cloth boards FINE in a Near FINE price-clipped d/w in clear NON-removable wrap. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Railway History in Pictures : East Anglia.
Peter W Swinger, David & Charles, 1983. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715382055. 96 pages. 400g. Pictorial laminated Boards with slight scar to front cover (See picture) Near FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs and route map.
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The Railway in Surrey.
Alan A. Jackson, Atlantic Transport Publishers, 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0906899907. 240 pages. 1Kg. Blue cloth boards Near MINT in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and line drawings plus route map to end-papers. Examines in detail, the interaction of the railway with the evolution of the county's life from the 1840's to the present.
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Railway Junction Diagrams, 1915.
Railway Clearing House., David & Charles, 1969. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715343475. 158 pages of maps + 33 pages of text. 710g. Oblong format brown cloth boards FINE with previous owners name and date to top corner of front paste-down covered by d/w. FINE in a Very Good price-clipped and chipped d/w with repaired tear to bottom rear edge, now in clear removable wrap. Shows in seven colours, the ownerships and junctions arrangements between all the railway companies of Britain and Ireland before the 'Grouping'.
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Railway Liveries - BR Steam 1948-1968.
Haresnape, Brian, Ian Allan Ltd, 1989. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711018561. 96 pages. 630g. Pictorial laminated Boards with small dent to top edge. FINE. Illustrated with b/w and some colour photographs and line drawings. Shows the range of new BR liveries and also some of the pre-nationalisation liveries that were carried on for a time.
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RAILWAY LIVERIES 1923-1947.
Brian Haresnape, Ian Allan, 1989. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711018294. 208 pages. 800g. Black cloth boards Near MINT in Near FINE lightly edge creased d/w with slightly sunned spine. Fully illustrated with over 300 b/w photographs and drawings, plus 16 pages in colour. Deals in turn with each of the big Four railway companies, and describes in detail the liveries that were used on rolling stock, locomotives, wagons and buildings.
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Railway Moods: Devon.
Roger Malone, Halsgrove, 2005. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1841144258. 144 pages, 780g. Blue coth boards Near MINT in a FINE d/w. Ilustrated with mostly full page colour photographs, of interest to the modeller.
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The Railway Navvy - 'That Despicable Race of Men'..
David Brooke, David & Charles, 1983. 1st Edition. ISBN: 071538449X. 216 pages, 470g. Black cloth boards Near FINE in a Very Good slightly sun darkened d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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The Railway Paintings of Alan Fearnley.
Fearnley, Alan, David & Charles, 1987. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715390880. 80 pages, 1.21kg. Maroon cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w with slightly sunned spine. Illustrated with some 29 full page colour paintings and varios b/w sketches, the author tells how he came to love and eventually paint the railways he was so fond of.
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The Railway Paintings of Don Breacon.
Breacon Don., David & Charles, 1987. New Edition. ISBN: 0715390783. 80 pages. 520g. Oblong format black cloth boards Near MINT in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with the artists drawings in colour and b/w.
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The Railway Paintings Of Don Breckon..
Breckon. Don., David & Charles, 1987. 1st Edition. ISBN: . 80 pages, 530g, Black cloth boards FINE in a Very Good d/w. Beautifuuly illustrated with 25 of the artists paintings in colour.,each one to a page, plus many b/w sketches. With an introduction by Roger Malone.
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The Railway Paintings of Malcolm Root.
Mac Hawkins, David & Charles PLC, 1996. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715305336. 96 pages, 1.2kg. Blue cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illusytrated with 45 of the artists best paintings with sketches.
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Railway Picture Postcards.
Maurice I Bray, Moorland Publishing Company, 1986. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0861901703. 240 pages, 1.02kg. Blue cloth boards Near MINT in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w and colour photographs. A guide to collecting railway postcards.
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Railway Records: A Guide to Sources (Public Record Office Readers' Guide).
Cliff Edwards, Public Record Office, 2001. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1903365104. 222 pages, 520g. Soft card covers FINE. When the railways were Nationalized in 1948, their administrative records and those of hundreds of companies they absorbed were passed to the Public Records Office. This guide will explain about this important source of material.
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Railway Ribaldry.
Roninson, W. Heath., David & Charles, 1997. Reprint. ISBN: . 96 pages, 320g. Soft card covers with minor foxing to 1st and last pages, Very Good. Illustrated with the unmistakable drawings of Heath Robinson.
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Railway Roundabout : A Guide to the Classic Television Series.
Christensen, Rex, Ian Allan LTD, 1997. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711024561. 112 pages. 780g. Red cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated in colour throughout. Covers the BBC television program that was broadcast from 1958 to 1962.
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Railway Signalling and Track Plans.
Bob Essery, Ian Allan Publishing, 2007. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9780711032156. 112 pages, 460g. Soft card covers FINE. Fully illustrated with b/w photographs and line drawings showing details of track and signalling which is a must for any modeller.
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Railway Stations - Southern Region.
Middleton, John & Wikeley, Nigel., Peco Publishing, 1971. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0900586311. 181 pages. 700g. green cloth boards FINE in a Very Good lightly edge-rubbed & price-clipped d/w. A survey of every existing Southern Railway station which includes many photographs of the architectural details of the buildings, and even the signs and lamps to be found there. A must for all modellers and historians.
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Railway Stations from the Air (Aerofilms Guide).
Aerofilms, Ian Allan Ltd, 2003. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711029806. 256 pages. Green cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Aerial photographs in b/w of some 150 different locations nationwide.
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Railway Stations of Britain - A guide to 75 important centres.
Body, Geoffrey, Patrick Stephens Limited, 1990. First edition. ISBN: 185260171X. Not paginated. 570g. Black cloth boards FINE in a FINE price-clipped d/w. Provides an historical background to each location and also its place in the modern railway system.
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Railway Track Diagrams - Book 3: Western..
Gerald Jacobs, Trackmaps, 2005. 4th Edition. ISBN: 095498661X. 46 pages, 205g. Stapled soft card covers a little marked, Near FINE. Illustrated with route map and track plans.
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Railway Track Diagrams 4 - Midlands and North West..
Gerald Jacobs, TRACKmaps, 2005. 2nd Edition. ISBN: 0954986601. 64 pages, 220g. Stapled soft card covers a little marked and rubbed. Very Good with the contents tight and clean.
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