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Irish Transport20690. Morton, R.G: Standard Gauge Railways in the North of Ireland. Belfast: Museum & Art Gallery, 2nd edition1965. Transport Handbook Number 5, 21.5 x 15 cm. 35 pp Illustrated, card covers. A good clean copy. £10.002094. Allchin, MCV: Locomotives of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway and the Irish Narrow Gauge Railways. Hants: 1944 12pp. 22 x 14 cm. Illustrated. Types, building dates, etc. in card covers, v.g. £10.0019593. Allen, Jonathan M.: 35 Years of N.I.R. 1967 to 2002. Newtownards: Colourpoint Books 2003. 23 x 18 cm. 160 pp. illustrated, softcovers, minor shelfwear, in good condition. A history of Northern Ireland Railways. £25.007816. Arnold, R. M.: The County Down The Belfast and County Down Railway at work during its last Forty Years: part 1 Main Line plus branches beyond Comber. Whitehead: Irish Steam Scene, 1981. 142 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial textured matt card covers. Owners name to rear front cover In very good condition. A fine railway trashed in 1950 by visionless civil servants and politicians. £15.005522. Arnold, RM: NCC Saga The LMS in Northern Ireland. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973. 1st edition. 231 pp. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Illustrated, very good, hardback in dustwrapper. The LMS in 1923 inherited the former Belfast & Northern Counties Railway. This book is concerned with the standard gauge section of the railway, especially its mainline. £10.0015004. Arnold, RM: NCC Saga The LMS in Northern Ireland. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973. 1st edition. 231 pp. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Thirty-four plates, and map. The LMS in 1923 inherited the former Belfast & Northern Counties Railway. This book is concerned with the standard gauge section of the railway, especially its mainline. Pictorial glazed card covers, in very good condition. £20.006847. B&CDRMT: The Belfast & County Down Railway Museum Trust Belfast: B&CDRMT, 1972. 14 pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. Illustrated. Maps. Glazed card covers. Vg. £15.0010162. Baker, Michael H. C: Ireland's Railways Past and Present Ireland an Introduction. Dublin: Past and Present Publishing revised, updated 2005. The Cumha collection, more than 280 photographs, "past and present" of the area's railways. Belfast, Derry Dublin, Rosslare, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Donegal, Sligo, Bantry etc. 24 by 17 cms. £12.0020236. Belfast and Northern Counties Railway: B. & N.C.R. - Tourist Guides 1901. Belfast: Belfast and Northern Counties Railway1901 24x15.5 cm. A Collection of some nine Guides, Tours and Brochures put together by the Railway Company, and various others, and bound into a single volume as the B&NCR's reference collection. It contains, "Through Erin's Isle an Official Guide to all Places of Interest and Beauty in Ireland published on behalf of the Irish Railways" 1901, 138 pp. map, illustrations." Great Western Railway, Programme of Tourist Arrangements for Ireland" May 1st to October 31st 1901; 44pp. "Waddington's Guide to the North of Ireland and the Giant's Causeway" 63 pp. map, illustrations. "Belfast & Northern Counties Railway Tourist and Pic-nic Programme" 1901, 95 pp. one page removed and two pages with bottom halfs removed). "A Holiday Tour of the North of Ireland", 48 pp. illustrated. "BCDR Summer Tours of the North of Ireland", 55 pp. map, illustrated." Cycling Tours in Galloway by the Larne and Stranraer Steamship Joint Committee". 16 pp. and two small timetable/fares issues. The covers are a little bent by virtue of the different sizes of these items,some dustiness to endpapers. Please note that it would be impossible to disbind these items without seriously damaging them. Most of these items are very scarce, indeed fairly rare. £100.0020237. Belfast and Northern Counties Railway: B. & N.C.R. - Tourist Guides 1902. Belfast: Belfast and Northern Counties Railway1901 24x15.5 cm. A Collection of some nine Guides, Tours and Brochures put together by the Railway Company, and various others, and bound into a single volume as the B&NCR's reference collection. It contains," Belfast & Northern Counties Railway Official Guide 1899", 175 pp. map, illustrated. "BNCR's Tourist and Pic-nic Programme 1902", 95 pp. "BNCR Summer Tours of the North of Ireland," 61 pp. map, illustrated. and two small timetable/fares issues from Larne & Stranraer Steamship Co. "BNCR Fares from Londonderry for Pic-Nic and Excursion Parties", ditto for Whitehead NCC Hotel Belfast Brochure, "The Irish Naturalist" Vol. 11 no9 Sept.1902, Fennell, "The Gobbins Cliff Path 1902", 18 pp. "Summer Tours in the North of Ireland 1902", 61 pp. map.Milligan, Seaton F. "Irish Industrial Awakening", 33 pp.1902. The covers are a little bent by virtue of the different sizes of these items,some dustiness to endpapers. Please note that it would be impossible to disbind these items without seriously dama rare. £100.0020229. Belfast and Northern Counties Railway.: Tours in the North of Ireland Official Guide to the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway, The Giants Causeway and the Antrim Coast. Belfast: Carswell & Son 1900. 16 x 10.5 cm. vii+179 ( 23) pp.maps and illustrations, a little wear, from use otherwise in good condition £40.0020001. Belfast City Tramways: Route Map and Guide to the Belfast City Tramways. Belfast: Belfast City Tramways n.d. ( 1921 ) 14.5 x 9 cm. opening out to 43.5 x 36.5 cm. Places served and General Informatiom, list of routes, particulars of times and fares and places served. This edition has the tipped in scarce Curfew Order giving the times of last cars from Termini and City Centre. In very good condition apart from the handwritten 1921 date on the cover almost new. Scarce with the Curfew details. 1921-22 were the severe years of the Irish Civil War and the trams became an object of direct attack from the IRA. The Curfew was introduced in April 1921. "Offenders against the order were in extreme cases liable to be shot, a situation that surely encouraged its observance!" £25.0020015. Belfast Corporation Transport Department: Brochure to Commemorate the Termination of Trolleybus Operation on Sunday 12th May, 1968. Belfast: Belfast Corporation Transport department 1968. 24 x 15.5cm. 25 pp. 17 illustrations ( 11 of trolleybuses.), 5 pages of Fleet details, double sided folding map. Contains, as loose inserts, a ticket, n.177, for the special commemmorative journey on Sat 11th May, and another ticket from the National Trolleybus Last Tour of the Belfast Trolleybus System, Sun. 12th May for Trolleybus no 112. It is particularly nice to have these two tickets. £30.0020071. Belfast Tramway Company.: Belfast Tramway Company Pocket Time Table Sept. 1874 and Pocket Time Table December 1877. Belfast: W.& G. Baird 1874 and 1877 Two contemporary folded Time Tables, 1874 is 12 by 7.5 cm. whilst 1877 is 9 x 5.5 cm. light card, in good condition. The Belfast Street Tramways Company started services on 28 Aug. 1872 from Castle Place to Botanic gardens. These very early timetables are extremely scarce urvivors. £50.006858. Blackwell, John: Transport in the Developing Economy of Ireland. Dublin: The Economic and Social Research Institute, 1969. Paper No. 47. viii + 69 pp. 28 x 22 cm. Tables, graphs. Paper covers. £15.0019169. Blair, May.: Once upon the Lagan, the Story of the Lagan Canal. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1981. 1981 reprint. vii + 129 pp. 19 x 24 cm. Ninety illustrations. Excellent photographs. This canal ran from Belfast to Lough Neagh but in the 1960s roads engineers used much of it as a base for the M1 motorway, preventing its use for leisure cruising. Glazed pictorial card covers, minor wear, owner's name on the ffep scribbled out otherwise in very good condition. £10.006844. Bowman, Terence, editor: Railway Memories. Newcastle: Mourne Observer, 1991. 82 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Profusely illustrated. Maps. Pictorial laminated card covers, in very good condition. A series of interviews with former railway employees and some passengers of the Belfast and Co. Down and Great Northern Railways. Scarce. £20.0020885. Broderick, David: The First Toll-Roads Ireland's Turnpike Roads 1729-1859. Dublin: The Collins Press2002. 24.5 x 16 cm. xi+302 pp. map, gold blocked maroon boards, in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. An important study of a rather neglected subject. £25.0012695. Casserley, H.C.: Irish Railways in the heyday of steam. Dublin: D. Bradford Barton Ltd, n.d. 96 pp. 22 x 21.5 cm. 119 illustrations. Gold-blocked green boards, in very good condition, in a very good dw. Excellent photographs. £10.0020016. City and County Borough of Belfast Transport Department: Tramcar Souvenir Brochure. Belfast: City and County Borough of Belfast Transport Department 1954 25 x 18.5cm. 24 pp. 16 illustrations ( 14 of trams.), statistical information, card covers. A few years before closure, in 1945, the trams had carried 155,344,255 passengers. £30.006718. Clements, R.N. and Robbins, J.M: The ABC of Irish Locomotives. London: Ian Allan, 1949. Re-issue. 56 pp. 16 x 11 cm. Lists, illustrations, tables of leading dimensions, and map. Blue card covers, headed "Transport of the Forties". The number "83" has been neatly written on the top left corner of the front cover, o/w good. £15.0018088. Coakham, Desmond: Narrow Gauge Rolling Stock. Hersham: Ian Allan Publishing, 2007. An Irish Railway Pictorial. 96 pp. 28.5 x 21.5 cm. 110 illustrations. Glazed pictorial card covers, in very good condition. £10.008237. Coakham, Desmond: The Belfast & County Down Railway An Irish Railway Pictorial. Leicester: Midland Publishing Limited, 1998. 96 pp. 28 x 21 cm. 241 illustrations. 5 maps and layouts. Pictorial glazed card covers. A modern history of a fine railway destroyed in an act of short-sighted folly. £20.0018091. Cochrane, Gerry: Back In Steam The Downpatrick and County Down Railway from 1982. Newtownards: Colourpoint Books, 2009. 128 pp. 26 x 21 cm. 151 illustrations, many in colour. Map. Appendices. Index. Glazed pictorial card covers, in very good condition. Heroic saga of railway preservation. £10.006851. Cole, D: Irish Industrial and Contractors' Locomotives. London: Union Publications, 1962. 48 pp. 16.5 x 12 cm. Sixteen plates. Exhaustive lists of minor lines, arranged by county, including those which did not have locomotives. Lists of locomotives, and lists of contractors. Card covers. Rusted staples and some fading to covers, o/w good. £13.5019775. Conroy, JC: A History of Railways in Ireland. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1928. viii + 386 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. The publication of John Charles Conroy's Dissertation for the Degree of M.A. in University College, Dublin. This book, is, arguably, the first great secondary source for the history of Irish railways. It is the watershed between books like Holland's The Story of the Irish Railway Problem (1899) and the hundreds of Irish railway secondary sources published since 1928. There are errors of fact, but it is majesterial as an achievement, remembering the sources available to Conroy. Gold-blocked green boards. Ex library, with usual markings. £125.0019751. Conroy, JC: A History of Railways in Ireland. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1928. viii + 386 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. The publication of John Charles Conroy's Dissertation for the Degree of M.A. in University College, Dublin. This book, is, arguably, the first great secondary source for the history of Irish railways. It is the watershed between books like Holland's The Story of the Irish Railway Problem (1899) and the hundreds of Irish railway secondary sources published since 1928. There are errors of fact, but it is majesterial as an achievement, remembering the sources available to Conroy. Gold-blocked green boards, in very fresh condition. £175.006856. Coras Iompair Eireann: Road Transport Rule Book. Dublin: CIE,1948. 123 pp, 16 x 10.5 cm, in black-blocked green boards. Rule Books were for the guidance of Company employees, and were not to be shown to members of the general public. £15.006715. Coras Iompair Eireann: Rules for Observance by Employees. Dublin: CIE,1967. 366 + lvi pp, 14.5 x 11cm. Rule Books were for the guidance of Company employees, and were not to be shown to members of the general public. Gold-blocked green boards. £12.008300. Coras Iompair Eireann: Working Time Table 27th June 1983. Dublin: Coras Iompair Eireann, 1983. 208 pp. 28 x 20 cm. Blue card covers. in very good condition. £20.008299. Coras Iompair Eireann: Working Time Table 2nd July 1984. Dublin: 1984. 28 by 20 cms. 208 pp. Yellow card covers. in very good condition. £20.0015197. Crockart, Andrew and Jack Patience: Rails Around Belfast An Irish Railway Pictorial. Hinkley: Midland Publishing, 2004. 80 pp. 28 x 21 cm. Excellent photographs, including trams and trolley buses. A small corner crease on the bottom front right corner and an autographed inscription on the title page, otherwise good. £10.0015175. Currie, J.R.L: The Northern Counties Railway Volume 2 Heyday and Decline 1903-1972. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974. 248 pp. 22.5 x 14 cm. Profusely illustrated. The dustwrapper has been attached to the boards by a wraparound plastic d.w. Owner's name on ffep, internally good. £28.0014941. Currie, J.R.L.: The Runaway Train Armagh 1889. Newton Abbot: David and Charles 1971. 148, illustrated, hardback in a dustwrapper. The first full length book on any Irish railway accident. The disaster led to the Regulation of Railways Act 1889. £15.0019683. Diggle, William: Fun and Frolic or my First Week in County Antrim by a Lancashire Man and A Tour through the North of Ireland , what is to be seen and how to see it. Oldham: William Dibble n.d. (1898) 18 x 12 cm. 48 pp. 22 illustrations, softcovers, the covers are a bit dusty or grubby, internally very good. Dibble, based in Oldham, was an agent for the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway. This is quite a rare piece of railway based ephemera. £45.0020799. Downpatrick and Ardglass Railway: A Working Railway Museum Feasibility Study. Downpatrick: no date c1985? 20.5 x 33 cm. n.p 16 pp illustrated maps, card covers slight damage to the lower left corner of the front cover, otherwise in good condition. This was the unfulfilled proposal to restore the line from Downpatrick to Ardglass. £20.0018092. FitzGerald, Des: The Warrenpoint Branch. Omagh: Colourpoint Press, 1996. 48 pp. 20 x 21 cm. 43 illustrations, many in colour. 5 maps and layouts. Glazed pictorial card covers, in very good condition. Story of a GNR(I) Branch that closed in 1965. £15.006843. Flanagan, Dr PJ: The 101 Class Locomotives of the G.S.& W.R. - Steaming through a century 1866-1966. Dublin: Irish Railway Record Society, 1966. 44 pp + folding diagram. 25 x 15.5 cm. Ten plates, drawings, and class list. Pictorial laminated card covers. Faded covers, o/w vg. £23.006855. Great Northern Railway (Ireland): Rules and Regulations for the Guidance of the Officers and Men in the Service of the Great Northern Railway (Ireland). Belfast: GNR(I),1914. 221 pp. 15.5 x 9.5cm. Blind-stamped black boards. Rule Books were for the guidance of Company employees, and were not to be shown to members of the general public. £28.0020225. Great Southern Railways: Great Southern Railways Time Tables from 12th September 1938 until further notice. Dublin: A. Thom & Co. 1938. 29 x 19.5 cm. 46 pp. map. paper covers, there is a small tape repair to the rear of themap otherwise in very good condition. A scarce item. £35.006716. Great Southern Railways: Rules for Observance by Employees. Dublin: GSRs, 1933. 214 + xlvi pp + 2-page addendum, 14.5 x 11cm, in black-blocked green boards. Rule Books were for the guidance of Company employees, and were not to be shown to members of the general public. £25.009461. Greer, P. E: Road versus Rail Documents on the History of Public Transport in Northern Ireland 1921-1948. Belfast: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1982. xx+189 pp. 25 x 16 cm. Illustrated. Hardback in dustwrapper. In very good condition £8.0017341. Hunter, RA, Ludgate, RC, and Richardson, J: Gone But Not Forgotten Belfast Trams, 1872 - 1954. Belfast: RPSI and ITT, October 1980. Second edition. 47pp. 25 x 18cm. Arms of the City of Belfast, route map, and 66 superb photographs. Pictorial glazed card covers. Slight fading to spine, o/w in good condition. £10.00567. Hunter, RA, Ludgate, RC, and Richardson, J: Gone But Not Forgotten Belfast Trams, 1872 - 1954. Belfast: Railway Preservation Society of Ireland and Irish Transport Trust, 1979. 47pp. 25 x 18cm. Arms of the City of Belfast, route map, and 66 superb photographs. Pictorial matt card covers. In very good condition. £10.0013810. Irish Railway Record Society: Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society. Dublin: Irish Railway Record Society, 1962. Number 31, Volume 6, Autumn 1961. 64 pp. 24.5 x 15.5 cm. Articles include, The Clontarf and Hill of HowthTramroad, Irish Railways in 1860; The Derry Road, Locomotives of the Dublin & Kingstown Railway, 11 photographs. Matt card covers. A few instances of highlighting / annotation noted, o/w good condition. The Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society has been published since 1947. We can supply numbers 31, 32, 33, 36, 39, 40, 44, 45, 46, 48, 51, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60,62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 103, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111, 113, 130, 134, 146, at £10 each, and will be happy to supply further details. £10.0020007. Irish Railway Record Society, Hirsch, Stephen: Luas Dublin's Light Rail System. Dublin: Irish Railway Record Society, May 2005. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. 48 pp.40 illustrations, plan, pictorial card covers. In very good condition. £12.0020893. Irish Roads Congress: The Irish Roads Congress Record of Proceedings Dublin 1910 Dublin: Cahill & Co. 1910 24.5 x 16 cm. iii+279 pp. 5 illustrations hardcovers,some light pencil annotations by an attendee, otherwise in very good condition. This was the first Congress meeting. A scarce item. 32 papers presented over 3 days in April with four papers contributed since the close of Congress. Includes a list of members and 21 pages of interesting advertising. £95.0012271. Irish Transport Trust: Ninth Annual Bus & Coach Rally Carrickfergus - Belfast - Bangor Saturday, 26th April, 1980. Belfast: Irish Transport Trust, 1980. 28pp. 20 x 14.5 cm. In pictorial card covers. Programme, List of Entrants, Prizes, Publications, and Advertisements. Very good condition. £10.0018094. Johnson, Stephen: Lost Railways of Co. Antrim. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing, 2002. 48 pp. 17.5 x 24 cm. 50 illustrations. Glazed pictorial card covers, in very good condition. Amost as new, £9.5018096. Johnson, Stephen: Lost Railways of Co. Tyrone and Co. Fermanagh. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing, 2002. 48 pp. 17.5 x 24 cm. 48 illustrations. Glazed pictorial card covers, in very good condition. Amost as new, £9.508230. Johnston, Jack: In the Days of the Clogher Valley Photographs of the Clogher Valley and its railway, 1887 -1942. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1991. 1991 reprint. ix + 86pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. Pictorial glazed card covers. 92 illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. Good condition. £6.001845. Johnston, Jack: In the Days of the Clogher Valley Photographs of the Clogher Valley and its railway, 1887 -1942. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1987. First edition. ix + 86pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. 92 illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. Almost mint. £8.0018089. Johnston, Norman: Parting Shot The Railway Photographs of Norman Johnston. Newtownards: Colourpoint Books, 2015. 160 pp. 26 x 21 cm. 231 illustrations, many in colour. Glazed pictorial card covers, in very good condition. £12.0012164. Kennedy, Mark: "All Change" The Social Impact of the Railways. Bangor: North Down Heritage Centre, 2004. Pamphlet produced for a touring exhibition. 24 pp. 20 x 20 cm. An illustrated history of railways, particularly in Ireland. Glazed pictorial card covers. Very good condition. £10.0020333. Kennedy, Mark: The L.M.S. in Ireland an Irish Railway Pictorial. Midland Publishing 2000. 28 x 21.5 cm. 96 pp. illustrated, soft covers, in very good condition. £10.003609. Kennedy, ML and McNeill, DB: Early Bus Services in Ulster. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1997. x + 145pp. 29 x 21.5 cm. 137 Illustrations. Appendices. Bibliography. Indexes. Gold-blocked green boards, in very good condition, in a vg dw. Almost as new. £15.0015130. Kennedy, ML and McNeill, DB: Early Bus Services in Ulster. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1997. 29 x 21.5 cm. x+145 pp. Illustrated, hardback in a v.g. dustwrapper. This is a major study with many fine and rare illustrations. It includes charabancs. £15.0018991. Kennerk, Barry: The Railway House Tales from an Irish Fireside. Belfast: Appletree Press 2008. 22.5 x 14 cm.203 pp. pictorial boards, in a matching cvery good dustwrapper. An account of family life centred on a country branch line in rural Ireland. £10.0015129. Kilroy, J: Irish Trams. Omagh: Colourpoint Press, 1996. 127 pp. 29 x 21.5 cm. A comprehensive and well-illustrated study of trams in Ireland. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Gold-blocked black boards in a pictorial dustwrapper. In a very good dustwrapper, almost as new. £20.0020228. L.M.S. Railway Company: Northern Counties Hotel Christmas Festivities 1937. Belfast: L.M.S. 1937 27 x 20 cm. 4 pp. 4 illustrations, pictorial card cover, in good condition.A nice piece of local ephemera. a Cocktail Lounge, indoor swimming pool, golf, 10/6 for the Christmas Day Dinner and Carnival Ball. £25.0013809. Leckey, Joseph: A Classification Scheme for Railway Company Archives. Belfast: Irish Economic Press, 1982. Fourth edition. 8 pp. 30 x 21 cm. The Classification Scheme was developed by a consultant archivist to help fellow archivists trying to make sense of company records, and lists the main categories of record created by a company, with very brief explanatory notes. Useful for anyone struggling with company archives. Card covers. Good. £10.0013808. Leckey, Joseph: Nineteenth Century Railway Politics in the Belfast-Dublin-Enniskillen Triangle with a Note on Sources. Belfast: Irish Economic Press, 1973. Occasional Publications of the Irish Railway Record Society, No 3. iii + 33 pp. 29 x 20 cm. Three maps, two figures, and other contemporary material reproduced in text. There are four pages of notes on sources. Card covers. Good. £20.005042. Leckey, Joseph: The Records of the County Donegal Railways. Belfast: Irish Economic Press, 1980. Occasional Publications of the Irish Railway Record Society, No 6. vi + 31 pp, 29.5 x 21 cm. Card covers. Good. £5.0013327. Leckey, Joseph: The Records of the Grand Canal Company. Belfast: Irish Economic Press, 1979. An archival list prepared for CIE 1979. 18 pp, 29.5 x 21 cm. Card covers. Good. £10.006840. Leckey, Joseph: The Records of the Irish Transport Genealogical Archive. Belfast: Irish Economic Press, 1985. Occasional Publications of the Irish Railway Record Society, No 7. v + 5 pp, 29.5 x 21 cm. Card covers. Good. £5.005041. Leckey, Joseph and Rigney, Peter: IRRS Archival Collections D1 - D10. Dublin: Irish Railway Record Society, 1976. Occasional Publications of the Irish Railway Record Society, No 4. xii + 33 pp, 29.5 x 21 cm. Card covers. Good. £5.0020114. Leggatt, J.E.: The Irish Commercial & Railway Gazetteer, showing every Town and village in Ireland Dublin: Eason & Son, 2nd edition 1893. Alphabetically arranged with County, Population, Distance from Dublin, Nearest Railway Station, Distance from Station and Line of Rail, distinguishing the Post Offices, Money Order Offices and Telegraph Offices. 22 x 13.5 cm.93 pp. the binding has gone and the gazetteer is in a black plastic binder, it is well used and rather worn, some frayed edges, but complete. A scarce survivor. £35.0017339. Lloyd, David J.: The Foyle Valley Railway and Museum A Short History. Derry: North West of Ireland Railway Society, 1979. 12 pp. 13.5 x 21 cm. Eight illustrations. 2 maps. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. In very good condition. £10.006857. LMS Northern Counties Committeee: Passenger Fares. Belfast: Carswell & Son, 1942. 115 pp. 16.5 x 10 cm. Gold-blocked brown boards. A scarce survival, only one copy was issued to each manned station. Rear outer hinge worn, but still a good tight binding. Empty pocket inside rear board. £35.005899. LMS Northern Counties Committeee: Passenger Fares. Belfast: Carswell & Son, c1945. 117 pp. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. Professionally recased in blue boards and gilt titled blue cloth spine, new endpapers. Internally heavily stained but perfectly readable. A scarce survival, only one copy was issued to each manned station. £35.008875. Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Company: Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts...1919 Londonderry: Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Company, 1920. 20pp. 37.5 x 25.5 cm. folded to 25.5 x 9.5 cm. The Statistical Returns detail the number of locomotives - including the 4-8-8-4 tanks -, carriages, and wagons of each type, other vehicles, passengers carried in each class, horses owned by the Company, livestock carried, etc, etc. Full-page map. In original unsealed dated wrapper as issued. We can also offer reports for the years 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, and 1953 at £5 each. Most in wrappers. Rusty staples and sometimes a little dusty, otherwise very good. With 99 route miles the L&LSR was the second largest narrow gauge railway in Ireland. It ceased operations as a railway company in 1953, but continues as a bus company. £5.006799. Love, Kevin: Bygone Days on Fermanagh Railways. Belfast?: the author?, c2000. 100pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. 122 illustrations. Lists of engine drivers. Pictorial glazed card covers. Author-inscribed on title page. Memories and memoirs of railwaymen: Bundoran, Enniskillen, Omagh and Londonderry, and most places in between. £15.0018940. Martin, Shaun A.: Crewe to Ballywatermoy. Published by the author, 2016. 299 pp. 23 x 15 cm. A semi-autobiographical novel set in the 1940s, centred on the LMS NCC railway system in C. Antrim. Pictorial glazed card covers. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. In very good condition. £12.0019871. Masefield, Robin: "Be Careful, Don't Rush" Celebrating 150 years of train travel between Holywood and Bangor. Newtownards: Bayburn Historical Society 2015. 21 x 29.5 cm. 160 pp. illustrated, pictorial card covers, in very good condition, almost as new. £20.0020002. Maybin, J.M: Belfast Corporation Tramways 1905-1954. LRTA: no date 21.5 x 14 cm. 83pp. illustrated, maps, paper covers. v.g. now a fairly scarce item. £16.5016279. Maybin, J.M: Belfast Corporation Tramways 1905-1954. LRTA: no date 83pp. illustrated, paper covers. v.g. now a fairly scarce item. £16.5015131. Maybin, Mike: A Nostalgic Look at Belfast Trams since 1945. Peterborough: Silver Link Publishing, 1994. 100 pp. 27.5 x 21.5 cm. Profusely illustrated. Glazed pictorial card covers. Belfast Corporation operated the trams very profitably and in 1945 they carried over 155 million passengers but the trams were scrapped because they got in the way of cars. Folly indeed. £12.0015076. Maybin, Mike: Belfast's Lost Tramways. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing, 2003. 17.5 x 24 cm. 48 pp. Illustrated. Good nostalgic photographs with a written commentary. Pictorial card covers. Light fold to lower right area of front cover, otherwise good. £8.0018147. McCutcheon, Alan: Railway History in Pictures Ireland Volume 2. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1970. 112 pp. 24 x 18.5 cm. 150 Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked black boards, in very good condition, in a worn and clipped dustwrapper. This volume deals with the twentieth century, and is an important contribution to Irish railway history. £10.0016915. McCutcheon, Alan: Railway History in Pictures Ireland. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1969, 1970. Two volumes. 24 x 18.5 cm. Volume I, 122 pp. Illustrated, in an edgeworn dustwrapper. Volume II, 112 pp. Illustrated, in a better dustwrapper. Gold-blocked black boards. These two volumes were published in successive years. A now classic study. £25.0012163. McDonald, Brian and McNeill, DB: Transport in Ards Borough in the 20th Century. Ards Historical Society in association with Translink, c2004. 44 pp. 20 x 15 cm. An illustrated survey of transport in North Down. Glazed pictorial card covers. Very good condition. £10.006841. McGuigan, John: Giant's Causeway, Portrush & Bush Valley Railway & Tramway Co. Limited. Belfast: Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, 1983. 36 pp. 15 x 21 cm. Illustrated. Map and diagrams. Pictorial laminated card covers. Neatly inscribed by owner on title page. Vg. £20.0017629. McGuigan, John: Giant's Causeway, Portrush & Bush Valley Railway & Tramway Co., Limited. Belfast: The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 1983. 36 pp. 15 x 21 cm. Fifty illustrations. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. Some wear to covers, o/w in very good condition. £30.0017313. McIlfatrick, James H: The Derry Central Railway. Coleraine: Impact Printing Ltd, 1987. iv + 132 pp. 21 x 15.5 cm. 72 illustrations. Map. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. Very good condition. The Derry Central ran from Macfin Junction, on the Belfast to Coleraine line, to Cookstown. It was a very picturesque rural line serving Kilrea, Garvagh, Aghadowey, Maghera, Upperlands and Magherafelt. It was closed in 1950. This book has now become rather scarce and hard to find. £45.003616. McNeill, Dr D. B: Ulster Tramways and Light Railways. Belfast: Transport Museum, 1956. Transport Handbook No 1, 1st edition 24pp. 21.5 x 15 cm. Sixteen superbly reproduced photographs. Map. in good condition. £10.0016026. McNeill, Dr DB: Ulster Tramways and Light Railways. Belfast: Transport Museum, 1966. Transport Handbook No 1, Second Reprint. 24pp. 21.5 x 15 cm. Twenty superbly reproduced photographs. Map. Pictorial thin card covers. Rear cover a little grubby otherwise good. £12.0019780. McNeill. D.B.: Coastal Passenger Steamers and Inland Navigations in the South of Ireland. Belfast: Belfast Transport Museum, 1960. Transport Handbook No 6. First edition. 32pp. 21.5 x 15 cm. 16 illustrations. 3 maps. Bibliography. List of vessels. Pictorial matt card covers. In very good condition. A ground-breaking study. £10.008231. Morton, Grenfell: Railways in Ulster Historic photographs of the age of steam. Belfast: Friars Bush Press, 1989. 90 pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. 77 plates. Four maps. Brief history. Documents. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. Victorian and Edwardian photographs of the once-extensive railway system in the Province. £8.506834. Mulligan, Fergus: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Irish Railways. Belfast: Appletree Press, 1983. 192 pp. 26 x 19.5 cm. Profusely illustrated. Maps, timetables, diagrams, bibliography and index. Gold-blocked brown boards, in good dw. £14.502873. Murray, D and Shepherd, E, editors: The Irish Railway Record Society 1946-1996, A Commemorative Booklet. Dublin: Irish Railway Record Society, 1996 60 pp. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Illustrated, very good. A review of the Society's history, library, archives and outings, and a review of Irish Railways, etc. £10.002866. Murray, KA: Ireland's First Railway. Dublin: Irish Railway Record Society, 1981. 236 pp. 22 x 15 cm. The story of the Dublin & Kingstown Railway, the first public railway to be constructed in Ireland. 46 illustrations and 17 maps and diagrams. Mint in d.w. £10.006850. NCC: Centenary of the Opening of the Belfast and Ballymena Railway. Belfast: The Railway Executive Northern Counties Committee, 1948. 72 pp. 18 x 12 cm. Illustrated. Maps, line drawings, posters, chronology, folding table of constituent company seals. Glazed card covers. Vg. The Company's Secretary's code and date in ink at top of front cover. £27.5020506. Newham, A. T.: The Bessbrook and Newry Tramway. Catrine Ayrshire: The Oakwood Press, reprinted 2020. 17.5 x 24 cm. 33 photographs and 4 maps. Softcovers, in very good condition. £15.0017324. Newham, AT: The Bessbrook and Newry Tramway. Blandford: The Oakwood Press, 1979. Locomotion Papers Number 115. 34 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Sixteen photographs and maps. Pictorial laminated card covers. Scarce title now. £20.0020723. Newry & Mourne Museum: The World has become smaller: transport through the ages in Newry and Mourne Newry: Newry & Mourne Museum no date. 21x21 cm. 24 pp. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. £10.0019990. North Belfast Historical Society: North Belfast Historical Society Magazine Volume 1 1984. Belfast: North Belfast Historical Society, 1984. 30 x 21.5 cm. Illustrated, paper covers. The first issue. Articles on The Donegall Family, the old Shore road, tramways, the blitz, an unrecorded Belfast token etc, £10.0020753. North Belfast Historical Society: North Belfast Historical Society Magazine Volume 1 1984. Belfast: North Belfast Historical Society, 1984. 30 x 21.5 cm. 44 p. Illustrated, paper covers. The first issue. Articles on The Donegall Family, Some Gleanings from Belfast's New Burying Ground, the old Shore road, Public Transport in Belfast with special reference to tramways, the Belfast Blitz, an unrecorded Belfast token etc, £10.0019991. North Belfast Historical Society: North Belfast Historical Society Magazine Volume 2 1986. Belfast: North Belfast Historical Society, 1986. 30 x 21.5 cm. Illustrated, paper covers. The second issue. Articles on The Belfast and Cavehill railway Co., Missions to Seamen, The York street Co-operative Women's Guild 1913-1921, Ligoniel, motoring in Ireland, Belfast Royal Academy etc. £10.008302. Northern Ireland Railways: Working Time Table 13th May 1985 to 11th May 1986. Belfast: 1985.. 29.5 by 22 cms. 28 pp. Green card covers. in very good condition. £20.006859. Nowlan, Kevin B, editor: Travel and Transport in Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1973. x + 178 pp. 25.5 x 19 cm. Profusely illustrated. Maps, tables, diagrams, line drawings, notes, and bibliographies. Contributions by the leading Irish academics of the day. Gold-blocked brown boards, in shelf-worn dw. £14.5020896. O'Hanlon, Terence: The Highwaymen in Irish History. Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son. Ltd. 1932. 19 x 12.5 cm. viii+165 pp. illustrated by George Altendorf. Gold blocked red boards, no dustwrapper, in good condition.The book is from The Little Sisters of the Assumption Dun Laohaire, not a title one might expent from such a source perhaps!? £40.0020900. O'Keeffe. Peter J.: Alexander Taylor's Roadworks in Ireland, 1780-1827 The Institute of Asphalt Technology Irish Branch 1996. 28.5 x 21 cm. 120 pp. 44 illustrations, maps, signed and dated by the author, softcovers, in very good condition. A major study into this subject. £25.0020899. O'Keeffe. Peter J.: The Dublin to Navan Road and Kilcarn Bridge. P.J.O'Keeffe May 1994. 27 x 19 cm. 60 pp. 30 illustrations, 5 maps, softcovers, in very good condition. £15.0020894. Paget-Tomlinson, Edward: The Railway Carriers The History of Wordie & Co. Carriers, Haulers and Store Keepers. Terance Dalton Limited in conjunction with The Wordie Property Company Limited 1990. 178 pp. illustrated with photographs and drawings, maps, gilt blocked grey boards, in very good condition in a v.g. dustwrapper. £10.0015174. Patterson, E.M.: The Ballycastle Railway Dawlish: David & Charles, 1965 Standard Railway Histories. First edition. 154 pp. 22.5 x 14 cm. Forty plates and twenty drawings and maps in text. Silver-blocked green boards. No dustwrapper. A tight clean copy of a scarce title. £23.0019664. Patterson, E.M.: The Ballymena Lines A History of the Narrow-Gauge Railways of North East Ireland Part Two. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1968. First edition. 200 pp. 22.5 x 14 cm. Illustrated. Silver blocked black boards, in a dustwrapper which has an ugly small mark on the front coover where a small label has been remover. Overall in good condition, a classic study. £22.505518. Patterson, EM: The Ballycastle Railway A History of the Narrow Guage Railways of North East Ireland Part One. Dawlish: David & Charles, 1965. 154 pp. 22.5 x 14cm. Illustrated. No dustwrapper. The 16 mile narrow gauge railway from the LMS main line at Ballymoney to Ballycastle. An elusive early title. £23.506723. Patterson, EM: The Belfast & County Down Railway. Lingfield: The Oakwood Press, 1958. Number 15 in The Oakwood Library of Railway History. 51 pp. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. Profusely illustrated. Owner's name and date on title page and slight foxing to page edges, o/w very clean tight copy in card covers. £14.501368. Patterson, EM: The Clogher Valley Railway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972. 271pp. Profusely illustrated. Hardback in good dustwrapper. An Irish narrow guage line of great character, street running in places. It had the first articulated diesal railcar in Ireland. £13.503614. Pearsall, A.W.H: North Irish Channel Services. Belfast: Museum and Art Gallery, 1962. Transport Handbook No 4. 32pp. 22 x 15 cm. Illustrated, and with folding map. Very good, in card covers. Includes a photocopy of the separately published and scarce 12pp. Supplementary List of Steamships, also by Pearsall. These were Museum Publications No. 162 and No. 162A. £10.0015338. Pollard , Michael: Irish Railways in Pictures No. 4 The Giant's Causeway Tramway. Bromley Kent: Irish Railway Record Society London Area 2000. 25 by 18 cms. 40 pp. illustrated, minor shelfwear otherwise good. A useful monograph. £10.001454. Popplewell, Lawrence: A Gazetteer of The Railway Contractors and Engineers of Ireland. Southbourne: Melledgen Press, 1987. 46pp. 21 x 15 cm. maps, illustrations, lists, in card covers. Now quite scarce. Very slight foxing. £15.006861. Praeger, Robert Lloyd: Official Guide to County Down and the Mourne Mountains. Belfast: Belfast and County Down Railway Company, 1900. Second Edition, revised. xv + 235 + xv pp. "Seventy photographs of scenery by R. Welch, Belfast, Maps, and other illustrations". 16.5 x 10.5 cm. Pictorial green boards. Five folding coloured maps, and a bird's eye view of Belfast. Photographs include earlier and latest locomotives and carriages, and interior of royal saloon. £75.002027. Quaney, J: A Penny to Nelson's Pillar. Portlaw: Co Waterford: Volturna Press, 1971. viii+224+ii pp, 22 x 15 cm. 13 plates, mounted portrait of engineer, and diagrams in text, in card covers. A biography of Kerr Quaney one of the early electrical engineers in Ireland. Includes much material on Dublin trams. £25.0012193. Railway Preservation Society of Ireland: Five Foot Three Magazine of The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland. Whitehead: no 4 January 1968. 48pp illustrated, light card covers, in very good condition. We can also offer the following issues, No. 16, Summer 74, 17, Winter 74/75, no.18, summer 75, 19, Winter 74/75, 20, Winter 76/77, 22, Summer 78, no. 23 Special issue, 24, Winter 79/80, 25, Winter 80/81, 26, Autumn 81, 27, Spring 82, 28, Winter 82/83, 29,Winter 83/84, 30, Winter 84/85, 31, Summer 85, 32, Winter 85/86. October 1997. All single issues £5 each. £5.006127. Saintfield Heritage Society: Saintfield Heritage Number 5. Saintfield: Saintfield Heritage Society, 1998. 80 pp. Illustrated, card covers, very good, as new. Articles include, The McBurney family, General Practice, the WI, Rev. Ledlie Birch, Presbyerianism in Saintfield, Road development, the Bouchers of Tullygirvan, Threshing mills, and others. £10.006126. Saintfield Heritage Society: Saintfield Heritage number 6. Saintfield: Saintfield Heritage Society, 2002. 88 pp. Illustrated, paper covers, very good, as new. Articles include, The McAuley family, Wm Anderson the Poet, Parish of Saintfield and Carrickmannon, the BCDR, and others. £10.001369. Shepherd, WE: The Dublin & South Eastern Railway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974. First edition. 231pp. 22.5 x 14 cm. Illustrated. Very good in a very good dustwrapper. With a bookplate for David Hammond on the front pastedown. The line ran from Dublin to Wexford. £55.0014353. Shepherd, WE: The Dublin & South Eastern Railway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974. First edition. 231pp. 22.5 x 14 cm. Illustrated. Very good in a very good dustwrapper. With a bookplate for David Hammond on the front pastedown. The line ran from Dublin to Wexford. £55.006719. Shepherd, WE: Twientieth Century Irish Locomotives. London: Union Publications, 1966. 61 pp. 17.5 x 12 cm. Lists, illustrations, and tables of leading dimensions. Soft covers. Crease to rear cover, o/w good. £8.008235. Sinclair, Ian McLarnon: Along U.T.A. Lines Ulster's Rail Network in the 1960s. Newtownards: Colourpoint Books, 2002. 192 pp. 23 x 18 cm. 315 illustrations, including maps and track plans. 32 of the illustrations are in colour. Pictorial glazed card covers. Signed by author on title page. In very good condition, almost as new. The photographs are attractive, and nostalgic, but what makes this book so extraordinarily valuable is the track plans - so rarely available to the ordinary traveller. £23.0017067. Stevenson, Patric: The Hillsborough By-Pass A Conversation between A1 and the Hillsborough By-Pass at the time of the Opening of the Latter. Dromore: The Leader Press, 1974. "With acknowledgements to Robert Ferguson (1750-1774) whose "Mutual Complaint of Plainstanes and Causey in their Mother-tongue," motivated these lines." 8pp. 19.5 x 11.5 cm. Black-printed pink card covers. A modern broadside. "Since Hillsborough has joined at last/ The ranks of towns which are by-passed/ It seems the moment to reflect/ On this and that and each aspect/ Of what by-passing does to places -/ How it can change their public faces/ And how affect the folk who live/ Thus riddled through a by-pass sieve/ ... . " First published in the Dromore Leader 27th September, 1974, and issued in pamphlet form in November of that year". In very good condition, almost as new. Scarce. £20.0017759. Strabane W.E.A. Railway Reminiscence Group.: Railway Days in Strabane. Strabane: W.E.A., (N. Ireland District), c1993. W.E.A. People's History Series. 92 pp. 17 x 23.5 cm. 90 illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. Includes lists of Railway employees associated wih Strabane. £10.006722. Tatlow, Joseph: Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland, and Ireland. London: The Railway Gazette, 1920. vii + 223 pp. 20.5 x 17 cm. 12 illustrations. Very slight wear to top and bottom of spine, o/w very clean tight copy in gold-blocked green boards. £23.5020800. The Belfast & County Down Railway Museum Trust Railway: Present Recommendations for a Working Railway Museum for County Down Downpatrick: October 1981 30 x 21 cm. n.p 103 pp illustrated maps, card covers in good condition.This was an examination of sites in County Down for a museum with Ballynahinch junction seemingly best favoured. £20.0020722. The Lord O'Neill: Shane's Castle Railway and Nature Reserve Official Guide. Shane's Castle: Lord O'Neill 1987. 14.5 x 21 cm. n.p. (54 pp.) illustrated, softback, in very good condition. Good photos of this railway, now closed. £10.003613. Thompson, G. B.: Primitive Land Transport of Ulster. Belfast: Museum & Art Gallery, 1958. Transport Handbook No 2. 46pp. 21.5 x 15.5 cm. Illustrated, card covers. This indispensible publication seems never to have been reprinted and is relatively scarce. £12.0015314. Villiers-Tuthill, Kathleen: The Connemara Railway. Clifden: Connemara Girl Publications revised edition 2008. 18 by 12 pp. 46 pp. map. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition, almost as new. Scarce. The story of the Galway-Clifden line. £30.005039. Wall, Thomas F: An Index to the Journal of The Irish Railway Record Society, Volumes 10 - 12. Dublin: Irish Railway Record Society, 1977. Occasional Publications of the Irish Railway Record Society, No 5. vii + 81 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Card covers. £5.0011948. Wibberley, Leonard: The Shannon Sailors A Voyage to the Heart of Ireland. New York: William Morrow & Company 1972. 156 pp. map, hardback, in a slightly worn dustwrapper. Sailing on the Shannon. £10.0011171. Woods, D: The Fateful Day A Commemorative Book of the Armagh Railway Disaster June 12th 1889. Armagh: Armagh District Council, 1989. (40 pp.) 21 x 29.5 cm. 37 illustrations. 5 Maps and diagrams. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. 88 people were killed in this railway disaster, and this study is now increasingly scarce £35.00 |
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