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2094. 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. £10.00


9003. Allen, C. Edgar: The Modern Locomotive.

Cambridge: University Press 1912. viii+174 pp. illustrated, red covers, minor wear, very good. Written not for specialists but the wider public. £11.00


20763. Boyd, J. I. C.: The Festiniog Railway Volume II 1890-1959.

Surrey:The Oakwood Press 1st edition 1959. Vol II only 194 pp. illustrated, purple boards, a bit sun faded, in a fairly worn dustwrapper, a fair copy only. £10.00


20767. Boyd, James I. C.: Narrow Gauge Railways in North Caernarvonshire Volume Three The Dinorwic Quarry and Railways, The Great Orme Tramway and other Rail Systems.

Usk: The Oakwood Press reprinted 2001. 21.5 x 15.5 cm.xii+228 pp. illustrated, gold blocked green boards, maps, plans, map endpapers,Publisher's Collector's bookmark no 39 present as an insert. In good condition. In a very good dustwrapper. A comprehensive study. £20.00


20768. Boyd, James I. C.: Narrow Gauge Railways in North Caernarvonshire Volume Two The Penrhyn Quarry Railways,

Usk: The Oakwood Press reprinted 2001. 21.5 x 15.5 cm.xii+162 pp. illustrated, gold blocked grey boards, maps, plans, map endpapers, Publisher's Collector's Bookmark no 38 present as loose insert. In good condition. In a very good dustwrapper. A comprehensive study. £20.00


20769. Boyd, James I. C.: Narrow Gauge Railways in South Caernarvonshire Volume One.

Usk: The Oakwood Press 2nd Edition Enlarged and Revised, reprinted 2000. 21.5 x 15.5 cm.x+330 pp. illustrated, gold blocked cream boards, maps, plans, map endpapers. In good condition. In a very good dustwrapper. A comprehensive study. This Volume covers, The Embankment Tramway, Gorseddau Tramway, Festiniog & Blaenau Railway, Merionithshire Railway, Croesor Tramway, Bettys-y-Coed & Festiniog Railway, North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway, Portmadoc Beddgelert & South Snowdon Railway. £20.00


20772. Boyd, James I. C.: On The Welsh Narow Gauge.

Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd. n.d. 22 x 21 cm. no pagination,. illustrated, hardback in a good dustwrapper, map, In good condition. In a very good dustwrapper. £10.00


9715. Bradshaw: Bradshaw's Railway Manual, Shareholders Guide, and Official Directory 1917. Sixty-ninth edition.

London: Henry Blacklock 1917. edited by E. H. Bassett. Containing the history and financial position of every railway controlled by British capital at home and abroad, also of the principal canal and rolling stock companies, with statistics, powers, and other data; accompanied by a directory of administrative and executive staffs, and of manufacturers of railway supplies. xlviii+680 pp. folding railway maps of, Scotland, (coloured) Central Europe. Green embossed boards, gilt title to front board and spine. Boards in very good condition, internally tight, clean unmarked, maps in very good condition, overall a very good copy. £75.00


10177. Bradshaw: Bradshaw's Railway Manual, Shareholders Guide,and Official Directory 1918. Seventieth edition.

London: Henry Blacklock 1918. edited by E. H. Bassett. Containing the history and financial position of every railway controlled by British capital at home and abroad, also of the principal canal and rolling stock companies, with statistics, powers, and other data; accompanied by a directory of administrative and executive staffs, and of manufacturers of railway supplies. xlviii+694 pp. folding railway maps of, Ireland, (coloured), Great Britain and Ireland. Green embossed boards, gilt title to front board and spine. Boards rather worn, faded, spine professionally repaired, internally tight, clean unmarked, maps in very good condition, except for pages 669 to the end which have had old damp damage which has caused damage and loss to edges, the last dozen pages being poor. Overall a very good copy except for these last pages- more detail on request. £65.00


20021. Cormack, Ian L.: Tramways of Scotland.

Scottish Tramway Museum Society n.d. 21.5 x 14 cm. 16pp. card covers. A photographic survey. In very good condition. £12.00


20006. Fairlie, R. F.: Locomotive Engines.What they are and what they ought to be.

Prescot Lancs. Reprinted 1969 by T. Stephenson & Sons Limited and published by the Festiniog Railway Company Portmadoc. 21.5 x 14 cm. 36 pp. 13 figures, card covers, in very good condition. £12.00


18928. Freeling, Arthur: The Railway Companion from London to Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester; with guides to the objects worthy of notice in Liverpool, Manchester and Birminhgham. and Freeling's Grand Junction Railway Companion.

London: Whittaker and Company, 1838. xi + 204 + 36 + 192 + 44 pp. 14 x 9.5 cm. Two guides bound together. In dark green boards with faded gilt titling. Showing some wear. The first title page is detaching, and both title pages have a former owner's signature on them. A fair copy of two early and scarce Railway Guides. No maps are included. £100.00


20771. Gabb, Gerald: The Life and Times of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway.

Cowbridge: D. Brown and Sons 1987. 24.5 x 17.5 80 pp. map endpapers, illustrated, hardcovers, in very good condition. £10.00


8147. Gray, Rankine E.: Power Potential Studies of Locomotives at Rest.

Bournemouth: ERG Autumn 1947. A series of pencil drawings by "X". No 0583 from a limited edition of 1000 copies. no. 0581. 20 by 32 cms. 12 superb pencil drawings of locos from, G.W.R. L.M.S.R., L.N.E.R., and S.R. Introduction by Lord Brabazon of Tara, notes by Rankine Gray. £20.00


18098. Henthorn, Dr Frank, editor: Letters and Papers concerning the establishment of the Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway, 1860-1862.

Lincoln: The Lincoln Record Society, Volume 70, 1975. lv + 130 pp. 25.5 x 15.5 cm. 4 illustrations. 1 map. 5 plans. Index. Black-blocked yellow boards, in very good condition. No dw, as published. Amost as new. A serious assessment of nineteenth-century railway promotion in Britain. £12.50


20766. Lee, Charles E.: Narrow-Gauge Railways in North Wales.

London: The Railway Publishing Co.April 1945. 23 x 15.5 cm.136 pp. illustrated, hardcovers, in good condition. Written when some of these lines remained operational and had not become the heritage lines loved by so many. £12.00


20020. Liddle, L. H.: Steam Finale A Review of Present-Day Steam Traction on Irish Railways.

London: The Irish Railway Record Society London Area 1964. 20 x 14 cm. 66 pp. 16 illustrations, loose insert Supplement March 1965. Card covers, in very good condition. £20.00


20586. Locomotive Magazine: The Locomotive of To-Day 1900.

London: The Locomotive Publishing Company Limited Second Edition n.d (1900) 22 x 14.5 cm. 180+xiii pp. 37 figures, 16 plates, 3 working drawings. The folded drawing of a an Express engine for the G.N.R. is in lovely condition.Gold blocked burgundy boards with embossed black vignette of a steam engine. In very good condition. Probably, everything you need to know to build a steam engine. £23.00


20009. Maclaren, Charles: Railways compared with Canals and Common Roads and their Uses and Advantages Explained.

London: 1825 21 x 13.5 cm. pp.58-92 blue paper covers. this is the original article of 1825. It was published originally in The cotsman in December 1824. In very good fresh condition. £20.00


18917. Measom, George: The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway including the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton and Chester and Holyhead Lines and Isle of Man.

London: Published under the Authority of the Directors, 1860. 872 pp. 18 x 12.5 cm. Embellished with 350 engravings. Full leather boards, six-panelled spine with raised bands and original black and gilt spine label, marbled endpapers and foreedges. The spine has been professionally relaid but marks of former tape repair are visible on front and rear boards. Internally in good clean fresh condition. A scarce guide. Excellent topographical information, describing important manufacturies in the towns on the lines. Many illustrations of now-lost buildings. This edition was not published with a map. £95.00


18916. Measom, George: The Official Illustrated Guide to the North-Western Railway and All Its Branches.

London: Published under the Authority of the Directors, 1861. 533 pp. 18 x 12.5 cm. Embellished with 360 engravings. Half-leather and marbled boards, and marbled foreedges. Some edgewear and rubbing to the boards, and upper spine extremity worn. A small light stain on the title page and a couple of following pages, otherwise internally in good clean fresh condition. A scarce guide. Excellent topographical information, describing important manufacturies in the towns on the lines. Many illustrations of now lost buildings. This edition was not published with a map. £95.00


16771. Murray, J.: H.Rly. Railways to Strathpeffer Spa Skye and Tir nan Og 1885-1985.

Strathpeffer: J. Murray, 1985. 20.5 x 28.5 cm. Five modern reduced facsimiles of Scottish Railway Parliamentary Plans produced to commemorate the centenary of the opening of the branch line to Strathpeffer Spa, 3rd June1885. They include: Plans and Sections of the Dingwall & Skye Railway, extending from the Town of Dingwall to Kyleakin Ferry 1864, 66 pp. Dingwall and Skye Railway Plans and Sections of Proposed Deviations and of Proposed Pier at Attadale November 1867, 23 pp. The Highland Railway Company Plans and Sections of a proposed branch Railway from the Dingwall & Skye Section at Fodderty to Strathpeffer Spa Session 1884, 9pp. Garve and Ullapool Railway Plans and Sections Session 1890, 6 pp. Loch Maree and Aultbea Railway Plans and Sections of Proposed Railways Session 1893, 14 pp. These are contained in a light card envelope but there is no information about them or when they were republished. A n introductory leaflet by J. Murray, which was part of the publication, is missing. Obviously they are much smaller than the originals but they are useful to anyone interested in the original plans of these particular lines. The card envelope is a litle worn but the 5 books are in mint condition. Copac only list 2 copies of this publication. £75.00


2866. 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. £10.00


20691. Nock, O.S: Steam Locomotive A retrospect of the work of eight great Locomotive engineers,

London: British Transport Commission reprinted 1962. 39pp. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. £10.00


18942. Osborne, E. C. and W.: Osborne's London & Birmingham Railway Guide.

Birmingham: E.C.& W. Osborne. London: Simkin, Marshall & Co. (1838). (viii + 270 pp. 18 x 11.5 cm. Engraved frontispiece and title page. 40 principal engravings, including: single page map of Birmingham, and plan of Euston Station. A later green textured cloth binding with gilt spine titling. Please note that the Map of England is not present. Overall in verygood condition. £55.00


20005. Ottley, George: Railway History A Guide to sixty-one collections in libraries and archives in Great Britain.

London: The Library Association Reference, Special and Information Section 1973. Subject Guides to Library Sources Number One. 21 x 15 cm. 80 pp. map, card covers, in very good condition. £10.00


15380. Perl, Anthony: New Departures Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy in the Twenty-First Century.

Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2002. viii+334 pp. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Twenty-three photographs, Tables, Graphs, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Silver-blocked red boards. Very good in a very good dustwrapper £15.00


20063. Pollins, Harold: Aspects of Railway accounting before 1868.

London: Sweet & Maxwell n.d. Reprinted from Studies in the History of Accounting. 24.5 x 15.5 cm. pp 332-355, softcovers, staples rusty otherwise good. £10.00


20065. Self Changing Gears Ltd: Railcar Progress around the British Isles.

Self Changing Gears Ltd n.d 1957. 14 x 23 cm. 24 pp. 12 illustrations, 2 small maps, plans. 8 pages relating to Ireland. Softcovers, in very good condition. £10.00


11044. Stormont, Wm.: The Golden Sands of Picardy A Complete Guide to the North Coast of France.

London: London Bridge Station The South Eastern and Chatham Railway 1913. An official publication of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway. 183+xxi pp. illustrated, maps, timetables. Card covers. Includes "principal events at Boulogne Season 1914." Sadly they didn't account for the outbreak of World War 1 in July/Aug. that year. This guide reflects the end of that long Edwardian summer as seen in Picardy. The covers are a little worn otherwise good. £25.00


20770. Thomas, Cliff: Quarry Hunslets of North Wales The Great ( Little ) Survivors

Usk: The Oakwood Press reprinted 2001. 21.5 x 15.5 cm.256 pp. illustrated, gold blocked grey boards, maps, plans, pictorial endpapers. In good condition. Publisher's Collector's bookmark no 38 present as insert. In a very good dustwrapper. A comprehensive study. £20.00


16151. W. H. Smith and Son: The Railway Anecdote Book: A Collection of the best and newest anecdotes and tales, to the present day, selected for the reading of Railway Passengers.

London: W. H. Smith and Son, c1850. 21.5 x 14 cm. 192 pp. preceded by title-page and seven unnumbered pages each with an engraving and quote from a notable person: Washington Irving, Thomas Hood, Charles Dickens, Justice Halliburton ("Sam Slick"), Mr Hobler, Lord Brougham, and Mr J.C. Appleby. The title page has an engraved portrait of Sydney Smith. Gold-blocked faded blue boards, no dw. Boards a little rubbed, and some wear to spine extremities. There is a crested bookplate "H.M." on the front pastedown. Overall in good condition. A nice example of the sort of book produced for reading on early trains. The anecdotes are varied and light. A scarce item. £30.00


5039. 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. £5.00


20066. Westcott, G. F. compiler: The British Railway Locomotive A Brief Pictorial History of the First Fifty Years of the British Steam Locomotive 1803-1853

London: H.M.S.O. 1958. 16 x 21.5 cm. 14 pp +32 plates, softcovers, in very good condition. £10.00


11708. Wynter, Andrew: Subtle Brains and Lissom Fingers. Being some of the Chisel-Marks of our Industrial and Scientific Progress. And other Papers.

London: Robert Hardwicke Third Edition 1869. viii+446 pp. with a few illustrations, green boards, blind stamped decoration to boards, gilt spine title. Containing 39 articles, including, Fradulent Trade Marks, A day with the Coroner, Undersea Railroad, Vivesection, Restoration of our soil, Railways the great civilisers, Mudies Circulating Library, Railways and City population, Messages under the sea, the effects of railway travelling upon health, Physical Education, Clerk of the weather, Photographic portraiture, Village Hospitals, Air Traction, Illuminations, Boat building by machinery, Doctors stuff, SmallPox in London, Excursion trains, poems, etc etc. £42.00

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