2017-01-24

I love railway books with a passion, but struggle for space these days and tend to be selective in what I buy. I do however enjoy looking through other peoples collections, so thought I`d post my current collection in the hope that others might do the same.

A Regional History of Railways in

Great Britain.

Publishers; David St John Thomas.

In excellent condition with dust covers

Volume 1 The West Country

Volume 2 Southern Region

Volume 3 Greater London

Volume 4 North East England

Volume 5 The Eastern Counties

Volume 6 Scotland

Volume 7 The West Midlands

Volume 8 South and West Yorkshire

Volume 9 The East Midlands

Volume 10 The North West

Volume 11 North and Mid Wales

Volume 12 South Wales

Volume 13 Thames and Severn

Volume 14 The Lake Counties

Volume 15 The North of Scotland

Volume 16 Ireland

The Forgotten Railway Series

David and Charles

Forgotten Railways, Main Volume

Volume 1 North East England

Volume 2 East Midlands

Volume 3 Chilterns and Cotswolds

Volume 4 North and Mid Wales

Volume 5 Scotland

Volume 6 South East England

Volume 7 East Anglia

Volume 8 South Wales

Volume 9 North West England

Volume 10 The West Midlands

Volume 11 Severn Valley & Welsh Borders

Volume 12 South West England

Regional Railway Handbooks

Publishers; David St John Thomas.

No 1, The East Midlands, (1986), P.Howard Anderson

No 2, East Anglia, (1987), R.S. Joby

The Lynton and Barnstable Railway,*

H.P.White.

OS Nock

GWR Steam

LMS Steam

LNER Steam

Southern Steam

Railway Companies

The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, (1982), John Rhodes.

The Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway,(1981), A. J Wrottesley

Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1830-1980, (1980) Frank Ferneyhough*.

Great Northern, Pre-Grouping Railway Scene, number 2, (1979), O. S. Nock (Ed).

The LNWR Recalled, (1987), Edward Talbot.

The Midland Railway, A New History, (1988), Roy Willams

Midland Steam Journey, Volume 2, (2009), Rex Conway.

The Big Four In Colour, 1935-50, (undated), David Jenkinson with John Edgington and John Smart.

Tracing the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway, (Volume 1: Chesterfield and Langwith(2016), Zoe Elizabeth Hunter.

The Skye Railway, (1977), John Thomas.

The Banbury and Cheltenham Railway, Volume 1 (2004), William Hemmings.

The Banbury and Cheltenham Railway, Volume 2 (2004), William Hemmings, Paul Karau & Chris Turner.

Railways South East, The Album, (1994), Ed,

Railways of the Southern Region, PSL Field Guide, (1984), Geoffrey Body.

Railways of the Western Region, PSL Field Guide, (1983), Geoffrey Body.

Railways of the Eastern Region, Volume 1, Southern Operating Areas, PSL Field Guide, (1989), Geoffrey Body.

The British Steam Locomotives, 1925 to 1965, (1986), O S Nock.

History of the LMS 1; The First years, 1923-1930, (1982), O.S. Nock.

History of the LMS (1982), 2; The Record-Breaking Thirties, 1931-39, O.S. Nock.

History of the LMS (1982), 3; The War Years and Nationalisation, 1939-48, O.S. Nock.

The LMS in the West Midlands, (1984), P.B. Whitehouse.

LMS Steam Portrait, (1985), Brian Stephenson*

Pre-Grouping in the West Midlands,(1984), P.B. Whithouse.

The Settle and Carlisle Railway, A Personal Story of Britain’s Most Spectacular line, (1992), O.S. Nock.

On the Settle and Carlisle Route, (1994), T.G.Flanders.

A Lancashire Triangle, Part One, A History of The London and North West Railways in and Around The South Lancashire Coalfields, (19xx), Dennis Sweeney.

A Lancashire Triangle, Part Two, A History of The London and North West Railways in and Around The South Lancashire Coalfields, (1997), Dennis Sweeney.

West Lancashire Light Railway, A Guide Book, ( 2007), West Lancashire Light Railway.

Corris Railway, Guidebook an stock list, (2009), Corris Railway

East Anglia, The Transformation of A Railway, (1887), Ian Cowley.

An Illustrated History of the Cheshire Lines Committee, (1984), Paul Bolger,*

The Chester and Holyhead Rly Volume 1

The Chester and Holyhead Rly Volume 2.

LMS Branch Lines, England and Wales, (1992), C.J. Gammell.*

Rex Conway`s, Midland Steam Journey, Volume 1, (200), Rex Conway

Rex Conway`s, Midland Steam Journey, Volume 2, (2009), Rex Conway

LNER Album, Volume 2, (1970), Brian Stephenson*.

LNER, (1987), Geoffrey Hughes.

The West Highland Railway, The History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands, Vol1, (1984), John Thomas.

Highland Railway, Album 2, (1978), Anthony J. Lambert.*

The Severn Valley Railway (1991), John Marshall,*

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, (1998), Michael Harris,*

Memories of LNER Steam, (1980), Raymond Keeley

The LMS and LNER in Manchester, (1987), R.E.Rose,*

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Volume 1 (NDC)

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Volume 2

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Volume 3

Lancashire and Yorkshire Album, (1971), Noel Coates and Martin Walters.*

Furness Railway A View From The Past, 2000), Howard Quayle.*

Seventeen Stations to Dingle, The Liverpool Overhead Railway, (1982), John W. Grahan.

Steam In the Eastern Counties, (1985), John Brodribb.

Brighton Line Album, (1967), R. C. Riley

Scottish Steam Album, (1978), Brian Morrison,*

Western Main Lines, Ruabon to Barmouth, featuring Llangollen, (2015), Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Middleton Press*

Western Main Lines, Aberystwyth to Carmarthen, Including Aberayron and Newcastle Emlyn Branches, (2011), Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Middleton Press

Branch Lines Around, Portmadoc, 1923-1946, the Welsh Highlands and Festiniog Railways, (2006), Vic Mitchell, Keith Smith in association with Adrian Gray and Michael Seymour, Middleton Press.

An Illustrated History, The Vale of Rheidol Light Railway, (1986) , C.C. Green, Wild Swan*.

The Festiniog Railway,Volume 1: History and Route, (2002 re-print), James I.C. Boyd Published by Oakwood Press*

The Festiniog Railway,Volume 2: Locomotives and Rolling Stock, (2002 re-print), James I.C. Boyd Published by Oakwood Press

An Illustrated History of the Welsh Highland Railway, 2nd Edition, (2010), by Peter Johnson Published by Oxford Publishing Co.*

The Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway, (1981), Ralph Cartwright and R.T. Russell*.

Bala Lake Railway, a visitors guide*

The Manchester and Milford Railway, The Oakwood Library of Railway History, (2007), J.S. Holden*

Portrait of the Central Wales Line, (1995), Martin Smith.

Cambrian Railways, 1859-1947, (1997), C.C. Green.

The Decline of British Railways in Bury & Rossendale, (2013), Andrew Coward.

The Amerton Railway, (2911), John Strike.*

The North Norfolk Railway, a Past and Present Collection, (1998), Adrian Vaughan.

The Great Central and Metropolitan Railways

Great Central Memories, The London Extension, (1987), John, M.C. Healy.

Echoes of The Great Central, (1987), John M.C. Healey*.

The Great Central, From the Footplate, (1988), Robert Robotham and Frank Stratford.*

The Last Years of the Great Central, Main Line, (1986), Robert Robotham

Great Central Album, (1982 reprint), George Dow.

The Great Northern Railway

The Great Northern Railway in the East Midlands, The Erewash Valley Lines, Pinxton Branch, Awsworth-Ilkeston, Heanor & Stanton Branches, (2000), Alfred Henshaw.

The Somerset and Dorset Railway.

The Somerset and Dorset in the Fifties, Volume 1 1950-1954, (1984), Ivor Peters

The Somerset and Dorset in the Fifties, Volume 2 1955-1959, (1984), Ivor Peters

Ivor Peters, Classic Steam, (1996), Mac Hawkins

The Somerset and Dorset Railway

The Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway, guide and stockbook, (1990), Martin Herbert*,

China by Rail, br5ad(1988), Patrick and Maggy Whitehouse.

London Books

London, Past and Present, (1991/92), Brain Morrison and Ken Brunt.

London Suburban, An Illustrated History of the Capitals Commuter Lines Since 1948, (1995), Frank Hornby,*.

London’s Lost Railways

by Charles Klapper

London`s Branch Railways, (1999), John Glover.

London`s Local Railways, (1983), Alan A Jackson

Steam Around London, The Post War Years, (1994), Brian Morrison.

London Underground

Underground Railways of the World, (1974), O. S. Nock.

Little Book of The London Underground, (2014), Robin Bextor.

The Tube, Station to station on the London Underground, (2012), Oliver Green.*

Haunted London Underground.(20xx), David Brandon & Alan Brooke.

Metro Memories, A Pictorial History of Metro-land, (1988), Dennis Edwards & Ron Pilgram

The GoldenYears of the Metropolitan Railway and the Metro-Land Dream, (1985), Dennis Edwards & Ron Pilgram.

London Underground`s Strangest Tales, Extraordinary but true stories, (2013), Iain Spragg.*

The Subterranean Railway, How the London Underground was built and how it changed the City forever, (2005), Christian Wolmar.*

London`s Underground, 7th Edition, (1991), John Glover*.

London`s Underground, 11th Edition, (2010), John Glover.

London`s Overground, 1st Edition, (2012), John Glover.

London`s Underground, (1986), H. F. Howson.

Londons Underground Suburbs, (1986), Dennis Edwards & Ron Pigram.

Underground Movements, ((2000), Paul Moss.

Bright Underground Spaces, The Railway Stations of Charles Holden, (2008), David Lawrence.

Penguin Underground Lines, (2013), 150th Celebrations box set of 12 volumes,

Waterloo and City, Leanne Shapton, Waterloo-City, City-Waterloo*,

Piccadilly, Peter York, The Blue Ribbon *,

Victoria, Camila Batmanghelidjh, Mind the Child*

Circle, Lucy Wadham, Heads and Straights*,

Jubilee, John O Farrell, A History of Capitalism According to the Jubilee Line*,

Hammersmith and City, Philippe Parreno, Drift*

Northern, William Leith, A Northern Line Minute|*,

District, John Lancaster, What We Talk About When we Talk About The Tube*,

Metropolitan, Richard Mabey, A Good Parcel of English Soil*,

Central, Danny Dorling, The 32 Stops*,

Bakerloo, Paul Morley, Earthbound*,

East London, Fantastic Man, Buttoned-Up*.

Walk the Lines, The London Underground, Overground, (2011), Mark Mason.

The Tube, (2012), Station to Station On The London Underground., Oliver Green.

London Underground Guide (2014), Jason Cross.

Railwaymen Tales

Tales of Old Railway Men,

Volumes 1,*

by Tom Quinn

More Tales of Old Railway Men,

Volumes 2 , by Tom Quinn,*

Double-Headed, More Tales from the Footplate, (2002), Colin G. Maggs.*

The Country Railway

by David St John Thomas,*

Steam was my Calling

ES Beavo,*

Fiennes on Rails, Fifty years of railways as seen by Gerald Fiennes, (1986), Gerald Fiennes*

Staying On Track, The Reflections of a Railwayman, (2002), Graham Zeitlin*.

Forward, The Revolution In The Lives Of The Footplatemen 1962-1996, (1996), C. David Wilson*.

Well Trained, (2003), David Packer*.

Men of Steam, A Yorkshire Novel, (1994), Raymond Flint.*

Life Adventure In Steam, A Merseyside Driver Remembers, (1992), Frank Mason*

Life in a Railway Factory, Alfred Williams,*

Behind the Steam. (19XX), Bill Morgan and Bette Meyrick*

A Locomotive Fireman, Looks Back, Western Region Recollections, Laira and Swindon,, (Undated), Ray Gwillian*.

Loco`s, Men and Steam Memories, (1986), Cyril Birchall*.

Steam Up, A Railwayman Remembers, (1983), Frank Ferneyhough*

The Working Railway, A Railwaymans Photographs 1960-67, (1992), Ron Herbert,*.

On The Right Lines, Footplate Memories ,(1987), Bert Stewart*

When There Was Steam, (1994), Tony Barfield*.

Life on the Lines, John Farrington,*

Steaming Eccentrics, Tales from The Footplate, (1995), Stan Wilson.*

Steam, Tales From the Footplate, (1999), Colin G. Maggs*.

From Booking Boy to Bullieds,(2001), Jim Evans.

The Recollections of a Preston Engineman, Steaming Ambitions, (1999), Bob Jackson*.

That was my Railway, from ploughman’s kid to railway boss, 1922-1969, (1991), Frank L. Hick FCIT.,*

Light Relief, Tales of a Relief Signalman in the 1950s, (1992), Jack Warland.*

Old Oak Enginemen, (1986), Albert

Spooner.*,

Eric Sawford Books

British Railways Steam In The 1950s, (1992), Eric Sawford,*.

British Railways Steam In The 1960s, (1993), Eric Sawford*

Odd Corners of the London Midland from the Days of Steam, (2003), Eric Sawford*

LNER Six-Coupled Tender Locomotives 1948-68, (2006|), Eric Sawford.*

The Branch Line Age, The Minor Railways of the British Isles in Memoriam and Retrospect, (1976), C.J. Gammell.

Today`s Railways, Review of the Year, Volume 1, (1988), Howard Johnson & Stephen Knight.

Today`s Railways, Review of the Year, Volume 2, (1989), Stephen Knight & Peter Fox..

Today`s Railways, Review of the Year, Volume 3, (1990), David Carter & Stephen Knight.

Life and Times Series, Class 58 (1988), Colin J. Marsden.

British Railways, Freight Steam, (1990), John. M, C. Healy,*

British Railways, Passenger Steam, (1990), John. M, C. Healy

Motive Power and Traction Maintenance Depots.

LMS ENGINE SHEDS

Volume One The London & North Western Railway, (1881), Hawkins, C. & Reeve, G.

Volume Two, The Midland Railway, (1981), Chris Hawkins & George Reeves.*

Volume Three, The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway (1982), Chris Hawkins & George Reeves*

Volume Four The Smaller English Constituents

Volume Five The Caledonian Railway, (1987), Chris Hawkins & George Reeves.

Volume 6: Highland Railway

Volume 7: Glasgow & South Western Railway, Their History and Developement, (1990 ), Chris Hawkins, George Reeves and James Stephenson, Published by Irwell Press

Great Eastern Railway Engine Sheds, Stratford, Peterborough and Norwich District, Part 1, Chris Hawkins and George Reeves

Great Eastern Railway Engine Sheds, Ipswich and Cambridge Districts, Part 2, Chris Hawkins and George Reeves

Great Northern Railway Engine Sheds

Volume 1, Southern Area, (2001) Griffith & Hooper

Great Northern Railway Engine Sheds

Volume 2, The Lincolnshire Loop, Nottingham and Derbyshire, (1996), Griffith & Hooper

Great Northern Railway Engine Sheds

Volume 3, Yorkshire and Lancashire, (2000), Griffith & Hooper

The Directory of British Engine Sheds and Principal Locomotive Stabling Points 1, Southern England, The Midlands, East Anglia and Wales, Roger Griffin and Paul Smith.

The Directory of British Engine Sheds and Principal Locomotive Stabling Points 2, North Midlands, Northern England and Scotland, Roger Griffin and Paul Smith.

LMS Sheds in Camera, John Hooper

LNER Sheds in Camera, John Hooper

34A Top Shed, (1989), P.N. Townsend.

Steam Motive Power Depots,

ES Beavor,*

Crewe Sheds, (1988), Allan Baker & Gavin Morrison.

Steam Sheds and their Locomotives, (1995) Chris Gamell

Memories Around Steam Sheds, (1985) Raymond Keel*

30A Steam on Stratford Sheds in the 1950`s, (1989), Brain Morrison.

Steam on Shed, (2004 reprint), John Stratton,*

Steam on Shed, (1969), P. B. Whitehouse

Classic Steam on Shed, A Portrait of Steam locomotive Depots, (1993), David Hucknall,*.

Engine Sheds in Camera, (200x), David Hucknall.

More Engine Sheds in Camera (2007), David Hucknall.*

North Eastern Locomotive Sheds, K, Hoole

Plodder Lane for Farnworth, Brian Holland,*

BR Steam Motive Power Depots by Paul Bolger

London Midland Region

Eastern Region

North Eastern Region

Scottish Region

Southern Region

Western Region

Steam Works, BR Locomotives and Workshops in the Age of Steam, (1994), Derek Huntiss.

Railway Liveries BR Steam 1948-1968, (1989), Brian Haresnape revised by Colin Boocock.

Diesels and Electrics on Shed, Volume 1,London Midland Region, (1978), Rex Kennedy,*.

Diesels and Electrics on Shed, Volume 2, Eastern Region, (19), Rex Kennedy.

Diesels and Electrics on Shed, Volume 3, Western Region, (19), Rex Kennedy

Diesels and Electrics on Shed, Volume 4, Scottish Region, (19), Rex Kennedy

Diesels and Electrics on Shed, Volume 5, Southern Region, (19), Rex Kennedy

Diesels In The White Rose Country, (1988), David Hey.*

Signalman’s Morning, Adrian Vaughan,*

Signalman’s Twilight, Adrian Vaughan,*

Signalman’s Nightmare, Adrian Vaughan,*

Eric Treacy Books

Eric Treacy, (1980), John Peart-Binns,*

Spell of Steam, Eric Treacy,*

Lure of Steam, (1966 reprint 1987), Eric Treacy,*

Glory of Steam, (1969), Eric Treacy,*

Roaming Northern Rails, Eric Treacy,*

Treacy`s Routes North (1989), Patrick Whitehouse and John Powell.,*

Portraits of Steam, (1993 reprint from 1967), Eric Treacy,*

Eric Tracy Railway Photographer, Whitehouse and Allen.,*

A Classic Collection of the Finest Railway Photographs in the British Isles Photographs (1988), Great Railway Photographs by Eric Treacy,*

Treacy`s British Rail (1991) by Patrick Whitehouse and John Powell

Steam Railway, The Glorious Years, Recalling British Steam Years Before 1948, (1996), Nigel Harris (Ed).

Roger Siviter Books

A Professional Guide to Railway Photography, Roger Siviter,*

A Handbook of Railway Photography, 1983), Roger Siviter,*

BR Steam Surrender, (1988), Roger Siviter

The Settle and Carlisle, A Tribute, (1988), Roger Siviter

The Welsh Marches (1988), Roger Siviter

The Waverley Route, The Post War Years, (1999), Robert Robotham*.

Focus On, South Africa Steam, (1981), Roger Siviter,*

Memories of Steam, The Final Years, (2006), Roger Siviter,*

Farewell To Steam, (2004), Roger Siviter*,

Non-Stop, London to Scotland Steam, A J Mullay

The Elegance of Edwardian Railways, British Locomotives Portrayed through the Camera of James Gimoldby, (1994), by Geoffrey Williams (Ed)

1850-1925 Vintage Album (1966), J.E.Kite

Locomotives.

The Classic Steam Collection, (1990), Stephen

Cook.,*

British Railway Locomotives 1948, Chris Banks

British Railways Steam locomotives, 1948 to 1968, Hugh Longworth

The WD Austerity 2-8-0, The BR Record, (2010), John Hooper.

British Railway Locomotive Classes, Principal Big Four Locomotive Classes as at 1945, (1991), Michael Harris.

BR Motive Power Allocations, 1959-1968, 1; BR Standards and Austerities, (1985), Paul Teal.

The Complete BR Diesel and Electric Locomotive Directory, (1993), Colin J. Marsden.

Ian Allen Rail Guide, (2012), Colin J. Marsden

UK Light Rail and Tram Museums Guide (2013), James Millington.

The Book of the Britannia Pacifics, A British Railways Illustrated Special, (2004), Richard Derry.

BR Standard Steam Locomotives, (1993), Brian Stephenson.

Jubilees Of The LMS, (1974) John F. Clay.

Mallard,, How The Blue Streak Broke The World Record, (2005), Don Hale.*

The Duchess, The Story of Britain`s Ultimate Steam Locomotives, (2008), Andrew Rodem

Thompson and Peppercorn, Locomotive Engineers, Colonel HCB Rogers,*

The Power of the Duchesses, Power Series, (1979) David Jenkins.

A Pictorial Record of British Railways Standard Steam Locomotives, Edward Talbot.

LMS Engines, Names, Numbers, Types and Classes, JWP Rowledge

The LMS Pacific’s, JWP Roulege

Rescued From Barry, (1983), Alan Warren.

An Illustrated Historical Survey of the Railways in and Around Bury, (1995), Jeffery Wells.*

More Illustrated History of the Railways of Hull, (1995), W.B.Yeadon.

John Betjeman, On Trains, by Jonathan Glancy*

Branch Lines Around Series

Branch Lines Around Series, March, from St Ives, Ramsey, Peterborough, Murrow and Wisbech, (1993), Vic Mitchell, Ken Smith, Christopher Awdry & Allan Mott.

Branch Lines of Buckinghamshire, (2000), Colin G. Maggs

Hampshire Railways Remembered, (1988), Kevin Robertson & Leslie Oppitz.

Rail Centres Series

No 1 Rail Centres: Brighton, B. Cooper

No 2 Rail Centres: York, K. Hoole

No 3 Rail Centres: Swindon, C. Maggs

No 4 Rail Centres: Peterborough, P. Wazak

No 5 Rail Centres: Exeter, C. Maggs

No 6 Rail Centres: Carlisle, P. Robinson

No 7 Rail Centres: Derby, B.Bedford

No 8 Rail Centres: Newcastle, K. Hoole

No 9 Rail Centres: Oxford, L. Waters

No 10 Rail Centres: Shrewsbury, R. Morris

No 11 Rail Centres: Sheffield, S. Batty

No 12 Rail Centres: Leeds and Bradford, S. Batty

No 13 Rail Centres: (1990), Wolverhampton, P. Collins

No 14 Rail Centres: Reading, L. Waters

No 15 Rail Centres: Edinburgh, A. Mullay

No 16 Rail Centres: Doncaster, S. Batty

No 17 Rail Centres: Clapham Junction, J. Faulkner

No 18 Rail Centres: Nottingham, M. Vanns

No 19 Rail Centres: Crewe, R. Christiansen

No 20 Rail Centres: Manchester, S. Hall*

No 21 Rail Centres: Bristol, C. Maggs.

The Last Days of Steam in Series

The Last Days of Steams in Surrey and Sussex, (1989), D. Fereday Glenn.

The Last Steam Around London, (1988), Kevin Robertson.

The Last Days of Steam in Bristol and Somerset, (1992), Colin Maggs

The Last Days of Steam of the Somerset and Dorset, (1997), Colin G. Maggs.

The Last Years of British Steam, First Series, (undated), G. Freeman Allan*

Steam Final Scotland, (2003), Brian J. Dickinson.

Colin Garratt Books

The Last Steam Locomotives in the World Series

Sympathy in Steam, Colin Garratt

Masterpieces in Steam, Colin Garratt,*

Twilight in Steam, Colin Garratt,*

Iron Dinosaurs, Colin Garratt

Steam Safari, (1974), Colin Garratt,*

Veterans in Steam, Colin Garratt,*

British Steam Lives, Colin Garratt,*

Steam, Collin Garratt,*

Steam trains, A World Portrait, (1991), Colin Garrett,*.

Around the World in Search of Steam,

Colin Garratt,*

British Steam Nostalgia, (1987), Colin Garratt,*

The Last Days of British Steam, (1985), Collin Garratt,*

China’s Railways, Steaming into a New Age, (1988), Colin Garratt,*

The Golden Years of British Steam Trains, Collin Garratt on the Rev AWV Mace,*

Railway Photography

Great Railway Photographers, Maurice Earley, (1996), Colin Garratt,*

Great Railway Photographers, H C Casserley, (1996), Colin Garratt,*

Great Railway Photographers, Henry Priestly, (1996), Colin Garratt,*

Great Railway Photographers, E R Wethersett, (1996), Colin Garratt,*

Steam Railways Around The World, (1998), Keith Strickland*.

Famous Railway Photographers, (1972), HC. Casserley*

Famous Railway Photographers, (1973), P.Ransome-Wallis.,*

Britain`s Railways by Night, (1989), Colin J Marsden & Brian Morrison.

Trains of Thought (1981), A.W.Hobson.*

Footplate Cameraman, (2009), J.R.Carter.

Steam Portraits, 1960-1966, (1994), Brian J. Dickson.

Robert Adley Books

In Search of Steam, Robert Adley,*

The Call of Steam, Robert Adley,*

In Praise of Steam, Robert Adley,*

Wheels, Robert Adley,*

Covering My Tracks, Robert Adley,*

Out Of Steam, (1990), Robert Adley,*

To China for Steam, (1983), Robert Adley,,*

Rails In The Valleys, James Page,*

The Great Western Railway Gas Turbines, A Myth Exposed, (1990),Kevin Robertson.

Engineers

The Rainhill Trials, the Greatest Contest of Industrial Britiain and the Birth of Commercial Rail, (2004), Christopher McGowan.

Bagnalls of Stafford, Locomotive Builders and Railway Engineers of the Castle Engine Works Stafford,England, 1875-1972 (1973), Allan Charles Baker and Thomas David Allen Civil.

Lives and Works of the Victorian Railway Contractors, The Railway Builders, (1983), R.S. Joby.*

The Men Who Built the Railways, (1983), F.R Conder

The Railway Builders, How Britian`s Railway Network Evolved, (2016), Antony Burton.

Brunel`s Britiain, (1984), Derrick Beckett.

An Illustraited History of British Railways Workshops, Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Building and Maintenance, from 1825 to the present day, (2009), Edgar Larkin.

The Great Western At Swindon Works, (2009), Alan S. Peck.

Great Railway Stations of Britain, Gordon Biddle.

Railway Architecture, (1979), Marcus Binney & David Peace.

Historic Railway Sites in Britain, Michael R Bonavia

Railway Relics, (1969), Bryan Morgan.

The Railway Era, Life and Lines in the Great Age of the Railways, (1982), Geoffrey Body.*

Fire and Steam, A New History of the Railways in Britain, (2007), Christian Wolmar.*

Blood, Iron and Gold, How Railways Transformed the World, (2009), Christian Wolmar*.

Parallel Lines, or Journeys on the Railway of Dreams, (2004), Ian Merchant.

The Railway Vanishes, An Appreciation of a Lost Era, (1993), H.G. Forsythe.

Away for the Day, Railway Excursions in Britain from 1830 to the Present day, (1991), Arthur and Elizabeth Jordan.

Gone With Regret (1964, reprint 1991), George Behrend.

I Drive, You Drive, An Amazing Adventure in Poland, (The Wolsztyn Experience), (2002), Les Hitchcock*.

Railway map and track books

Jowetts Railway Centres, Volume 1, Alan Jowett

Jowett`s Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland (1989), Alan Jowett.

British Railways Atlas 1947, The Last Days of the Big Four, (2011), Ian Allan Publishing.

Railway Map Books

Track Atlas of Mainland Britain, 2nd Edition, (2012), A Comprehensive Geographical Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain, Platform 5, Mike Bridge ED.

Rail Atlas, Great Britian and Ireland, (1995), K. Baker, OPC.

British Railways Atlas 1947, The Last Days of the Big Four, (2011), Ian Allan.

Eisenbahnatlas EU, (2013), Schweers and Wall.*

European Railway Atlas, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, (1993), M. G. Ball.

European Railway Atlas, Poland , Regional Series, (2014), M. G. Ball*.

European Railway Atlas, Slovakia and Czech Republic, (2013), M. G. Ball.*

European Railway Atlas, Baltic States, Belarus and Ukraine, Including Kaliningrad, (2013), M. G. Ball*.

Irish Railways

The Northern Counties Railway, Ireland, Volume 1; 1845-1903, J.R.L. Currie.

The Northern Counties Railway, Ireland, Volume 2; 1903-1972. J.R.L. Currie

The Railways of Ireland Past and Present, Dublin, (1997), Michael H. Baker

By Rail Through the Heart of Ireland (1990), Padriac O` Farrell,*

The Golden Years of the Great Northern Railway, Part 1, (1979), R.M. Arnold.

The County Donegal Railways, (1982), Edward M. Patterson.

Irish Railways in Colour, From Steam to Diesel, 1955-1967(1992), Tom Ferris.

Irish Railways in Colour, A Second Glance, 1947-1970, (1995), Tom Ferris.

Railway Artists

Along Artists Lines, Two Centuries of Railway Art, Beverley Cole and the NRM,*

Terence Cuneo Railway Painter of the Century, Narisa Chakra,*

Portraits of Steam, George F Heiron and Michael Harris,*

Tracks on Canvas, The Railway Paintings of Philip D Hawkins,*

A Brush With Steam, David Shepherd`s Railway Story, (1983), David Shepherd.,*

Collieries and their Railways in the Manchester Coalfield, Geoffrey Hayes,*

The Four Great Railways (1980), Michael R. Bonavia

The Malta Railway, (1992) Joseph Bonniei Michael Cassar.

Britain from the Rails 2nd Edition, A Window Gazers Guide, (2015), Benedict Le Vay.

David St John Thomas and Patrick Whitehouse Books

The Great Days of the Country Railway, David St John Thomas and Patrick Whitehouse,*

The Great Days of the Southern Railway, (1992), Patrick Whitehouse and David St John Thomas.

The Great Days of the Passenger Express Train, David St John Thomas and Patrick Whitehouse,*

The Great Western Railway, 150 Glorious years, Patrick Whitehouse and David St John Thomas (Ed)

The London Midland and Scottish Railway, A Century and a half of progress, LMS 150, (1995) Patrick Whitehouse and David St John Thomas (Ed)

The London and North Eastern Railway, A Century and a half of progress, LNER 150, (1989) Patrick Whitehouse and David St John Thomas (Ed)

A Century and a Half of SR 150, The Southern Railway, (1998) Patrick Whitehouse and David St John Thomas (Ed)

The Trains We Loved, (1994) Patrick Whitehouse and David St John Thomas (Ed)

The Romance of Scottish Railways, (1993), Patrick Whitehouse and David St John Thomas (Ed)

BR in the Eighties (1990), David St John Thomas and Patrick Whitehouse

Southern Rails in The 1980s, (1983),

Colin J. Marsden.

Steam Days, (1992), Gerald T. Robinson.

Steam Rambles, Number 1, South and West, (197 ), M. Pope

Steam Rambles, Number 2, North and West, (1976), M. Pope*

On the North and West Routes, from Chester to Newport, (1984), C.R.L.Coles,*

Station Master’s Reflections, Images of Railway Life 1954 to 1964, (1992), David Holmes,*

Railway Reflections, A Unique Collection of Photographs from the 30`s (1989), F.C. le Manquais.

History of The Chiltern line, (1996), John M.C. Healy

Then and Now Books

London Midland, Then & Now (1995), Gavin Morrison.

The Great Central, Then & Now, (2002), Mac Hawkins.

The Somerset and Dorset, Then & Now, (1995), Mac Hawkins*

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Then & Now, (1992), Alan Earnshaw

LSWR West Country Lines, Then & Now, (1993), Mac Hawkins

Rails Across the Borders, The Story of Anglo-Scottish Railways, (1990), A.J.Mullay.

Northern Steam, Remembered, (1987), David Hey and Peter Batty.*

Railways Across the Pennines, (2006), Stanley C. Jenkins and Howard Quayle.*

Lancashire Steams Last Stronghold, David Packer (no DC),*

The Best of the Last Days of Steam, Colin G Maggs (ED),*

The Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies (1990), Christopher Awdry

North Eastern Branch Lines (1984), Ken Hoole

The Great Eastern Since 1900, (1985), Charles Phillips.

Power A Series, The Power of the Duchesses, (1979), David Jenkins

Railway Ghost and Mystery Stories and Misc

Rail Tales of the Unexpected, Kenneth Westcott Jones,*

Railway Ghosts and Phantoms, WB Herbert,*

Phantoms of the Railways, (1988), WB Herbert.

Mysterious Railway Stories, William Patrick (ED),*

The Ghost Now Standing on Platform One, (1990), Richard Peyton (Ed),*

Supernatural Steam, (1992), J.A.Brookes,*

Railway Ghosts, Sixteen Stories of the Supernatural from the Golden Age of Steam in Britain, J A Brooks

Shadows in the Steam, The Haunted Railways of Britain.(2011), David Brandon & Alan Brooke.*

Stories of the Railway, (1977), V.L.Whitechurch.*

Ghosts of the Settle-Carlisle Railway, W.R. Mitchell and Peter Fox,*

Ghost Train, (1985), Stephen Laws*

Midnight Specials (1977), Bill Pronzini, (Ed)*.

Railways Strangest Journeys,(2003) Tom Quinn.

Crime On The Lines (1975), Bryan Morgan (Ed)*.

All Stations to Murder, True Tales of Crimes on the Railway, (1994), Barry Herbert.*

The Railway Detective, (2005), The Detective Series, Edward Marston, (hard back)*

The Excursion Train,(2006), The Detective Series, Edward Marston*

The Railway Viaduct, (2007) The Detective Series, Edward Marston*

The Iron Horse, (2008) The Detective Series, Edward Marston*

Murder on the Brighton Express, (2009), The Detective Series, Edward Marston*

The Silver Locomotive Mystery, (2010), The Detective Series, Edward Marston*

Railway to the Grave, (2011), The Detective Series, Edward Marston*

Blood on the Line, (2011), Edward Marston, (hard back), *

The Station Masters Farewell, (2012), Edward Marston.*

Peril on the Royal Train, (2013), Edward Marston.

A Ticket to Oblivion, (2014), Edward Marston*.

Inspector Colbeck`s Casebook (2014), Edward Marston.*

Signal for Vengeance, (2015), Edward Marston.

Timetable of Death, (2016), Edward Marston.

The Necropolis Railway, Jim Stringer Steam Detective (2002), Andrew Martin*

The Blackpool Highflyer, Jim Stringer Steam Detective, (2004), Andrew Martin*

The Lost Luggage Porter, Jim Stringer Steam Detective, (2006), Andrew Martin*

Murder at Deviation Junction, Jim Stringer Steam Detective, (2007), Andrew Martin*

Death on a Branch Line, Jim Stringer Steam Detective (2008), Andrew Martin*

The Last Train to Scarborough, Jim Stringer Steam Detective, (2009), Andrew Martin*

The Somme Railway, Jim Stringer Steam Detective, (2011), Andrew Martin*

The Baghdad Railway Club, (2012), Andrew Martin*

Night Train to Jamalpur, Jim Stringer Steam Detective, (2013), Andrew Martin*

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, An Inspector Vignoles Mystery, (2007), Stephen Done.*

The Murder of the Crows, An Inspector Vignoles Mystery, (2009), Stephen Done*

The Torn Curtain, An Inspector Vignoles Mystery, (2009), Stephen Done*

The Marylebone Murders, An Inspector Vignoles Mystery, (2011), Stephen Done*

Last Train to (Brackley Central), An Inspector Vignoles Mystery, ( 2012), Stephen Done*,

New Brighton Rock, (2013), An Inspector Vignoles Mystery , Stephen Done. *

Blood and Custard, (2015), Stephen Done.

Blood on the Tracks, A History of Railway Crime in Britain, (2010), David Brandon and Alan Brooke.

Crossing the Line, Trespassing on Railway Weirdness, (2006), Paul Screeton.

Mr Briggs Hat, A Sensational Account of Britain`s First Railway Murder, (2011), Kate Colquhoun.*

On The Slow Train, Twelve Great British Railway Journeys, (2010), Michael Williams*

Eleven Minutes Late, A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain, (2010), Mathew Engel*

The 8.55 to Baghdad, from the suburbia to Iraq on the trail of Agatha Christie, (2004), Andrew Eames.

Railway Roundabout, A Guide to the Highlights of the Classic TV Series, (1997), Rex Christiansen*.

The Peoples Train, (2009), Thomas Keneally.

Terry Pratchett presents Mrs Bradshaw`s Handbook, To travelling upon the ANKH-MORPORK & STO Plains Hygienic Railway, (2014), Georgina Bradshaw.*

Raising Steam, (2014), Terry Pratchett.

Railway Walking

North West Railway Walks, An Explorers Guide to the Lost Railways of the South Pennines and Surrounding Hills, (1990), Robin H. Martin*.

Railway Walks LMS, (1990), Jeff Vinter, Chairman of the Railway Ramblers

Walking Old Railways (1979), Christopher Somerville.

Train Spotting Story Books

Jubilees and Jubblys, a Trainspotters Story 1959-64 Part 1, (2014), Stewart Warrington*.

Jubilees and Jubblys, a Trainspotters Story 1959-64 Part 2, (201), Stewart Warrington*.

Running out of Steam, a Photographic Diary of a Teenage Railway Enthusiast, 1966-68, (2010), David Mathers*

The Glory and the Steam, The mainly North Eastern diary of a teenage railway enthusiast, 1960-65, (2012), John Gilroy.

School Day and Steam Days, the trainsotting adventures of Paul Carr, (2012), Barry Allen.

Garratts and Guitars 60 Trainspotting Years Part 1 1955-1985

30 Years of Trainspotting, (1990), John Stetton,*.

Rail Rover from Kent to Cornwall, (1988), D. Fereday Glenn,*.

Once Upon A Time By The Lineside,(1998), Ken Jones.*

Platform Souls, The Train Spotter as a Twentieth Century Hero, (1996), Nicholas Whittaken S/B,*

Platform Souls, The Train Spotter as a Twentieth Century Hero, (1996), Nicholas Whittaken Hardback,*

Platform Souls, 2nd Edition. The Train Spotter as a Twentieth Century Hero, (2015), Nicholas Whittaken Hardback,*

Platform Souls, 2nd Edition. The Train Spotter as a Twentieth Century Hero, (2015), Nicholas Whittaken S/B,*

Double Headed, Two Generations of Railway Enthusiasts (1981), Gilbert Thomas and David St John Thomas,*

Cheese Butties and the 12.39 to Wigan, Railway Memories 1950-1969, (2011), Andrew Mellor*.

Shed Bashing with the Beatles, A Trainspotter in the Swinging Sixties, (2006), Phil Mathison.*

Fearless Ghosts, (1999), Alex Scott,*

The Club, An Everyday Story of Trainspotters, (1995), Mel Rees*

Forget the Anorack, What Trainspotting was really like, (2004), Michael G. Harvey

The 10.30 Limited, (2012), A Railway Book for Boys of All Ages.

Capital Steam, (1989), Hugh Ramsey*.

Tales From Fast Trains, Europe at 186 MPH, (2011), Tom Chesshyre.*

General

Tiny Stations, (2014), Dixe Wills.*

Pennine Branch Lines, (1993), Alan Earnshaw.

An Illustrated History of Rochdale’s Railways,

(1993), Jeffery Wells

Scenes From The Past 8, Railways Around the Manchester Suburbs, A Selective Pictorial Review, (1989), E.M.Johnson.

Scenes From The Past 10, Railways in and Around Bolton, An Historic review, (1990), Bill Simpson.

Scenes From The Past 11, Railways in and Around Nottingham, (1991), V. Forster & W. Taylor.

Scenes From The Past 13, Stockport Tiviot Dale, A Cheshire Line Remebered, (1991), Gregory K. Fox.

Scenes From The Past 16 Part One, The Midland Route from Manchester Central to New Mills Via Didsbury, Stockport and Marple, (undated), E.M. Johnson.

The Railways of Colne, Lancashire, Scenes from the Past 23 (1994), Stuart Taylor

Journeys by Excursion Trains from East Lancashire, Preston via kirkham and the Marton Line to Blackpool Central, Scenes from the Past 26 Part Three, (1997), Stuart Taylor,

Journeys by Excursion Trains Home to the East Lancashire Return from Blackpool Central via the Coast line St Anne’s, Ansdell, Fairhaven and Lytham, Scenes from the Past 26 Part four, Stuart Taylor,

The Oldham Loop, Part One, Manchester Victoria, to Shaw and Crompton, Scenes from the Past 42, Jefferey Wells

The Oldham Loop, Part Two, New Hey, Milnrow and Rochdale to Manchester Victoria, Scenes from the Past 42, Jefferey Wells

The Hooton to West Kirby Branch Line and the Wirral Way, (1982), Mersey Railway Historic Group,*

The Line Beneath The Liners, A Hundred Years of Mersey Railways Sights and Sounds, 1983), John W. Gahan

South West Scotland, British Railways Past and Present No 19, (1993), Keith Sanderson and Douglas Hodgins

Manchester and South Lancashire, British Railways Past and Present No 41 (2003), Paul Shannon and John Hillmer

East Anglia, British Railways Past and Present No 12, (1992), Des Saunders and Richard Adderson

Lost Railways of Lancashire, 2003), Gordon Suggitt.

Cheshire Railways Remembered, (1997), Leslie Oppitz.

North West Rail Trails, Historic Railway Rambles, (1999) Gordon Suggitt

The Lost Railways of the Scottish Borders, (1999), Gordon Stansfield

Stockport Edgeley, Motive Power Depot, Scenes from the Past 35 (1999), Michael S. Stokes

Settle-Carlisle in Colour (1983), David Joy

The Line That Refused to Die, The Story of the Successful Campaign to Save the Settle and Carlisle Railway, (1990), Stan Abbott & Alan Whitehouse.

A Pennine Pioneer, The History of the Summit Tunnel, (1999), Allen Holt

Halifax and the Calder Valley, Railway Memories No 11, Jack Wild & Stephen Chapman

The East Lancashire Railway, Martin Bairstow

Railways in East Lancashire, (1988) Martin Bairstow

The Decline of British Railways in Bury and Rossendale, (2013), Andrew Coward.

Settle and Carlisle in Colour, Souvenir, (1998) Michael Pearson

Lancashire Steam Final, (2004) Michael S. Welsh

One Hundred Tales of the Settle-Carlisle Railway, (2000), W. R. Mitchell

Footplate Tales of the Settle-Carlisle Railway, W.R. Mitchell and Peter Fox,*

The Settle-Carlisle in Action, 1989), Peter Fox,*

Shanty Life on the Settle-Carlisle Railway, (1988) W.R. Mitchell,*

Walking West Country Railways,(1982),Christopher Somerville

Exploring Britain`s Lost Railways, (2015), Julian Holland., Collins.

A Layman`s History of the Steam Railways of Mallorca, (1992), Lindsay H R Fisher.

Bradshaw`s Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland, , Handbook 1863, (2012 reprint), Old House, Oxford.

1861 Bradshaw`s Handbook, (2014), Bradshaw`s Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland, H/B.

1853 Bradshaw`s Continental Railway Guide, (2016) Bradshaw`s descriptive railway handbook of Europe. H/B

Great Railway Battles, Dramatic conflicts of the early railway years, (1994) Geoffrey Body.

Railway combines and stock books

AEB Rail Publications, European Railways Combined Volume IV, (2016), edition, Poland*

British Railways Locomotives, Combined Volume and Locoshed Book, (Summer 1957), Ian Allan

UK Light Rail and Tram Museums Guide (2013), James Millington.

London Underground Guide,(2014), Jason Cross.

Trams

The Manchester, Bury, Rochdale and Oldham Steam Tramway, (1979), W.G.S. Hyde

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