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