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  • SOUTH WALES RAILWAYS GALLERY
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    SOUTH WALES RAILWAYS GALLERY
    STUART DAVIES
    At its peak, the South Wales railway network was one of the most complex in the world. Its primary purpose was to transport Coal from source to point of consumption or export via the various docks. To this was added the other raw materials necessary for making Iron and ultimately Steel, together with the respective products of that industry. True, there was no glory in this day...

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  • THE SOUTHERN REGION (B R) CLASS 73 AND 74 LOCOMOTIVES
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    THE SOUTHERN REGION (B R) CLASS 73 AND 74 LOCOMOTIVES
    FRED KERR
    The Southern Region of British Railways had long sought to design a locomotive capable of working on electrified lines and non-electrified station yards and sidings. In 1959 British Railways approved a design, designated Class HA, later British Railways Class 73, which combined the electrical equipment of the latest EMU design with the standard English Electric diesel engine in...

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  • BRANCH LINE BRITAIN
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    BRANCH LINE BRITAIN
    PAUL D. SHANNON
    This book examines in words and pictures the network of British branch lines and other secondary routes that survived the mass closures of the 1960s. While nearly 4,000 route miles were lost between 1963 and 1970, the cuts were less severe than they might have been. Some lines were reprieved because of their social importance, even though they would never pay their way in purel...

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  • THE KEIGHLEY AND WORTH VALLEY RAILWAY
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    THE KEIGHLEY AND WORTH VALLEY RAILWAY
    PETER WALLER
    Now preserved for almost sixty years, the former Midland Railway branch from Keighley to Oxenhope to the west of Bradford may not be one of the country's longest – indeed it only stretches for just under five miles – but it is one of the country's most popular preserved lines. With a history stretching back to the mid-nineteenth century, the Keighley & Worth Valley provided an ...

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  • FLYING SCOTSMAN, AND THE STORY OF GRESLEY'S FIRST PACIFIC LOCOMOTIVES
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    FLYING SCOTSMAN, AND THE STORY OF GRESLEY'S FIRST PACIFIC LOCOMOTIVES
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    Herbert Nigel Gresley's first Pacifics, though notable in their day, were made universally famous by one of their number – 4722 Flying Scotsman. Throughout her life she has been feted and glamorised far more than any of her sisters and yet when appearing from the LNER Works at Doncaster in 1923 she was just another member of the class, but at some stage, early in her career, sh...

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  • THE CLAPHAM TRAIN ACCIDENT
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    THE CLAPHAM TRAIN ACCIDENT
    GREG MORSE
    Clapham was a pivotal point in British railway history. Much technology had been invented and applied to accident prevention by 1988; much more was to come. The Clapham Train Accident considers Clapham in its wider context, using official reports and expert interviews to describe both the causes and the terrible effects. It looks beyond the railway to the external factors actin...

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  • NORTHAMPTON'S TRAMS AND BUSES
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    NORTHAMPTON'S TRAMS AND BUSES
    DAVID BEDDALL
    Northampton, the county town of Northamptonshire, is rich in transport history. 1880 saw several tram routes commence operation within the Northampton Borough, being operated by the Northampton Street Tramway Company. After this, public transport in the town began to develop. The tram network being electrified in 1901. The 1910s saw a number of independent bus operators begin t...

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  • GRESLEY'S MASTER ENGINEER, BERT SPENCER
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    GRESLEY'S MASTER ENGINEER, BERT SPENCER
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    The great and the good rarely, if ever, accomplish all they wish to achieve without the able assistance of many skilled men and women. To have a very capable person beside you acting as guide, confidant and adviser is essential. Even better when it is someone with a depth of knowledge equal to, or even better than your own. If all these skills can be combined in one trusted, as...

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  • HIGH SPEED TRAINS TO THE NORTH OF ENGLAND
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    HIGH SPEED TRAINS TO THE NORTH OF ENGLAND
    DAVID MATHER
    For as long as we could remember steam traction had been king on our railways. The resounding beat of exhaust from classic designs by Gresley, Stanier, Collett, Bulleid and many others had thrilled us all, while less prestigious 'work-horses' had kept commuters and freight moving throughout a vast network of major and minor routes. Mighty diesels had replaced them, notably the ...

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  • WILLIAM ADAMS: HIS LIFE AND LOCOMOTIVES
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    WILLIAM ADAMS: HIS LIFE AND LOCOMOTIVES
    JOHN WOODHAMS
    William Adams (1823 – 1904) is probably best known from his locomotive designs for the London & South Western Railway. The years at Nine Elms were the culmination of career which began formally in marine engineering, including a period at sea with the Royal Sardinian Navy, encompassed civil engineering and surveying before joining the North London Railway as locomotive, carriag...

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  • BRITAIN'S CHANGING TRAIN LIVERIES
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    BRITAIN'S CHANGING TRAIN LIVERIES
    DAVID GOODYEAR
    Railway liveries play an important role in establishing much-valued recognition of the many operating companies through the variety of colors worn by their trains which ply our British railways. These reinforce the pride that their "uniform" bestows. This is demonstrated by the immaculate designs which adorned the Pre-grouping steam locomotives through to the stamp of Network S...

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  • COLONEL STEPHENS LIGHT RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES
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    COLONEL STEPHENS LIGHT RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES
    BRIAN JANES
    Holman Fred Stephens (1868-1931) set himself up in the 1890s as an engineer and manager of the complete light railway as evolved by Victorian theorists to serve rural districts as yet bereft of the benefit of cheaper transport. To them, a light railway was not an assemblage of second-hand mainline equipment of dubious merit but of fit for purpose, new material. This ideal theor...

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  • THE LMS PRINCESS CORONATION PACIFICS, THE FINAL YEARS & PRESERVATION
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    THE LMS PRINCESS CORONATION PACIFICS, THE FINAL YEARS & PRESERVATION
    DAVID MAIDMENT
    This book follows on from the author's book on the Princess Coronation pacific locomotives from their construction in 1937 to their operation in 1956. It picks up from the story in 1957 with their operation and performance on the 'Caledonian', 'Royal Scot' and 'Midday Scot' accelerated services of the late 1950s, their continuing heavy work as dieselization of the West Coast ma...

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  • THE A4 PACIFICS AFTER GRESLEY
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    THE A4 PACIFICS AFTER GRESLEY
    RONALD HILLIER / TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    In their book 'Gresley's Silver Link' the authors analyzed the evolution of the A4s Gresley's and their service up to Gresley's death in 1941. This book takes this compelling story from the early years of the war up to their demise in the 1960s After four years of service pulling the LNER's most prestigious trains the A4s took on a more utilitarian role and for six years worked...

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  • RAILS FROM SHREWSBURY
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    RAILS FROM SHREWSBURY
    PETER J. GREEN
    Shrewsbury station, located at the junction of the lines from Chester, Crewe, Wolverhampton, Hereford and Aberystwyth is a busy and interesting railway center for the enthusiast. Many train movements are still controlled by semaphore signals operated from a number of signal boxes, including the largest remaining operational mechanical signal box in the world at Severn Bridge Ju...

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  • THE LOCOMOTIVES OF ROBERT RIDDLES
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    THE LOCOMOTIVES OF ROBERT RIDDLES
    COLIN BOOCOCK
    The Locomotives of Robert Riddles guides the reader in the quest to understand how Robert Riddles career on the LMS and in war service shaped his knowledge and character and led to him becoming the obvious choice for leading the locomotive engineering function within the newly-formed Railway Executive. The book outlines the substantial impact Riddles had on the design and suppl...

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  • A HISTORY OF SHIP LAUNCHES AND THEIR CEREMONIES
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    A HISTORY OF SHIP LAUNCHES AND THEIR CEREMONIES
    GEORGE HODGKINSON
    "This is an interesting and informative book about a shipbuilding process that might be considered routine. Far from it. This fine book is full of centuries of launching methods, ceremonies, superstitions and mishaps." — PowerShips Throughout history, man has been performing rituals at the launch of a new ship to seek supernatural or divine protection for his ship and those who...

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  • CONSTRUCTING BUILDINGS FOR MODEL RAILWAYS
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    CONSTRUCTING BUILDINGS FOR MODEL RAILWAYS
    DAVID ASHWOOD
    An illustrated demonstration of the construction process for different buildings to enhance your model railroad display. At some time during ownership a train set crosses an arbitrary threshold and becomes a model railway. The aspiring modeler then has the challenge of filling in all the gaps. Whether the line runs through the countryside, a village or town, some type of infras...

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  • PASSENGER TRAINS IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND
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    PASSENGER TRAINS IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND
    JOHN MATTHEWS
    Passenger Trains in the North of England features over 270 black and white pictures and takes the reader northbound from South Yorkshire and Cheshire to the Scottish Borders. Also covered in detail are a wide selection of pictures from Cumbria, West and North Yorkshire among others. We see main line expresses, branch line and local trains, plus special workings running along to...

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  • THE PLANET AND SAMSON LOCOMOTIVES
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    THE PLANET AND SAMSON LOCOMOTIVES
    ANTHONY DAWSON
    Robert Stephenson's Planet class locomotive was the first true design of mainline express passenger locomotive. Delivered less than a year after Rocket it was one of the most successful early locomotive designs. Planet set the mold for British locomotive design for more than the next century featuring a multi tubular boiler; inside cylinders; crank axle; and the first use of pr...

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  • GREAT WESTERN CASTLE CLASS 4-6-0 LOCOMOTIVES IN THE PRESERVATION ERA
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    GREAT WESTERN CASTLE CLASS 4-6-0 LOCOMOTIVES IN THE PRESERVATION ERA
    DAVID MAIDMENT / BOB MEANLEY
    This third volume in the series on the Great Western Castle class locomotives focuses on the eight that have been preserved and goes into depth on the reconstruction of three of them, the two Tyseley ones, 5043 and 7029 described by Bob Meanley and Didcot's 4079 recounted by David Maidment from the records of the Great Western Society, including the full story of 4079's prolong...

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  • CRAFT OF THE INLAND WATERWAYS
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    CRAFT OF THE INLAND WATERWAYS
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The book traces the history of the various craft that have been used for transport on Britain's rivers and canals from the earliest times to the present day. The first section deals with the long history of the development of river craft, from prehistoric log boats to the whole range of sailing barges, such as the Humber keel and the Thames barge. By the middle of the 18th cent...

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  • THE GENERAL STRIKE 1926
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    THE GENERAL STRIKE 1926
    DAVID BRANDON
    The General Strike was one of the most significant events in twentieth century Britain. The miners were locked out and the mass of rank-and-file trade unionists then came out on strike in their support. With their families and some middle-class sympathizers, the miners and the labor and trade union movement found itself pitched against the political establishment, the apparatus...

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  • THE LMS PRINCESS CORONATION PACIFICS, 1937–1956
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    THE LMS PRINCESS CORONATION PACIFICS, 1937–1956
    DAVID MAIDMENT
    A comprehensive pictorial history of Princess coronation pacific locomotives. This book covers the design, construction, operation and performance of Sir William Stanier's masterpiece, the Princess Coronation pacific locomotives, better known as the 'Duchesses'. Included are pen portraits of the LMS engineers, a chapter on the express locomotives of the early LMS period that pr...

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  • STEAM HERITAGE, 1972–1985
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    STEAM HERITAGE, 1972–1985
    DAVID KNAPMAN
    It is over fifty years since the main line steam revival began in October 1971 with the return to steam by 6000 King George V, thanks to the efforts of Peter Prior and the help from the British Railways Board. This is not the whole story, in that the preservation movement was developing and beginning to mature, as more preserved railways opened throughout the Country. These dev...

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  • RAILWAY CRIMES COMMITTED IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN
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    RAILWAY CRIMES COMMITTED IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN
    MALCOLM CLEGG
    The vast majority of Britain's railways were built between 1830 and 1900 which happened to coincide with the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). By the turn of the Nineteenth/Twentieth Century, over one hundred different railway companies were operating in Britain on more than 22,000 miles of railway track. Although these new railways brought prosperity to the nation and enabl...

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  • BRITISH TROLLEYBUS SYSTEMS
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    BRITISH TROLLEYBUS SYSTEMS
    PETER WALLER
    Part of a four-volume history of trolleybus systems across Britain, this book covers operations based in Wales, the Midlands, and East Anglia. The first British experiments with trolleybus systems began in the first decade of the twentieth century. They were meant to be a low-cost means of supplementing tram services in lightly trafficked areas and providing links to communitie...

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  • LOST RAILWAYS OF THE WORLD
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    LOST RAILWAYS OF THE WORLD
    NIGEL WELBOURN
    Many readers will be familiar with Nigel Welbourn's long running series of books, covering lost railways in Britain and Ireland. This new book Lost Railways of the World is the latest by this author on the subject of disused railways. The material for this volume has been collected and researched over a period of almost fifty years of world travel by the author. Informative tex...

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  • GREAT WESTERN CASTLE CLASS 4-6-0 LOCOMOTIVES, 1923–1959
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    GREAT WESTERN CASTLE CLASS 4-6-0 LOCOMOTIVES, 1923–1959
    DAVID MAIDMENT / BOB MEANLEY
    The Great Western Castles were one of the most successful locomotive designs of the twentieth century in terms of both performance and efficiency. Designed by Charles Collett in 1923, based on the 1907 Churchward 'Star' class, 155 were constructed almost continuously, apart from the war years, between 1923 and 1950, in addition to fifteen rebuilt 'Stars' and one rebuilt from th...

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  • BRITISH RAILWAYS DIESEL ELECTRIC CLASSES 44 TO 46
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    BRITISH RAILWAYS DIESEL ELECTRIC CLASSES 44 TO 46
    FRED KERR
    Derby Works introduced the first mainline Diesel to UK service with the production of LMS 10000 in 1947, although mainline diesels had previously been tested on post-Grouping main lines prior to being exported. When British Railways' Modernization Plan of 1955 was initiated by a Pilot Scheme to identify the best features for a future standard diesel fleet, Derby Works upgraded ...

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