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  • BUGATTI BLUE
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    BUGATTI BLUE
    LANCE COLE
    The British have had an affair with Bugatti for decades and perhaps Prescott Hill-Climb in Gloucestershire is the place where that relationship has reached its highlights across the decades. This collection of photographic images captures the brilliance of Bugatti design amid Bugatti blue at Prescott's wonderful natural amphitheatre in the Cotswolds to which visitors, Bugatti o...

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  • A PRIVILEGED JOURNEY
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    A PRIVILEGED JOURNEY
    DAVID MAIDMENT
    A Privileged Journey, Volume 1 1940–1962 is a personal and individual account of the author' youthful enthusiasm for trains and the travels he undertook in Great Britain and on the European continent as a student and management trainee of British Railways. It is illustrated by over 140 black and white photos, mostly taken by the author himself as a boy and student. The chapters...

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  • LOCOMOTIVE PORTRAITS
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    LOCOMOTIVE PORTRAITS
    JONATHAN CLAY
    Railway art has existed as long as there have been Railways. Many famous names have included some aspect of railways in their paintings, notably Claude Monet and J M W Turner. This tradition has been kept alive by the formation in the UK of the Guild of Railway Artists, which now consists of over 200 artists, of which Jonathan Clay is one. Over the last few years, Jonathan has ...

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  • GREAT WESTERN: RAILWAY GALLERY
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    GREAT WESTERN: RAILWAY GALLERY
    LAURENCE WATERS
    It could be argued that the great Western or 'Gods' Wonderful Railway' was for many years the most famous railway in England. Much of the railway that we see today was the work of one of the greatest engineers of his time, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The company was also served by locomotive engineers such as Gooch, Armstrong, Churchward, Collett and Hawksworth, who produced a ser...

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  • KING'S CROSS SECOND MAN
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    KING'S CROSS SECOND MAN
    NORMAN HILL
    Late in 1964 the author made a career change from the Midland Region railway clerical grades, to the Eastern Region Motive Power Department at King's Cross, initially as a locomotive cleaner. This was the realization of an ambition held for some ten years and by the end of December 1964, he became eligible for second man duties. On 28 December 1964, he was second man on a retur...

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  • TT TITANS
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    TT TITANS
    MATTHEW RICHARDSON
    A motorcycle enthusiast offers in-depth, fully illustrated profiles of the 25 greatest machines to race the Isle of Man TT.   Since it began in 1907, the Isle of Mann Tourist Trophy has gained a well-deserved reputation as the most challenging—and dangerous—motorcycle race in the world. In TT Titans, Matthew Richardson explores a fascinating question: which motorcycles or sidec...

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  • THE LEICESTER GAP
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    THE LEICESTER GAP
    MICHAEL A. VANNS
    Until 1987, there was still a busy stretch of British main line railway where traditional Victorian operating practices were used to control the movements of both express passenger and a variety of freight trains.At the heart of the former Midland Railway main line from St Pancras to Sheffield, the 45-mile section between Irchester in Northamptonshire and Loughborough in Nottin...

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  • STEAM IN SCOTLAND
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    STEAM IN SCOTLAND
    KEVIN MCCORMACK
    Kevin McCormack has written a large number of transport books mainly using previously unpublished material, much of it sourced from the Online Transport Archive. This, his latest colour album, covers the railways of Scotland in steam days and concentrates as much as possible on depicting older types of locomotives. Consequently, this volume contains a large amount of rare 1950s...

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  • WALES, ISLE OF MAN & IRELAND, POST 1945
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    WALES, ISLE OF MAN & IRELAND, POST 1945
    PETER WALLER
    This is the fourth book in a series that covers the history of the tram systems of the British Isles post-war. It covers the networks in Wales, the Isle of Man and Ireland.Peter Waller examines the history of the tramways in Ireland, Wales and on the Isle of Man. With three different legislative frameworks, the history of the systems covered are very different from the survivin...

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  • A MARINE ARTIST'S PORTFOLIO
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    A MARINE ARTIST'S PORTFOLIO
    SUSANNE FOURNAIS GRUBE
    Susanne Fournaise Grube, has been painting marine scenes for over thirty years, during which time, she has produced a large portfolio of material, not only depicting ships and small craft, but also the architecture of marine buildings and light houses. This volume, for the first time , presents a good selection of her work, looking at most aspects of the artists subject matter....

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  • STANIER
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    STANIER
    KEITH LANGSTON
    It is possible that in the history of British steam locomotives no class of engine was ever more universally popular than the Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 class, which were generally referred to as Black Fives. This informative book includes numerous images of the class at work, many of which are published for the first time.Introduced by the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) in 193...

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  • REBUILDING THE WELSH HIGHLAND RAILWAY
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    REBUILDING THE WELSH HIGHLAND RAILWAY
    PETER JOHNSON
    THE REVIVAL AND RESTORATION of the Welsh Highland Railway is one of the greatest heritage railway achievements of the 21st Century, yet its success followed more than one hundred years of failure.Supported by public loans, its first incarnation combined the moribund North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways, some of the abandoned works of the Portmadoc, Beddgelert & South Snowdon Railw...

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  • MIDLANDS & SOUTHERN ENGLAND
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    MIDLANDS & SOUTHERN ENGLAND
    PETER WALLER
    This volume is the latest in a series of tramway books covering Britains post war tram networks. The book covers the systems that survived the Second World War, in the Midlands and Southern England, except London which will have a separate book.This extensive volume covers all the post war systems from their inception through to closure, with a superb range of images - many of ...

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  • STEAM ON THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN
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    STEAM ON THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN
    DAVID KNAPMAN
    Steam on the Southern and Western is a personal record of railway views that were captured on black and white film in the late 1950s and 1960s, until the demise of steam on British Railways.The style of the book is the well-tried and- tested picture and captions format, and the majority of the pictures are black and white photography. Not every picture portrays a train as there...

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  • SOUTHERN RAILWAY
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    SOUTHERN RAILWAY
    DAVID MAIDMENT
    Southern Maunsell Moguls and Tank Engines is a volume in the series of Locomotive Profiles being published by Pen & Sword. It describes the conception, design and construction of the two- and three-cylinder 2-6-0s initially the Ns constructed at the end of the First World War, many at government initiative by the Woolwich Arsenal and their three-cylinder variants, the N1s. It a...

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  • A PAGEANT OF BRITISH STEAM
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    A PAGEANT OF BRITISH STEAM
    GEOFF SWAINE
    A Pageant of British Steam is a book honouring the position to which Britains Heritage Steam Railways has now arrived.Preservation has become the word for the achievements of the thousands of volunteers who have given up a mass of time to advance the saving of this section of Britains history. Most of these people are the likely descendants of our Industrial Revolution where th...

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  • STEAM IN THE EAST MIDLANDS AND LINCOLNSHIRE
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    STEAM IN THE EAST MIDLANDS AND LINCOLNSHIRE
    RODERICK H. FOWKES
    The photographs in this volume of Steam in the East Midlands and Lincolnshire cover an area beginning at Derby Headquarters of the Midland following the Midland line to Nottingham and its environs, pausing at locations en-route.Trent, in the southeast corner of Derbyshire, was a station without a town, its position and importance as an interchange junction for five main railway...

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  • THE PRINCESS ROYAL PACIFICS
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    THE PRINCESS ROYAL PACIFICS
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    When Stanier joined the LMS in 1932, as their CME, he was expected to breathe new life into this ailing giant. Since its formation it had steadily lost ground to its main rival, the LNER. In Doncaster, Nigel Gresley and his team, with an eye to advancing locomotive design at the same time as making the company commercially successful, had quickly begun producing a series of hig...

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  • THE HIXON RAILWAY DISASTER
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    THE HIXON RAILWAY DISASTER
    RICHARD WESTWOOD
    This is the shocking true story behind the botched introduction of Automatic Half-Barrier level-crossings into Britain.January 1968 saw the convening of the first Parliamentary Court of Inquiry into a railway accident in Britain since the Tay Bridge Disaster nearly a century before. Why was this? Because Britain's 'Railway Detectives', the Railway Inspectorate, who would normal...

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  • RAILWAY EMPIRE
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    RAILWAY EMPIRE
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. Railway Empire tells the story of how the British gave railways to the world, not only in the empire, but also in other countries outside areas of direct influence. It is often forgotten today that the British were responsible for the construction and management of a la...

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  • RAILWAYS IN THE LANDSCAPE
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    RAILWAYS IN THE LANDSCAPE
    GORDON BIDDLE
    The growth of railways was a major influence in transforming Britain's landscape. This book examines how they brought about physical changes to towns, the country and coast, and had a profound affect that is still visible today, especially on the shape and size of our towns and cities.In his book, Gordon Biddle begins by examining how railway routes transformed the rural scene ...

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  • THE LONDON DMS
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    THE LONDON DMS
    MATTHEW WHARMBY
    Vilified as the great failure of all London Transport bus classes, the DMS family of Daimler Fleetline was more like an unlucky victim of straitened times. Desperate to match staff shortages with falling demand for its services during the late 1960s, London Transport was just one organization to see nationwide possibilities and savings in legislation that was about to permit do...

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  • RIVER OUSE BARGEMAN
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    RIVER OUSE BARGEMAN
    DAVID LEWIS
    The Ouse reaches into the heart of Yorkshire from the Humber Estuary. Until the 1980s, loaded barges made the challenging journey from Hull to Selby, bearing bulk cargoes for the mills of the town. The bargees had to be tough and resourceful; physically strong enough to handle their craft, wise enough to combat the rivers shifting currents and savvy enough to deal with those su...

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  • THE CANAL PIONEERS
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    THE CANAL PIONEERS
    ANTHONY BURTON
    This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the ninteenth century. This is a very long history: stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand Canal of China, was begun in the sixth century BC.Development after the end of t...

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  • GREAT WESTERN: MANOR CLASS
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    GREAT WESTERN: MANOR CLASS
    LAURENCE WATERS
    The 30 Manor class 4-6-0s were designed by CB Collett in 1938, and built by the Great Western, and the Western Region at Swindon in two batches, 20 in 1938/9, and 10 in 1950. In order to save money the first 20 members of the class were built using parts from withdrawn 4300 class 2-6-0s, and were coupled to refurbished Churchward 3,500 gallon tenders. The lighter 4-6-0s Manors ...

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  • MIDLAND MAIN LINES TO ST PANCRAS AND CROSS COUNTRY
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    MIDLAND MAIN LINES TO ST PANCRAS AND CROSS COUNTRY
    JOHN PALMER
    The history of British Railways in the late 1950s/early 1960s is characterized by change; massive change, as its management attempted to meet statutory obligations against a background of social, economic and political influences. The Modernisation Plan of 1955 paved the way for the electrification of the route from Manchester to London Euston, with a consequential effect of th...

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  • A STEAM ENGINE PILGRIMAGE
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    A STEAM ENGINE PILGRIMAGE
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Anthony Burton has traveled from the Highlands of Scotland, to the south west of England in pursuit of his passion for the steam engine in all its different forms. He has traveled on narrow gauge railways in Wales and enjoyed the splendor of main line journeys behind some of the grandest locomotives ever built. He has shoveled coal into the boiler of an old Clyde Puffer, while ...

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  • FLYING SCOTSMAN
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    FLYING SCOTSMAN
    FRED KERR / KEITH LANGSTON
    Built at Doncaster works in 1923 the Nigel Gresley designed then-A1 class Pacific (4-6-2) first entered service as No 1472. The new locomotive did not receive a name until it was sent for display at a Wembley exhibition in 1924, and then the name Fying Scotsman was chosen. The Legend was born. In 1928 the London North Eastern Railway (LNER) express steam locomotive hauled the f...

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  • THE TURBOMOTIVE: STANIER'S ADVANCED PACIFIC
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    THE TURBOMOTIVE: STANIER'S ADVANCED PACIFIC
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    Turbomotive was unique in Britain's railway history, and an experimental engine that proved successful but came too late to effect the direction of steam development or deflect the onset of diesel and electric locomotives. It was the brainchild of two of the most influential engineers of the twentieth century William Stanier of the LMS and Henry Guy of Metropolitan Vickers. The...

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  • GREAT WESTERN: SAINT CLASS LOCOMOTIVES
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    GREAT WESTERN: SAINT CLASS LOCOMOTIVES
    LAURENCE WATERS
    Churchwards 2 cylinder Saint Class 4-6-0s were arguably one of the most important locomotive developments of the twentieth century. The seventy-seven members of the class were so successful that most of the other railway companies in this country used the same 2 cylinder 4-6-0 formula in the design of their own mixed traffic locomotives. Over the years the Saints saw a number o...

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