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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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  • 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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  • SOUTHERN STEAM RECOLLECTIONS
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    SOUTHERN STEAM RECOLLECTIONS
    DON BENN
    This collection of historic photographs showcases the steam trains of England’s Southern Railway from Devon and Cornwall to Wimbledon and beyond.   Train enthusiast Don Benn photographed steam locomotives along England’s Southern Railway from 1960 until steam engines were retired in 1967. In his most prolific years, between 1961 and 1963, Benn captured the last of the classic e...

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  • BRITISH RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE SINCE 1970
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    BRITISH RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE SINCE 1970
    PAUL D. SHANNON
    With words and pictures, a railway enthusiast examines the huge changes in the British railway network over a 50-year period.   Looking at trains in Great Britain from 1970 to 2020, we see how steam-age infrastructure has gradually given way to a streamlined modern railway. The beginning of the period saw the final stages of the Beeching cuts, with the closure of some rural bra...

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  • BUGATTI
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    BUGATTI
    LANCE COLE
    This expert volume examines the engineering, design, and modeling of this classic sportscar through the years—fully illustrated with color photos.     Innovative car designer Ettore Bugatti changed the history of both motorsports and engineering with the legendary T35.  Introduced at the Grand Prix of Lyon in 1924, its clever engine design, new suspension thinking, and distinct...

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  • CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS GALLERY
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    CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS GALLERY
    DAVID MAIDMENT / PAUL CARPENTER
    The historic trainline connecting Shropshire, England, to the West Coast of Wales is beautifully captured in this volume of photographs. One of the most scenic trainlines in the United Kingdom, the Cambrian Line carries passengers through mountains and market towns, offering views of castles, countryside, and World Heritage sites as it makes its way to the breathtaking Welsh co...

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  • RAILWAYS AND INDUSTRY IN THE TONDU VALLEYS
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    RAILWAYS AND INDUSTRY IN THE TONDU VALLEYS
    JOHN HODGE / STUART DAVIES
    A photo-filled history of this part of Welsh coal country and its freight and passenger service.   Following the first volume dealing with the Llynfi Valley, this book provides details on individual aspects of railways operation focusing on the Ogmore, Garw, and Porthcawl branches in this area of South Wales. The books give a history of the railway, coal mining, and other indus...

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  • BRITISH STEAM MILITARY CONNECTIONS
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    BRITISH STEAM MILITARY CONNECTIONS
    KEITH LANGSTON
    This British Railways history explores the long-held tradition of naming steam locomotives in honor of the military.   The naming of steam locomotives was a beloved British tradition since the first railway locomotives appeared in 1804. Many of the names were chosen in honor of military personnel, regiments, squadrons, naval vessels, aircraft, battles and associated historic ev...

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  • GREAT WESTERN PANNIER TANK CLASSES
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    GREAT WESTERN PANNIER TANK CLASSES
    DAVID MAIDMENT
    This comprehensive and fully illustrated history presents an in-depth look at the Great Western Railway’s various pannier tank engines.   Though hauling freight was a vital part of Great Western Railway’s history—and where it made the majority of its profit—there are few books devoted to the stout, powerful engines that did the work. In Great Western, Pannier Tank Classes, Brit...

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  • GREAT WESTERN, KING CLASS 4-6-0S
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    GREAT WESTERN, KING CLASS 4-6-0S
    DAVID MAIDMENT
    An in-depth look at the British railway company’s celebrated class of steam locomotives, with more than three hundred photos. Built by Collett in 1927 after pressure to restore the Great Western Railway’s pre-eminence in motive power and cope with increasing postwar traffic to Devon and Cornwall holiday resorts, the thirty Kings were the final development of the Churchward Star...

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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 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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  • RAILWAY RENAISSANCE
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    RAILWAY RENAISSANCE
    GARETH DAVID
    When a 35 mile stretch of the former Waverley route from Edinburgh to Carlisle reopened on 6 September 2015, it became the most significant reopening of any UK railway since the infamous Beeching Report ,'The reshaping of British Railways', was published in March 1963.In his report, Dr Riochard Beeching recommended sweeping closures of lines across the UK to improve the financi...

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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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  • YORKSHIRE AND NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND
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    YORKSHIRE AND NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND
    PETER WALLER
    This is the second of a new series of books that will cover the history of tramway operation in the British Isles. Focusing on Yorkshire and the North-East of England, this book provides an overview of the history of tramways in the region from the 1860s, when one of the pioneering horse trams that predated the Tramways Act of 1870 operated for a brief period in Darlington, thr...

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  • GREAT WESTERN: THE GERMAN PACIFIC LOCOMOTIVE
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    GREAT WESTERN: THE GERMAN PACIFIC LOCOMOTIVE
    DAVID MAIDMENT
    The German Pacific Locomotive (Its Design and Development) is David Maidments fourth book in the series of Locomotive Profiles published by Pen & Sword. It is the first in the series to tackle an important range of overseas steam locomotives, the German pacific locomotives, which, with the Paris-Orleans pacific in France, were the first of that wheel layout in Europe and came t...

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  • RAILS IN THE ROAD
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    RAILS IN THE ROAD
    OLIVER GREEN
    There have been passenger tramways in Britain for 150 years, but it is a rollercoaster story of rise, decline and a steady return. Trams have come and gone, been loved and hated, popular and derided, considered both wildly futuristic and hopelessly outdated by politicians, planners and the public alike. Horse trams, introduced from the USA in the 1860s, were the first cheap for...

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  • BRITISH RAILWAYS A C ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES
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    BRITISH RAILWAYS A C ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES
    DAVID CABLE
    The genesis of 25kv overhead electrification began in the late 1960s on the West Coast Main Line, the 1980s for the East Anglian Main Line, and the East Coast Main Line in the late 1980s. Development took place in stages culminating in fully electrified lines from London to Scotland on both East and West Coast lines, and from London to Norwich. The introduction of these lines r...

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  • THE LIGHT RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN & IRELAND
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    THE LIGHT RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN & IRELAND
    ANTHONY BURTON / JOHN SCOTT-MORGAN
    First published in 1985 by Moorland Press, The Light Railways of Britain & Ireland has remained unavailable for more than twenty-five years, until now. Re-released by Pen & Sword, this is a thorough and engaging book that covers, in depth, the fascinating story of Britain's last railway development, the Rural light railways, constructed as a result of the Light Railways Act 189...

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  • TODAY'S LONDON UNDERGROUND
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    TODAY'S LONDON UNDERGROUND
    REISS O'NEILL
    The Underground network in London has always held a fascination for historians and transport enthusiasts, from the early days of the steam operated system in the 1860s. Today's London Underground covers the network as it is today, with features on the different lines across the capital and the modern day rolling stock in use, which serve London. The book covers all aspects of o...

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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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  • NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY STAMPS
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    NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY STAMPS
    HOWARD PILTZ
    This, the first of four books, looks at the treatment of varying aspects of public transport with the aid of postage stamps, either issued by the postal authorities of most of the worlds nations, or some of the railway companies themselves, especially heritage operators.It has long intrigued the author as to why narrow gauge systems throughout the world have demanded a far grea...

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  • THE LONDON LS
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    THE LONDON LS
    MATTHEW WHARMBY
    Dissatisfied with the reliability of its AEC Merlin and Swift single-deck buses, London Transport in 1973 purchased six Leyland Nationals for evaluation. Liking what it saw of this ultimate standard product, where even the paint swatch was of Leylands choice, LT took up an option to buy fifty more from a canceled export order and then bought further batches of 110, 30 and 140 t...

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  • LONDON LOCAL TRAINS IN THE 1950S AND 1960S
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    LONDON LOCAL TRAINS IN THE 1950S AND 1960S
    KEVIN MCCORMACK
    This remarkable colour album of 1950s and 1960s images covers non-express trains working in and out of London termini, along with a selection of feeder services operating in roughly a 40 mile radius of the Capital. The trains featured are therefore semi-fast passenger, suburban passenger and freights. The advantage of casting the net beyond services in and out of London itself ...

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  • MAINLINE RAILWAY STAMPS
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    MAINLINE RAILWAY STAMPS
    HOWARD PILTZ
    For this second book in the Transport Philately series on public transport issues featured on postage stamps, once again the author will combine two of his lifelong hobbies as he looks at railways around the world on standard gauge tracks that encompasses the majority of the western worlds major railway arteries. The book will also illustrate railways on other, similar gauges o...

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  • AN INDIAN SUMMER OF STEAM
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    AN INDIAN SUMMER OF STEAM
    DAVID MAIDMENT
    An Indian Summer of Steam' is the second volume of David Maidment's 'railway' autobiography, following his first book 'A Privileged Journey.' David was a railway enthusiast who made the hobby his career. After management training on the Western Region, between 1961 and 1964, he became a stationmaster in a Welsh Valley, an Area Manager on the Cardiff Swansea main line and radiat...

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  • AN INTRODUCTION TO GREAT WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE DEVELOPMENT
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    AN INTRODUCTION TO GREAT WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE DEVELOPMENT
    JIM CHAMP
    The first thought, when contemplating a new study of the Great Western Railway locomotive fleet, must surely be to ask what can there be left to say? But there is no single source which gives a general introduction to the Great Western locomotive fleet. There are monographs on individual classes, an excellent multi-volume detail study from the RCTS, and superb collections of ph...

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  • GWR COLLETT CASTLE CLASS
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    GWR COLLETT CASTLE CLASS
    KEITH LANGSTON
    The 'Castle' class 4-6-0 locomotives designed by Charles Collett and built at Swindon Works were the principal passenger locomotives of the Great Western Railway. The 4-cylinder locomotives were built in batches between 1923 and 1950, the later examples being constructed after nationalisation by British Railways. In total 171 engines of the class were built and they were origin...

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