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How to Order | Book Condition | We Want Your Books | About Us | Contact Us The books in this section are deleted as soon as they are sold. Summer Railway List British
and
Irish Railways
Anderson,
Robert
West
Riding
Steam
Pictorial:
A
Photographic
Journey,
Bellcode,
2008,
pp112. Railway
Memories
No.20.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good.
Each
area of
the old
West
Riding is
examined
in turn.
£8.50 Atthill,
Robin
The
Somerset
&
Dorset
Railway,
D&C,
1st
edition
1967,
pp200,
colour
frontis,
and 59
illustrations.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Very Good-
dust
wrapper.
Some
wear to
the edges
of the
dust
wrapper.
The
first
edition of
a standard
history of
the
Somerset
and
Dorset,
with
contributions
on
locomotives
by Ossie
Nock.
£5.95 Beck,
Keith and
Copsey,
John
The
Great
Western in
South
Devon,
Wild Swan,
1990,
pp248 with
numerous
illustrations.
Large
Format.
Hard
Cover.
Fine
in a Very
Good+ dust
wrapper.
Very
slight
loss of
colour
down the
spine of
the dust
wrapper.
"An
attempt to
convey
something
of the
history
and
atmosphere
of the
Great
Western
Railway in
South
Devon."
£20.50 Bell,
Dave and
Flanders,
Steve
The
Londonderry
&
Lough
Swilly
Railway: A
Visitor's
Guide to
the old
railway
and all
the bits
that can
still be
seen,
County
Donegal
Railway
Restoration
Society,
pp96. No
date.
Large
Format.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good-.
Some
wear to
the covers
at the
base of
the spine,
otherwise
VG.
£4.95 Blencowe
S V
Life
Begins at
Forty: The
Rescue and
Resurrection
of Great
Western
Locomotive
No.7812
"Erlestoke
Manor",
Erlestoke
Manor
Fund,
1979,
pp52.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good.
An
illustrated
booklet.
£2.95 Blenkinsop
R J
Western
Cameraman
1951-1962,
OPC, 1984,
pp384.
Large
Format.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good+ in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
Some
loss of
colour
down the
spine of
the dust
wrapper. A
block-buster
album that
combines
no fewer
than four
earlier
books - Shadows
of the
Great
Western,
Echoes
of the
Great
Western,
Reflections
of the
Great
Western and
Silhouettes
of the
Great
Western
- in a
single
volume.
£9.50 Blenkinsop
R J
Tribute
to the
Western,
OPC, 1985,
126
illustrations.
Large
Format.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
Slight
wear to
the dust
wrapper at
the head
of the
spine.
Dick
Blenkinsop's
tribute to
the Great
Western
Railway in
its150th
anniversary
year.
£5.95 Brodribb,
John
The
Eastern
before
Beeching,
IA, 1994,
pp128.
Large
Format Hb.
VG in a VG
dust
wrapper.
A
nostalgic
look at
the
traditional
pre-Beeching
steam
railway on
the former
LNER lines
in
England.
£4.95 Brown
C G
Great
Northern
Locomotive
Engineers
Vol.1
1846-1881,
Allen
&
Unwin,
1966,
pp252 plus
pp14 of
plates.
Inscription.
Hard
Cover.
VG-
in a Fair+
dust
wrapper.
Corners
of the
covers
slightly
bumped;
dust
wrapper
internally
repaired
at the
head and
base of
the spine.
A
carefully
researched
history of
the early
years of
the Great
Northern
Railway's
locomotive
department.
The
sequel was
published
almost 20
years
later by
OPC under
the title From
Stirling
to Gresley.
£5.95 Butcher,
Clive
The
Railways
of
Stourbridge,
Oakwood,
1998,
pp256.
Oakwood
Library
No.104.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper. A
detailed
history of
the
railways
in and
around
Stourbridge.
Very
well
illustrated.
£9.50 Butcher,
Clive
The
GWR at
Stourbridge
and the
Black
Country:
The Life,
the Times,
the Men
Vol.1,
Oakwood,
2004,
pp240.
With
additional
material
from C. R.
Kendrick
et al.
Oakwood
Library of
Railway
History
No.132A.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good+.
£8.50 Butcher,
Clive
The
GWR at
Stourbridge
and the
Black
Country:
The Life,
the Times,
the Men
Vol.2,
Oakwood,
2005,
pp256.
With
additional
material
from C. R.
Kendrick
et al.
Oakwood
Library of
Railway
History
No.132B.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good+.
£8.50 Casserley
H C
Steam
Locomotives
of British
Railways,
Hamlyn
Books, 3rd
edition
1973,
pp484.
Small
inscription,
the number
"181."
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
A
comprehensive
photographic
record of
the steam
engines
taken over
by British
Railways
in 1948,
with brief
details of
each
class.
£4.95 Historical Survey of Selected Great Western Stations Clark
R H
An
Historical
Survey of
Selected
Great
Western
Stations:
Layouts
and
Illustrations
(Vol.1),
OPC, 1st
edition
1976,
pp188.
Large
Format.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Fair+ dust
wrapper.
The
dust
wrapper
has been
internally
repaired
at the
head of
the spine
and at the
rear top
corner.
Also wear
along the
rear top
edge.
Includes
141
stations
spread
throughout
the Great
Western
System,
all of
which are
fully
described
and
illustrated
with
accompanying
track
plans.
£8.50 Clark
R H
An
Historical
Survey of
Selected
Great
Western
Stations
Layouts
and
Illustrations
Vol.2,
OPC, 1st
edition
1979,
pp202.
Large
Format.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good
in
a Fair
dust
wrapper.
Slight
rubbing to
the covers
at the
head and
base of
the spine.
The dust
wrapper is
in only
"Fair"
condition
and has
been
internally
repaired
at the two
rear
corners
and at the
head of
the spine,
where
there is
slight
loss.
There is
also a
one-inch
vertical
cut to the
rear page
of the
dust
wrapper,
again with
slight
loss.
Finally,
the spine
is sunned.
A
detailed
survey of
101 more Great
Western
stations.
£7.50 Clark
R H
An
Historical
Survey of
Selected
Great
Western
Stations
Layouts
and
Illustrations
Vol.3, OPC,
1981,
pp224.
Completed
by
Christopher
Potts
after Ralf
Clark's
death.
Large
Format.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good+ in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
Slight
fading
down the
spine of
the dust
wrapper.
A
detailed
study of a
further
seventy
six Great
Western
stations.
£22.50 Potts
C R
An
Historical
Survey of
Selected
Great
Western
Stations:
Layouts
and
Illustrations
Vol.4,
OPC, 1st
edition
1985,
pp224.
The
original
hardback
edition of
the final
volume of
a major
series
started by
Ralf
Clark.
Large
Format.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
£26.50 -------------------------------------------------------- Dean,
Martin;
Robertson,
Kevin; and
Simmonds,
Roger
The
Basingstoke
and Alton
Light
Railway,
Crusader,
1st
edition
1998,
pp122.
Large
Format.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good+ in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper. A
comprehensive
illustrated
history of
the line
that
featured
in two
full-length
films, The
Wrecker
and Oh
Mr Porter!
£9.50 Dove, Michael East Coast Main Line at Nationalisation, IA, 2006, pp80. British Railway Pictorial. Large Format Pb. VG+. A pictorial tribute to East Coast motive power at Nationalisation. £4.95 Earley,
Maurice
Great
Railway
Photographers,
Milepost
Publishing,
1996,
pp48.
Presented
by Colin
Garratt
from the
collections
of the
National
Railway
Museum.
Large
Format.
Glazed
boards
with a
dust
wrapper.
Very
Good
in a Very
Good
dust
wrapper.
Maurice
Earley
starting
taking
railway
pictures
in the
1920s and
continued
his
railway
photography
for the
next 50
years.
He
is
generally
associated
with the
Great
Western,
and
particularly
with
Sonning
Cutting
and the
Reading
area.
£2.95 Ellis,
C Hamilton
The
South
Western
Railway:
Its
Mechanical
History
and
Background
1838-1922,
A&U,
1st
edition
1956,
pp256 with
2 colour
plates,
pp32 of
black
&
white
plates and
a foldout
map.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Fair
dust
wrapper.
Some
foxing to
the page
edges.
Small
tears to
the dust
wrapper at
the
corners
and at the
head of
the spine,
tear on
lower
edge, also
foxing to
the rear
page.
A
one-volume
history
with an
emphasis
on
locomotive
matters.
£6.95 Ellis,
C Hamilton
The
Engines
that
Passed,
Allen
&
Unwin,
1968,
pp133.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good.
The
background
colour on
the spine
of the
covers has
faded.
Classic
steam
nostalgia
from
Hamilton
Ellis.
£3.95 Ellis,
Norman
West
Yorkshire
Railway
Stations,
Bond
Publications,
1989,
pp54.
Editor:
Peter
Tuffrey.
Pb.
Very Good.
A
pictorial
survey
from old
postcards.
£3.95 Finch,
M. Lawson
The
Rother
Valley
later the
Kent and
East
Sussex
Railway
1896-1948,
author,
1949,
pp80.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good.
There
is a
one-inch
wear mark
on the
front
cover at
the top
right,
otherwise
VG.
An
illustrated
history.
£8.50 Geen,
David and
Scott,
Barry
The
Great
Western
Railway in
the 1930s
Vol.2,
Kingfisher,
1987, 144
illustrations.
The
original
Kingfisher
edition.
Large
format Hb.
Fine
in a VG+
dust
wrapper.
A
further
144 plates
from the
G. H. Soole
collection,
now held
in the
National
Railway
Museum.
An
appendix
gives
details of
the coach
types
identified
in each
picture by
the
authors.
£5.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gammell,
Chris
Around
the Branch
Lines: No.
2 Great
Western,
OPC,
1983, 157
illustrations.
Large
Format
Hb.
Very
Good
in a Very
Good
dust
wrapper.
Slight
wear to
the dust
wrapper at
the head
of the
spine.
A
high-quality
pictorial
survey
that
examines
each area
in turn.
£4.95 Gardner,
Jack
Castles
to
Warships:
On the
Great
Western
Footplate,
John
Murray,
1986,
pp245 plus
29
illustrations.
An
inscription,
the number
"729"
inside the
front
cover.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
Some
foxing to
the page
edges.
Jack
Gardner
joined the
Great
Western in
1936 and
worked on
the
Western
until the
HST era.
£7.50 Gardner
W J
Cleaner
to
Controller
Vol.2:
Further
Reminiscences
of the GWR
at Taunton,
Oakwood
Press,
2000,
pp176.
Series
RS7.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good.
£5.95 Garratt,
Colin The Golden Years of
British Steam Trains: Great Western Railway, Milepost, 1995, pp48.
Large Format. Glazed Boards. Very
Good.
Evocative photographs taken by the Rev A. W. V. Mace, a prolific railway
photographer from the early 1920s until his death in 1986.
£2.95 Gasson,
Harold
Nostalgic
Days:
Further
Reminiscences
of a Great
Western
Fireman,
OPC, 1980,
pp112.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good.
Slight
loss of
colour
down the
spine.
The
third
volume of
Gasson's
best
selling
reminiscences.
£3.95 Gasson,
Harold
Signalling
Days:
Final
Reminiscences
of a Great
Western
Railwayman,
OPC, 1981,
pp120 plus
pp16 of
illustrations.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good.
Some
vertical
creasing
to the
spine of
the
covers,
slight
wear to
the lower
edge.
A
fourth
volume of
reminiscences
based on
Gasson's
many years
in a
signal
box,
together
with odd
trips that
he
'pinched'
on the
footplate.
£3.95 Geens,
Barrie
The
Severn
Valley
Railway at
Arley,
Wild Swan,
1995,
pp62.
First
published
in 1985,
this is
the
revised
edition of
1995.
Large
Format.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good.
Some
loss of
colour on
the front
cover.
A
comprehensive
study of
Arley
station on
the Severn
Valley
Railway.
£4.95 Gibbs,
Ken
Swindon
Works
Apprentice
in Steam,
OPC, 1986,
pp192 plus
pp16 of
illustrations.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
Slight
wear to
the edges
of the
dust
wrapper.
Reminiscences
as an
office boy
and
apprentice
at Swindon
Railway
Works
1944-1951.
£4.95 Glover,
Mark and
Celia
The
Ross and
Monmouth
Railway,
Brewin
Books, 2nd
enlarged
edition
1994,
pp47.
First
published
in 1980.
This
new
edition
was edited
and
revised by
Celia
Glover.
Card
Covers.
Very Good.
An
illustrated
history of
the Ross
and
Monmouth
railway,
which was
absorbed
into the
Great
Western
Railway at
The
Grouping.
£4.95 Goode
C T
The
North
Warwickshire
Railway,
Oakwood,
1978, pp48
with pp88
of
illustrations.
Locomotion
Papers
No.114.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good.
Old
price
sticker on
the front
cover,
slight
rubbing at
the bottom
front
corner.
£4.95 Gray,
Adrian
The
London,
Chatham
and Dover
Railway,
Meresborough
Books,
1984,
pp241.
Glazed
Boards.
Very
Good.
The
top
corners of
the covers
are
slightly
bumped.
A
highly-praised
history of
the line.
£14.50 Gray,
Adrian
South
Eastern
and
Chatham
Railways:
A Marriage
of
Convenience,
Middleton
Press,
1998,
pp224.
Glazed
Boards.
Fine.
The
third and
final
volume of
Adrian
Gray's
definitive
trilogy on
the South
Eastern
and the
London,
Chatham
&
Dover
Railways.
Although
the two
railways
never
formally
amalgamated,
they
formed a
joint
Managing
Committee
in 1899
which ran
the two
companies
until the
Grouping
in 1923.
This
is the
period
covered by
this final
volume.
£24.50 Green
C C
An
Illustrated
History of
The Vale
of Rheidol
Light
Railway:
The Little
Line along
the
Rheidol,
Wild Swan,
1986,
pp264.
Large
Format.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
The
definitive
history of
the line.
£20.50 Hambleton
F C
Locomotives
Worth
Modelling,
Model
&
Allied
Publications,
1st
edition
1949,
pp170.
Bookplate
from the
previous
owner
inside the
front
cover.
Hard
Cover.
VG
in a Poor
dust
wrapper.
Some
foxing to
the
preliminary
pages and
to the
page
edges.
Wear
and small
tears to
the edges
of the
dust
wrapper
with some
loss.
Each
of the
seventeen
chapters
considers
a
memorable
pre-grouping
design, or
closely
related
group of
designs.
The
book is
notable
for the
author's
line
drawings
of each
locomotive
class.
£4.95 Handley,
Brian M
and
Dingwall R
The
Wye Valley
Railway
and the
Coleford
Branch,
Oakwood
Press, 2nd
edition
2000,
pp160.
A
reprint of
the much
enlarged
second
edition.
Locomotion
Papers
No.137.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good.
A
history of
the Great
Western
branch
line from
Chepstow
to
Monmouth.
£4.95 Hands
P B
BR
Steam Shed
Allocations
Part 1
Western
Region
Sheds,
Defiant
Publications,
1985,
pp66.
Card
Covers.
Fair+.
Some
browning
down the
vertical
edges.
Steam
allocations
at the
following
sheds from
January
1957 until
the end of
steam: 81A
Old Oak
Common,
81F
Oxford,
82A
Bristol
(Bath
Road), 82F
Weymouth,
83A Newton
Abbot, and
83G
Penzance.
£4.95 Hands
P B
BR
Steam Shed
Allocations
Part 2
Western
Region
Sheds,
Defiant
Publications,
1985,
pp82.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good-.
Some
browning
down the
spine area
of the
covers.
Steam
allocations
at the
following
sheds from
January
1957 until
the end of
steam: 84A
Wolverhampton
(Stafford
Road), 84K
Chester
(West),
85A
Worcester,
85D
Kidderminster,
86A
Newport (Ebbw
Junction),
and 86K
Tredegar.
£4.95 Hands
P B
BR
Steam Shed
Allocations
Part 3
Western
Region
Sheds,
Defiant
Publications,
1985,
pp54.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good-.
Some
browning
down the
spine area
of the
covers.
Steam
allocations
at the
following
sheds from
January
1957 until
the end of
steam: 87A
Neath, 87K
Swansea
(Victoria),
88A
Cardiff (Cathays),
88F
Treherbert,
89A
Oswestry,
and 89C
Machynlleth.
£4.95 What Happened To Steam Hands
P B
What
Happened
To Steam
Vol.6: The
Great
Western
Halls
4-6-0s,
author,
1980,
pp34.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good-.
Slight
wear down
the spine
of the
coves.
One
of a
series of
50
booklets
designed
to inform
the reader
of the
allocations
and
re-allocations
of steam
engines
during
their last
years of
general
service.
Also
their
dates of
withdrawal
and
finally
where the
locomotives
concerned
were
mainly
stored and
subsequently
scrapped.
£4.95 Hands
P B
What
Happened
To Steam
Vol.10:
The Great
Western
Counties,
Granges,
Modified
Halls, and
Manors
4-6-0s,
author,
1980,
pp34.
Card
Covers.
Near
VG.
Slight
wear down
the spine
of the
covers.
One of a
series of
50
booklets
designed
to inform
the reader
of the
allocations
and
re-allocations
of steam
engines
during
their last
years of
general
service.
Also
their
dates of
withdrawal
and
finally
where the
locomotives
concerned
were
mainly
stored and
subsequently
scrapped.
£4.95 Hands
P B
What
Happened
To Steam
Vol.37:
The Great
Western
0-6-0
Pannier
Tanks
1901/2021,
16XX,
54XX,
64Xx, and
74XX
Series,
author,
1983,
pp30.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good.
One
of a
series of
50
booklets
designed
to inform
the reader
of the
allocations
and
re-allocations
of steam
engines
during
their last
years of
general
service.
Also
their
dates of
withdrawal
and
finally
where the
locomotives
concerned
were
mainly
stored and
subsequently
scrapped.
£4.95 Hands
P B
What
Happened
To Steam
Vol.40:
The GWR
22XX and
32XX
0-6-0s,
56XX and
66XX 0-6-2
Tanks and
V of R, W
& L,
1101,
1140,
1151, 1338
and 1361
Classes,
author,
1983,
pp50.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good-.
Some
browning
down the
vertical
edges of
the
covers.
One
of a
series of
50
booklets
designed
to inform
the reader
of the
allocations
and
re-allocations
of steam
engines
during
their last
years of
general
service.
Also
their
dates of
withdrawal
and
finally
where the
locomotives
concerned
were
mainly
stored and
subsequently
scrapped.
£4.95 Hands
P B
What
Happened
To Steam
Vol.44:
LNER Tank
Locomotives
C13-C16,
V1/V3, L1,
J94, Y9,
J71, J88,
J73, J77
& J83
Classes,
author,
1984,
pp66.
Pb.
VG.
£4.95 Hands
P B
What
Happened
To Steam
Vol.46:
LNER Tank
Locomotives
J67/J69,
J68, J72,
J52 &
J50
Classes,
author,
1984,
pp46.
Pb.
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VG, but
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foxing at
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cover, and
a one-inch
crease
across the
top rear
cover.
£4.95 --------------------------------------------------------- Harris,
Michael
LNER
Carriages,
Atlantic,
1995,
pp160.
Large
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dust
wrapper.
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mark on
the dust
wrapper
near the
head of
the spine.
A
greatly
expanded
version of
the
author's
earlier
Gresley's
Coaches
that
includes
all
carriages
built for
the LNER
from
1923-47
and post
war
carriages
to LNER
design
built
after
1948.
£24.50 Harrison,
Ian
Great
Western
Railway
Locomotive
Allocations
for 1921,
Wild Swan,
1984,
pp32.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good.
An
illustrated
booklet
giving
complete
GWR shed
allocations
immediately
before The
Grouping.
£4.95 Head
F B
Stokers
and Pokers
or The
London
&
North
Western
Railway,
The
Electric
Telegraph,
and The
Railway
Clearing
House,
Kessinger
Publishing,
1968,
pp208.
First
published
in 1849 by
John
Murray,
this is a
recent
undated
reprint of
the 1861
edition.
Paper
covers.
Very
Good+.
£6.95 Jackson,
Alan A
London's
Termini,
D&C,
1969,
pp368 with
43
illustrations.
Card
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1969 - not
the Pan
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Generally
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vertical
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spine
and
the red
colour on
the spine
has faded.
A
comprehensive
history by
an expert
on
London's
transport.
£3.95 Jackson,
Alan A
(editor)
The
Memories
and
Writings
of a
London
Railwayman,
Railway
and Canal
Historical
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1993,
pp159.
Card
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"A
tribute to
Harold
Vernon
Borley
(1895-1989)."
The
contents
include
some
introductory
comments
on the man
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career, a
transcript
of an
interview
with him
at age 87
in which
he vividly
recalls
his early
adult life
and
railway
memories,
together
with his
personal
notes
supporting
this
interview.
The major
element is
a
collection
of most of
his
published
work
outside
his books.
£5.95 Jenkinson,
David
The
Power of
the
Duchesses,
OPC, 1985,
276
illustrations.
Power
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Cover.
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the dust
wrapper.
£4.95 Lewis,
John
Official
Drawings
No.3:
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Western
Coaches,
Wild Swan,
1998,
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covers.
A
series of
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coaches of
the Great
Western
Railway
including;
Dreadnoughts,
Concertina
Coaches,
Toplight
Coaches,
Collett
Coaches -
The High
Waist Era,
Collett
Coaches -
The Large
Window Era
and the
Hawksworth
Brake
Third.
£12.50 Lingard,
Richard Princes Risborough -
Thame - Oxford Railway,
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traversal of the route. £8.50 (The) Locomotives of the Great Western Railway Part 3: Absorbed Engines 1854-1921, RCTS, 1956, pp101 plus 203 illustrations. Coloured frontis. Card Covers. Very Good. Some loss of colour down the spine of the covers. Covers all the locomotives from companies absorbed into the Great Western before The Grouping. £12.50 Lund,
Brian and
Laming,
Paul
Somerset
Railway
Stations
on old
picture
postcards,
Reflections
of a
Bygone
Age, 2005,
pp36.
Yesterday's
Somerset
Series
No.1.
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A
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century
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£2.95 Maggs,
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The
Taunton to
Barnstaple
Line:
Devon
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Card
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Locomotion
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A
history of
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Barnstaple.
£5.95 Maggs,
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The
Bath to
Weymouth
Line
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Westbury
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Salisbury,
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Locomotion
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£5.95 Maggs,
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The
Calne
Branch,
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1990,
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A
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Western
branch
from
Chippenham
to Calne.
£16.50 Maggs,
Colin
Branch
Lines of
Somerset,
Alan
Sutton,
1993,
pp154.
Hard
Cover.
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score
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wrapper.
A
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branch
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pictorial
tribute.
£3.95 Maggs,
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The
Minehead
Branch and
the West
Somerset
Railway,
Oakwood,
1st
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1998,
pp128.
Locomotion
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No.206.
Pb.
VG+.
An
illustrated
history.
£4.95 Maggs,
Colin J
The
Wrington
Vale Light
Railway,
Oakwood,
2004,
pp120.
Locomotion
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An
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Cheddar
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The
Culm
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£6.95 Marshall,
John
Forgotten
Railways
Vol.9:
North West
England,
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1st
edition
1981,
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pp16 of
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in the
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cm
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£5.95 Moody
G T
Southern
Electric:
The
History of
the
World's
Greatest
Suburban
Electric
Railway
System,
IA, 1st
edition
1957,
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cover.
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page
edges.
A
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history.
£3.95 Morrison,
Brian
Profile
of the 47s,
OPC, 1988,
189
illustrations.
Profile
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£5.95 Nock O S The Great Western Railway: An Appreciation, Heffer, 1952, pp185 plus pp32 of illustrations. No dw. Hb. Fair. Some wear and loss of colour to the covers, contents VG. Ossie Nock's tribute to the Great Western at nationalisation. £3.95 Nock
O S
The
Highland
Railway,
IA, 1965,
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colour
frontis.
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A
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emphasis
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locomotive
matters.
£4.95 Nock
O S
The
GWR Stars,
Castles
&
Kings Part
2:
1930-1965,
D&C,
1st
edition
1970,
pp160.
David
&
Charles
Locomotive
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Cover.
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The
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express
passenger
locomotives.
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O S
Southern
Steam,
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1972,
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colour
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wrapper
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Four
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post
grouping
era.
£4.95 Nock
O S
British
Locomotives
of the
20th
Century:
Vol. 1
1900
–1930,
BCA/PSL,
1983,
pp257.
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Club
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British
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since
1900.
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O S
British
Locomotives
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20th
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1930-1960,
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1985,
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history.
£3.95 Owen,
John
The
Exe Valley
Railway
including
The
Tiverton
Branch,
Waterfront/Kingfisher,
1999,
pp192.
First
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Cover.
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A
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illustrated
history.
£14.50 Page,
James
Rails
in the
Valleys,
D&C,
1989,
pp192.
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Wales.
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Marion
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Twyford's
Railway
Heritage:
150 Years
of the GWR,
Twyford
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Ruscombe
Local
History
Society,
1985,
pp56.
A
much
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and
updated
version of
The Broad
Gauge
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£4.95 Somerset and Dorset in the Fifties and Sixties by Ivo Peters Peters,
Ivo
The
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1980, 260
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Dorset.
£4.95 Peters, Ivo The Somerset and Dorset in the Fifties Vol. 2 - 1955-1959, OPC, 1984, 231 plates. Large Format Hb. Fine in a Fine dust wrapper. The second volume of Ivo Peter's pictorial tribute to the Somerset and Dorset. £4.95 Alternatively The Somerset and Dorset in the Fifties Vol.1 and 2 for only £7.90 Peters,
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1960-1962,
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250
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Peter's
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Dorset.
£4.95 Peters,
Ivo
The
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215
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Iron
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the Sea:
Railways
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Devon,
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Press,
1987,
pp160.
Foreword
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Devon.
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Green G W
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Industrial
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1996,
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Series
editor: R.
K.
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Amendment
List No.1.
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A
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compiled
record.
£14.50 Reade,
Lewis
Branch
Line
Memories
Vol.1:
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Western,
Atlantic,
1983,
pp48.
Pb.
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portrait
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Western
branch
lines.
£1.95 Rear
W G and
Williams M
F
The
Cambrian
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1988,
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Scenes
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R C and
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The
Power of
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£7.50 Russell J H A Pictorial Record of Great Western Coaches including the brown vehicles Part.1: 1838-1913, OPC, 2nd Impression 1979, pp240. Large Format. Hard Cover. Very Good in a Fair dust wrapper. Some loss of colour down the spine of the dust wrapper. There are also two internally repaired tears in the rear page of the dust wrapper, a vertical tear near the top of the spine and a second horizontal tear near the top edge. A major pictorial survey. £12.50 Shannon
Paul and
Hillmer,
John
Diesels
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208
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£4.95 Smith, David L Tales of the Glasgow & South Western Railway, IA, 1st edition 1962, pp96 with a colour frontis and 16pp of illustrations. Inscription. Hb. VG in a VG- dust wrapper with slight wear to the dust wrapper at the head of the spine. A classic series of articles that originally appeared in The Railway Magazine. £10.50 Smith,
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Tales
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Magazine.
£4.95 Smith,
David L
Locomotives
of the
Glasgow
and South
Western
Railway,
D&C,
1976,
pp192.
Hard
Cover.
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Good+ in a
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wrapper.
A
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history by
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who will
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associated
with the
G&SWR.
£14.50 Tonks,
Eric S
The
Shropshire
and
Montgomeryshire
Railway,
Industrial
Railway
Society,
2nd
enlarged
edition
1972,
pp102.
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expanded
2nd
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An
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history.
£6.95 Townroe
S C
'Arthurs,'
'Nelsons'
&
'Schools'
At Work,
IA, 1986,
pp144.
First
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reprint of
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revised
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1983.
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An
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three
important
Southern
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classes.
£4.95 Vaughan,
Adrian
Signalman's
Morning;
Signalman's
Twilight,
Pan Books,
1984,
pp380 plus
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£3.95 Trails of Steam Walker,
Colin
Trails
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1978,
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Trails
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Oxford
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1980,
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North-to-West
line from
Newport
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Shrewsbury
to
Chester.
£4.95 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Weaver,
Rodney
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1975, pp76
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£16.50 Westcott Jones, Kenneth Romantic Railways, Arlington Books, 1971, pp208, colour frontis and 48 illustrations. The four-page list of illustrations appears to have always been a loose insert. Hb. VG in a Fair dust wrapper. The torn dust wrapper has been internally repaired along the top edge. The author's rail travels on all six continents. £3.95 London and South Western Railway Williams
R A
The
London and
South
Western
Railway
Vol.2:
Growth and
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D&C,
1973,
pp383, a
colour
frontis,
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"third"
volume
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later as The
London
&
South
Western in
the 20th
Century
by
Faulkner
and
Williams.
£14.50 Faulkner J N and Williams R A The London & South Western Railway in the 20th Century, D&C, 1988, pp224. Hard Cover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust wrapper. A comprehensive history of the final two decades of the LSWR, in effect the much delayed third volume of The London and South Western Railway by R. A. Williams. £10.50 --------------------------------------------------- Williams,
Alfred
Life
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Railway
Factory,
Sutton
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2007,
pp288 with
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introduction
by Michael
Davis
outlining
William's
life.
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£4.95 The Locomotive Magazine The Locomotive Magazine Vol.1 & Vol.2 1896-7, F. Moore, pp155 and pp202 with an index for Vol.2. Hard Cover. Fair. Dark green covers with gold lettering to the spine. The first volume was published under the title of Moore's Monthly Magazine. Locomotive Magazine was adopted as the title from January 1897. Issue 1 & 2 of volume one are missing. The corners of the covers are slightly bumped; slight wear at the head & base of the spine; some superficial wear down the spine. £28.50 The
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£24.50 The Locomotive Magazine Vol.4 1899, F. Moore, pp198. Dark green covers with gold lettering to the spine. Inscription. Hard Cover. Fair. The corners of the covers are bumped; slight wear at the head & base of the spine; some superficial wear down the spine. £24.50 The
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Overseas
Railways Wright,
Roy V
(editor)
Locomotive
Cyclopedia
of
American
Practice
1927,
Simmons-Boardman
Publishing
Corporation,
8th
edition
1927,
pp1373.
Managing
Editor:
Roy V.
Wright,
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H
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A pictorial survey of steam in the West Country with sections on
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L T C
Thomas
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2008,
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History Besant,
Walter
London,
Chatto and
Windus,
1892,
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D E
Old
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the
Devil's
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author,
1971,
pp52.
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£3.95 Buchanan
R A
Industrial
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Penguin
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1974,
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44
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Batsford,
1980,
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£4.95 Harris,
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The
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Press, 4th
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1992,
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The
Batsford
Guide to
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Industrial
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of
South-East
England,
Batsford,
1978,
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Batsford
Guide to
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Industrial
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British
Isles
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The
Lewisham
Silk Mills
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History of
an Ancient
Site;
The Story
of Armour,
Small
Arms,
Silk, and
Gold &
Silver
Wire
Drawing,
Lewisham
Local
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Society,
1998,
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The
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Industrial
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Historical
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1973,
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51
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The
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SELIA,
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£2.95 Smith, Denis Civil Engineering Heritage: London and the Thames Valley, Thomas Telford Ltd, 2001, pp331. Civil Engineering Heritage Series. Card Covers. Very Good. Published for the Institution of Civil Engineers by Thomas Telford Ltd. £8.50 Torr,
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Talk at
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The
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Hook,
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£4.95 Industrial Archaeology A quarterly journal published by David and Charles. Industrial
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