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How to Order | Book Condition | We Want Your Books | About Us | Contact Us Please consult the How to Order section before ordering any books. This section offers a selection of book on the steam age railway from our main listings. All the books are hardbacks with dust wrappers and are offered at the modest price of £3.95, or in some cases at only £2.95.
Adley,
Robert In Search of Steam
1962-68, Blandford,
1983, pp157. Hb.
Very Good+
in a Very
Good dust
wrapper. Steam
nostalgia from Robert Adley, well-illustrated in
colour.
£2.95 Adley, Robert
The Call of
Steam, Blandford, 1983, pp160.
Hb.
Very Good in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper. Steam nostalgia
from Robert Adley, illustrated with his own colour photographs. £3.95 Adley,
Robert
In
Praise of
Steam,
Blandford/BCA,
1986,
pp159.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Very Good dust
wrapper.
Slight wear to the dust wrapper at the head and base of the spine.
Steam
nostalgia
from
Robert
Adley,
illustrated
with his
own colour
photographs.
£3.95 Allen,
G Freeman
The
Last Years
of British
Steam:
First
Series,
IA, pp128.
No
date.
Hb.
VG+
in a VG
dust
wrapper.
Small
inscription,
the number
"194."
The
red
background
on the
spine of
the cover
has faded.
An
excellent
selection
of
photographs
from
throughout
Britain.
£2.95 Allen,
G Freeman
and
Whitehouse,
Patrick
Great
Railway
Photographs
by Eric
Treacy,
Peerage
Books,
1988,
pp216.
First
published
in 1982 by
David and
Charles.
Large
Format.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
A
compilation
of 300 of
Treacy's
best
photographs,
including
24 pages
of
coloured
shots.
£3.95 Ashworth,
Ben
The
Last Days
of Steam
in
Gloucestershire,
Alan
Sutton,
1986,
pp137.
Hb.
VG+
in a VG-
dust
wrapper.
Small
internally-repaired
tear in
the dust
wrapper at
the head
of the
spine.
A
pictorial
album.
£3.95 Casserley
H C
Preserved
Locomotives,
IA, 5th
edition
1980,
pp192.
First
published
1967.
Preserved
Locomotives
was
completely
revised
for the
5th
edition
with a new
format and
an
enlarged
page size.
Hb.
VG
in a VG
dust
wrapper.
Slight
loss of
colour
down the
spine of
the dust
wrapper.
An
illustrated
history of
the many
main line
locomotive
classes
preserved
whether
working or
inactive,
steam,
electric
or diesel.
Also
contains a
comprehensive
register
of
preserved
industrial
locomotives
and
foreign
engines.
£3.95 Casserley
H C
Great
Railway
Photographers,
Milepost
Publishing,
1996,
pp48.
Presented
by Colin
Garratt in
association
with
Richard
Casserley.
Large
Format.
Glazed
boards
with a
dust
wrapper.
Very
Good+ in a
Very Good+
dust
wrapper.
102
of
Casserley's
pictures
selected
and
captioned
by his son
Richard.
In
spite of
the salami
publishing,
the book
contains
some
excellent
photographs,
along with
some
fascinating
glimpses
into the
man behind
the
camera.
£2.95 Creer,
Stanley
Cross-Country
Steam,
IA,
1979,
pp80.
Hb.
VG
in a VG
dust
wrapper.
Some
loss of
colour on
the dust
wrapper
spine.
An
Ian Allan
album with
the focus
on
cross-country
services.
£3.95 Cross,
Derek
Double-Headed
Trains 1
– South, IA,
1979,
pp96.
Hb.
VG+
in a VG
dust
wrapper.
Focuses
on the
Southern
Region,
the London
area, the
Western
Region,
and the
Somerset
&
Dorset.
£3.95 Dart,
Maurice
The
Last Days
of Steam
in
Plymouth
and
Cornwall,
AS, 1990,
pp136.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good+ in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
An
album in
the Last
Days of
Steam
Series.
£3.95 Dibnah,
Fred and
Hall,
David
Age
of Steam,
BBC, 2003,
pp192 plus
pp32 of
colour
illustrations.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good+ in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
A
history of
steam
power with
chapters
on The
Early
Pioneers,
The
Transport
Revolution,
Driving
the Wheels
of
Industry,
Steaming
down the
Road,
Ruling the
Waves, and
The Age of
the Steam
Turbine.
£3.95 Ellis,
C Hamilton
British
Trains of
Yesteryear:
A
pictorial
recollection
of the
pre-1923
railway
scene,
Locomotive
Publishing
Co, 1961,
pp132.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Very Good-
dust
wrapper.
Wear to
the dust
wrapper
along the
top edge.
288
photographs
with
historical
and
descriptive
annotations.
£3.95 Ellis,
C Hamilton The Lore of the Train,
Crescent Books, 1973, pp240. Very
Large Format Hb. VG+
in a VG
dust
wrapper.
There are several small tears
at the
dust
wrapper edges.
A history of rail traction, with an emphasis on the steam
locomotive,
illustrated by a large number of detailed drawings.
£3.95 Gammell C J The Steam Age, Bracken, 1988, pp96. Hb. VG+ in a VG+ dust wrapper. 1959 was a year of rapid change on British Railways. This album portrays the scenes, month by month, as the author travelled throughout the British Isles recording the passing of the steam age. £2.95 Garratt, Colin British Steam Nostalgia, BCA/Thorsons, 1987, pp144. Fine in a VG+ dust wrapper. A volume of Colin Garratt's early photographs with sections on the GWR, the LMS, Industrials, BR, the Southern and the LNER. Mainly black & white but with some colour. £2.95 Garratt, Colin The Golden Years of British Steam Trains, Milepost, 1995, pp196. Inscription under the flap of the dust wrapper. Large Format Hb. VG+ in a VG dust wrapper. Atmospheric photographs taken by the Reverend A W V Mace, a prolific railway photographer who was active from the early 1920s until the end of steam. Divided into four sections covering the GWR, LMS, LNER and SR. Also published as four separate volumes. £3.95 Garratt, Colin British
Steam Lives!, Bounty Books, 2005, pp144.
Glazed boards with
a dust
wrapper.
Fine in a
Fine dust
wrapper. First
published by Blandford Press in 1984. A tribute to the many British steam locomotives that were
exported to countries around the world, illustrated by the author's colour
photographs. £3.95 Glenn,
D Fereday
The
Last Days
of Steam
in Surrey
and Sussex, Alan
Sutton,
1989,
pp128.
Hb.
VG
in a VG
dust
wrapper.
Slight
indentations
to the
rear dust
wrapper
and to the
cover
underneath.
A
pictorial
album in
the Last
Days of
Steam
Series.
£3.95 Glenn, D Fereday
More Last Days of Steam in Hampshire and the
Isle of Wight, Alan Sutton, 1993, pp152. Glazed
boards with
a dust
wrapper. Fine
in a VG+
dust
wrapper.
"Evocative photographs from the author's own collection."
£3.95 Hagan,
Duncan
Indian
Summer of
Steam,
IA,
1980,
pp80.
Hb.
VG+
in a VG+
dust
wrapper.
High-quality
album of
post-war
steam, all
from the
author's
camera.
£3.95 Harris, Nigel Steam All the Way, W. H. Smith / Silver Link, 1987, pp128. Large Format Hb. Fine / Very Good+. A well-illustrated history of the steam locomotive, with an emphasis on preserved steam. £3.95 Herring, Peter
Classic
British Steam Locomotives, Abbeydale Press, 2002, pp192 with numerous
illustrations, mainly colour. Large
Format. Glazed boards with dw.
Fine
in a
Fine dust
wrapper.
After a brief introduction, a two-page spread is devoted to
each class of locomotive. £3.95 Glenn, D Fereday
More Last Days of Steam in Hampshire and the
Isle of Wight, Alan Sutton, 1993, pp152. Glazed
boards with
a dust
wrapper. Fine
in a VG+
dust
wrapper.
"Evocative photographs from the author's own collection."
£3.95 Herring,
Peter 50 Famous British Locomotives, D&C, 2009, pp192.
Large landscape format Hb. VG+
in a VG+
dust
wrapper.
"A Nostalgic guide to fifty of the most famous British steam and
diesel locomotives." Well-illustrated
throughout. £3.95 Kichenside,
Geoffrey
Steam:
Portraits
of the
Great Days
of the
British
Steam
Locomotive,
D&C,
1975,
pp74.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good+ in a
Very Good+
dust
wrapper.
A
high-quality
photographic
album
spanning
over a
century of
British
Steam.
£3.95 Kington, Miles Steaming
through Britain, Unwin Hyman, 1990, pp190.
Large Format Hb.
Fine in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper. An
introduction to the preserved railway scene, aimed at the
non-specialist reader, well-illustrated in
black
&
white and
colour.
£3.95 Nixon
L A
Steam
Around
Britain in
the
Seventies,
Bradford
Barton,
1977,
pp96.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good+ in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
Corner
of flyleaf
clipped.
A
Bradford
Barton
original
with a
"speckled"
orange
cover.
£3.95 British Locomotives of the 20th Century Nock
O S
British
Locomotives
of the
20th
Century:
Vol. 1
1900-1930,
BCA/PSL,
1983,
pp257.
Published
by Book
Club
Associates
by
arrangement
with
Patrick
Stephens
Limited.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
The
red title
on the
spine of
the dust
wrapper
has faded.
The
first
volume of
Ossie
Nock's
definitive
history of
British
locomotive
development
since
1900.
£3.95 Nock
O S
British
Locomotives
of the
20th
Century:
Vol. 2
1930
–1960,
PSL, 1984,
pp256.
Small
inscription,
the number
"70."
Hard
Cover.
Fine
in a Very
Good dust
wrapper.
Slight
loss of
colour to
the
lettering
on the
spine of
the dust
wrapper.
The
second
volume of
Ossie
Nock's
definitive
history.
£3.95 Nock
O S
British
Locomotives
of the
20th
Century:
Vol. 3
1960 - the
present
day,
BCA/PSL,
1985,
pp257.
Hb.
VG
in a VG
dust
wrapper.
There
is a stain
across the
lower edge
of the
dust
wrapper.
The
final
volume of
Ossie
Nock's
definitive
history,
devoted
almost
exclusively
to diesel
and
electric
developments,
including
the HST.
£3.95 ------------------------------------------------ Nock O S The Pocket Encyclopaedia of British Steam Railways & Locomotives, Bounty Books, 2009, pp195 & pp192 with 386 colour illustrations portraying the history of steam from Stephenson's Rocket to Riddles' Evening Star. "Smallish" format. Glazed boards with a dust wrapper. VG in a VG dust wrapper. Combines two earlier Nock books: Steam Railways of Britain in Colour and British Steam Locomotives in Colour in a single volume. £3.95 Ransome-Wallis
P
Locomotives
and Trains
of the Big
Four,
IA, 1978,
pp128.
Hb.
VG
in a VG
dust
wrapper.
The red
spine of
dust
wrapper is
slightly
sunned.
An
album
consisting
exclusively
of pre-nationalisation
photos of
the GWR,
LMS, LNER
and SR.
£3.95 Ransome-Wallis
P
The
Last Steam
Locomotives
of British
Railways,
IA/BCA,
1988,
pp191.
Large
Format.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good+ in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
A
comprehensive
class-by-class
survey.
A
classic
album from
the 1960s.
£3.95 Robertson, Kevin The Last Days of Steam in Oxfordshire, Alan Sutton, 1987, pp137. Hb. Fine in a VG dust wrapper. A fascinating pictorial record of the last days of steam in Oxfordshire. £3.95 Robertson, Kevin The Last Days of Steam in Hampshire, Alan Sutton, 1990, pp136. Glazed boards with a dust wrapper. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust wrapper. Slight wear to the top back edge of the rear cover. A selection of atmospheric photographs showing the final years of Hampshire steam. £3.95 Ross,
David British Steam Railways: A
History of Steam Locomotives - 1800 to the Present Day, Parragon, 2002,
pp160. "Largish" format.
Glazed boards with dw. Fine
in a Fine
dust
wrapper.
Well-illustrated with over 200 colour and b/w photographs.
£3.95 Ross,
David
The
Illustrated
History of
British
Steam
Railways:
The Legacy
of the
Steam
Locomotive,
Parragon,
2008,
pp320.
Large
Format.
Glazed
boards
with a
dust
wrapper.
Very
Good+ in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
A
lavishly
produced
history of
the steam
locomotive.
£3.95 Sagar,
John
Chapters
of Steam:
Steam
Locomotives
of the
Worth
Valley
Railway,
Kingfisher,
1984,
pp160.
The
earlier
Kingfisher
edition,
rather
than the
later
Bracken
Books
reprint.
Large
Format.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
A
pictorial
album
recording
the varied
careers of
the over
fifty
locomotives
that have
appeared
on the
Worth
Valley
Railway
since
preservation.
£3.95 Sawford
E H
British
Railways
Steam in
the 1950s,
AS,
1992,
pp184.
Hb.
Fine
in a Fine
dust
wrapper.
A
20 page
introduction,
followed
by
locomotive
pictures
from each
region of
British
Railways.
£3.95 Siviter, Roger Tempo of Steam, IA, 1980, pp128. Large Format Hb. VG in a VG dust wrapper. A high-quality large-format album featuring the best of Siviter's steam photographs from the period 1966 to 1979. £3.95 Siviter, Roger BR Steam Surrender, Kingfisher, 1988, pp96. Large Format Hb. Fine in a Fine dust wrapper. Published to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of steam, with 140 photos covering over 40 locomotive classes. £3.95 Stephenson, Brian and Russell, Patrick Specials in Steam, IA, 1st edition 1968, pp128. Hb. VG in a VG dust wrapper with some superficial wear to the edges of the dust wrapper. A first edition of a best-selling album recalling the steam specials that ran between 1938 and 1968. £2.95 Stephenson, Brian BR Standard Steam Locomotives, IA/Taj Books, 2007, pp128. A matt reprint of a book published by Ian Allan in 1983. The illustrations were originally published in various issues of Locomotives Illustrated. Large Format. Glazed boards with a dust wrapper. Fine in a Fine dust wrapper. £3.95 Treacy, Eric Spell of Steam, IA, 1982, pp208. First published in 1973. Large Format Hb. Fine in a VG+ dust wrapper. A classic steam album from the 1970s. £3.95 Vincent,
Mike
British
Railway
Steam in
Colour,
Argus,
1992,
pp159.
Large
Format Hb.
VG
in a VG
dust
wrapper.
Recollections
of chasing
steam
during the
60s with
chapters
on Main
Line -
London,
The Sunny
South,
Broad
Swathe of
Midlands
&
Shires,
The
Borders,
The
Lowlands
of
Scotland,
Farther
North
&
Farther
North,
Back down
the East
Coast and
Great
Central
&
London
Extension.
£3.95 Wainwright S D Steam in West Cheshire and the North Wales Border, IA, 1981, pp96. Hard Cover. VG+ in a VG dust wrapper. Superficial wear to the dust wrapper at the head of the spine. A pictorial album focusing on the area around Chester. £3.95 Welch,
Michael
Last
Breaths of
Steam,
Runpast,
1998,
pp76.
Glazed
Boards.
Landscape
Format.
Very
Good+.
An
all-colour
landscape
format
album
published
to
commemorate
the 30th
anniversary
of the end
of BR
Steam.
£3.95 Wells
P H
BR
Steam
Portrait,
Janes,
1987,
pp64.
Steam
Portfolios
4.
There
is an old
price
sticker on
the front
cover.
Glazed
Boards.
Very
Good.
An
all-colour
album from
the
author's
camera
with
pictures
from Shap
to
Weymouth
and from
North
Wales to
Cambridge,
although
around
half of
the
pictures
come from
the East
Midlands
where the
author
lived.
£3.95 Whitehouse, Patrick and Thomas, David St John A Passion For Steam, D&C, 1992, pp192. Inscription. Large Format Hb. Fine in a Very Good+ dust wrapper. The well-known Whitehouse/Thomas team turns its attention to steam engines throughout the world. "A combination of technical, nostalgic and imaginative writing and a splendid selection of photographs celebrating the pulsating joy of this unique form of power." £3.95
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