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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. Karau, Paul and Turner, Chris The Marlow Branch, Wild Swan, pp216. No date. Large Format Hb. Fine in a VG+ dust wrapper. A definitive illustrated history. £20.50 Karau,
Paul
An
Illustrated
History of
the
Henley-On-Thames
Branch,
Wild
Swan,
1982,
pp176.
Large
Format Hb.
VG
in a Near
VG dust
wrapper.
Slight
wear to
the top
edge of
the dust
wrapper;
some loss
of the
plastic
coating on
the dust
wrapper at
the two
corners.
A
definitive
illustrated
history.
£16.50 Karau,
Paul and
Turner,
Chris
Country
Branch
Line: An
Intimate
Portrait
of the
Watlington
Branch
Vol.1: The
Story of
the Line
from 1872
– 1961,
Wild Swan,
1998,
pp240.
Large
Format Hb.
VG+
in a VG
dust
wrapper.
Slight
wear along
the top
edge of
the dust
wrapper.
A
definitive
history of
the line.
£28.50 Karau,
Paul and
Turner,
Chris
Country
Branch
Line: An
Intimate
Portrait
of the
Watlington
Branch
Vol.2 The
Stations,
Wild Swan,
1998,
pp240.
Large
Format Hb.
VG+
in a VG
dust
wrapper.
A
detailed
portrait
of each of
the
stations
and halts
along the
line,
including
staff,
daily
routines
and
details of
traffic
and
traders.
£28.50 Kardas, Handel Portrait of the Isle of Wight Railways, IA, 1998, pp112. Glazed Boards. VG. A well-illustrated history of the railways on the Isle of Wight. £7.50 Kay,
Peter
Rails
along the
Sea Wall,
Platform
5, 1990,
pp60.
Pb.
VG.
An
illustrated
history of
the Great
Western
main line
from
Dawlish
Warren to
Teignmouth.
£2.95 Keeley, Raymond Memories of LNER Steam, IA, 1980, pp112. Hb. VG+/VG. Inscription. Tiny internally repaired nick to the dw edge. Lively essays combined with over 140 previously unpublished pictures. £5.95 Keeley,
Raymond Railway
Memories
of
Manchester
and
Stockport,
Foxline,
2000,
pp48.
Scenes
from the
Past: 40
(Part One).
Small
inscription,
the number
"901."
Large
Format.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good.
£8.50 Kelley P J Road Vehicles of the Great Western Railway, OPC, 1973, pp128. Large Format Hb. Inscription under the dw flap. VG+ in a VG+ dust wrapper with superficial dust wrapper wear at the base of the spine. 209 illustrations in four sections: 1. Horse drawn vehicles; 2. Mechanically propelled cartage vehicles; 3. Motor omnibuses 'Road motors'; 4. Miscellaneous vehicles. £8.50 Kelley, Philip J Great Western Road Vehicles Appendix, OPC, 1982, 211 illustrations. Large Format Hb. VG+ in a VG dust wrapper. Superficial wear to the top edge of the dust wrapper. £8.50 Kelly, Peter The Pocket Book of Railway Locomotives, Bloomsbury Books, 1993, pp140. Small format. Glazed boards with a dust wraper. VG+ in a VG dust wrapper. "A colour illustrated pocket guide to around a hundred of the most well-known British locomotives." Includes both steam and diesel locomotives. £1.95 Kelly, Peter The Railway Enthusiasts Almanac, BCA/Eric Dobby, 1994, pp140. Small format. Fine with Glazed Boards. An illustrated colour guide to around 120 British steam, diesel and electric locomotives. £1.95 Kendall
H G
The
Plymouth
&
Dartmoor
Railway
and Its
Fore-runners, Oakwood,
1968,
pp100 plus
pp16 of
illustrations.
Oakwood
Library
No.23.
Pb.
Near
VG with
some
vertical
creasing
and slight
wear to
the spine
of the
covers.
£12.50 Kennedy, Ludovic A Book of Railway Journeys, Collins, 1980, pp356. Hb. VG in a VG dust wrapper. Inscription. A well-chosen anthology; ideal bed time reading. £3.95 Kennedy,
Ludovic
A
Book of
Railway
Journeys,
Fontana/Collins,
1981,
pp356.
Pb.
VG with
slight
browning
of the
pages.
A
well-chosen
anthology
providing
excellent
bedtime
reading.
£2.95 Kennedy,
Rex
Diesels
and
Electrics
on Shed
Vol.3 -
Western
Region,
OPC, 1981,
213
illustrations.
Large
Format Hb.
VG/VG
with a
one-inch
closed
tear to
the bottom
front edge
of the
dust
wrapper,
and the
colour
faded on
the spine.
£12.50 Kennedy, Rex Steam on the Cambrian, IA, 1990, pp144. Large Format Hb. VG in a VG dust wrapper. A pictorial tribute to the lines of the former Cambrian railways in Wales. Each section of the system is considered in turn. £4.95 Kennedy,
Rex
Ian
Allan's 50
Years of
Railways
1942-1992,
BCA/IA,
1992,
pp256.
Large
Format.
Hard
Cover.
Fine
in a Very
Good+ dust
wrapper.
A
largely
pictorial
review of
the
changing
railway
scene from
1942 to
1992,
published
to
commemorate
fifty
years of
Ian Allan
publishing.
£4.95 Kennedy,
Rex Steam on the Great Western:
Severn & Cotswolds, IA, 1993, pp144.
Large Format Hb. Fine/VG+.
A pictorial line-by-line tribute. £6.95 Kerry,
Michael The Great Gable Story,
Peter Watts, 1983, pp20. Large
landscape format Pb. Very Good+. The
story of the preserved class 44 diesel-electric, Great Gable.
£1.95 Keys
R and
Porter L
The
Manifold
Valley and
its Light
Railway,
Moorland,
1972,
pp58.
Card
Covers.
VG-.
Some
superficial
vertical
creasing
on the
front
cover.
Eight
pages of
text plus
photos of
the narrow
gauge Leek
and
Manifold
Valley
Light
Railway.
£2.95 Kichenside
G M
Railway
Carriages
1883-1939,
IA, 1964,
pp64.
Veteran
and
Vintage
Series.
Pictorial
Boards.
VG.
Slight
loss of
colour on
the spine
of the
covers.
A
useful
booklet
with 106
illustrations
and a list
of
preserved
railway
carriages.
£2.95 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 Kichenside, Geoffrey
The West Coast Route to Scotland, D&C, 1976, pp96.
Hb. Very Good
in a Very
Good dust
wrapper.
A pictorial survey of the West Coast main line from the Victorian era to
the electric locomotives of the 1970s.
£2.95 Kichenside,
Geoffrey
Diesels
and
Electrics
in Action:
A Picture
History of
British
Rail,
D&C,
1976,
pp96.
Hb.
VG/VG.
A
pictorial
history of
early
diesel and
electric
traction.
£3.95 Kichenside, Geoffrey 150 Years of Railway Carriages, D&C, 1981, pp96. Glazed Boards. VG+. An illustrated history of the evolution of the British railway carriage. £2.95 Kichenside, Geoffrey
Great
Train Disasters: The World's Worst Railway Accidents, Parragon,
1997, p96. Large landscape format.
Glazed boards with
a dust
wrapper. Fine
in a VG
dust
wrapper.
An illustrated history. £4.95 Kidner
R W
The
Cambrian
Railways,
Oakwood,
1st
Edition
1954, pp45
plus p16
of plates.
Oakwood
Library
No.55.
Paper
covered
boards
with a
cloth
spine.
Fair+.
Foxing
to the
front
endpaper,
some wear
at the
bottom
front
corner of
the cover.
£3.95 Kidner
R W
The
Cambrian
Railways,
Oakwood,
2nd
edition
1992,
pp208.
Oakwood
Library
No.55.
Hard
Cover.
Very
Good+ in a
Very Good
dust
wrapper.
Slight
loss of
colour
down the
spine of
the dust
wrapper.
First
published
in 1954.
This
is the
much
expanded
hardback
edition of
1992.
£10.50 Kidner R W Standard Gauge Light Railways No.1, Oakwood, 6th edition 1971, pp60 plus a 1973 sheet of additions. Pb. VG. With four sections: The Colonel Stephens Railways, Other Independent Light Railways, Preserved Light Railways and Light Railways Operated by Main line Companies. £3.95 King
C A
(Editor)
Past
Aspects: A
Miscellany
of Railway
Signalling,
Exeter
West
Group,
1987,
pp44.
Large
Format Pb.
VG.
There
is a small
price
sticker on
the front
cover.
An
illustrated
collection
of short
articles.
£5.95 King, Donald South West Railwayman,
A&U, 1984,
pp96. Steam Past Series.
Well-illustrated throughout. Hb.
Fine/VG+. Memories of the
Lyme Regis branch. £4.95 Kingdom,
Anthony
The
Railways
of Devon:
A
Pictorial
Survey,
Bradford
Barton,
1974,
pp96.
Hb.
VG
in a VG
dust
wrapper.
A
Bradford
Barton
original
in a black
and white
speckled
hardback
cover.
£5.95 Kingdom,
Anthony R
The
Princetown
Branch,
OPC,
1979,
pp160.
Pb.
VG.
A
comprehensive
and
well-illustrated
history of
the Great
Western
Railway's
Princetown
branch.
£7.50 Kingdom A R The Newton Abbot Blitz, OPC, 1st edition 1979, pp32. Pb. VG. Transport Topics Series No.1. An illustrated booklet recording the air attack on Newton Abbot station in August 1940. £3.95 Kingdom,
Anthony R
The
Yelverton
to
Princetown
Railway,
Forest
Publishing
and Arc
Publications,
1991,
pp160.
Card
Covers.
Very
Good.
A
comprehensive
illustrated
history of
the Great
Western's
branch to
Princetown.
£7.50 Kingdom,
Anthony R
and Lang,
Mike
The
Newton
Abbot to
Moretonhampstead
Railway,
Ark
Publications,
2004,
pp320.
Pb.
VG+.
A
comprehensive
well-illustrated
history.
£10.50 Kingdom
A R
Brunel's
Royal
Albert
Bridge,
Ark
Publications,
2006,
pp32.
Railway
Arkives
Series
No.5.
Pb.
VG.
An
illustrated
history of
Brunel's
bridge
across the
Tamar at
Saltash,
connecting
Devon and
Cornwall
by rail.
This
booklet is
an
extended
version of
History
of the
Royal
Albert
Bridge
which was
published
shortly
after the
opening of
the bridge
and
describes
its
construction.
£2.95 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 Klapper
C K
Sir
Herbert
Walker's
Southern
Railway,
IA, 1973,
pp295.
Hb.
VG/VG.
A
biography
of Sir
Walker,
the
outstanding
general
manager of
the
Southern
Railway,
and the
history of
the
creation
of
southern
electric
system
that was
his
enduring
legacy.
£10.50 Klapper,
Charles
London's
Lost
Railways,
Routledge
&
Kegan
Paul,
1980,
pp139 plus
43
illustrations.
Small
inscription,
the number
"53."
Hb.
VG+
in a VG
dust
wrapper.
A
constructive
analysis
of railway
transport
in London,
looking at
existing
facilities
and how
they have
been used
in the
past.
£4.95 Kneale
E N
North
Wales
Steam
(1927-1968)
[Vol.1],
OPC, 1980,
178
illustrations.
Large
Format Hb.
Fine
in a VG-
dust
wrapper
with several
small
internally
repaired
tears in
the dust
wrapper.
A
pictorial
tribute to
the LNWR
main line
to
Holyhead.
£5.95 Knight,
Steven
A
Comprehensive
Guide to
Britain's
New
Railway, EMAP
Apex,
1997,
pp90.
Large
Format Pb.
VG.
A
comprehensive
guide to
Britain's
railways
at the
completion
of rail
privatisation
with a
map,
illustrations
and brief
details of
each new
franchise.
£1.95 Knox,
Harry
Edinburgh
St.
Margaret's:
The Story
of the
'Other'
Edinburgh
Depot of
the North
British
Railway
1845-1967, Lightmoor
Press,
2015,
pp320.
Large
Format.
Glazed
Boards.
VG
with
slight
rubbing at
the bottom
corners of
the
covers.
A
very
substantial
history,
well
illustrated
throughout.
£24.50 Kumar, Amba Stately
Progress: Royal Train Travel since 1940,
NRM, 1997, pp72.
Pb. Fine.
A well-illustrated
history of the royal train. £2.95 Railway
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