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Nabarro, Gerald  Severn Valley Steam, Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1971, pp107 plus 64 pages of illustrations.  Hb. VG in a VG dust wrapper.  A history of the Severn Valley line, with a brief look at early preservation days in the final two chapters.  £2.95

Nabarro, Gerald  Severn Valley Steam, Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1971, pp107 plus 64 pages of black & white illustrations.  Card Covers.  Very Good with slight vertical creasing to the spine.  A history of the Severn Valley line, with a brief look at early preservation days in the final two chapters.  £1.95

Neale, Andrew  Welsh Narrow Gauge Railways from Old Picture Postcards, Plateway, 1991, pp56.  Card Covers.  Very Good.  £2.95

Neve, Eric  East Coast from Kings Cross, IA, 1983, pp112.  Hb.  VG+ in a VG dust wrapper.  An illustrated history of the East Coast main line, from the creation of the LNER in 1923 until the end of steam.  £4.95

Newham A T  The Schull and Skibbereen Tramway, Oakwood, 1964, pp32 plus pp8 of plates. Locomotion Papers No.24.  There is a old price sticker on the front cover.  Card Covers.  Very Good.  The history of a narrow gauge railway in West Cork.  £8.50

Newham A T  The Cork Blackrock & Passage Railway, Oakwood Press, 1970, pp40 plus pp8 of illustrations.  Locomotion Papers No.49.  Card Covers.  VG- with some rubbing to the spine of the covers and an old price sticker on the front cover.  Initially a broad gauge suburban line to Passage, the Cork, Blackrock & Passage Railway was converted to narrow gauge when it was extended to Crosshaven.  £7.50

Nicholas D and Montgomery S  Profile of the Westerns, OPC, 1st edition 1980, 163 plates.  Profile Series.  Signed by both authors.  Large Format.  Glazed Boards.  VG with slight loss of colour down the spine.  £6.95

Nicholas D and Montgomery S  Profile of the Westerns, OPC, 1st edition 1980, 163 illustrations.  Profile Series.  Large Format.  Glazed Boards.  Fine.  £4.95

Nicholas, David and Montgomery, Stephen  BR Diesels on Depot, IA, 1984, pp96.  Glazed Boards.  VG+.  A pictorial survey of each depot, with brief allocation details.  £6.95

Nicholas, John  Lines to Torrington, OPC, 1984, pp192.  Large Format Hb.  VG+ in a VG+ dust wrapper.  Light foxing to the edges of the pages otherwise VG+ in a VG+ dust wrapper.  Also a tiny wear mark near the head of the spine.  A comprehensive history of the 35 miles of railway that linked the principal North Devon junction at Barnstable with the North Cornwall line at Halwill Junction. For 53 year Torrington was the focus of this line.  £16.50

Nicholas, John  The North Devon Line: The Exeter to Barnstaple Railway from inception to the present day, OPC, 1992, pp192.  Large Format Hb.  Fine in a Fine dust wrapper.  A comprehensive illustrated history.  £12.50

Nicholson, Christopher P and Barnes, Peter  Railways in the Peak District, Dalesman, 1^st edition 1971, pp96.  Pb.  VG.  Small superficial marks on the front cover.  The Midland, London North Western and Great Central Lines in the Peak District are all considered.  £1.95

Nicholson, Christopher P  Main Lines in the Peak District: A Pictorial History, Dalesman, 1977, pp80.  Card Covers.  Very Good.  With sections on: Woodhead, The Hope Valley, and Railway through the Dales.  £2.95

Nicholson, Peter  Flying Scotsman: The World's Most Travelled Locomotive, IA, 1999, pp112 with numerous illustrations.  Pb.  Fine.  The complete story both before and after preservation.  £1.95

Nicolle, Barry  BR Freight Services in Focus, IA, 1982, pp112.  Hb. VG/VG- with a tiny internally repaired tear in the dust wrapper at the head of the spine and loss of colour on the spine.  Sections on Company and Block Trains, Freightliners, Air-Braked Network Services, Vacuum-Braked Freights, Partially Fitted Freights, Mineral Trains, Coal Empties, Ballast Trains, Engineers' Freights, Local Trips & Yard Working, and Locomotives & Brake Vans.  £5.95

Nicolle, Barry  BR (Midland Region) Electrics, IA, 1982, pp32.  Transport Topics Series No.3.  Pb.  VG-.  Some wear to the covers.  West Coast main line electrics plus class 76s from the Woodhead route.  £1.95

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

Nixon L A  A Decade of BR Steam Running 1971-1981, IA, 1981, pp96.  Pb.  VG+.  High-quality photographs recording a decade of main line preserved steam.  £2.50

Nixon, Les  The Classic Steam Collection, Silver Link, 1991, pp128. Small inscription, the number "252."  Large Format.  Hard Cover.  Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust wrapper.  The second volume in the series by one of Britain's foremost railway photographers.  £4.95

Nixon, Les  The Twilight of Steam: Classic Steam Images, SLP, 2001, pp128.  First published as The Classic Steam Collection in 1991.  Large Format Pb.  VG.  Contains some 225 photographs selected and presented by eminent railway photographer, Les Nixon, portraying the twilight years of British steam.  £3.95

Noble, Tom  The West Highland Mallaig Extension in BR Days, OPC, 1989, pp112 including pp16 of colour.  Large Format.  Hard Cover.  VG in a VG dust wrapper.  A pictorial record of the post-war period.  £6.95

Nock O S  The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley, Railway Publishing Co with Longmans, Green & Co., 1946, pp181 with numerous illustrations.  Foreword by O. V. Bulleid then Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway.  Inscription.  Hb.  No dust wrapper.  Fair+ with slight wear to the covers at the head & base of the spine and at the corners.  A comprehensive review of Nigel Gresley's work.  One of Ossie Nock's first books, originally published in 1945.  £3.95

Nock O S  British Locomotives at Work, Greenlake, 1947, pp260.  Inscription.  Hb.  Fair with no dust wrapper.  Some wear to the corners of the covers and at the head & base of the spine.  One of Nock's earliest footplate books describing journeys in the late 30s, supplemented by some runs in the immediate post-war period.  £4.95

Nock O S  The Railways of Britain: Past and Present, Batsford, 2nd edition 1949, pp120, a colour frontis, and 117 illustrations.  Hard Cover.  VG in a VG- dust wrapper.  Wear to the top edge of the dust wrapper, particularly at the head of the spine.  An excellent copy of one of Nock's earliest books.  £3.95

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  Locomotives of the North Eastern Railway, IA, 1954, pp200. Date inscription.  Hb.  No dw.  VG-.  Some stains on the covers & foxing to the page edges.  A history of North Eastern locomotives from the formation of the North Eastern Railway in 1854 to the Grouping.  £4.95

Nock O S  Locomotives of the North Eastern Railway, IA, pp200.  An undated reprint of a book first published in 1954.  Hb.  VG- in a Fair+ dust wrapper.  Slight wear to the edges of the covers, also the dust wrapper has been repaired at the head & base of the spine.  A history of North Eastern locomotives from the formation of the North Eastern Railway in 1854 to the Grouping.  £6.95

Nock O S  Steam Locomotive: A Retrospect of the Work of Eight Great Locomotive Engineers, British Railways Board, 1955, pp40.  Pb.  VG.  An illustrated booklet with sections on Robert Stephenson, John Ramsbottom, Edward Fletcher, Patrick Stirling, Samuel Waite Johnson, Dugald Drummond, G J Churchward and H N Gresley.  £2.95

Nock O S  British Railways in Action, Nelson, 1956, pp228, coloured frontis and 48 black & white illustrations.  Hb.    VG in a Poor dust wrapper.  Inscription under the dust wrapper flap.  Slight foxing to the pager edges, repaired dust wrapper with some loss.  Ossie Nock vividly describes the complexities and difficulties of operating the steam-powered railway network in the immediate post war era.  £3.95

Nock O S  Steam Locomotive: The Unfinished Story of Steam Locomotives and Steam Locomotive Men on the Railways of Great Britain, Allen & Unwin, 1st edition 1957, pp236 plus pp32 of illustrations.  Hb.  VG in a Fair dust wrapper.  A VG book in a much-repaired dust wrapper.  £4.95

Nock O S  The Great Northern Railway, IA, 1st edition 1958, pp192 with colour frontis.  Hb.  VG in a VG dust wrapper with slight wear to the top edge of the dust wrapper.  A readable one-volume history with an emphasis on locomotive matters.  £6.95

Nock O S  The Great Northern Railway, IA, 1958, pp192 with a colour frontis. Inscription.  Hb.  No dust wrapper.  Fair+ with slight wear to the covers at the head & base of the spine and at the corners.  A readable one-volume history of the Great Northern Railway.  £4.95

Nock O S  The Great Northern Railway, IA, 1974, pp192.  Small inscription, the number "544".  Card Covers.  VG.  A readable one-volume history, first published in 1958.  £3.95

Nock O S and Eric Treacy  Main Lines across the Border, Nelson, 1st edition 1960, pp16 plus pp155 plus 62 plates.  No dust wrapper.  Hb.  VG.  Sellotape stains inside the dust wrapper from an old protective covering.  In this first edition all the photographs are by Eric Treacy, whereas in the later Ian Allan edition new photographs by Derek Cross were substituted. As well as the East Coast and West Coast main lines, the authors also consider the Settle and Carlisle line and its Scottish connections, the Waverley route and the Glasgow and South Western line through Dumfries.  £4.95

Nock O S  The South Eastern and Chatham Railway, IA, 1961, pp198, colour frontis plus pp32 of plates.  Hb. VG in a VG- dust wrapper with slight wear to the dust wrapper edges.  A readable history of a neglected company.  £8.50

Nock O S  The Great Western Railway in the 19th Century, IA, 1962 pp200 with a colour frontis.  Hb.  VG in a VG dust wrapper.  Some foxing to the preliminary pages; slight wear to the dust wrapper at the head & base of the spine.  A history of the broad gauge and the early days of the Great Western.  £7.50

Nock O S  The Great Western Railway in the 19th Century, IA, 1972, pp200 plus pp32 of illustrations.  First published as a hardback in 1962.  Pb.  VG.  Slight browning of the pages.  The first volume of one of Nock's best company histories.  £3.95

Nock O S  The Great Western Railway in the 20th Century, IA, 1964, pp212, colour frontis, and pp32 of illustrations.  Hb.  VG in a VG- dust wrapper.  Slight wear to the edges of the dust wrapper.  The second volume of Nock's best-selling two-volume history of the Great Western.  £7.50

Nock O S  British Railways in Transition, Nelson, 1963, pp193.  Hb.  VG/Fair.  Torn internally-repaired dw.  A survey of British Railways at a time of rapid change.  £4.95

Nock O S  The Pocket Encyclopaedia of British Steam Locomotives,  Blandford, 1st edition 1964, pp192.  Small format Hb.  Very Good in a Very Good dust wrapper.  Slight foxing to the preliminary pages.  Also slight wear to the dust wrapper edges.  Almost 200 coloured plates by Clifford and Wendy Meadway with text by Ossie Nock.  £1.95

Nock O S  The Midland Compounds, D&C, 1964, pp160.  Colour frontis.  David & Charles Locomotive Monographs.  Hb.  VG in a Poor dust wrapper.  Some foxing to the preliminary pages; the dust wrapper is badly torn and incomplete.  There are also a number of comments & underlinings in the text. Their tone appears to be generally informative and occasionally critical.  £5.95

Nock O S  Steam Railways in Retrospect, A & C Black, 1966, pp268 with 8 colour plates, 48 black & white plates and 5 drawings.  A follow-up to British Steam Railways.  Hb.  No dust wrapper - a reading copy.  VG.  The bottom corners of the covers are slightly bumped.  A series of discursive essays on various aspects of British railway history.  One of the first railway books I purchased, unearthed in one of the many second hand bookshops that were to be found in New York in the late 1960s.  £3.95

Nock O S  Steam Railways of Britain in Colour, Blandford, 1967, pp192.  The Pocket Encyclopedia of World Railways Series.  Small format Hb.  VG in a VG- dust wrapper.  The dust wrapper has been internally repaired both at the head of the spine and along the bottom edge.  Almost 200 coloured plates by Clifford and Wendy Meadway with text by Ossie Nock.  £2.95

Nock O S  Steam Locomotive: The Unfinished Story of Steam Locomotives and Steam Locomotive Men on the Railways of Great Britain, Allen & Unwin, 2nd enlarged edition 1968, pp273 plus pp32 of illustrations.  Colour frontis.  Hb. VG/VG- with a three-inch internally repaired tear to the bottom front edge of the dust wrapper.  Four new chapters were added to the second edition to complete the story from 1945, and different illustrations were included.  £5.95

Nock O S  Kings and Castles of the GWR, IA, 2nd revised edition 1969, pp96 plus pp16 of illustrations.  First published in 1949.  Small format Hb.  Fine in a VG dust wrapper.   A history of two famous classes of four-cylinder 4-6-0 express passenger locomotives designed by C B Collett for the Great Western Railway.  £1.95

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Nock O S  Railways at the turn of the Century 1895-1905, Blandford, 1969, pp186.  Railways of the World in Colour Series.  Small format Hb.  VG in a VG dust wrapper.  194 coloured plates - largely locomotives - by Clifford and Wendy Meadway with supporting text by Ossie Nock.  £2.95

Nock O S  Railways in the Transition from Steam 1940-65, Blandford, 1974, pp186.  Railways of the World in Colour Series.  Small format Hb.  VG+ in a VG dust wrapper.  153 coloured plates by Clifford and Wendy Meadway, with supporting text by Ossie Nock.  £2.95

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Nock O S  The GWR Stars, Castles & Kings Part 2: 1930-1965, D&C, 1973, pp160.  David & Charles Locomotive Monographs.  Hb.  Very Good+ in a Very Good dust wrapper.  The second volume of a classic study of Great Western 4-cylinder express passenger locomotives.  £3.95

Nock O S  The GWR Stars, Castles & Kings Omnibus edition combining parts 1 & 2, D&C, 1981, pp304.  David & Charles Locomotive Monographs.  Hb.  VG+ in a VG dust wrapper.  A classic study, initially published as two separate volumes.  £3.95

Nock O S  Britain's Railways at War 1939-1945, IA, 1971, pp224, 97 illustrations, tables, maps, plans and poster reproductions.  Hb.  VG+ in a VG+ dust wrapper.  A comprehensive history of the war years.  £5.95

Nock O S  LMS Steam, D&C, 1971, pp269 with a colour frontis & pp32 of illustrations.  Hb.  Fine/VG.  Slight wear to the dw at the head of the spine.  A history of LMS steam from The Grouping until nationalisation.  £8.50

Nock O S  The Southern King Arthur Family, D&C, 1976, pp96.  Locomotive Monograph Series.  Hb.  VG in a VG dust wrapper.  Slight fading on the spine of the dust wrapper.  £7.50

Nock O S  British Steam Locomotives in Colour, Blandford, 1976, pp192.  First published as The Pocket Encyclopaedia of British Steam Locomotives.  Small format Hb.  VG in a VG dust wrapper.  Almost 200 coloured plates by Clifford and Wendy Meadway with text by Ossie Nock.  £1.95

Nock O S  Great Western in Colour, Blandford, 1978, pp160 with coloured illustrations by Clifford and Wendy Meadway.  Inscription and marks inside front cover.  Hb.  Fine in a Fine dust wrapper.  A concise history of the Great Western Railway.  £2.95

Nock O S  The Last Years of British Railways Steam: Reflections, ten years after, D&C, 2nd impression, 1978, pp143.  Hb.  VG+ in a VG+ dust wrapper.  An excellent history of the development of steam traction under British Railways from nationalisation until the end of steam.  £4.95

Nock O S  Great Northern: Pre-Grouping Railway Scene No.2, IA, 1979, pp96.  Inscription.  Hard Cover.  Very Good+ in a Very Good dust wrapper.  A selection of photographs from the extensive Rixon Bucknall collection.  £3.95

Nock O S  Railway Reminiscences of the Interwar Years, IA, 1980, pp176.  Hb.  VG in a VG dust wrapper.  £5.95

Nock O S  Two Miles A Minute, BCA/PSL, 1980, pp201.  Published by Book Club Associates by arrangement with Patrick Stephens Limited. With a Foreword by Sir Peter Parker.  Hb.  Very Good in a Very Good dust wrapper.  The story behind the conception and operation of the HSTs and the ill-fated Advanced Passenger Train.  £2.95

Nock O S  Railway Archaeology, BCA/PSL, 1981, pp192.  Hard Cover.  Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust wrapper.  "Describes the evolution of Britain's railway network by studying the surviving monuments and relics."  £2.95

Nock O S  On Steam: British Standard Gauge Railways Rescued from Extinction, Granada/BCA, 1982, pp165.  Hb.  VG+/VG.  A highly readable account of preserved steam locomotives.  £4.95

Nock O S  The Gresley Pacifics, Omnibus edition combining parts 1 & 2, Guild/D&C, 1982, pp284. Locomotive Monograph Series.  Hard Cover.  Very Good+ in a Very Good dust wrapper.  The spine of the dust wrapper is slightly faded.  A substantial study, originally published as two separate volumes.  £3.95

Nock O S  The Royal Scots and Patriots of the LMS,  D&C, 1983, pp96.  Locomotive Monographs Series.  Hb.  Fine in a VG+ dust wrapper.  A major study.  £8.50

Nock O S  Historic Railway Disasters, BCA/IA, 1992, pp271.  Revised by B. K. Cooper.  Hb.  VG.  No dw.  Perhaps the best single volume description of British railway accidents.  £2.95

Nock O S  Great Northern 4-4-2 'Atlantics', PSL, 1984, pp136.  Hb.  VG in a VG dust wrapper.  Examines in depth the inception, design , development and service record of the Great Northern Railway family of Atlantics, all developed from Henry Ivatt's original engine number 990 of 1898 - the first Atlantic to be built in Britain.  £4.95

Nock O S  Great Locomotives of the Southern Railway, BCA/PSL, 1987, pp216.  Hb. Fine/VG+.  Nock's final word on Southern Steam.  £7.50

Nock O S  Great Locomotives of the LNER, PSL/Guild, 1988, pp231 plus pp16 of colour illustrations.  Published by Guild Publishing by arrangement with Patrick Stephens.  Hb.  VG+ in a VG dust wrapper.  Ossie Nock's final assessment of LNER steam.  £7.50

Nock O S  Locomotive Practice and Performance Vol.1 The Age of Steam 1959-68, PSL, 1989, pp320.  Vol.2 was never published.  Hb.  VG+/VG.  Highlights from the celebrated Railway Magazine articles.  £6.95

Nock O S  Great Locomotives of the LMS, PSL, 1989, pp280 including pp16 of colour illustrations.  Hb.  Fine in a VG+ dust wrapper.  A comprehensive survey of the steam engines of the LMS and its constituents.  £12.50

Nock O S  Great Locomotives of the GWR, PSL, 1990, pp228 with pp16 of colour illustrations.  Hb.  VG+ in a VG dust wrapper.  Ossie Nock's final assessment of Great Western Steam in the 20th century.  £7.50

Nock O S  The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley, PSL, 2nd edition 1991, pp208 with numerous illustrations.  One of Nock's earliest books, first published in 1945.  Foreword by O. V. Bulleid, then Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway.  Hb.  Fine in a Fine dust wrapper.  A comprehensive review of Nigel Gresley's work.  £6.95

Nock O S  The Settle and Carlisle Railway: A personal story of Britain's most spectacular main line, PSL, 1992, pp255.  Hard Cover.  Fine in a VG+ dust wrapper.  A comprehensive illustrated history.  £6.95

Nock O S  Another Facet of an Autobiography: Painting in Watercolour, Pentland Press, 1993, pp162 with 24 of the author's paintings reproduced in colour.  Hb.  VG in a VG dust wrapper.  Ossie Nock uses his collection of watercolours to reminisce about his life-long association with railways.  £6.95

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

Norris, John  The Bristol & South Wales Union Railway, Railway & Canal Historical Society, 1985, pp29.  Card Covers.  Very Good.  Old price sticker inside the front cover.  A history of the line from Bristol to New Passage on the Severn Estuary.  From there passengers had to take a ferry to reach South Wales.  £5.95

Norris, John; Beale, Gerry; and Lewis, John  Edwardian Enterprise: A Review of Great Western Railway Development in the First Decade of this Century, Wild Swan, 1987, pp202.  Large format Hb.  VG+ in a VG dust wrapper.  Following the abolition of the Broad Gauge in 1892, the first decade of the 20th century saw a remarkable surge in development on the Great Western.  £10.50

North, B H  Light Transit Systems, Thomas Telford, 1990, pp282. Inscription. Glazed Boards.  VG-.  Some superficial marks on the front cover.  Proceedings of a symposium on the potential of Light Transit Systems in British cities, organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers and held in Nottingham in March 1990.  £16.50

Nutty E J  G.W.R. Two-Cylinder Piston Valve Steam Locomotives, E.J. Nutty & Sons, Swindon, 1977, pp107 with 39 figs.  Card Covers.  Very Good-.  Generally VG, but there is a four-inch crease across the lower corner of the front cover.  Since the original edition was written to assist footplate staff, it is not surprising that this booklet is packed with useful technical information.  £5.95

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