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  • Looking Back At Peaks

    by Kevin Derrick ...
    Series series Looking Back At ...
    This wonderful volume deals with Classes 44, 45 and 46 from their earliest days with the introduction of D1 Scafell Pike in 1959 through to the last few Peaks to survive in everyday service. A fascinating range of archive photography has been used to illustrate our subjects, taking in the myriad nose end variations and livery details; double-heading; night-time views; and some delightful shots of ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Looking Back At Riddles & Ivatt Locomotives

    by Kevin Derrick ...
    Series series Looking Back At ...
    Looking Back at Riddles & Ivatt Locomotives is a photographic album depicting the designs of both Robin Riddles CBE and Henry George Ivatt. With 190 colour photographs, the book covers all of their British Railways Standard designs, the Austerities and Class J94s, as well as Ivatt’s own designs and modifications to the earlier locomotives from both Fowler and Stanier. This collection of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Looking Back At Class 24 & 25 Locomotives

    by Kevin Derrick ...
    Series series Looking Back At ...
    Looking Back at Class 24 & 25 Locomotives takes a closer look at these plucky and versatile Type 2 locos in a full-colour photographic album. The images follow the locomotives from their introduction in the late 1950s and throughout their service years, continuing to their final demise from everyday service. Inside we look at some of the variations that have appeared over the years and at many of ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Looking Back At Sulzer Locomotives

    by Kevin Derrick ...
    Series series Looking Back At ...
    Looking Back at Sulzer Locomotives is a full-colour photographic album depicting the various classes of locomotives on British Railways that enjoyed Sulzer power. Inside we cover Classes 47, 44, 45, 46, 33, 27, 26, 25, and 24, not forgetting the seldom seen BRCW prototype Lion. Coverage is from their earliest days up to the scrap yard. Additional chapters show various Sulzer types double-heading, ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Looking Back At Stanier Locomotives

    by Kevin Derrick ...
    Series series Looking Back At ...
    Looking Back at Stanier Locomotives is a photographic album depicting the designs of Sir William Arthur Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from the 1930s. With an extensive selection of colour photographs taken during the 1950s and 1960s, this volume covers locomotive types including Black Fives, Jubilees, Duchesses, all of Stanier’s varieties of tank ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Looking Back at Class 40 Locomotives

    by Kevin Derrick ...
    Series series Looking Back At ...
    Looking Back at Class 40 Locomotives is a full-colour photographic album depicting an iconic locomotive class in a variety of settings. While most classes of locomotive have their own devotees, it must be said that Class 40s still command an impressive following even after two decades. While only seven of the original 200 Class 40s survive physically, this book pays tribute to the whole class in a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • British Railways in the 1970s and ’80s

    by Greg Morse ...
    Series Book 753 - Shire Library
    For British Rail, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when bad jokes about sandwiches and pork pies often belied real achievements, like increasing computerisation and the arrival of the high-speed Inter-City 125s.But while television advertisements told of an 'Age of the Train', Monday morning misery continued for many, the commuter experience steadily worsening as rolling stock aged and grew ever ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • The Country Railway

    by David St John Thomas ...
    Possibly read more than any other railway book, The Country Railway has sold over 170,000 copies. This is a redesigned edition of the original text and photographs.Everyone loved the country railway with its neat stations and colourful gardens, the shining brasswork of its tank engines, viaducts daringly built over gushing rivers, embankments carpeted with flowers, and guards whose appearance and ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • A Contemporary Perspective on LMS Railway Signalling Vol 1

    Semaphore Swansong

    by Allen Jackson ...
    For over 150 years Britain's railways have relied on a system of semaphore signalling, but by 2020, all semaphore signals and lineside signal boxes will be gone. In his previous book, author Allen Jackson covered the GWR lines; here, he continues his journey by providing a pictorial record of the last operational signalling and infrastructure on Britain's railway network, as it applied to the ... Read more

    $21.79 USD

  • Bradshaw’s Handbook

    by George Bradshaw ...
    A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's Handbook of 1863, the book that inspired the BBC television series 'Great British Railway Journeys'.When Michael Portillo began the series 'Great British Railway Journeys', a well-thumbed 150-year-old book shot back to fame. The original Bradshaw's guides had been well known to Victorian travellers and were produced when the British railway network was at its peak ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Sixties Spotting Days Around the Scottish Region

    by Kevin Derrick ...
    Series series Sixties Spotting Days
    Sixties Spotting Days Around the Scottish Region is a photographic album in full colour, depicting the 1960s with coverage of both steam locomotives and the new traction that was taking over during that great period of change on our railways. These nostalgic photographs are supplemented in the captions with items of news, culture, music and the personalities from the era, which are sure to bring ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

    An Illustrated History of Railway Stations in Canada

    by Ron Brown ...
    Brown celebrates the survival of our railway heritage in stations that have been saved or remain in use.Despite the "green" benefits of rail travel, Canada has lost much of its railway heritage. Across the country stations have been bulldozed and rails ripped up. Once the heart of communities large and small, stations and tracks have left little more than a gaping hole in Canada’s landscapes. This ... Read more

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