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Home and Distant: Forty Years of Railway Life (The Nostalgia Collection).
Grant, Brian, Silver Link Publishing LTD, 1998. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1857941063. 144 pages, 365g. Card covers creased and rubbed with bump to top corner of pageblock, Near Very Good with the contents tight and clean. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings.
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£2.50
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How They Built the Settle-Carlisle Railway.
W. R. Mitchell, Published by the author, 2005. Reprint. ISBN: 1871064031. 48 pages, 140g. Stapled soft card covers Near MINT. Illustrated with b/w photographs, drawings and maps.
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£4.00
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£2.75
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How to Choose Your Ticket and Save Money.
???, British Railways, 1983. . ISBN: . 19 pages, 40g. Stapled soft card covers, FINE. Illustrated with colour photograpgs. A guide to how to buy train tickets issued by Britisg Rail to help passengers in the South West region. A peice of history.
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£3.00
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£2.10
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A Hundred Years of Railway Weighells - Three generations of a railway family.
Weighell, Sidney, Robson Books, 1984. First edition. ISBN: 0860512630. 240 pages. 530g. Light blue cloth boards FINE in a lightly edge creased Near FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs. The author not only tells the story of a close-knit family, for whom Chapel, the Labour Party and the Union all played parts, but also a social history of British railways at the time.
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£5.00
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£3.75
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Ian Allan's 50 Years of Railways 1942-1992.
Rex Kennedy, Ian Allan Publishing Ltd / Book Club Edition, 1992. Book Club. ISBN: . 256 pages. 1.35Kg. Green cloth boards FINE in a Very Good d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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£6.50
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THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY 1852..
George Measom, Berkshire County Library/Countryside Books, 1983. 1st Edition. ISBN: 090539223X. 64 pages, 130g. Soft card covers a little curled, but contents tight and clean, Very good. A reproduction of the origianl 1852 guide.
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£2.50
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£2.75
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The Illustrated Guide To The South Eastern Railway 1853.
Meason. George, Countryside Books, 1987. facsimile. ISBN: 1853060003. 104 pages. 300g. Pictorial laminated boards. Near MINT. No d/w as issued. A facsimile of the edition first published in 1853, including original illustrations.
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£6.00
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£3.75
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An Illustrated Historical Survey of the Railways in and Around Bury.
Wells. Jeffrey, Challenger / Book Law - Railbus Publications., 1995. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1899624295. 128 pages. 780g. Pictorial laminated boards slightly faded to spine and area, FINE. Fully illustrated with b/w photographs and route map.
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£7.00
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£3.75
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An illustrated history of British Railways Revenue Wagons, Volume 1..
n/a, Oxford Publishing, 1985. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0860932036. 192 pages, 1.05kg. Brown cloth boards FINE in a Very Good d/w with wear to top and toe of spine, in clear removable wrap. Illustrated with high quality b/w photographs along with scaled line drawings, showing the various wagon types with pictures of the important details.
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£45.00
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An Illustrated History of British Railways' Workshops - Locomotive, Carriage, and Wagon Building and Maintenance, from 1825 to the Present Day.
Edgar, Larkin, Oxford Publishing Company, 2006. Reprint. ISBN: 0860935035. 184 pages. 1.07Kg. Pictorial laminated boards MINT in a FINE d/w with small scar to top front edge. Fully illustrated with b/w photographs. Includes the plans of all the major locomotive works which have never before been published.
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£6.00
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The Illustrated History of British Steam Railways - The Legacy of The Steam Locomotive. .
Ross, David., Parragon, 2010. Reprint. ISBN: 9781445405346. 320 pages, 1.42kg. Pictorial laminated boards Near MINT. Fully illustrated with colour and b/w photograohs, maps and drawings. Detailed specification tables of all the most important locomotives, including profiles of famous railway engineers and groud-breaking companies.
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£3.50
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An Illustrated History of Edinburgh's Railways..
Smith, W. A. C. and Anderson, Paul., Irwell Press, 1995. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1871608597. 112 pages. 420g. soft card covers Near MINT. A pictorial history fully illustrated with b/w photographs and route plans.
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£19.50
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An Illustrated History of Midland Wagons - Volume Two.
Essery, R. J., Oxford Publishing Co., 1980. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0860930408. 169 pages. 860g. Black cloth boards, FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and scaled line drawings. This is the 2nd volume in the series, from the founder of the LMS society, which continues the detailed survey of all the varieties of open wagons constructed for various traffic, together with covered goods wagons and vans.
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£9.00
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An Illustrated History of Signalling.
Vanns, Michael A., Ian Allan Publishing Ltd, 1997. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711025517. 144 page. 900g. Maroon cloth boards. FINE in a Near FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and line drawings. A detailed examination of the development of railway signalling from its origins in the 1830's through to the present day.
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£6.50
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An Illustrated History of Southern Coaches.
Mike King, Oxford Publishing Company, 2003. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0860935701. 224 pages, 1.21kg. Green cloth boards FINET in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and many 4mm scaled line drawings.
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£50.00
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£3.75
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An Illustrated History of Southern Pull-push Stock.
Mike King, Ian Allan Ltd, 2006. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0860935965. 160 pages, 980g. Green cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and scaled line drawings ideal for the modeller enthusiast.
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£55.00
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£3.75
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An Illustrated History of Southern Wagons Volume One - LSWR and S&DJR.
Bixley, G; A. Blackburn; R. Chorley; M. King., Oxford Publishing Co., 1984. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0860932079. 106 pages, 715g. Brown cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w with slightly sunned spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs and scaled line drawings. A must have for the modeller and historian.
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£24.00
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An Illustrated History of Southern Wagons Volume Two - LBSCR and Minor Companies.
Bixley, G; A. Blackburn; R. Chorley; M. King., Oxford Publishing Co., 1985. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0860932206. 106 pages, 715g. Gray cloth boards FINE in a FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs and scaled line drawings. A must have for the modeller and historian.
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£15.00
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An Illustrated History of the Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Railway.
Karau, Paul; Robertson, Kevin;Parsons, Mike, Wild Swan Publications Ltd., 1984. Reprint. ISBN: 0906867045. viii + 224 pages, 1.1kg. Red cloth boards with slight age toning to end-papers, FINE in a Very Good d/w a little sun darkened and creased to top edge. Illustrated with b/w photographs, route map. trackplans and scaled line drawings. A detailed history of the railway established in 1873 to provide a link with the Midlands and the North, with the port of Southampton.
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£11.00
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An Illustrated History of the Kent and East Sussex Railway.
John Scott-Morgan, Oxford Publishing Company, 2007. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0860936082. 112 pages. 780g. Black cloth boards with bump to bottom front corners, so Near FINE in a Near FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs, track plans and scaled line drawings. A detailed examination of this line before its preservation in recent times.
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£8.00
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An Illustrated History of the Lewes and East Grinstead Railway.
Klaus Marx, Oxford Publishing Co., 2000. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0860935477. 256 pages. 1.3Kg. Red cloth boards Near MINT in a FINE d/w with slightly sunned spine. Fully illustrated with b/s photographs and track plans.
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£20.00
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£3.75
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An Illustrated History of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
Twells, H. N., Fitzhouse Books, 1991. Reprint. ISBN: 0713444339. 120 pages, 495g. Pictorial laminated boards FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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£4.00
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Illustrated Rail Route to the West of England - As Seen from the Train Window..
Philip Holland, Hart & Allen, 1978. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0906395003. 32 pages, 90g. Stapled soft card covers rubbed to corners, Very Good. Illustrated with b/w photographs, maps and drawings.
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£3.00
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£2.75
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Images of Bristol, Somerset and Dorset Railways.
Maurice Dart, Halsgrove, 2008. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9781841147352. 160 pages, 965g. Maroon cloth boards Near FINE in a Near FINE price-clipped d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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£6.50
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IMAGES OF STEAM.
Fenman, Ian Allan, 1968. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711000565. 192 pages, 985g. Black cloth boards, Very Good in a Very Good d/w. Illustrated wuth b/w photographs.
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£3.00
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£3.75
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Immingham and the Great Central Legacy (Images of England series).
Brian Mummery, Tempus, 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0752417142. 128 pages, 300g. Soft card covers FINE. Illustrated with period b/w photographs.
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Impermanent Ways: The Closed Lines of Britain - Volume 10 - Welsh Borders.
Jeffery Grayer, Noodle Books, 2015. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9781909328327. 104 pages, 345g. Soft card covers FINE. Illustrated with colour photographs and route maps.
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£6.00
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In the Tracks of the ACE - The Destruction of the Southern Network West of Salisbury.
Jeffery Grayer, Noodle Books, 2008. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9781906419011. 104 pages, 335g. Soft card covers curled to corners, Very Good. Illustrated with period colour photographs, ideal forthe modeller.
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£3.50
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Industrial Railways in Colour - South.
Poulter, Michael, Irwell Press, 2011. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9781906919399. 64 pages, 330g. Pictorial laminated Boards Near MINT. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout.
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£14.00
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£3.75
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Industrial Railways of the South East.
Dean, Ian, Neale, Andrew & Smith David (Compilers), Middleton Press, 2000. Reprint. ISBN: 0906520096. 96 pages. 400g. Pictorial laminated Boards FINE. illustrated with b/w photograph, area maps and track plans.
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The Inheritance - The Great Western railway Between the Wars. .
Tim Bryan, Ian Allan Publishing, 2013. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9780711036826. 176 pages, 860g. Pictorial galzed boards MINT. Illustrated with b/w photographs and some colour adverts. This well-illustrated history details the challenges that faced the GWR between the wars and relates how it set about restoring the position of pre-eminence that it held in 1914.
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£4.00
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The Inside Guide to the Steam Railways of Great Britain.
, Steam Railway Magazine, 2009. 1st Edition. ISBN: . 160 pages, 485g. Soft card covers FINE. Illustrated with colour photographs and locations maps, along with contact details for each railway covered.
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£5.00
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Inter-City Railway Society - Combined Volume - Summer 2005 Edition.
Watson, Carl (Compiler), Inter-City Railway Society, 2005. 2005 Edition. ISBN: . 244 pages. 340g. Spiral bound plastic card covers a little edge-rubbed, FINE with the contents tight and clean. Details on all Network Rail registered locomotives, HST's, Multiple Units and Coaching Stock plus Light Rail and Underground Systems.
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£6.50
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Inter-City Railway Society - Deluxe Combined Volume - 2005 Edition.
Hall, Jeff (Compiler), Inter-City Railway Society, 2005. 2005 Edition. ISBN: . 188 pages. 280g. Spiral bound plastic card covers a little edge-rubbed, FINE with the contents tight and clean. Colour details on all Network Rail registered locomotives, HST's, Multiple Units and Coaching Stock.
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Inter-City Railway Society - Multiple Unit Data File..
ICRS, Inter-City Railway Society, 2004. 2004 Edition. ISBN: . 104 pages. 170g. Spiral bound plastic card covers a little edge-rubbed, FINE with the contents tight and clean. Includes all UK Railtrack registered Irish Republic / Northern Irish, Multiple Units.
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£6.00
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Inter-City Railway Society - UK Datafiles No.1 Locomotives - 2006 Edition.
Hall, Jeff (Compiler), Inter-City Railway Society, 2006. 2006 Edition. ISBN: . 92 pages. 160g. Spiral bound plastic card covers a little edge-rubbed, FINE with the contents tight and clean. Colour details on all locomotives registered to operate on the uk network plus preserved & exported locomotives.
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£5.00
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The InterCity Story.
Vincent. Mike & Chris. Green [ Edited by ]., Oxford Publishing Co., 1994. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0860935248. 208 pages. 1.14Kg. Maroon cloth boards FINE, in a FINE d/w in clear removable wrap. The unique history of the only profitable train service in Europe at the present time. Illustrated with colour and b/w photographs.
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£9.00
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Irish Narrow Gauge Railways - A View from the Past..
Baker, Michael. H. C., Ian Allan LTD, 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711026807. 96 pages.450g. Pictorial laminated Boards FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs, many previously unpublished, and route maps.
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Irish Railways - Traction and Travel, Locomotives, Multiple Uits and Coaching Stock etc. .
Peter Jones, Metro Enterprises Ltd, 1987. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9780947773083. 96 pages, 190g. Soft card covers a little rubbed to corners and sunned spine, Near FINE. Illustrated with colour and b/w photographs.
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£3.50
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Iron Horses - American Locomotives 1829-1900 .
Alexander E.P., Bonanza Books, . Reprint. ISBN: . 240 pages, 865g. Brown paper covered boards with yellow cloth spine, Very Good, in a Near Very Good worn and rubbed d/w with sun darkened spine. A reprint of the book first published in 1941. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings, ideal for the modeller of early American railroads.
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£5.00
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Island Line - The ISle of Wight's Award Winning Electric Railway..
Humphries, Ralph C., Coach House Publications Ltd, 2005. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1899392254. 68 pages, 175g. 8TO. Stapled soft card covers FINE. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout.
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£3.00
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Isle of Man Railways - A Celebration.
Kirkman, Richard & Zeller, Peter Van., Raven Books, 1993. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0952162407. 96 pages, 385g. Pictorial laminated boards FINE. SIGNED by Peter Van Zeller to title page. Illustrated with b/w photographs and track plans.
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£4.00
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ISLE OF PORTLAND RAILWAYS Volume 3.
B.L.JACKSON, Oakwood Press, 2000. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0853615667. 224 pages. 465g. Soft card covers FINE with sunning to spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs, maps and drawings. The history of the rise of the railways into Portland and the bus service which eventually replaced it.
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£8.00
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Isle of Wight Central Railway No.11 - An Award Winning Engine..
Doe, Alan (Editor), Isle of Wight Railway Company Ltd., 1989. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0950615420. 16 pages, 45g. Stapled card covers FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Isle of Wight Railways; a 'then & now' Survey.
Pomeroy, Colin A., Silver Link., 1991. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0947971629. 192 pages. 640g. Green cloth boards FINE in a Very Good d/w with small repaired tear to top of slightly sunned spine, in clear removable wrap. Illustrated with b/w photographs, many original never before published, together with modern views from the same location, including some track plans.
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£9.00
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The Isle of Wight Railways. (The Oakwood Library of Railway History) .
Robbins, Michael., The Oakwood Press, 1981. reprint. ISBN: . 38 pages, 115g. Soft card covers a little marked, Near FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps.
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'Ivo Peters' Southern Steam Album.
Ivo Peters, Ian Allan LTD, 1979. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711009120. 112 pages, 695g. Green cloth boards a little faded to top edge, FINE in a FINE price-clipped. Takes the reader on a pictorial journey from Salisbury to Exeter, and routes to the south coast.
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£5.00
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The Jersey Railway .
Bonsor, N. R. P., The Oakwood Press, 1969. Revised. ISBN: . 89 pages, 160g. Soft card covers FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs and route map.
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The Jersey Railway (Oakwood Library of Railway History No.58).
N. R. Bonsor, The Oakwood Press, 1986. reprint. ISBN: 0853613443. 87 pages. 190g. Pictorial card covers a little faded to spine, FINE with the contents are tight and clean. Illustrated with b/w photographs, & route map.
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£8.00
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John Corkill & Peter Hanson - Steam at Work.
Banks, Chris (Compiler), Silver Link Publishing LTD, 1995. 1st Edition. ISBN: 185794044X. 160 pages, 910g. Maroon cloth boards FINE in a FINE price-clipped d/w with slightly sunned spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs taken by 2 railwaymen at work, includes a special feature on edgehill shed.
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