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A Professional's Guide to Railway Photography. Roger Siviter, Silver Link Publishing Ltd, 2002. . ISBN: 1857941950. 128 pages. 940g. Maroon cloth boards Near MINT in a FINE price-clipped d/w. The author discusses all aspects of railway photography, with the help of many b/w photographs and line drawing, with some pages of colour.
£6.00
£3.45

The Puggy Line. The Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway. Patrick Howat, Narrow Gauge Railway Society, 2007. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9780955432606. 96 pages, 330g. Cad covers with light crease to bottom front corner, Very Good. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings with route map. Detailed history and account of this lengthy narrow gauge line built to assist in the construction and maintenance on the pipeline to the Aluminum smelter at Fort William 1925 - 1977.
£25.00
£3.45

Quakers and Railways. Edward H Milligan, William Sessions Ltd, 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1850720991. 40 pages, 220g. Stapled soft card covers FINE, 4to. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
£4.00
£3.45

Radstock Coal and Steam - Somerset and Dorset at Radstock and Writhlington Volume 2 : Buildings, Locomotives and Workings. Christopher Handley, Millstream Books, 1992. 1st Edition SIGNED. ISBN: 094897530x. 160 pages, 855g. Blue cloth boards FINE with previous owners name and date to top corner of front paste-down covered by d/w. FINE in a FINE d/w. Signed by author to title page. Illustrated with b/w photographs and scaled line drawaings of the infrastructure. Volume 2 of the set covering the S&D for modellers and historians.
£18.00
£3.45

Rail Atlas - Great Britain and Ireland - 7th Edition.. S.K. Baker, Ian Allan Publishing Ltd, 1992. 7th Edition. ISBN: 0860935027. 123 pages, 460g. Pictorial laminated Boards Near MINT. Including all operational railways, passenger and freight only lines, plus Irish railways, London Transport, Glasgow Underground and preserved lines.
£5.50
£3.45

Rail Atlas - Great Britain and Ireland - 8th Edition.. S.K. Baker, Ian Allan Publishing Ltd, 1996. 8th Edition. ISBN: 0860935345. 123 pages, 460g. Pictorial laminated Boards with very slight age toning to page edges only, FINE. Including all operational railways, passenger and freight only lines, plus Irish railways, London Transport, Glasgow Underground and preserved lines.
£5.00
£3.45

Rail Atlas Great Britain & Ireland. Baker, S K, Oxford Publishing Co, 2001. 9th Edition. ISBN: 0860935531. 123 pages. 560g. Pictorial laminated boards Near MINT. The most complete atlas of the British and Irish railway network at time of going to press.
£4.00
£3.45

Rail atlas of Britain and Ireland. S. K Baker, Oxford Publishing, 1984. 4th Edition. ISBN: 0860932818. 115 pages, 430g. Pictorial laminated boards Very Good. Illustrated with colour maps.
£3.50
£3.45

Rail Centres - Brighton. B.K. Cooper, Ian Allan Publishing, 1991. Reprint. ISBN: 0711011559. 144 pages. 560g. Black cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. The first volume of this pictorial history illustrated with b/w photographs and track plans. .
£7.00
£3.45

Rail Centres - Brighton.. Cooper, Basil. K., Booklaw Publications, 1981. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1901945111. 144 pages. 620g. Pictorial laminated Boards FINE in a FINE d/w. The first volume of this pictorial history illustrated with b/w photographs and track plans. .
£4.00
£3.45

Rail Centres: Oxford. Laurence Waters, Ian Allan, 1986. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711015902. 128 pages. 500g. Black cloth Boards FINE in a FINE price-clipped d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and track plans.
£9.00
£3.45

Rail Freight Since 1968: Wagonload (Railway Heritage). Paul Shannon, Silver Link Publishing Ltd, 2006. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1857942647. 128 pages, 370g. Soft card covers Near MINT. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
£14.00
£3.45

Rail Guide 2018.. Marsden, Colin J., Crecy Publishing, 2018. 9th Edition. ISBN: 9781910809518. 336 pages, 845g. Pictorial laminated boards As NEW. Illustrated with colour photographs throught. Covers all the current working locomotives and multple units currently working on UK rails, listed by class number with colour photographs for each type, making identification much easier when all untis are stating to look the same!.
£4.50
£3.45

Rail Portfolios 17 - BR in the Midlands. Fell, Andrew, Ian Allan Ltd, 1991. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711019916. 64 pages. 330g. Oblong format pictorial laminated boards FINE. Illustrated with colour photographs, all taken within a 60 mile radius of Birmingham.
£4.50
£3.45

Rail Portfolios 17 - BR in the Midlands. Fell, Andrew, Ian Allan Ltd, 1991. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711019916. 64 pages. 330g. Oblong format pictorial laminated boards FINE. Illustrated with colour photographs, all taken within a 60 mile radius of Birmingham.
£4.50
£3.45

Rail Portfolios No.5 - The 37's. Johnson, Howard (Compiler), Janes Publishing Company Limited, 1986. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0710603630. 64 pages. 359g. Pictorial laminated boards, Near MINT. Illustrated in colour. throughout.
£7.00
£3.45

Rail Routes in Hampshire & East Dorset.. Glenn, David Fereday, Ian Allan LTD, 1983. 1st Edition. ISBN: 071101213X. 128 pages. 540g. Blue cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps.
£5.00
£3.45

Railfreight in Colour for the Modeller and Historian. Cable, David, Ian Allan, 2009. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9780711033641. 96 pages, 405g. Soft card covers FINE. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. Covers the period when the Rail Freight and departmental operations became separate entities, up to and including the privatisation of the railways.
£5.00
£3.45

"Rails Across the City" - The Story of the Birmingham Cross City Line. Boynton, John., Mid England Books, 1993. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0952224801. 112 pages. 500g. Pictorial card covers FINE. Illustrated with b/w & some colour photographs, route map, scaled line drawings and track plans.
£10.00
£3.45

Rails Across the Plain: The Amesbury & Bulford Branch - The Larkhill Military Railway. Jeffery Grayer, Noodle Books, 2011. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9781906419516. 136 pages, 875g. Pictorial laminated boards Near MINT. Illustrated with colour and b/w photographs and drawings, track plans & route maps. A detailed Record of more than 100 years ofthe shared Railway and Military histoy on Salisbury Plane.
£11.00
£3.45

Rails Across the Tundra: A Historical Album of the Alaska Railroad. Stan Cohen, Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1984. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0933126434. 144 pages, 525g. Card covers a little rubbed and light crease to top corner, Very Good. Illustrated with b/w photographs, route maps and line drawings.
£4.00
£3.45

The Rails Go Westward - (Austrlian Railway History).. Patsy Adam Smith., Macmillan Australia, 1969. 1st Edition. ISBN: . 164 pages, 375g. Blue cloth boards marked and faded to edges, GOOD only with the contents tight and clean, in a GOOD only repaired, rubbed and marked d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings.
£3.50
£3.45

Rails in the Valleys. James, Page, Book Club Associates / David & Charles , 1989. Book Club. ISBN: 0715389793. 192 pages. 1.1Kg. Red cloth boards FINE in a Near FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Includes a journey up the Taff valley, movements of coal, weekend excursion traffic, engine sheds and stations.
£7.00
£3.45

Rails in Wales - The Cambrian Lines. Peter Johnson, Ian Allan, 1984. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711014000. 96 pages, 275g. soft card covers FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
£4.00
£3.45

Rails to Poole Harbour (Locomotion Papers 213). Stone, Colin, The Oakwood Press, 2007. 2nd Edition. ISBN: 9780853616627. 208 pages, 435g. Soft card covers FINE with previous owners name and date to reverse top corner of front cover. FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps including some track plans.
£7.00
£3.45

Rails To Sheffield Park. . Welch, Michael S. , Kingfisher Railway Productions, 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0946184488. Not paginated. 800g. Gray cloth boards Very Good in a Very Good d/w chipped to front edges. Fully illustrated with b/w photographs, track plans and scaled line drawings. A pictorial history of the Lewes to East Grindstead route from its opening in 1882 through to 1988. Includes the operation and organisation of the Blue Bell Railway which opened in line again in 1960.
£6.00
£3.45

Rails to the Sea - A Celebration of Railway Journeys Past and Present. John Hadrill, Atlantic Transport Publishers, 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0906899869. 192pp. 1.5Kg. Blue cloth boards MINT in a Near MINT d/w. Fully illustrated with specially drawn maps and holiday posters with colour & b/w photographs. A detail the efect of railways on many of our seaside resorts.
£13.50
£6.60

Rails West - A Collectors Album of a Vanishing Era in Railroadiana.. Abdill, George B., Bonanza Books, . Reprint. ISBN: . 190 pages, 805g. Green cloth boards with slight age toning to free end-papers, Near FINE, in a Very Good slightly rubbed d/w with sunned 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.
£8.00
£3.45

Railway Accidents of Great Britain and Europe. Ascanio, Mase, Armin Schneider, David & Charles, 1970. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715347918. 334 pages, 735g. Brown cloth boards with very light foxing to egde of page block, Near FINE in a Very Good d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and track layouts. An invaluable reference work which deals with the operational problems of railways and safety measuers that result.
£7.50
£3.45

RAILWAY ADVENTURE. L. T. C. Rolt, Sutton Pub Ltd, 1998. 1st Paperback Edition. ISBN: 0750915781. 151 pages, 530g. Soft card covers with slight bump to top rear corner, Near FINE. Illustraetd with period b/w photographs. Describes how in the 1950s the Talyllyn Railway line was threatened with closure, but the author and a small group of amateur railway men made their dream of running their own railway come true by saving the line, now the oldest surviving railway of its kind in the world.
£4.00
£3.45

Railway Album Number 1 - New South Wales Transport Museum, Australia. . Merchant, Rick., New South Wales Transport Museum, 1995. 1st Edition. ISBN: . 40 pages, 115g. Stapled soft card covers a little edge-rubbed, Very Good with the contents tight and clean. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
£5.00
£2.50

The Railway and its Passengers - A Social History. David Norman Smith, David & Charles, 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715386514. 192 pages, 450g. Blue cloth boards with slight foxing to prelims, Very good in a Very Good d/w with slightly sunned spine. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Examines the often uneasy relationship between the railway and its passengers from its beginnings in 1830, up until nationalisation in 1948.
£4.00
£3.45

Railway Architecture. Binney, Marcus & Pearce David (Editors), Bloomsbury Books, 1985. Reprint. ISBN: 0906223628. 256 pages. 880g. Black cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. The book is illustrated with over 200 b/w photographs, a unique pictorial record of the railways industrial architectural heritage.
£5.00
£3.45

Railway Architecture. F. G. Cockman, Shire Publications, 1989. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0852639171. 32 pages, 75g. Stapled soft card covers with light bump to top corner, Near FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
£2.50
£2.50

Railway Atlas of London 1935 (Railway Clearing House) - Facsimile Reprint.. Railway Clearing House, Ian Allan Publishing, 2001. Facsimile Reprint. ISBN: 0711027897. Contains 45 pages of maps plus index and gazetteer of the stations featured. 360g. Pictorial laminated Boards, FINE. A facsimile of the original 1935 edition.
£6.00
£3.45

Railway blunders. A. Vaughan, Ian Allan Ltd, 2008. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9780711031692. 160 pages, 550g. Soft card covers Near FINE with previous owners name and purchase location details to reverse top corner of front cover. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
£4.00
£3.45

Railway Blunders. Adrian. Vaughan, Ian Allan Ltd, 2003. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711028362. 160 pages, 795g. Red cloth boards MINT in a Near MINT d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Two hundred years of railway development has brought assorted designs, structures and schemes that have ultimately proved to be a disoster. In the early years of railway history, many of these blunders arose from the ignorance of those dealing with new technolog.
£9.00
£3.45

Railway Bylines Annual - No. 1. Smith. Martin [ Editor ]., Irwell Press, 1997. 1st Edition. ISBN: 187160883X. 96 pages, 635g. Pictorial laminated boards FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs and track plans. Covers SE&CR 'H' Class 0-4-4Ts, Waterside Colliery, On Furness Lines, Kent Cement and more.
£9.00
£3.45

Railway Bylines Annual - No. 5. Smith. Martin [ Editor ]., Irwell Press, 2002. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1903266246. 96 pages, 535g. Pictorial laminated boards with small dent to bottom edge, FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Covers Great Eastern 2-4-2Ts, Halesowen Branches, 'Russell' Bredlay Colliery, Dublin Bray etc.
£7.00
£3.45

Railway Bylines Annual: No. 2. Martin Smith (Edited by), Irwell Press, 1998. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1871608929. 96 pages, 640g. Pictorial laminated Boards Near MINT. Fully illustrated with b/w photographs and some track plans.
£12.00
£3.45

Railway Bylines Summer Special - No. 2. Smith. Martin [ Editor ]., Irwell Press, 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1871608961. 96 pages, 585g. Pictorial laminated Boards with slightly sunned spine, FINE. Illustrated with b/w photograph and track plans. Covers Peckett Locomotives, M&SWJR 2-4-0s, Diesel Railbuses in East Anglia etc.
£8.00
£3.45

Railway Carriages 1839 - 1939 - Veteran & Vintage Series . Kitchenside, G. M. , Ian Allan LTD, 1964. 1st Edition. ISBN: . 64 pages, 185g. Pictorial laminated boads with faint crease to front cover and slightly sunned spine, Very good. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
£3.00
£2.50

The Railway Carriers - the History of Wordie & Co., Carriers, Hauliers and Store Keepers, as Told to and Illustrated By the Author.. Edward Paget-Tomlinson, Terence Dalton Limited,, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0861380827. x + 178 pages. 600g. Gray cloth boards Near MINT in a FINE d/w with slightly sunned spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings plus maps.
£12.00
£3.45

The Railway Centenary - A Retrospect.. Davies. Randall., London & North Eastern Railway Company., . 1st Edition. ISBN: . 49 pages. 460g. Not dated, but probably the 1925 1st edition. Green stiff card boards with cream cloth spine & paste-on to front cover, a little rubbed to edges and light foxing to prelims, Very Good. Illustrated with 15 b/w and 3 colour plates. Loosely inserted is a news paper cutting dated 1925.
£6.00
£3.45

The Railway Data File. unkown, Bookmart, 2000. Reprint. ISBN: 1856054993. 144 pages, 990g. Pictorial laminated boards with (production?) crease to rear top corner of board, Very Good in a Very Good d/w. Illustrated with colour and b/w photographs and drawings.
£4.00
£3.45

Railway Detectives : The 150 Years Saga of the Railway Inspectorate. Stanley HALL, Ian Allan, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711019290. 146 pages. 500g. Red cloth boards FINE in a Very Good d/w with a repaired tear to front top of slightly sunned spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Describes the work of the Railway Inspectorate, on some of the most infamous British Railway accidents, Includes track plans of the sites.
£6.00
£3.45

The Railway Dictionary : An A--Z for Railway Terminology. Jackson, Alan A., Alan Sutton, 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0750900385. 340 pages, 795g. Black cloth boards Near MINT in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with line drawings.
£5.00
£3.45

Railway Disasters - Cause and Effect. STANLEY HALL, Promotional Reprint Company, 1992. . ISBN: 1856480496. 256 pages. 1.22Kg. Pictorial laminated Boards Near MINT in a FINE d/w. Previously published in two volumes, `Danger Signals' and `Danger On The Line'. by Ian Allan Fully illustrated with b/w photographs and line drawings.
£14.00
£3.50

The Railway Enthusiast's Encyclopedia. O.S. Nock, Hutchinson, 1968. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0090888707. 341 pages, 600g. Blue cloth boards a little rubbed to edges and with age toning to free end-papers, Very Good in a Very Good d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
£3.50
£3.45

The Railway Era - Life and Lines in the Great Age of Railways. Body, Geoffrey, Moorland Publishing, 1982. First edition. ISBN: 0861900723. 156 pages. 520g. 8vo. Blue cloth boards. FINE in FINE d/w. The history of railways from the point of view of their impact on the community . Illustrated with b/w photographs and engravings.
£3.00
£3.45
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