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Festiniog Railway - A View from the Past.
Peter Johnson, Ian Allan LTD, 1997. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711025126. 112 pages. 480g. Pictorial laminated Boards Near MINT. A pictorial history of this now famous welsh narrow guage railway, concentrating on the pre-preservation railway era, illustrated with photographs dating from around 1870 to 1946.
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The Festiniog Railway 1836 - 1966, 130 Years in Pictures..
, Festiniog Railway Co, 1966. 1st Edition. ISBN: . 24 pages. 75g. Stapled soft card covers a little age darkened, with the contents tight and clean. Very Good. Illustrated with period photographs, just before the starting of the deviation route.
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The Festiniog Railway from 1950.
Andrew Wilson, Tempus Publishing , 2002. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0752423975. 128 pages, 305g. Soft card covers with crease to rear top corner, Near FINE. Fully ilustrated with b/w photographs.
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Fifties Steam Collection: Scottish Region v. 1.
E. H. Sawford, Allan T. Condie Publications, 1991. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0907742971. 48 pages, 220g. Stapled soft card covers Near MINT. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Fifties Steam Remembered.
Sawford. Eric., Sutton Publishing, 2003. 1st Edition. ISBN: 075093154X. 146 pages. 660g. Black cloth boards Near MINT in a Near FINE d/w with repaired tear to top of spine. A pictorial history, fully illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Fifty Years with Scottish Steam.
Dunbar A.G. & Glen I.A, Bradford Barton, No Date, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0851534279. 112 pages, 175g. Soft card covers a little rubbed to edges, Very Good. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Fire & steam a new history of the railways in Britain.
Christian Wolmar, Atlantic Books, 2007. Reprint. ISBN: 9781843546290. 364 pages, 780g. Blue cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with colour and b/w photographs and drawings. Examines the social and economical importance of the railways, and how it helped to for the Britain of today.
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Firing days at Saltley.
Essery, Terry., D.bradford Barton, 1981. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0851533752. 174 pages, 280g. Soft card covers with previous owners name & date to rear top corner of front cover, o/w FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Covers the authors 9 years working for BR at the Saltley motive power depot in Birmingham.
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Firing Days: Reminiscences of a Great Western Fireman.
Harold GASSON, Oxford Publishing Co, 1973. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0902888250. 112 pages, 275g. soft card covers a little worn and marked, but contents tight ands clean, Very Good. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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First Steps in Railway Modelling.
Freezer, C. J., Midland Publishing, 2000. Reprint. ISBN: 1857800664. 64 pages. 300g. Pictorial card covers FINE. A book designed to help the new railway modeller start on their first layout. Covers base boards, track, control options and scenery. Fully illustrated with b/w photographs & drawings.
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First Stop Mainenhead.
Wells, Matthew, Published by the author, 1973. 1st Edition. ISBN: . 40 pages, 105g. Stapled soft card covers FINE. Illustrated with b/'w photographs. A book looking at the history of this once important treminus, that was host to the Great Western Railway as well as the Wycombe Railways line to Oxford and Aylesbury.
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Fodor's railways of the world (Fodor's modern guides).
Robert C. Fisher, D. Mckay Co, 1977. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0679001875. 374 pages, 785g. Soft card covers rubbed and crease to spine and corners, with light foxing to page block edges, Very Good. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Rail lines in 101 Countries on the Six Continents, with map.
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Footplate Cameraman.
J R Carter, Heathfield Railway Publications, 2009. Reprint. ISBN: 1906974047. 128 pages, 790g. Pictorial laminated boards FINE in a Very Good d/w with small repaired tear to top edge. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Footplate Days - More Reminiscences of a Great Western Fireman.
Harold Gasson, Oxford Publishing Co., 1978. Reprint. ISBN: 090288851X. 120 pages 270g. Soft card covers a little marked and rubbed to extremities, but tight and clean internally. Very Good. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Footplate Days on the Southern.
Norman, H., Bradford Barton, 1983. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0851534511. 112 pages, 175g. soft card covers a sunned to spine and surround, Very Good with the contents tight and clean. Illustrated with b/w photographs. The autobiography of the author who spent his career as a railwayman.
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Footplate Over The Mendips.
Smith. Peter., Oxford Publishing Company, 1978. 1st Edition. ISBN: 086093022X. 138 pages. 300gm. Pictorial soft covers Very Good. Sequal to the 'Mendips Engineman' by the same author. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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A Footplateman Remembers the Southern.
Rowe, Jim., Oxford Publishing Co., 1985. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0860933407. 128 pages, 255g. Soft card covers with lean to slightly sunned spine, Very Good. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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For the Love of Steam.
Weston, David., David & Charles, 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715393030. 120 pages. 900g. Blue cloth boards. Near MINT in a Near FINE d/w with two small repaired tears to top of spine. Oblong format. A selection of colour paintings and b/w sketches by the author on working steam engines of road traction as well as rail.
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£12.00
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Forgotten Railways - Chilterns and Cotswolds.
Grant, M. D. & Davies, R., David & Charles, 1975. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715367013. 256 pages. 640g. Brown cloth boards FINE in a Very Good slightly edge-rubbed d/w. Illustrated with b/e plates, maps and diagrams. Includes fold-out map to rear.
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Forgotten Railways - North and Mid Wales..
Page, James., Book Club Assiciates, 1984. Book Club. ISBN: 0946537054. 168 pages. 415g. Black cloth boards with letter 'D' to rear paste-down o/w FINE in a Near FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w plates and route maps and large fold-out to rear.
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Forgotten Railways - Scotland..
John. Thomas, David & Charles, 1981. 2nd Edition. ISBN: 0715381938. 224 pages, 490g. Blue cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and route maps.
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Forgotten Railways - Volune 8 - South Wales.
Page, James., David & Charles, 1979. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715377345. 192 pages. 480g. Black cloth boards. Near MINT in a Near MINT d/w. Illustrated with b/w plates and with route map fold-out tipped in to rear. Includes gazetteer giving opening and closing dates and remains of each line.
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Forgotten Railways Volume 10 - The West Midlands.
Rex Christiansen, David St John Thomas, 1985. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0946537011. 160 pages. 385g. Black cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w plates and route maps and large fold-out to rear.
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Forgotten Railways Volume 11 - Severn Valley and Welsh Border.
Rex Christiansen, David St John Thomas, 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0946537437. 200 pages. 500g. Black cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w with light crease along top edge. Illustrated with b/w plates and route maps and large fold-out to rear.
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Forgotten Railways Volume 6 - South-East England.
White, H. P., David & Charles, 1987. 2nd Edition. ISBN: 0946537372. 192 pages. 500g. Black cloth boards Near MINT in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and route maps, includes fold-out map to rear. The second and fully up-dated edition of the book first published in 1976.
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Fortress Railways of the Baltic Shores..
Mehis Helme, Plateway Press, 1994. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1871980208. 80 pages, 235g. Soft card covers with crease to bottom corner and previous owners name and date to reverse top corner of front cover. Very Good. Illustrated with b/w photographs, track plans and many scaled line drawings of the narrow gauge locomotives used.
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Forward! : The Revolution in the Lives of the Footplateman, 1962-1996.
Wilson, C. David,, Alan Sutton, 1996. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0750911441. 150 pages. 520g. Black cloth boards Near MINT in a Near FINE d/w with slight crease to edges. Illustrated with 80 b/w photographs. Using first hand accounts, the book depicts the changes in the lives of footplatemen during these years of great change for the railways.
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Four Coupled Twilight - Part Two (From Br to Beeching Volume Four)..
Whitehouse, Patrick & Jenkinson David, Atlantic Publishers, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0906899451. 60 pages. 200g. Card covers Very Good. illustrated with b/w photographs & chart.
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THE FOUR GREAT RAILWAYS..
Michael R. Bonavia, David & Charles, 1980. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715378422. 23 pages, 480g. Black cloth boards with faint age toning to free end-papers, Near FINE in a Near FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Freight Wagons And Loads In Service On The Great Western Railway And British Rail Western Region.
J. H. Russell, Opc Railprint, 1981. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0860931552. Not paginated, 1.22kg. Green cloth boards with pages a little waved, Very Good in a Very Good d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs, many using works official pictures.
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Freightmaster - Winter Edition 1998/99.
Rawlinson, Mark, Freightmaster Publications, 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: . 143 pages. 240g. Soft card covers with sunned spine, FINE with contents tight and clean. Illustrated with route maps. The complete guide to British Railfreight operations.
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the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway.
R.J.; Silsbury, R Maycock, The Oakwood Press, 2003. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0853616019. 176 pages, 505g. Green cloth boards MINT in a Near MINT d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs, line drawings and track plans.
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From Booking Boy to Bulleids.
J. Evans, Triangle Publishing, 2001. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0952933357. 152 pages. 750g. Green cloth boards Near MINT in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with colour & b/w photographs and route map. The authors second book following on from "Man of the Southern" being the memoirs of a railwayman who spent more than 20 years on the Southern railways, begining in 1944.
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From Devon to Dorset: the Story of the Lyme Regis Branch (A Railway Bylines Centenary Special).
Reeve, George & Smith Martin., Irwell Press, 2003. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1903266378. 60 pages. 280g. Pictorial stapled card covers FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs, routemaps and track plans. A history of this now long closed branch line, which the enthusiasts in the area are still hoping to re-open.
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From the Footplate - Devonian - Bradford to Paignton.
Stephen Austin, Ian Allan Publishing Ltd, 1994. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711022291. 112 pages, 330g. Soft covers Near MINT. Illustrated with colour & b/w photographs, line drawings and track plans. A journey of some 300 from Bradford to Paignton, detailing the people involved, the preperation and the journey.
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From the Footplate - Eurostar, A Driver's Eye View of the Channel Tunnel.
Waller, Peter , Ian Allan Publishing Ltd, 1998. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711024278. 108 pages. 320g. Soft card covers FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs nad track plans. A driver's view of the journey between London and Brussels or Paris.
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From the Footplate - Reminisences of the Last Days of Steam..
Nock, O. S., Guild Publishing , 1984. Book Club. ISBN: . 189 pages. 800g. Tan and black colour cloth boards with crease to top front corner, Near FINE in a Near FINE d/w. Illustrated with colour and b/w photographs. The author describes a trip he made on the West Cosst main line in 1963.
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Furka-Oberalp: From the Rhone to the Rhine (railways of the mountains) - Furka-Oberalp: Von der Rhone zum Rhein (Bahnen der Berge) (German Edition).
Hans Schweers, Schweers + Wall, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 3921679257. 160 pages, 875g. Red cloth boards with a little spotting to pre-lims, so Very Good in a POOR Only spotted, torn and repaired d/w in clear removable wrap. Fully illustrated with b/w and colour photographs, station track plans and line drawings of the motive power used, including route map paste-downs. Text is in German.
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George Stephenson. A Biographical Study of the Father of Railways..
Davies, Humter., Book Club Assiciates/Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1975. Book Club. ISBN: . 337 pages, 590g. Green cloth boards Near FINE in a Very Good repaired d/w now in clear removable wrap. Illustrated with d/w drawings. Written on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary ot the opening of the World's First Public Railway, the Stockton and Darlington 1825 - 1975 - including and Account of Railway Mania and a consideration of Stephensonia today.
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The Glasgow Subway..
Thompson, David & Sinclair, David. , Scottish Tramway Museum Society, 1964. 1st Edition. ISBN: . 80 pages, 160g. Stapled card covers FINE with previous owners stamp to reverse of front cover. Illustrated with b/w photographs and route map.
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Glory Days - Western Region Steam around London.
McCormack, Kevin, Ian Allan LTD, 1998. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711026114. 95 pages. 490g. Pictorial laminated board with slightly sunned spine, FINE. Oblong format. Illustrated with colour and b/w photographs. Records the days when the GWR's 'Kings' & 'Castles' shared the rails with 'Standards' and pannier tanks.
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The Golden Years of British Steam Trains - LMS London Midland and Scottish. .
Garratt, Colin, Milepost Publishing, 1995. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1900193256. Not paginated. 535g. Pictorial laminated Boards FINE with a few light scratches to rear board. Illustrated with b/w photographs by the Rev Arthur Mace, whos photographic career ranged from the 1920's to the early 1980's.
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The Golden Years of British Steam Trains - LNER.
Colin Garratt, Milepost Publishing, 1995. Reprint. ISBN: 1900193302. 47 pages. 550g. Pictorial laminated Boards FINE. Illustrated with the b/w photographs of A. W. V. Mace.
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The Golden Years of British Steam Trains - SR, Southern Railway. .
Colin Garratt, Milepost Publishing, 1995. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1900193353. 47 pages. 550g. Pictorial laminated Boards Near MINT. Illustrated with the b/w photographs of A. W. V. Mace.
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The Gotthard Railway, Volume 1: 1871 - 1909..
Malcolm Hardy-Randall, Published by the author, 2012. 1st Thus. ISBN: 9780957320604. 290 pages, 1.38kg. Pictorial laminated boards still in publishers clear plastic unopened. A brand new copy of this very rare title that is illustrated with b/w and a few colour photographs, many detailed scaled line drawings of the locomotives, rolling stock and buildings, including many colour track plans and maps. As a labour of love, this book is exceptional. As a historical document, it is invaluable and deserves a place on the bookshelves of every student of railways.
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Grand Central - Gateway to a Million Lives.
Maxinne Rhea. Leighton, W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0393047652. 230 pages, 1.3kg. Red cloth boards Near MINT in a Near MINT d/w. Illustrated history of the design, building and ultimately the restoration if this iconic landmark,
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The Great Central - Then and Now..
Hawkins, Mac, Book Club Associates / David & Charles, 1992. Book Club. ISBN: . 224pp. 1.2Kg. Green cloth boards Near MINT in a Near FINE d/w with a few small nicks to front eadge. Illustrated with b/w photographs, route map and track plans. Maps and historical notes and photographs comparing same sites over 25 years.
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Great Central - Volume Three - Fay Sets the Pace - 1900 - 1922.
George Dow, Ian Allan Ltd, 1985. Reprint. ISBN: 0711002630. 439 pages, 950g. Green cloth boards with age toning to page edges, Very Good in a Very Good d/w with slightly sunned spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs, drawings, with colour frontis, route map and fold-out tipped in to rear. Owing to the weight, extra shipping will be required.
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The Great Central from the Footplate.
Robert, and Stratford, Frank Robotham, Ian Allan LTD, 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 071101759X. 112 pages. 780g. Red cloth boards with the front paste-down slightly miss-aligned (no effect to book or content), FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with over 170 b/w photographs, many previously unpublished, plus line drawings. A photographic recollection of this well constructed route, some of which is now being reopened by enthusiasts. Visit http://www.gcrailway.co.uk to arrange your visit.
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The Great Central in LNER Days 2.
David & Russell, Owen Jackson, Ian Allan, 1986. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711016127. 128 pages. 520g. Black cloth boards with browning to page block edges, and top part of d/w. Very Good in a Very Good d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs, drawings and route map. The second in the series of detailed studies deling with the locomotives and traffic history of the LNER Great Central section between the wars.
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