By Brigadier John Favell
Pan Books 1983 112p some 32 colour illustrations and many line drawings in the text oblong format: 10.7"x 8.6" front cover gilt-decorated with mounted oval title-piece incorporating a colour illustration
Very good condition - small scuff on inside cover backing.
Hardback
Edited by P.B. Whitehouse
This book is the first survey of railway relics in detail from the steam age, and each of the thirteen chapters is written by an expert and collector in the field. The book is illustrated with 210 photographs, including 50 subjects in full colour, of fine specimens in national museums, private collections... More >>>
By Peter Williams
Another book in the "Rails" Series, this is a wonderful collection of black and white photographs of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. Published in 1974, this second hand book is in excellent condition - there is an address sticker of a previous owner inside the front cover, but is otherwise... More >>>
by Victor Hand and Harold Edmonson
Got a coffee table? Like trains a bit? Then you will probably want to buy this book!!
Hardback, 24cm x 32 cm, 80 pages, loads of photographs
Compiled by Ludovic Kennedy
This is a collection of Ludovic Kennedy's favourite train journey literature - some of it famous, some quite unknown, but all of it informative, amusing, delightful or amazing. The anthology takes us on a round-the-world tour, through 155 years of train travel. It conjures up grand old trains and historic... More >>>
By Philip Unwin
A superb flavour of railways at the turn of the twentieth century in text and photographs. A highly recommended book by a renowned railway author and publisher.
Secondhand hardback format 19.5cm x 22.5cm, 106 pages, 59 black and white photographs
A tour in text and fantastic photographs of the world's great railways, including many UK preserved lines, and some world narrow gauge lines. Based on the original part-work "The World of Trains".
Secondhand hardback format, 23.5cm x 30.5cm, 224 pages, laivishly illustrated throughout.
By Simon Garfield
The accidental killing of statesman William Huskisson turned the opening of the Liverpool-Manchester Railway into gruesome farce. Simon Garfield's irresistibly readable account is alive to the epic scale of the undertaking.
The event of Huskisson's death is used here only as a backdrop for a much wider picture.... More >>>
By O.S. Nock
In this book, first published in 1954, to mark the formation of the North Eastern Railway from an amalgamation of the York & North Midland, York, Newcastle and Berwick and Leeds Northern Railways, Mr Nock revealed for the first time publicly some of the fascinating dynamometer car records of trials with NER passenger and... More >>>
By Derek Huntriss
In his latest all-colour collection for Ian Allen, Derek Huntriss recalls the many railway workshops of the 1950s and 1960s, illustrating his account with a super selection of colour photographs of locomotives either within the works or recently overhauled in service on the main line.
Secondhand hardback format... More >>>
By Patrick Whitehouse and David St John Thomas
A wonderful collection of photographs from around the world, with the usual high standard of supporting text to illuminate and inform.
Secondhand Hardback format 22cm x 28cm 192 pages and innumerbale colour and black and white photographs throughout the book
By Tom Quinn
Remarkable reminiscences about life on the old railways throughout the United Kingdom, before Beeching and the introduction of diesel changed it all irrevocably. A fascinating range of characters recount their experiences of working on steam trains, from a shedmaster to a fireman, and from an engine driver to a... More >>>
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