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Pan, London, (1972), reprint.. 207 pp, PB. B&w photos. "This is a record of what has been achieved in the manner of train haulage at high speed, of out-and-out speed records, if not necessarily in the precise unequivocal form of an encyclopedia, yet certainly in a factual summa. ry, together with some of the background to each successive performance." Interior - pages browned, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear, small bump to top of ... more information

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Ian Allan, Shepperton, n.d.. 32 pp, oblong (4 3/4" H x 7 1/8" D), soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w photographs. "These albums have been reproduced by popular demand exactly as they were originally published - apart from the covers - in 1958 and 1959. The captions are delib. erately unaltered in attempt to take the reader back to those halcyon days when steam was still supreme on Britain's railways." Interior - minor browning to pages, very light cigarette odor, otherwise... more information

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Ian Allan, Shepperton, n.d.. 32 pp, oblong (4 3/4" H x 7 1/8" D), soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w photographs. "These albums have been reproduced by popular demand exactly as they were originally published - apart from the covers - in 1958 and 1959. The captions are delib. erately unaltered in attempt to take the reader back to those halcyon days when steam was still supreme on Britain's railways." Interior - minor browning to pages, very light cigarette odor, otherwise... more information

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Ian Allan, Shepperton, n.d.. 32 pp, oblong (4 3/4" H x 7 1/8" D), soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w photographs. "These albums have been reproduced by popular demand exactly as they were originally published - apart from the covers - in 1958 and 1959. The captions are delib. erately unaltered in attempt to take the reader back to those halcyon days when steam was still supreme on Britain's railways." Interior - minor browning to pages, very light cigarette odor, otherwise... more information

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Ian Allan, Shepperton, n.d.. 32 pp, oblong (4 3/4" H x 7 1/8" D), soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w photographs. "These albums have been reproduced by popular demand exactly as they were originally published - apart from the covers - in 1958 and 1959. The captions are delib. erately unaltered in attempt to take the reader back to those halcyon days when steam was still supreme on Britain's railways." Interior - minor browning to pages, very light cigarette odor, otherwise... more information

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Ian Allan, Weybridge, 1985.. 39 pp, 11 3/16" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps - magazine format). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings. Contents: Trains and trouble; The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway recalled; Little things Great Western; The electric locomotive. s of the London 'Tubes'; Auto-trains; North of Preston in the early BR years; The Decauville Patent Portable Railway; The Society Page: The Gresley Society. Interior - clean and tight with no other ownership ... more information

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Ian Allan, Weybridge, 1986.. 39 pp, 11 3/16" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps - magazine format). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, map. Contents: The 'Granges' - the GWR's most useful engines; Turning to Tourism in the 1860s; LNER motive power depot modernisation; . Railways in the Vale of Clwyd; The 'Great Bear' - success or failure?; Local trains in the 1950s; The Clogher Valley Railway. Interior - clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - front ... more information

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Ian Allan, Weybridge, 1985.. 39 pp, 11 1/4" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps - magazine format). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. Contents: The Great Western Railcars - Part II; Around the Kingdom in 48 hours; Wartime work at Heaton Mersey (Second World War); The s. team railcars of the LNER; Speaking up for 'the Brighton' (Brighton & South Coast Railway); The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway ambulance train (First World War); Station Portrait: Taunton. Interior - old ... more information

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Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1984.. 39 pp, 11 3/16" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps - magazine format). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, map, colour reproductions. Contents: Vantage-point Preston; The Caledonian Railway's '812' 0-6-0s; Exceptional loads by rail; The 'Lan. ky' and its ambitions south of the Humber; English minor railways; High-days and holidays; An engine-fitter apprentice in the 1890s; Period-piece - a round-trip on the 'Silver Jubilee'; A Suss... more information

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Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1984.. 39 pp, 11 3/16" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps - magazine format). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, map, diagram, colour reproductions. Contents: Great Northern steam finale; Holyhead in LNWR days; The Kingswear branch; The Liverpool . Overhead Railway recalled; Struggle for central Scotland; An Irish royal train; Detective work on a coach body; Steam and electric at Hove; The tank-worked Tilbury. Interior - soft crease at top corner of pages - small cr... more information

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Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1985.. 39 pp, 11 3/16" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps - magazine format). Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs, colour reproductions. Contents: The Rugby Locomotive Testing Station; The Whittingham Hospital Railway; The Great Western r. ailcars; Gresley's greatest single step forward: P2 2-8-0 No 2001 'Cock o' The North'; Station Portrait: Fenchurch Street - A station of quiet distinction; Gazelle - A King's Lynn locomotive; The thwa... more information

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Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1984.. 39 pp, 11 3/16" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps - magazine format). Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs, map, colour reproduction. Contents: Taking the high road, 1924 (Scottish Highlands); Spotting on the Southern; Station Port. rait: Perth; Armoured Trains; Built to last....The Furness Railway 'A5' 0-4-0s; Of railway officers and railwaymen; Researching railway history; The GWR 'County' 4-6-0s: the last of Churchward's line.... more information

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Ian Allan, Weybridge, 1985.. 39 pp, 11 3/16" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps - magazine format). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. Contents: The Waverley Route; 125 Years of Exeter Central; Station Portrait: Torre - change for St Marychurch & Babbacombe; Ireland's . Electric Railways - of 100 years ago; Firing on the 'Jazz'; Building TPOs for the LNER in 1933 (Travelling Post Offices); Through trains from Liverpool 1836-1959. Interior - faint erased old pencil price on... more information

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Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, (1980), Ist ed.. 144 pp, 8vo, HC. An abridged edition of "Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow", simplified and adapted for young readers. The story of the first transcontinental railroad, started on the east and west coast and eventually meeting in Promontory in Utah.. Illus. with photos and reproductions. Boards slightly sunfaded at top. Dj has taped tear at top of front panel. Price clipped. VG/VG. ... more information

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Ernst Paul Lehmann Patenwerk, Nuremberg, 1988.. 147 pp, square 4to, soft cover. Profusely illustrated in color. Story of the toy company L.G.B. which specializes in model trains and accessories. Contents: Facts about LGB; LGB special editions 1988; Starter and track extension sets; Important . points concerning LGB locomotives; Steam locomotives; Electric locomotives; Diesel locomotives; A few words about passenger & freight cars for LGB; Passenger cars; Freight cars; Tracks, switches and track acce... more information

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Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru / National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 1981.. 48 pp, oblong soft cover (stapled in wraps), 8" H x 8 1/4" D. ISBN 0720002486 Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions, map. Contents: Introduction; Making Tracks; The Routes to Ireland; The Coal and Iron Trade; Into 'Wild Wales'. ; Courtship and Competition; Zenith and Slow Decline. Interior - faint cigarette odoer, faint erased pencil marks on first page, otherwise clean and tight with no... more information

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Bison, n.p., (1977).. 190 pp, 4to, hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photos, maps, drawings, reproductions. "Hundreds of superb illustrations help to depict the story of the world's most important railway systems, including the Burl. ington Great Northern, Union Pacific, Penn Central, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railroads. Photographs of the first steam engines, camel-backs, narrow-gauge railroads, name trains, electrified railways, turbine... more information

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Walker, London, (1987), Ist edition.. 186 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Illustrated with b&w silhouettes by Juan Wijngaard. "Tiger Malik, the Railway Superintendent of Bessar District in Eastern Europe, has a curious hobby; he steals the railway engines of neighbouring co. untries! Not suprisingly this gets him into all sorts of amusing - and often sticky - situations. There's the episode of the troublesome little Rumanian shunting engine, the mystery of the locomotive ... more information

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Ian Allan, Weybridge, 1988, second reprint.. 48 pp, 11 1/4" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). ISBN 0711014485 Profusely illustrated in b&w with photographs, route map, reproductions of timetables. Contents: Introduction; Renaissance of the Midland Railway; The Midland train services of 190. 5; The summer 1903 timetables; Along the route (photo feature); Snows of 1947; Steam past (photo feature); Steam finale over Ais Gill; Main line steam revival (photo feature); Inspector George Gordon, Car... more information

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A.S. Barnes, New York, (1968).. 260 pp, 4to, HC in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos, drawings, a few color plates. Contents: The Death of the Iron Horse; The Diesel Takes Over; The Vanishing Passenger Train; The Quiet Revolution; The Road Ahead. "...a photogr. aphic essay that deals with the American railroad as it has undergone its most singular transition since the first steel rail was laid on the North American Continent..." Minor edgewear to boards, minor wrinkl... more information

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