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Modelling Historic Buildings and Imaginary Structures: A Guide for Railway Modellers and Diorama Model Makers by David Wright 9781785008047
RRP: £19.99£16.07This book demonstrates the many different modelling techniques used in the creation of realistic historical buildings and convincing imaginary or fantasy structures. Aimed at the railway and diorama modeller, it includes photographs of existing... -
Lost Lines: Railway Treasures by Nigel Welbourn
RRP: £28.00£19.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860936916Author Nigel WelbournFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Shildon To Stockton.: including the Stockton and Darlington Railway. by Roger Darsley 9781910356791
RRP: £19.95£19.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356791Author Roger DarsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press -
Exploring Britain's Disused Railways: North-West England by Mark Jones 9781800352575
RRP: £20.00£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800352575Author Mark JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Civil Engineers Wagons Volume 3: Later British Rail: 1978 - 1994 by David Larkin 9781905505258
RRP: £15.00£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905505258Author David LarkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint KRB PublicationsPublisher Kestrel Railway Books -
Exploring Devon and Cornwall's Branch Lines by John Jackson
RRP: £15.99£10.66The two most westerly counties in England remain hugely popular for travellers looking for a break in the UK. Perhaps less well known is the fact that, against all the odds when faced by the Beeching Axe, a number of popular destinations can still be... -
Brunel's Big Railway: Creation of the Great Western Railway by Robin Jones
RRP: £14.99£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658191Author Robin JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 534gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
British Railway Disasters: Lessons learned from tragedies on the tracks: 2019 by Robin Jones
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658016Author Robin JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
THE JOY OF JINTIES: PART ONE by IAN SIXSMITH 9781911262336
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911262336Author IAN SIXSMITHFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Irwell PressPublisher Irwell Press -
Lincolnshire Railways by Patrick Bennett
RRP: £15.99£10.85England's second largest county contains a wealth of railway history. The county was dominated by two companies - the Great Central in the north and the Great Northern in the centre and south. The county was also penetrated by the Midland Railway and... -
Diesels in the Western Region by George Woods 9781398101951
RRP: £15.99£10.85The Great Western Railway was always a little different to the rest of the railways, and that was still the position when in 1955 British Railways announced their Modernisation Plan that would see steam replaced by diesels and electrics. The rest of the... -
South Wales Railways Gallery by Stuart Davies 9781526776013
RRP: £30.00£20.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Manual for Diesel Locomotive & DMU Drivers by John Leach 9781909431898
£42.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909431898Author John LeachFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd -
Great Western Docks & Marine by Tony Atkins
RRP: £25.00£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328204Author Tony AtkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Railways in South Yorkshire: Four Decades of Change by Mike Wedgewood
RRP: £15.99£11.61Today, South Yorkshire's railways are a modern network of busy lines, ranging from the electrified East Coast Main Line to the regional and local railways of the area. They serve the cities and towns of Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley, with... -
West Highland Line Great Railway Journeys Through Time by John McGregor
RRP: £15.99£10.85Twice voted the top railway journey in the world, the West Highland route to Mallaig (like the Dingwall & Skye and the Callander & Oban) accessed the remote and mountainous west coast of Scotland. The original West Highland line, described here, links... -
From Clerk to Controller: A Life on the Railways 1957-1996 by Roderick H. Fowkes 9781473844162
RRP: £25.00£9.93'Like so many other boys of my generation, I wanted to be an engine driver; my dreams, however, were dashed in 1956 when I went for a medical at Derby. So much depended upon having perfect eyesight ...' So wrote the author in his introduction in Last... -
The Last Days of London Steam by Peter Tuffrey 9781914227233
RRP: £19.99£14.68The heart of the British railway system was London. Traffic was drawn and dispersed to places in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and all over England, not forgetting the intense suburban services for commuters to the capital. As a result, the area was... -
The Extraordinary Daddy-Long-Legs Railway of Brighton by Martin Easdown
RRP: £15.99£10.85The unique, but sadly short-lived, Brighton & Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway must have presented quite an amazing spectacle, even during those late Victorian days of engineering excellence. Affectionately known as the 'Daddy-Long-Legs', 'spider... -
Cathedrals of Steam: How London’s Great Stations Were Built – And How They Transformed the City by Christian Wolmar
£28.25'Fascinating' 'Books of the Year', Financial Times'London's twelve great rail termini are the epic survivors of the Victorian age... Wolmar brings them to life with the knowledge of an expert and the panache of a connoisseur.' Simon Jenkins'A wonderful... -
Full Steam Ahead, Felix: Adventures of a famous station cat and her kitten apprentice by Kate Moore
£11.57Curl up with the wonderfully cosy SUNDAY TIMES bestselling tale of the exciting adventures of Felix and Bolt!'FULL OF FUNNY AND HEART-WARMING STORIES' Sunday Express _________ Felix, Senior Pest Controller at Huddersfield station, has been at the heart... -
Essex Dialect: A Selection of Words and Anecdotes from Around Essex by Camilla Zajac 9781902674674
RRP: £4.99£3.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902674674Author Camilla ZajacFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bradwell BooksPublisher Bradwell Books -
Birmingham Railways Through Time by Mike Hitches
RRP: £15.99£10.85The railway network within Birmingham has long been important for the movement of passengers and freight to serve the centre and its suburbs, and as the road network around Birmingham has become more congested, the railways in the city have, once more,... -
The High Girders by John Prebble
RRP: £9.99£6.80'A tale of irresponsibility and inexperience' THE TIMES'Graphically written with a sense of dramatic construction' SCOTSMANOn December 28th 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed, along with the train that was crossing, and everyone... -
Corridors: Passages of Modernity by Roger Luckhurst 9781789140538
RRP: £30.00£28.94We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors, and gangways, yet these channeling spaces do not feature in architectural histories, monographs, or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued, and unregarded, seen as unlovely parts of a... -
Gresley's Silver Link: The Evolution of the A4 Pacifics 1911-1941 by Tim Hillier-Graves
RRP: £35.00£24.29Gresley's A4 Pacifics are arguably the most famous locomotives ever built, a status cemented by Mallard's record breaking run on the 3rd July 38. And yet only a year later the glamorous streaks' seemed likely to be cast into obscurity by the coming of... -
Narrow Gauge Locomotives by Anthony Coulls
RRP: £8.99£6.02Narrow gauge railways have long been a source of fascination for many. From famous public lines such as the Ffestiniog Railway and Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, to peat extraction lines in Cumbria and brickworks systems on Humberside, the narrow gauge... -
Railways and Industry on the Brecon & Merthyr: Bassaleg to Bargoed and New Tredegar/Rhymney B & M by Hodge, John 9781399096058
RRP: £35.00£24.29This book, as part of the South Wales Valleys series, deals with the former Brecon & Merthyr Railway line which ran from Bassaleg (north of Newport) to Brecon and Rhymney B&M, the latter line being closed north of New Tredegar in 1930 due to a... -
How a Steam Locomotive Works by Dominic Wells
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809747Author Dominic WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Class 68 and Class 88 Locomotives by John Jackson
RRP: £15.99£10.85In 2012, Direct Rail Services (DRS) placed an order with Vossloh (now Stadler Rail) for its first Class 68 diesel locomotives. The fleet size has now grown to thirty-four. Their later order was for ten Class 88 locomotives, an electro-diesel variant of... -
The Epping Ongar Railway by Malcolm Batten
RRP: £15.99£10.85The first standard gauge heritage steam railway in Britain, the Bluebell Railway, opened in 1960. Since then, over eighty have opened to the public. While each of these has its individual characteristics, nearly all are former British railways branch... -
How Steam Locomotives Really Work by A. J. Goldfinch
RRP: £12.99£9.09Following the pioneering work of Trevithick, Stephenson, and many others, steam locomotives continued to evolve and be refined until overtaken by diesel and electric traction technology. Although the last main-line steam service was operated by British... -
Tribute to the Western Region Hydraulics by Tom Heavyside
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339024Author Tom HeavysideFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
The Railways of Manchester: The Evolution and Development of the City's Railways by Andy Chard
£44.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909431843Author Andy ChardFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd -
Modern Locomotives of the United Kingdom by Pip Dunn
RRP: £25.00£18.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860936961Author Pip DunnFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Express Trains by Tim Bryan
RRP: £8.99£6.02The most glamorous trains run by railway companies were the high-speed expresses, linking the major towns, cities and holiday destinations. They included overnight sleepers, fast mail trains, excursion specials and boat trains connecting with ocean... -
Narrow Gauge Railways of Saxony by John Woodhams
RRP: £15.99£10.85A number of narrow gauge railways can be found today in Saxony, eastern Germany, with commercial daily steam-hauled trains. These were once part of a much more extensive network of lines in the region, built to a gauge of 750 mm, which once totalled over... -
The Hayling Island Branch: The Hayling Billy by John Scott-Morgan 9781526726810
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Hayling Island Branch was one of Britain's most iconic sea side lines, connecting Havant with Hayling Island via Langston Harbour. Opening in 1865 for freight and 1867 to passenger traffic, it was after a few years of local control, managed and... -
The Last Years of Carlisle Steam: A Pictorial Journey by Howard Routledge
RRP: £25.00£17.62Mention the name Carlisle to any steam enthusiast of a certain age and they will probably conjure up an image of bygone days when Stanier and Gresley pacifics rubbed shoulders alongside each other within Citadel station whilst waiting to relieve incoming... -
Scottish Steam 1948-1966: The Railway Photographs of Andrew Grant Forsyth by Brian J. Dickson
RRP: £17.99£13.33Andrew Grant Forsyth's photographs show the changing locomotive scene throughout Scotland after the nationalisation of the railways in 1948. Forsyth visited Scotland almost every year, and between 1948 and 1966 he was fortunate to be able to photograph...