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The Ruabon to Barmouth Line by P. Dickinson 9781781552148
RRP: £18.99£13.61The cross-country Ruabon to Barmouth railway was originally built to fulfil the desire of connecting the town of Llangollen with the rest of the rapidly expanding network. The local Victorian promoters received the backing of the Great Western Railway,... -
Trains: Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine by Jennifer B. Bodine 9780764354939
RRP: £27.99£18.02A. Aubrey Bodine's archive of train photographs chronicling mid-twentieth-century rail transportation. A. Aubrey Bodine, newspaper photographer, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was a Baltimore Sun feature photographer from 1924 to 1970. This... -
The Early Pioneers of Steam: The Inspiration Behind George Stephenson by Stuart Hylton 9780750991285
RRP: £16.99£12.94We think of the Stephensons and Brunel as the fathers of the railways, and their Liverpool and Manchester and Great Western Railways as the prototypes of the modern systems. But who were the railways' grandfathers and great-grandfathers? The rapid... -
The Isle of Wight Railway: From 1923 Onwards by R.J. Maycock 9780853617402
RRP: £26.95£23.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617402Author R.J. MaycockFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 18mm -
Last Rites: From the Track to the Scrapyard by John Evans
RRP: £12.99£8.48Steam's final fling proved a melancholy experience for the many enthusiasts who had witnessed the gleaming giants of the rails in their prime. One day's highly burnished rail tour favourite was the next day's candidate for the breaker's torch. This book... -
Class 66: 5/6/9 by Mark Pike
RRP: £15.99£7.11This third volume to cover the Class 66 takes a look at the Freightliner-operated Class 66/5/6/9 locos that were delivered during the early to mid 2000s. This was at a time when most of the current locos in use with Freightliner on the national network... -
Chester Northgate to Manchester: Via Hale and Sale by Vic Mitchell 9781908174512
RRP: £19.95£18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174512Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press -
Class 87 Locomotives by Andrew Cole
RRP: £14.99£9.70When British Rail decided to electrify the West Coast Main Line north of Crewe towards Scotland, a new class of electric locomotive was needed to work these services. Thirty-six members of Class 87 were built at Crewe Works from 1973 onwards and were an... -
Sardinia and Sicily Narrow Gauge: Scenic Rail Journeys on the Italian Islands by John Organ 9781908174505
RRP: £19.95£19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174505Author John OrganFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton PressWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 175mm *... -
Impermanent Ways: the Closed Lines of Britain: Vol 7: Dorset by Jeffery Grayer
RRP: £11.95£8.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328129Author Jeffery GrayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Railways and Tramways in the City of Leeds by Alan J. Haigh
RRP: £19.99£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943337Author Alan J. HaighFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group -
Seventies Spotting Days Around the Western Region by Kevin Derrick
RRP: £15.99£10.66Seventies Spotting Days in the Western Region is a full-colour photographic album depicting the 1970s with coverage of both diesel-electric and diesel-hydraulics from that great period of change on our railways. The captions include items of news,... -
Railway Maintenance Vehicles and Equipment Royston Morris 9781445671710
RRP: £15.99£11.61Featuring an array of previously unpublished images, Royston Morris documents the fascinating world of the vehicles and equipment that keep the nation's railways on track and on time. There are numerous machines that can carry out various different... -
Passengers once more SCOTLAND: New and reopened Stations and Lines from1948: 2020 by Terry Gough and Bob Avery
RRP: £20.00£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945577Author Terry Gough and Bob AveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group -
Railway Moods: The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Mike Heath 9781841144429
RRP: £12.99£11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841144429Author Mike HeathFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
A Contemporary Perspective on GWR Signalling: Semaphore Swansong by Allen Jackson
RRP: £19.99£16.42For over 150 years Britain's railways have relied on a system of semaphore signalling, but by 2020, all semaphore signals and lineside signal boxes will be gone. A Contemporary Perspective on GWR Signalling provides a unique record of the last... -
Railways of Sri Lanka by David Hyatt 9780953730407
£28.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953730407Author David HyattFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint COMRACPublisher COMRAC -
The Wye Valley Railway and the Coleford Branch by Brian Michael Handley 9780853616658
RRP: £19.95£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853616658Author Brian Michael HandleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Class 66/0 by Mark Pike
RRP: £15.99£11.61In the late 1990s and early 2000s, most of the current locomotives in use on the national network were becoming very tired and evermore unreliable. It was during this time that EWS took over the large bulk of freight operations in the UK, and they... -
The Furness Railway: A Fascinating 150th Anniversary Excursion Along All the Company's Lines by John Broughton 9781858951263
RRP: £10.99£8.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858951263Author John BroughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 173g -
Railways of the Chilterns by Patrick Bennett
RRP: £15.99£10.85The Chilterns consist of a band of chalk hills to the north-west of London stretching from Oxfordshire to Hertfordshire. It so happened that these hills were directly on the routes of five major companies' routes to the North and Midlands. These were:... -
Railways of Leicestershire in the Twenty-first Century by John Jackson
RRP: £15.99£10.85A quick look at today's map of the county of Leicestershire and it's easy to see that its county town, Leicester, sits at an important railway crossroads. With London to the south and the East Midlands cities of Derby and Nottingham to the north, the... -
Railways Around Bedfordshire by John Jackson 9781398108967
RRP: £15.99£10.85For many long-distance rail travellers, the county of Bedfordshire is a part of the UK passed at speed on an express heading north to south on either the Midland Main Line or East Coast Main Line. Less well known is that the county also boasts a short... -
Enjoying the Cumbrian Coast Railway by David Hindle
RRP: £25.00£15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944976Author David HindleFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupDimensions(mm) 169mm * 238mm * 9mm -
Worcestershire by Roger Siviter 9781858951614
RRP: £15.99£10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858951614Author Roger SiviterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group -
Images of Bodmin Road to Padstow & Launceston Railways by Maurice Dart
RRP: £19.99£14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042002Author Maurice DartFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
Southern Big Tanks: W 2-6-4Ts : 31911-31925: Vol 4 Ian Sixsmith 9781906919979
RRP: £13.95£9.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906919979Author Ian SixsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Irwell PressPublisher Irwell Press -
The Fifties Railway by Greg Morse
RRP: £8.99£6.02Under-maintained and over-worked during the Second World War, Britain's railways emerged from the conflict carrying a 'poor bag of physical assets'. Yet the new government of 1945 saw a need to bring the nation's great industries into public ownership -... -
Corris and Vale of Rheidol by Vic Mitchell 9781906008659
RRP: £19.95£19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906008659Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press -
The Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway: a pictorial survey by Stephen Thompson by Stephen Thompson 9780853614616
RRP: £21.95£19.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853614616Author Stephen ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm * 6mm -
Eastleigh to Romsey and Salisbury by Nigel Bray 9781905505425
RRP: £17.95£12.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905505425Author Nigel BrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Kestrel Railway BooksPublisher Kestrel Railway BooksDimensions(mm) 272mm * 215mm * 10mm -
North of Birmingham: To Bescot and Litchfield Including the Chasewater Railway. by Vic Mitchell 9781908174550
RRP: £19.95£19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174550Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton PressWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 174mm *... -
Narrow Gauge in the Tropics: The Railways of the Dutch East Indies, 1864-1942 by Augustus J. Veenendaal
RRP: £35.00£31.74Narrow Gauge in the Tropics is the first comprehensive history of railways and tramways in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) from breaking ground in 1864 to the invasion of the Japanese during World War II.During the mid-19th century under... -
British Steam Military Connections: London, Midland and Scottish Railway Steam Locomotives by Keith Langston 9781473878532
RRP: £30.00£13.95In Great Britain there existed a practice of naming steam railway locomotives. The names chosen covered many and varied subjects, however a large number of those represented direct links with military personnel, regiments, squadrons, naval vessels,... -
The Swindon 'Trip': The Annual Holiday of GWR's Swindon Works by Rosa Matheson
RRP: £16.99£12.94'Trip', if you happened to be a Swindonian and one that worked 'inside' the Great Western Railway's Swindon Works, was the event of the year. When, in 1848, a party of some 500 made up of men from the Mechanics Institution and their families took the... -
Walking Scotland's Lost Railways: Track Beds Rediscovered by Robin Howie
RRP: £18.99£17.28Scotland still has hundreds of miles of `dismantled railways', the term used by Ordnance Survey, and the track beds give scope for many walks. Some track beds have been `saved' as Tarmacadam walkway/cycleway routes while others have become well-trodden... -
German Express Steam Locomotives by Knipping, Andreas 9781526795748
RRP: £35.00£24.29In this book, the author defines the express stem locomotive on the basis of the mandatory criterion of large drive wheels, and studies its evolution from around 1850 to the last refinements made around 1960, with many wrong turns and great successes... -
Ambergate To Mansfield: Including The Midland Railway Centre. by Vic Mitchell
RRP: £19.95£19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356418Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press -
The Great Western Railway in the First World War by Sandra Gittins 9780752456324
RRP: £20.00£15.44In August 1914 the GWR was plunged into war, the like of which this country had never experienced before. Over the years that followed life changed beyond measure, both for the men sent away to fight and the women who took on new roles at home. Not since... -
Freight in the Peak District by Paul Harrison
RRP: £14.99£9.70The Peak District area of England has yielded limestone products since around the time of the Romans and by 1794 the Peak Forest Tramway arrived to help transport products further afield. By the time the Midland Railway arrived in the Buxton area in the...