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The Bristol & Exeter Railway was one of the pioneering railways that was heavily influenced by the mercurial engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel... more
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Price: £19.99There is something about the railways of Switzerland that draws the enthusiast towards them. It may be, for example, the sheer splendour of the... more
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Price: £30Confessions of an Amateur Railwayman For countless schoolboys growing up after World War 2 there was but one dream: to drive steam engines on the... more
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Price: £24.99The Author has been a professional railwayman, but eight years learning the ropes on hundreds of British Railways locomotives gave him the... more
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Price: £19.99Although railway travel is now amongst the safest forms of transport in the world and,in Britain no passenger has been killed whilst travelling by... more
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Price: £15.00First published by Ian Allan in 1998, this popular title has been reprinted to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the closure of the Great... more
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Price: £15Scotland’s dramatic mountain landscape has attracted many railway photographers but the most scenic routes, such as the beautiful West Highland... more
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Price: £19.95Today, Wales is famous for the ‘Great Little Trains of Wales’ but at one time almost every corner of the principality echoed to the sound of steam... more
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Price: £19.95Few counties offered such a wonderful variety of railway routes and steam motive power as the glorious county of Devon. While the line between... more
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Price: £18.95This volume contains a beautiful new selection of steam railway views, mostly in colour, taken in Sussex in the 1950s and 1960s.
Today,... more
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Price: £19.95Lancashire could be described as a county of marked contrasts: from the back-to-back terraced houses which typify some of its towns to the... more
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Price: £19.95Few counties have suffered as much rationalisation of their railway system as Northamptonshire which, at one time, boasted sixty stations compared... more
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Price: £19.95Collector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s – Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the... more
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Price: £10.00The legendary '4472' - better known as the Flying Scotsman - receives the famous Haynes Manual treatment with the full co-operation of the... more
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Price: £22.99A beautiful hardback book, featuring outstanding photography including rare colour images of steam locomotives trundling along branch lines all... more
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Price: £19.99Every A3 illustrated.
A remarkable collection featuring rare colour and black and white images that documents this most popular class of... more
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Price: £25.00Anthony Burton has travelled from the Highlands of Scotland, to the south west of England in pursuit of his passion for the steam engine in all... more
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Price: £25.00Mark Smithers has written a number of definitive books and magazine features on the history of locomotive construction and the development of... more
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Price: £30.00This book is one in the Pen & Sword Transport History imprint in the ‘Locomotive Portfolio’ series and covers the family of two-cylinder 4-6-... more
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Price: £30.00The Great Northern Atlantics, were the first locomotives constructed in Britain to the 4-4-2 wheel arrangement. The Atlantics were designed by H.G... more