ALLEN, CECIL J.

British Express Trains : No 3 London Midland Region

London, Ian Allan. 1960. Soft Cover, 6 x 4 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to front cover. Rear cover not clipped. A clean tight booklet with bright unmarked slightly rubbed boards, slight foxing to end papers and no bumping to corners. 72pp. Performances and schedules on the express routes between the stations of the London Midland Region of British Rail. Good (+).

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Book number: 017821

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: Railways, Trains, Performance, Engines

ALLEN, CECIL J

British Pacific Locomotives

London, Ian Allan. 1962. Hard Cover, 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 1967 Edition. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight rubbing/nicks to spine ends and slight rubbing to upper front edge. 240pp. Published a a time when the production of British steam locomotives was at an end, this study reviews all the Pacific design locomotives from The Great Bear of the GWR onwards to the standard designs of British Railways. Well illustrated. Very Good (+)/Very Good.

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Book number: 019671

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: Railways, Express, Locomotives, Engineering, Pacific

CECIL J. ALLEN

British Atlantic Locomotives

London, Ian Allan. 1968, First Edition. (ISBN: 0711000425) Hard Cover, 9.25 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight rubbing to upper corners and minor traces of storage. 164pp. The author provides a detailed study of the evolution of each Atlantic design, the variations which were made in later experiments, details of outstanding performance by each 4-4-2 type and tables of their numbers, building dates and leading dimensions. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 019678

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: Railways, Locomotives, History, Steam, Ivatt 0711000425

ALLEN, CECIL JOHN

British Pacific Locomotives

Shepperton, Middlesex, Ian Allan Publishing. 1990. (ISBN: 0711002614) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 6 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. 240pp. A detailed study of the pacific steam engines on British Rail across all the rail companies plus the 'standard' locomotives after 1948. Well illustrated. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 022308

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: Railways, Engines, Engineering, Steam, History 0711002614

ALLEN, CECIL J

Locospotter's Annual 1970

London, Ian Allan. 1970. (ISBN: 0711000972) Hard Cover, 9.75 x 7.25 inches. Small tippex mark to upper corner of front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Not price clipped. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 64pp. Near Fine.

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Book number: 011231

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: Railways, Steam Trains, Engineering, Locomotives, 0711000972

ALLEN, CECIL J

Locospotter's Annual 1969

London, Ian Allan. 1969. (ISBN: 0711000336) Hard Cover, 9.75 x 7.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Not price clipped. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and bumping to lower corners. 64pp. Near Fine.

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Book number: 011232

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: Railways, Steam Trains, Engineering, Locomotives, 0711000336

ALLEN, CECIL J

Locospotter's Annual 1971

London, Ian Allan. 1971. (ISBN: 071100160X) Hard Cover, 9.75 x 7.25 inches. Tippex to upper corner of front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Not price clipped. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 64pp. Near Fine.

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Book number: 017628

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: Railways, Steam Trains, Engineering, Locomotives, 071100160x

ALLEN, G. FREEMAN (EDITOR)

Trains Miscellany (Three Books in one)

London, Ian Allan. 1950. Soft Cover, 4.5 x 7 inches. No marks or inscriptions to contents. Creasing to front cover and to spine. Clean pages with slightly marked dusty boards and rubbing to edges. 48 + 32 + 32pp. Section 1 is Regional Rounds No 1 Eastern & North Eastern Regions. Section 2 is More of my Best Railway Photographs No 12 by CCB Herbert. Section 3 is More of my Best Railway Photographs 1906-1949 No 14 by H Gordon Tidey. Extremely scarce. Good.

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Book number: 025506

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: Railways, Locomotives, Britain

C.P. ATKINS

The Scottish 4-6-0 Classes

London, Ian Allan Ltd. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0711007004) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and the tiniest bump to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight traces of storage. 123pp. Detailed stsudy of locomtives of class 4-6-0 in Scotland, which prior to 1923 existed on the Highland, the Caledonian and the Glasgow & South Western railways. Illustrated including drawings of each type. Scarce. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 019673

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: Railways, Locomotives, Scotland 0711007004

AVERY, DEREK

A Century of Steam Trains

London, Brockhampton Press. 1998. (ISBN: 1860197965) Hard Cover, 12 x 8.5 inches. Book and jacket in virtually mint condition. 144pp. The history of the railways with all the major locomotives that appeared between 1855 and 1955 with their technical specifications and background information. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 008237

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: Railways, Locomotives, History, 1860197965

BATER, JAMES H.

The Journey to Work in St Petersburg, 1860-1914

Leicester, Leicester University Press. 1974. Soft Cover, 9.75 x 7.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions and faint crease to upper corner of front cover. A very clean very tight stapled booklet with bright unmarked yellow card boards and no bumping to corners. 214-233pp. Reprinted from The Journal of Transport History, Vol II No 4. Public transport in Russia with some maps. Very scarce. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works. Very Good.

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Book number: 014428

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: Public Transport, Russia, Transport - Road Social History

BAYLISS, DEREK A.

The Post Office Railway, London

Sheffield, Turntable Enterprises. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0902844431) Hard Cover, 8.5 x 6 inches. Ex-library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps. Otherwise book would be classed as 'fine'. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with lovely bright unmarked tape-free boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little rubbing to spine. 96pp. The story of London's Post Office Railway, one of the most fascinating, superbly efficient railways in the world which performed with speed and reliability, year in year out from 1927 to 2003 when a controversial political decision was taken to close it. Extremely scarce. Very Good/Very Good (+).

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Book number: 013997

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: Railways, Trains, Engineering, Underground, 0902844431

BELL, W. J.

British Locomotives Illustrated

London, A & C Black. 1933, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Tape and other marks to end papers, none to covers. Not a library book. On the front end paper has been added an attractive realistic painting of LMS Princess class No 46022. The book is worth buying for this painting alone. Clean very tight pages with dusty page edges, bright unmarked boards, slight fading to spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket clipped with a little marking including tape marks on dust flaps and with rubbing to corners. 95pp. Forty-two full page photographs of some of the latest steam locomotives in Britain plus other older models. Tucked in are two newspaper cutting of railways around Keighley plus the author's brief typed details of a train journey - timings and locomotives involved. Good/Good.

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Book number: 021466

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: Trains, Engines, Railways

BELLWOOD, JOHN AND JENKINSON, DAVID

Gresley and Stanier: A Centenary Tribute

London, Stationery Office Books, HMSO. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0112902537) Soft Cover, 11 x 8.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Crease across front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very slight rubbing to some corners. 99pp. A detailed study of the legendary engineering careers of both Sir Nigel Gresley and Sir William Stanier, whose designs for steam locomotives excelled along the East Coast and West Coast routes in Britain and who were born less than a month apart from one another in 1876. Well illustrated.. Very Good.

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Book number: 018619

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: British Railways, Engineering, Locomotives, Design, Trains, Public Transport 0112902537

BENNETT, ALAN

Great Western Railway Holiday Lines in Devon and West Somerset

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Runpast Publishing. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 1870754255) Soft Cover, 10.75 x 8.5 inches. Book in mint unread condition. 81pp. As New.

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Book number: 010307

Catalogue: Transport - Rail

Keywords: Railways, History, West Country, England 1870754255