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[CLARK, Edwin 1814-1894.]
General description of the Britannia and Conway tubular bridges on the Chester & Holyhead Railway. Published, with the permission of Robert Stephenson, civil engineer, by a resident assistant.
London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, 1849. 8vo. 34pp, plate, text figures, blank, [4]pp (Prospectus for ) 'A description of the .... bridges ...' by Edwin Clark. Relevant light pencil notes to blank recto. The resumé to title page verso calls for Clark's [4]pp piece to be part of the main work. Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 36431.2.
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Book number: 44914
GBP 185.60 [Appr.: EURO 221.75 US$ 243.5 | JP¥ 36215]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: railways History Chester and Holyhead Railway. Tubular bridges. Britannia bridge (Wales) Conway Bridge. Stephenson, Robert

 
A hand-book for travellers along the London and Birmingham Railway; with the fare and time tables, &c. corrected to the present day, and portions extracted (by permission of the proprietors) from Roscoe's larger work on this railway. Embellished with twenty-five fine engravings on wood, and a map of the line, of unequalled correctness and beauty.
London: R Groombridge; Wrightson and Webb, Birmingham, (c.1839). 14cm. 147[5]pp, 25 engravings (23 as plates). Original brown grained cloth with paper label to front board. Re-spined in matching cloth; lacks map. Date ascribed to COPAC copies is 1839 and it appears that the work is undated, as here, on the title page.
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Book number: 45145
GBP 63.80 [Appr.: EURO 76.25 US$ 83.7 | JP¥ 12449]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: RAILWAYS London and Birmingham Railway

 
Prospectus of the Eastern Counties Railway. 1835. From London to Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth, by Romford, Chelmsford, Colchester, &c.
London: printed by Cunningham and Salmon, 1835. Single sheet 60cm x 48cm folded with docket title, population table, map to verso. Two panels soiled; small holes to some fold junctions; closed tears to some folds at margins. Incorporated 4th July 1836. Only the London to Colchester section was completed. Further extensions were carried out by the Eastern Union Railway at a later date. Awdry, page 126.
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Book number: 38917
GBP 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 173.25 US$ 190.23 | JP¥ 28293]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: Railways history Cartography

 
[DOW, George.]
The story of the West Highland.
[Scotland]: L.N.E.R., [1944]. 22cm. 44pp, text illustrations, facsimiles at rear. Original pictorial colour printed glazed paper wraps, stapled. Wraps lightly soiled. Ottley 6985.
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Book number: 45143
GBP 13.92 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 18.26 | JP¥ 2716]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: RAILWAYS HISTORY West Highland Railway Company. West Highland Railway. North British Railway. SCOTLAND WEST HIGHLAND Railroads Scotland Highlands History.

 
ALCOCK, G. W.
Fifty Years of Railway Trade Unionism.
London: Co-operative Printing Society, 1922. Large 8vo. xvi, 631pp, frontis, plates, text illustrations, text table, folding facsimile letters at rear. Original blue cloth gilt. Extremes rubbed with very slight wear; very light spotting to title-page and eps. "Railway Review" compliments slip loosely inserted.
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Book number: 39291
GBP 34.80 [Appr.: EURO 41.75 US$ 45.66 | JP¥ 6790]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: railways history

 
ANDERSON, Matthew. (Editor)
The book & programme of the Liverpool & Manchester railway centenary. LMR 1830 - LMS 1930.
Liverpool: The Liverpool Organization Ltd., 1930. 25cm. 124pp, adverts, text illustrations and plates throughout. Modern red cloth gilt, original colour wraps bound in.
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Book number: 42128
GBP 37.12 [Appr.: EURO 44.5 US$ 48.7 | JP¥ 7243]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: Railways

 
CROMBLEHOLME, Roger (Compiler).
Steam '75: a complete enthusiast's handbook to railway preservation activities and minor railways in the British Isles. Stockton & Darlington 150th Anniversary Souvenir. 'The Official A.R.P.S. Year Book & Steam Guide 1975.'
Blackpool: Haraton and Backtrack Publications, 1975. 4to. [128]pp, folding plates, colour and b/w text illustrations (one double-page). Original pictorial colour-printed glazed-paper wraps.
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Book number: 29344
GBP 11.60 [Appr.: EURO 14 US$ 15.22 | JP¥ 2263]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: Railways North East England Railway History

 
DOW, George.
The first railway between Manchester and Sheffield issued to commemorate the opening of the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne & Manchester railway one hundred years ago.
[London]: London and North Eastern Railway, 1945. 21cm. 44pp, text illustrations, plans & maps, facsimile tipped in at rear. Original pictorial colour printed glazed paper wraps, stapled. Wraps lightly soiled.
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Book number: 45142
GBP 11.60 [Appr.: EURO 14 US$ 15.22 | JP¥ 2263]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: RAILWAYS Railroads Great Britain. Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway Company History. Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway History. Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway Company London and North Easte

 
DRAKE, James, Publisher.
Drake's road book of the Grand Junction Railway from Birmingham to Liverpool, and Manchester, illustrated by an accurate map, and numerous engravings: to which is appended The Visitor's Guide to Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester: to which is appended the visiter's (sic) guide to Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester.
London: Longman & Co., Simpkin & Marshall, [1838] 2nd edition. 8vo. vi[2], 147pp, engraved frontis with browned tissue-guard, 8 further engraved plates with guards, hand-coloured folding map, folding regulations chart. Original decorated blind-stamped green grained-cloth gilt, patterned endpapers, aeg. Binder's ticket to rear paste-down. Spine a little browned; spotting and browning to frontis. All in all, a most attractive copy. Date and edition from preface. The multi-folding chart at rear seems not to have been present in the first edition. Ottley 6453.
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Book number: 44686
GBP 156.60 [Appr.: EURO 187.25 US$ 205.45 | JP¥ 30556]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: railways History North West Midlands Railways TRANSPORT

 
FITZGERALD, Percy.
The story of "Bradshaw's Guide"
London: Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press, E.C.; Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Hamilton, Adams & Co.; New York: Scribner & Welford, 1890. 15cm. 76pp including frontis, [4]pp publisher's list, text illustrations. Original printed blue-paper boards, printed label to front board. Lower front board corner lightly creased. Scarce Leadenhall Press volume. Ottley 7930.
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Book number: 46081
GBP 69.60 [Appr.: EURO 83.25 US$ 91.31 | JP¥ 13581]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: RAILWAYS Bradshaw, George 1801-1853 Bradshaw, George 1801-1857. Bradshaw's guide. Bradshaw's railway manual, shareholders' guide, and official directory. Railroads British Isles ; Timetables. Railroads Great Britain Timetables History. Railro

 
FOXWELL, E.; T. C. FARRER.
Express Trains, English and Foreign: being a statistical account of all the express trains of the world.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1889. 8vo. viii, 181[1]pp, [2]pp advert, 4 maps (2 folding), text tables. Later plain maroon calf re-back incorporting original green grained-cloth sides. Extremes very lightly rubbed; scattered small light stains to cloth; half-title browned; light spotting to rear endpapers.
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Book number: 42156
GBP 23.20 [Appr.: EURO 27.75 US$ 30.44 | JP¥ 4527]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: Railways

 
LAING, S.
Railway taxation.
Westminster: Vacher & Sons, 1849 8vo. 23[1]pp. Disbound.
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Book number: 15903
GBP 29.00 [Appr.: EURO 34.75 US$ 38.05 | JP¥ 5659]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: railways ECONOMICS

 
PRIESTLEY, Joseph.
Historical account of the navigable rivers, canals, and railways, throughout Great Britain, as a reference to Nichols, Priestley & Walker's New map of inland navigation, derived from original and Parliamentary documents in the possession of Joseph Priestley.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green; G and J Cary; Wakefield: Richard Nichols, 1831 [2nd edition]. 23cm. xiv[ii], 702[2]pp, viii pp index, folding map frontis, folding colour diagram at rear. Original green cloth re-backed with original (browned) spine and original printed paper label laid down. Frontis map browned with offset to title page; folding diagram spotted. Skempton 1871.
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Book number: 46216
GBP 162.40 [Appr.: EURO 194.25 US$ 213.06 | JP¥ 31688]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: RAILWAYS Inland navigation Great Britain Railroads Great Britain. Canals Great Britain. Inland navigation Great Britain. Railroads Great Britain. Canals Great Britain. Inland navigation Great Britain History Railroads Great Britain History. Railroads Gre

 
LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY.
Rambles Series: Essex, Epping, Bucks, Bucks-Oxon-Berks, Chilterns, Herts.
LNER, N.D. (late 1930's?) 18cm. Six fine pamphlets ranging from 60 to 72pp, each accompanied by folding maps and text illustrations. Contemporary navy cloth gilt, original colour printed front wraps bound in. Fine condition. Part of a series of at least 16 volumes published by LNER in the late 1930's? Libraries date the works anywhere between 1920 and 1950.
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Book number: 46245
GBP 46.40 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 60.87 | JP¥ 9054]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: RAILWAYS Local History LNER Guides Rambles Series.

 
LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.
Report of the committee of consultation, appointed at the general meeting of proprietors, 15th August, 1855.
London: printed by M'Corquedale & Co, 1856. 4to in eights. 30[2]pp, multi-folding sheet at rear with 2 maps (one with added colour). Contemporary marbled paper wraps. Upper corner of rear wrap worn; evidence of damp to upper gutter-margin of title page - just affecting 'London' in title.
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Book number: 44862
GBP 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 173.25 US$ 190.23 | JP¥ 28293]
Catalogue: Railways
Keywords: railways History

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