WELSH RAILWAYS(For books on Welsh narrow gauge railways see the Narrow Gauge Railways section)
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Barrie D S The Taff Vale Railway, Oakwood, 1st edition 1938, pp35 plus pp4 of plates. Oakwood Library No.2. Pb. VG-. Covers slightly soiled. A 1st edition of the second book in the Oakwood Library series. £4.95
Barrie D S The Taff Vale Railway, Oakwood, 1939, pp35 plus pp4 of plates. Oakwood Library No.2. Hb. VG/VG-. Corners of the covers slightly bumped & slight foxing to the page edges; a one-inch tear to the dw at the base of the spine. £8.50
Barrie D S The Rhymney Railway, Oakwood, 1963, pp47-93 plus pp8 of illustrations. First published in 1952. Oakwood Library No.9. Pb. VG. Slight foxing to the covers. £4.95
Barrie, D S M A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Vol. 12: South Wales, D&C, 1st edition 1980, pp296 with 36 plates, 11 maps, and a folding map in the rear. Inscription. Hb. VG+/VG. Tiny tear at the bottom of the front dw fold. £24.50
Baughan, Peter E A
Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Vol. 11: North and Mid Wales,
D&C, 1st
edition 1980, pp248 with 48 plates, 12 maps, & a folding map in the rear.
Hb. Fine/VG+.
£12.50
Chapman, Colin The
Cowbridge Railway, OPC, 1984, pp127. Large
Format Hb. Fine / Very Good+.
A comprehensive illustrated history of a Taff Vale Railway branch, and its role in the intense
railway competition of the South Wales coal field.
£10.50
Christiansen, Rex and Millar R W The Cambrian Railways Vol.1 1852-1888, D&C, 2nd
edition 1971, pp179, colour frontis and 37 illustrations.
Hb. Large inscription on the
rear flyleaf giving details of two other titles.
Very Good+ / Very Good. A
definitive history. £8.50
Christiansen, Rex Forgotten Railways: North and Mid Wales, D&C, 1st edition 1976, pp160 with pp16 of plates & a folding map in the rear. Forgotten Railways Series. Hb. VG+/VG. Dw spine slightly faded. Secondary routes & branch lines of the LNWR, GWR and Cambrian plus the Great Central intrusion at Wrexham. £6.95
Evans, Edward A South Wales Valleys, Pendragon Publication, 2005, pp88. Railways in Retrospect No.3. Large Format Pb. VG. Slight wear to the corners of the covers. Looks back at life in the valley railways, reflecting on the work of the railwaymen who operated them and the communities and industries they served. £5.95
Green C C Cambrian
Railways Album – 2, IA, 1981, pp112. Hb. VG/VG. Corners slightly bumped, and a one inch closed tear in the dw
at the base of the spine. Pictures
of the Cambrian Railways during the Great Western period from 1923 until
nationalisation in 1948. £5.95
Green C C North Wales Branch Line Album, IA, 1st edition 1983, pp112. The original 1983 edition. Hb. Fine/Fine. A remarkable collection of unusual pictures from both the standard and narrow gauge branch lines in North Wales with sections on: Cambrian Branches, Great Central Branches, Great Western Branches, London & North Western Branches, Industrial Branches, The Manchester & Milford, and Narrow Gauge Branches. £4.95
Green C C
The Coast Lines of the Cambrian Railways Vol.1 Machynlleth to
Aberystwyth including a general history of the Aberystwyth & Welsh Coast
Railway, Wild Swan, 1993, pp282. Large
Format Hb. VG/VG+. Slight
wear to the covers at the head of the spine.
A comprehensive study. £22.50
Greening, David Steam
in the East Midlands, Becknell Books, 1982, pp96. Pb. Very Good.
137 photographs of steam around the Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Lincoln and
Northampton area. £4.95
Jones, Michael Steam on the North Wales Coast: Routes, Services and Motive Power in the Last Years of Steam, OPC, 1996, pp191. "Largish" format Hb. VG+/VG. £8.50
Judge, Colin The Elan Valley Railway: The Railway of the Birmingham Corporation Waterworks, Oakwood, 2004, pp232 with a folding map in the rear. Oakwood Library No.71. Pb. VG+. An account of the industrial railways used during the construction of the extensive Birmingham Corporation reservoirs in Radnorshire, Mid Wales in the late 19th century. £7.95
Kidner R W The Cambrian Railways, Oakwood, 1st edition 1954, pp45 plus pp16 of illustrations. Oakwood Library No.55. Hb. Fair. Paper covered boards with cloth spine. Circular marks on the front cover - from a cup of coffee? £4.95
Kneale E N North Wales Steam (1927-1968), OPC, 1980, 178 plates. Large Format Hb. F/VG-. Several small internally repaired tears in the dw. A pictorial tribute to the LNWR main line to Holyhead. £6.95
Lumsdon, Les and Speakman, Colin
Great
Walks from Welsh Railways, Sigma Leisure, 1989, pp160. Pb.
VG. A series of walks in
Wales, all starting and finishing at stations both main line and narrow gauge. A
detailed map is included for each walk. £3.95
Mowat, Charles Loch The Golden Valley Railway: Railway enterprise on the Welsh Border in late Victorian times, University of Wales Press, 1964 pp121 plus pp13 of illustrations. Hb. VG/VG. Dw spine sunned. The dw has been neatly protected with a clear adhesive covering. A comprehensive history of the branch line that ran up the Golden Valley in Hereford from Pontrilas to Hay. It was eventually absorbed by the GWR. £12.50
Page, James Forgotten Railways: Vol. 8 South Wales, D&C, 2nd edition 1988, pp207 with a folding map in the rear. Hb. Fine/VG+. Recalls the heyday of railways in the Welsh valleys. £6.95
Page, James Rails in the Valleys, D&C/Guild, 1989, pp192. Large Format Hb. Fine/Fine. Evokes the unique character of the railways in South Wales. £8.50
Rear W G London Midland Steam in North Wales, Bradford Barton, 1979, pp96. Hb. VG/VG. One-inch internally-repaired tear in the dw fold. Red "speckled" cover. £4.95
Rear W G (Bill) Railways of North Wales Bangor, Foxline, 1992, pp80. Scenes from the Past:14. Large Format Pb. VG with slight wear at the base of the spine. £10.50
Tasker W W Railways in the Sirhowy Valley, Oakwood, 2nd enlarged edition 1992, pp128. Locomotion Papers No.113. Pb. VG. Remains of an old price sticker on the rear cover. The history of a LNWR line in the Welsh Valleys. £6.95
Williams J P The District Controller's View: Chester Holyhead, Xpress Publishing, pp80. No date. BR Steam Operating No.2. Large Format Pb. VG. "The book puts the reader in the place of the District Controller for 24 hours as he superintends the line." £8.50