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Beckett, Derrick Brunel's Britain, D&C, 6th impression 1988, pp222. Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good+. Spine of dw very slightly faded. A systematic appraisal of Brunel's work, with an emphasis on what can still be seen today. £6.95
Bellwood, John and Jenkinson, David Gresley and Stanier: A Centenary Tribute, National Railway Museum, 1st Edition 1976, pp100. Bookplate from previous owner. Large Format Pb. Very Good. A comparative study of the work of Sir Nigel Gresley and Sir William Stanier, arguably the two greatest British steam locomotive engineers of the 20th century. £3.95
Brown F A S Nigel Gresley: Locomotive Engineer, IA, 1962, pp215 plus pp32 of illustrations & two fold-out locomotive drawings at the rear. Hb. VG/VG. A standard biography. £10.50
Buchanan, Angus Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Hambledon & London, 2002, pp294 plus 22 plates. Hb. Fine / Fine. A major biography of Brunel that sets him in the context of his times, showing what made him, who he was, and how he made the most of the opportunities offered to him. £8.50
Bulleid H A V The Aspinall Era, IA, 1967, pp270 including pp40 of illustrations. Hb. VG/Fair. Wear to the dw edges with slight loss. A fitting tribute to John Aspinall, the designer of the famous Aspinall Atlantics on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. £12.50
Bulleid H A V Master Builders of Steam, IA, 1st Edition 1963, pp190.
Hb. Dw internally repaired
at the head of the spine else VG+/VG. Bulleid's
son describes the design achievements of six famous locomotive engineers: Ivatt
(GNR), Gresley, Bulleid, Churchward, Stanier and H.G. Ivatt (LMS).
£7.50
Bulleid H A V Master Builders of Steam, IA, 1970, pp190. Pb. VG. Creasing to the dw spine, brown stain along part of the lower edge of the dw. Bulleid's son describes the designs of six famous locomotive engineers: Ivatt (GNR), Gresley, Bulleid, Churchward, Stanier and H.G. Ivatt (LMS). £4.95
Bulleid H A V Bulleid of the Southern, IA, 1978, pp229 with 100 illustrations & 54 figs. Hb. VG/VG- with slight wear to the top edge of the dw. A biography of the last CME of the Southern Railway. £14.50
Cox E S Locomotive Panorama Vol.1, IA, 1974, pp164, 13 tables, 25 figs and 53 plates. First published in 1965. Pb. Very Good+. The first volume of Cox's autobiography, covering his early days with the L&Y and his career with the LMS. £4.95
Day-Lewis, Sean Bulleid: Last Giant of Steam, A&U, 2nd impression of revised 2nd edition 1982, pp303 plus pp36 of illustrations. Hb. Fine / Fine. A standard biography. £16.50
Hardy R H N Beeching: Champion of the Railway?, IA, 1989, pp126 plus pp66 of illustrations. A review copy. Hb. VG/VG+. Richard Hardy attempts to provide a balanced account of the Beeching era. £8.50
Holcroft H Locomotive Adventure: Fifty Years with Steam, IA, 1962, pp216, pp33 of plates, and two folding section plans of locomotives in the rear. VG-/Fair. Slight spotting to the covers, plastic coating coming away from the dw, several small tears to the dw edges. The first volume of Harry Holcroft's memoirs covering his apprenticeship at Stafford Road, Wolverhampton, his years with Churchward at Swindon, and his subsequent move to Ashford to work with Maunsell on the SE&CR and later the Southern Railway. £14.50
Jackson, David J. G. Robinson: A Lifetime's Work, Oakwood, 1996, pp234. Oakwood Library No.98. Hb. Fine/VG+. £12.50
Marx, Klaus Douglas Earle Marsh: His Life and Times, Oakwood, 2005, pp160. Oakwood Library No.134. Pb. VG+. Marsh was CME on the LB&SCR where he designed the H2 atlantics and the I3 tanks. His career ended prematurely when he was forced to resign over financial irregularities. £7.50
Nock O S The Railway Engineers, Batsford, 1955, pp256 with 65 illustrations. Hb. VG/VG-. Dw worn at the top of the spine. The story of the engineers who built our railways and designed the early locomotives. £5.95
Nock O S Steam Locomotive: A Retrospect of the Work of Eight Great Locomotive Engineers, British Railways Board, 1955, pp40. Pb. VG-. Covers a bit grubby. An illustrated booklet with sections on Robert Stephenson, John Ramsbottom, Edward Fletcher, Patrick Stirling, Samuel Waite Johnson, Dugald Drummond, G J Churchward and H N Gresley. £1.95
Pudney, John Brunel and his World, Thames & Hudson, 1974, pp128 with 140 illustrations. Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good. An illustrated biography. £4.95
Robbins, Michael George & Robert Stephenson, HMSO, 1981, pp69 plus 10 illustrations. First published by Oxford University Press in 1966. Pb. Very Good. Spine slightly sunned. A short biography. £2.95
Rogers, Colonel H C B G. J. Churchward, Allen & Unwin, 1975, pp216 with 59 plate & 11 diagrams. Inscription. Hb. VG/Good+. Picture of a GWR 4-4-0 pasted on the title page, and a postcard of City of Truro pasted on the copyright page. The dw has been covered with a clear adhesive covering and has been fixed to the covers. £18.50
Rolt L T C George and Robert Stephenson, Longmans, 1st edition 1960, pp356 plus 23 illustrations. Inscription. Hb. VG/VG-. Dw edges internally repaired. A first edition of a major study which emphasises the crucial role played by Robert in the Stephenson partnership. £12.50
Rolt
L T C The Cornish Giant: The
Story of Richard Trevithick, father of the steam locomotive, Lutterworth,
1960, pp160. Hb. VG/VG-. Slight
wear to the dw at the head & base of the spine, spine faded.
Rolt's tribute to Richard Trevithick, the pioneering Cornish engineer.
£32.50
Rowland, John George
Stephenson: Creator of Britain's Railways, Odhams, 1954, pp239 & pp17 of
plates. Hb.
VG+/VG. "The result of
a vast amount of careful research, it contains much new information, including
hitherto unpublished letters and reports, and it corrects some important mis-statements
made by earlier biographers, notably Samuel Smiles."
£5.95
Sibley,
Brian The Thomas the Tank Engine
Man: The Story of the Reverend W. Awdry and his Really Useful Engines,
Heinemann, 1995, pp336. Hb.
VG+/VG. Internally repaired
tear in the dw at the head of the spine. A biography of the man behind the
Thomas the Tank Engine books. £16.50
Tatlow,
Joseph Fifty Years of Railway
Life in England, Scotland and Ireland, Railway Gazette, First edition 1920,
pp223. Hb. Very Good - / Poor. The
corners of the covers are slightly bumped, also slight wear at the top &
bottom of the spine and foxing to the page edges. The badly torn dw has been
repaired internally and has some loss. Tatlow joined the Midland Railway as a
junior clerk in 1867, moved to the G&SWR in Glasgow in 1875, became General
Manager of the Belfast & County Down at the early age of 34 and finally
became General Manager of the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland.
£16.50
Vaughan,
Adrian Isambard Kingdom Brunel:
Engineering Knight-Errant, John Murray, 1992, pp285 plus pp16 of plates.
Hb. VG+/VG. "This is the first biography to show Brunel as he
actually was. Adrian Vaughan, drawing on evidence ignored in Rolt's classic
life, reveals not just an engineer of genius, a fountain of original ideas and
nervous energy, a born actor and a courageous leader, but also a man who was
obstinate, unjust, dictatorial and in the end paranoid."
£8.50
Weighell, Sid A Hundred Years of Railway Weighells: Three Generations of a Railway Family, Robson Books, 1984, pp240 plus pp24 of illustrations. Hb. Fine / Fine. Sid Weighell was an outspoken and often controversial General Secretary of the NUR from 1975-82. £4.95
Westwood J N Locomotive Designers in the Age of Steam, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1977, pp285 plus 57 plates. Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good. Wear marks inside the front cover from careless tape removal. The first part describes the lives and achievements of 37 outstanding locomotive designers - British, American and European. The second part provides brief biographies of 240 designers. £12.50
Worth,
Martin Sweat and Inspiration:
Pioneers of the Industrial Age, Sutton, 1999, pp204. Hb.
Fine / Fine. The story of the great engineers of the first half of the
19th century: Robert Stevenson who built lighthouses, Richard Trevithick, Thomas
Telford, John Rennie, George Stephenson and Marc Brunel, their sons Robert
Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel and finally Joseph Locke.
£4.95
Young, Robert Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive, The Hackworth Society, 2000, pp406 plus an index. First published in 1923. Colour frontis. Pb. VG+. The standard biography of one of the pioneers of locomotive engineering compiled from his manuscripts, letters and miscellaneous papers, and supplemented by information from members of his family. £10.50
Reminiscences
Beavor E S
Steam Was My Calling, IA, 1974, pp184. Hb. Fine / Very
Good. Slight wear to the dw at the
head of the spine. Beavor joined
the LNER as a premium apprentice at Doncaster works in 1936 and subsequently
worked in the motive power department, rising to the post of shedmaster in the
50s. £5.95
Boyd J I C Saga by Rail: Ireland, Oakwood, 2006, pp288. Series RS16. Pb. VG+. The author recalls his visits to Irish narrow gauge railways between 1933 and 1962. £10.50
Burke M Signalman, Bradford Barton, 1982, pp112. Pb. Very Good. Reminiscences in the North West in the 50s and 60s. £3.95
Dunn J M Reflections on a Railway Career LNWR to BR, IA, 1966, pp184. Hb. VG/VG. The dw has been neatly protected with a clear adhesive covering. Reminiscences of 50 years in the locomotive running department, latterly in charge of Bangor shed. £5.95
Durrant,
A E (Dusty) Swindon Apprentice,
Runpast, 1989, pp216. "Largish"
format. Hb.
Fine / Very Good. Dusty
Durant relates his experiences as a premium apprentice at Swindon immediately
after the war. Includes a letter
from Dusty Durrant to the previous owner of the book regarding the latter's
request for information on West African railways.
£14.50
Flint, Raymond Head of Steam: More Men of Steam Stories, Santona, 1995, pp170. Pb. VG. Tales of Yorkshire's railways in 1944, based on the author's experiences with the LNER. £3.95
Flint, Raymond Men of Steam: A Yorkshire Novel, Santona, 2nd printing 1996, pp170. Pb. VG. Slight wear to the covers. A semi-autobiographical account of a young Yorkshire lad beginning a working life on the LNER. £3.95
Flint, Raymond Power of Steam: Men of Steam in Action, Santona, 1996, pp166. Pb. VG+. The 3rd volume of the Men of Steam Series, with more footplate tales set in the final year of the war. £3.95
Flint, Raymond Spirit of Steam: Further Adventures with Men of Steam, Santona, 1998, pp160. Pb. VG. The 4th volume in the Men of Steam Series. Tales of post-war LNER days. £3.95
Gasson, Harold Footplate Days: More Reminiscences of a Great Western Fireman, OPC, 1978, pp112 plus pp32 of illustrations. Pb. VG. A sequel to Firing Days, more experiences at Didcot shed. £2.95
Glenn, D Fereday Rail Rover: From Kent to Cornwall, Alan Sutton, 1997, pp172 and 180 pictures. Glazed boards with dw. Very Good / Very Good. Top corners of the glazed boards bumped. The author recalls a week of travel on the Southern Region in 1959 using a Rail Rover ticket. £4.95
Hick, Frank L That Was My Railway: From ploughman's kid to railway boss, SLP, 1991, pp160 plus pp12 of illustrations. Hb. VG/VG. Slight creasing to the dw spine. Frank Hick joined the North Eastern Railway in 1922, served the LNER throughout its existence, and retired as Operation Chief of the North Eastern Region in 1969. £5.95
Holland, Julian The Lost Joy of Railways: Remembering the Golden Age of Trainspotting, D&C, 2009, pp256. Large Format. Glazed boards with dw. VG/VG. A well-illustrated celebration of the 50s and 60s. £5.95
Jackman
M Engineman SR, Bradford
Barton, 1982, pp112. Pb.
Very Good. Base of the spine
slightly bumped. Price sticker on
the cover. Memoirs of footplate
life at Bricklayers Arms from 1947 until the end of steam.
£3.95
Household, Humphrey With the LNER in the Twenties, AS, 1985, pp180. Hb. VG+/VG. The author's experiences as a traffic apprentice with the LNER, illustrated with the photographs that he took at the time. £4.95
King, Donald South West Railwayman,
A&U, 1984,
pp96. Steam Past Series.
Well-illustrated throughout. Hb.
Fine/VG+. Memories of the
Lyme Regis branch. £4.95
Leyland, Eric Loco Driver, Edmund Ward, 1957, pp94 with 4 plates and
12 diagrams. Hb. VG/Fair. An
informative period piece aimed at youngsters who aspire to be engine drivers.
£3.95
Meacher, Charlie Living
with Locos, Bradford Barton, 1980, pp108.
Pb. Very Good+.
Steam memories centred on Edinburgh and Fife.
£3.95
Quinn, Tom Tales
of the Old Railwaymen, D&,C, 2004, pp192.
"Largish" format Pb. Very Good. "A fascinating range of characters recount their
experiences of working on steam trains, from a shedmaster to a fireman, and from
an engine driver to a signalman." £3.95
Ransome-Wallis
P Men of the Footplate, Ian
Allan, 1954, pp96 plus pp32 of illustrations. Colour frontis.
Small typed sticker with previous owner's name inside the cover.
Hb. Very Good / Very Good -.
Slight wear to the covers at the head & base of the spine.
Dw internally re-enforced at the head & base of the spine, and the
Ian Allan discount token has been cut out from the rear dw flap.
The reminiscences of Walter Harris of the GWR, Percy Cox of the SR,
Albert Young of the LMS, and C. H. Simmons of the LNER.
£7.50
Rivington My Life With Locomotives: A Retired Locomotive Engineer Looks Back, IA, 1962, pp168 plus pp20 of illustrations. Hb. VG-/Good+. Tears in the dw internally repaired. Reminiscences of a railway career working successively with Lancashire & Yorkshire, LNWR and LMS engines. £7.50
Semmens P W B Bill Hoole: Engineman Extraordinary, IA, 1966, pp205. Pb. VG/VG-. Slight wear along the bottom edge of the covers, creasing across the bottom of the front dw with a two-inch tear in the dw fold. The biography of a legendary Kings Cross engineman. £16.50
Semmens P W B Bill Hoole: Engineman Extraordinary, IA, pp205. No date. Pb. Fair. Presentation plate to a school library inside the front cover, and a pastedown inside the rear cover. The covers have been protected with a clear adhesive covering. The biography of a legendary Kings Cross engineman. A reading copy. £4.95
Smith, Peter Footplate over the Mendips, OPC, 1978, pp138. Pb. Good+. Anecdotes and stories of the Somerset & Dorset, mainly from the period 1919 to 1950. A sequel to Mendips Engineman. £3.95
Thorley W G F A Breath of Steam: Vol.1, IA, 1975, pp199 plus 69 illustrations. Hb. VG/VG. Vol.2 never appeared. The autobiography of an LMS shed apprentice from the late 20s until the early 40s. £5.95