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Dakers,
Caroline British Railway
Journeys, English Tourist Board, 1986, pp528. Glazed Boards.
VG with superficial wear to the glazed boards.
An informative guide for the following routes: Kings Cross to
Edinburgh; Euston to Birmingham, Liverpool & Manchester; Paddington
to Bristol, Cardiff & Penzance; Waterloo to Southampton; Victoria to
Brighton & Dover. £3.95
Dann, Chris Surrey Steam, Becknell Books, 1983, pp32. Pb. VG+. Album of steam on main, suburban and branch lines in Surrey. £2.95
Darnbrough, Antony West Coast Steam, IA, 1988, pp112. Large Format Hb. Fine / Fine. High-quality photographs - with some colour - focusing on the line between Lancaster and Carlisle with a significant amount of text to set the scene. £6.95
Dart, Maurice The
Last Days of Steam in Devon, AS, 1991, p152. Glazed boards with dw. VG+/VG.
The last 16 years of steam operation on Great Western and Southern lines
in Devon. £4.95
Davenport,
Neil Days of Steam: Two
Generations of Railway Photography, PSL, 1991, pp192.
Large Format Hb. F/VG+.
Excellent post-war album from the 40s and 50s, with sections on
the following locations: Epsom, Redhill to Reading, London, Derbyshire,
Appleby, Whitby, and Harrow. £6.95
Davenport,
Neil Classic Steam: A Family
Railway Album, SLP, 1995, pp192. Large
format Hb. Fine / Very Good+.
Photographs from the last twenty years of steam arranged as small groups
of pictures from specific locations. £6.95
Davies, Hunter A Walk Along the Tracks, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982, pp196 plus pp8 of illustrations. Hb. VG+/VG+. Walks along ten disused lines in different parts of the country: Three Bridges to East Grinstead, London & Leicester (Great Central line), York, the Deeside Line, the
Cockermouth Keswick & Penrith, the Wirral Way, the
Wye Valley, the Banbury & Cheltenham Direct Railway, the Somerset &
Dorset, and the Ally Pally Railway. £3.95
Davies R The Railway Centenary: A Retrospect, LNER, 1925, pp49 plus 18 plates. Bookplate. "Largish" format Pb. No dw. Fair. Edges of the covers worn with a half-inch tear in the rear edge; foxing to the page edges. A centenary history of the Stockton and Darlington. £6.95
Davies W J K The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, D&C, 1st edition 1968, pp204 with a colour frontis. Standard Railway Histories Series. Hb. VG+/VG-. Dw spine sunned. Some foxing to the page edges and wear to the dw. £8.50
Davies
W J K The Ravenglass &
Eskdale Railway, D&C, 2nd edition 1981, pp207 with 51 illustrations.
Standard Railway Histories Series.
Pb. VG-.
Slight wear to the covers. £3.95
Davies
W J K The Romney, Hythe &
Dymchurch Railway, D&C, 1988, pp218.
Hb. Fine/VG with slight
browning of the pages. A
comprehensive history first published in 1975.
£8.50
Day, John R The Story of London's Underground, London Transport, 1974, pp160 plus pp32 of illustrations. Colour frontis. First published in 1963, this is the enlarged edition of 1974, and the first hardback edition. VG/VG-. From Winston Churchill School library with stamps inside the cover & the title page, and a pastedown inside the rear cover. The dw has been covered with clear (non adhesive) foil and tacked neatly in place with two short strips of sellotape inside the covers. A history of the Underground from Gooch's broad gauge engines on the Metropolitan to the Jubilee Line and today's one-man operation. £3.95
Derry,
Richard The Book of the BR
Standards: 2, Irwell Press, 2002, pp92.
With contributions by Philip Atkins, Allan C. Baker and R. H. N. Hardy.
Large Format. Glazed Boards. Very
Good+. A series of illustrated
studies. £12.50
Dibnah, Fred and Hall, David
Age of Steam, BBC, 2003, pp192 plus pp32 of colour
illustrations.
Glazed boards with dw. Very
Good / Very Good. A history of
steam power with chapters on The Early Pioneers, The Transport
Revolution, Driving the Wheels of Industry, Steaming down the Road,
Ruling the Waves, and The Age of the Steam Turbine.
£4.95
Dickson, Brian Steam Portraits 1960-1966, AS, 1994, pp154. Glazed boards with dw. Fine / Fine. One man's photographic record of the last years of steam in Scotland - with occasional forays south of the border. £4.95
Dixon
F The Manchester South Junction
& Altrincham Railway, Oakwood Press, First edition 1972, pp88 plus pp10
of illustrations. Oakwood
Library No.34. Pb.
Very Good. £4.95
Donaghy,
Thomas J Liverpool &
Manchester Railway Operations 1831-1845, D&C, 1972, pp212 including pp16
of illustrations. Hb.
Very Good / Very Good. A
detailed study of the L & M, from the opening of the line until its
adsorption into the newly formed LNWR. A
sequel to The Liverpool & Manchester Railway Project 1821-1832 by
Robert Carlson. £10.50
Dorman C C
LMS Album, IA, 1967, pp112. Hb.
VG/VG-. Wear to the dw at
the head of the spine. An album
devoted to the LMS, with most of the pictures taken before nationalisation.
£4.95
Dow,
Andrew Rails to the Isles,
Dornoch Press, 1989, pp48. Pb.
VG. "David Dow captures
the splendour of the West Highland while 37s and semaphores still ruled
supreme." £2.95
Dow, George The First Railway across the Border, LNER, 1946, pp43 with a fold-up plan of Canal Street Station, Edinburgh in 1860. Pb. VG. Old price on cover, staples rusty. An illustrated booklet on the Edinburgh to Berwick line, issued to commemorate the centenary of the North British Railway. £6.95
Dow, George Railway Heraldry, D&C, 1973, pp269 including 88 coloured and 211 b/w illustrations. VG/VG. Very slight indentation to the top edge of the cover. The definitive work on the coats of arms used by British railway companies. £16.50
Dow
George The Story of the
West Highland, Famedram, 2001, pp64 plus pp8 of colour
illustrations. Pb.
VG. A recent reprint
of a booklet first published by the LNER in 1944.
£4.95
Dowling, Geoff and Whitehouse, John British Railways Past and Present No. 16: Avon, Cotswolds and the Malverns, Past and Present, 2001, pp144. Pb. Fine. Over 110 locations including Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud, Hereford and Chepstow. Coloured edition. £4.95
Dunn
J M The Stratford-upon-Avon
& Midland Junction Railway, Oakwood, 1st edition 1952, pp32
plus pp8 of plates. Oakwood
Library of Railway History No.10. Pb.
VG. £4.95
Dunn
J M The Wrexham Mold and
Connah’s Quay Railway, Oakwood, 1957, pp32, a complete table of
locomotives, 22 illustrations and 3 maps.
Oakwood Library No.14.
Pb. Red title on the
covers faded else VG. £5.95
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
Dunnett,
Malcolm North Eastern
Steam in Northumbria, Bradford Barton, 1977, pp96.
Hb. Very Good / Very Good. Green
"speckled" hb cover. Pictorial
album. £5.95
Dunnett,
Malcolm; Ermel, Trevor; Groundwater, Ken; Hudspith, Kevin; Hunt, John; and
Krause, Ian North East Focus: A
View from the Bridge, NRM, 1998, pp50.
Edited by Nigel Harris. In
association with Steam Railway. Large
format Pb. VG.
Two marks on the front covers, top back corner of the covers creased. The
end of BR steam as captured by a group of Newcastle based photographers in the
late 60s. £2.95
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
Dyer, Herbert J How to Work Sheet Metal, Percival Marshall, 1951, pp142. Card Covers. Fair. Spine of covers worn. "A practical man's description of metal working practice straight from the bench." £4.95
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