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Fairclough Tony and Wills, Alan
Southern Steam In The West Country, Bradford Barton, 1973, pp96.
Hb. Very Good / Very Good. Several
small internally-repaired tears to the dw. Green "flecked" hardback
cover. Pictorial album.
£4.95
Fairclough T and Wills A
More Southern Steam in the West Country, Bradford Barton, 1975,
pp96. Hb. Very Good / Very Good. Black
hardback cover. Pictorial album.
£3.95
Fairclough,
Tony and Wills, Alan Southern
Steam Locomotive Survey: The Drummond Classes, Bradford Barton, 1977, pp96.
Hb. Very Good / Very Good.
Green "speckled" hardback cover.
Pictorial album. £5.95
Fairclough
T and Wills A Great
Western Steam Through the Years 2, BB, 1978, pp96.
Hb. F/VG with a 1.5
inch internally repaired tear at the rear dw fold.
Brown "flecked" cover.
£4.95
Farquarson, Andy Getting
the Best from Ratio Plastic Models, Irwell Press, 1996, pp64. Modelling Railways Illustrated Handbook
No.7. Pb. VG. £7.50
Farr A D The Campbeltown and Machrihanish Railway, Oakwood, 1969, pp48 plus pp8 of illustrations. Locomotion Papers No.45. Pb. VG. The covers have been neatly protected with a clear adhesive covering. Slight wear to the covers at the head of the spine. £5.95
Farr, Michael; Lovell, Robert; Maggs, Colin G; and Whetmath, Charles The Wrington Vale Light Railway, Avon Anglia, 1978, pp28. Pb. Very Good. An illustrated history. £5.95
Farrington, John Life on the Lines, Moorland, 1984, pp183. Hb. Very Good / Very Good. Corners slightly bumped; "damaged in transit" sticker inside the covers. The lives of cleaners, firemen, drivers, guards, signalmen and station staff in the steam age. £4.95
Faulkner
J N and Williams R A The
London & South Western in the 20th Century, D&C, 1988,
pp224. Hb.
VG+/VG+ with a tiny nick in the dw fold.
A comprehensive history of the final two decades of the LSWR.
£10.50
Faviell, Brigadier John
The Railway Journeys of my Childhood, Pan Books, 1983, pp112.
Landscape format Hb. As published
with no dw and an attractive illustrated cover in VG+ condition.
Descriptions of the author's Edwardian railway journeys, illustrated by
his own watercolours. £4.95
Fawcett, Bill The
North Eastern Railway's Two Palaces of Business 1906 to 2006, Friends of the
National Railway Museum, 2006, pp64. In
association with GNER. Illustrations
by Patrick Howat. Large Format Pb.
Very Good. A detailed
history of the York Head Office of the NER, and also of the NER parliamentary
office in Westminster. £4.95
Fayle H and Newham A T The Waterford & Tramore Railway, D&C, 1st edition 1964, pp48 plus pp12 of illustrations. Pb. VG. Some foxing to the front endpapers and to the page edges. The full story of this isolated line, built to the standard Irish gauge of 5' 3". £12.50
Fayle H and Newham A T The Dublin and Blessington Steam Tramway, Oakwood, 1963, pp32 plus pp8 of illustrations. Locomotion Papers No.20. Pb. VG. £8.50
Fearnley, Alan The Railway Paintings of Alan Fearnley,
D&C, 2003,
pp80. "Largish" Landscape
Format Pb. VG. Colour reproductions of Alan Fearnley's paintings plus
supporting material. £4.95
Fell,
Andrew BR in the Midlands: Rail
17 Portfolio, IA, 1991, pp64. Landscape
format. Glazed Boards. VG+.
An all-colour album. £6.95
Fellows, Craig W and Gash, Paul E The Last Days of the Deltics, IA, 1986, pp96. Pb. Very Good. Slight wear to the dw at the head & base of the spine. A well-illustrated tribute to the final months of the Deltics. £3.95
Fenman Images of Steam, IA, 1974, pp192. Large Format Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good with a quarter inch closed tear in the dw fold. High-quality photographs taken by five Cambridge undergraduates in the late 50s. £6.95
Ferneyhough,
Frank Liverpool &
Manchester Railway 1830-1980, Robert Hale, 1980, pp193.
Hb. VG/VG+. Emphasises
the period up to 1845, when the railway lost its independence.
£7.50
Ferris, Tom Severn Valley Locomotives as They Were, Midland Publishing, 1995, pp84. Pb. VG+. Over 160 photographs of Severn Valley locomotives in action on the everyday tasks for which they were designed. £3.50
Ferris, Tom and Flanagan, Patrick The Cavan & Leitrim The Last Decade: An Irish Railway
Pictorial, Midland Publishing, 1997, pp64.
Large Format Pb. Very Good+.
£12.50
Fisher,
Jeffrey N The Rishworth Branch,
Oakwood, 1990, pp80. Locomotion Papers No.174. Pb. VG.
A history of the Lancashire & Yorkshire branch from Sowerby Bridge to
Rishworth. £5.95
Fleming
D J St Philips Marsh: Memories
of an Engine Shed, BB, 1980, pp114 and 30 illustrations.
Pb. Generally, VG but with a
crease across the top front corner of the cover.
St Philips Marsh shed in Bristol had an allocation of around 140 engines
and provided motive power for freight workings in the Bristol area.
These reminiscences cover the final years.
£2.95
Fleming D J Raising the Echoes: The Illustrated Story of a Great Western Railway Steam Locomotive Depot, Line One, 1984, pp96. Fine with Glazed Boards. The story of Bristol Bath Road shed; mainly text notwithstanding the title. £4.95
Flewitt RC The Hill of Howth Tramway, Transport Research Associates, Dublin, 1968, pp64 with 16 illustrations and a folding map in the rear. VG. The stiff card covers have been neatly protected with a clear adhesive covering. The book has a complex provenance having been in the Stockport Public Library reference section, and also in the NRM reference library. As a result there are both Stockport and NRM library bookplates inside the front covers along with two withdrawn stamps from the NRM. There is also a Stockport library stamp on the title page, and a library number on the front cover at the base of the spine. I can find no library marking in the text itself, which is in excellent condition throughout. An illustrated history of the Hill of Howth Tramway, a 5 mile tramway constructed by the Great Northern Railway (Ireland), and located on a peninsula only 6 miles north east of Dublin. £5.95
Flinders T G On the Settle & Carlisle Route,
IA, 1989, pp112.
The original Ian Allan edition. Hb.
Fine/VG+. A selection of
over 200 photographs from both the steam and diesel era, which take the reader
over the line in five pictorial stages. £4.95
Flint, Raymond Men of Steam: A Yorkshire Novel, Santona, 2nd printing, 1996, pp170. Pb. Very Good+. 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.
Signed by the author. Pb.
Very Good. The
"final" volume of the Yorkshire Trilogy of Steam, 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. Very Good. The 4th volume in the Men of Steam Series. Tales of post-war LNER days. £3.95
Flowers A W Forty Years of Steam 1926-1966, IA, 1969, pp144. Hb. Small repaired tear in dw else VG/VG. A locomotive cavalcade from the Flower's collection. While all four regions are represented, Great Central, North Eastern & LMS locomotives predominate. £3.95
Forsythe H G Men of Steam: A portrait of life on the footplate, Atlantic, 1982, pp48. Pb. Very Good+. A well-illustrated booklet. £1.95
Forsythe H G Steam Shed Portrait,
Atlantic, 1986,
pp50. Pb.
VG. An illustrated booklet
describing the day-to-day operation of a steam shed. £1.95
Forsythe
H G Driving and
Servicing British Rail's Diesel Fleet, Atlantic, 1989, p48.
Pb. Very Good.
A revealing collection of views portraying life on the footplate,
on depot and at works, giving a refreshing insight into the modern
railway environment. £3.95
Forsythe H G The Railway Vanishes: An Appreciation of a Lost Era, Silver Link, 1993, pp128. Large Format Hb. Fine / Fine. High-quality photographs from the 1955-65 period. £6.95
Forsythe
H G The Railway Vanishes: An
Appreciation of a Lost Era, Silver Link, 1993, pp128.
Large Format Pb. VG.
High quality photographs from the 1955-65 period.
£3.95
Foster, Michael Hornby Dublo Trains: Hornby Dublo 1938-1964, The story of the perfect table railway, New Cavendish / Guild, 1987, pp416 including a check list of every production item together with all known variations. With a compendium compiled by Alan F. Ellis. The Hornby Companion Series Vol.3. Large landscape format Hb. VG+/VG. Slight wear to the dw at the head of the spine, also a nick in the rear dw fold. A lavishly-produced tribute. £16.50
Fox, Peter and Webster, Neil Preserved Locomotives and Multiple Units, Platform 5, 3rd edition 1986, pp80. Pb. Very Good+. A complete guide to all remaining ex-BR and constituent companies steam, diesel & electric locomotives and dmus & emus. £2.50
Fox, Peter The
Midland Line in Sheffield, Platform 5, 1990, pp60 including pp24 in colour. Steam
Days on BR 1. Pb.
Very Good+. A nostalgic
photographic survey. £3.50
Foxwell E and Farrer T C Express Trains English & Foreign being a statistical account of all the express trains of the world with railway maps of Great Britain and Europe, IA, 1964, pp184. Classics of Railway Literature Series. First published by Smith, Elder & Co in 1889. Hb. VG/VG-. Book VG with slight wear at the top & bottom of the spine. Dw VG- with slight wear to the dw edges. A comprehensive survey of the fastest trains throughout the world in 1888. £4.95
Freezer C J Low-Relief Modelling, Peco, pp8. No date. Railway Modeller Shows You How Booklet No.5. Pb. VG. Originally included with an issue of Railway Modeller. An illustrated booklet. £0.95
Freezer, Cyril Model
Railways on a Budget, A practical guide to inexpensive more enjoyable modelling,
PSL, 1987, pp168 with numerous diagrams & illustrations.
"Smallish" format Hb. VG+/VG.
The old master explains how to construct a model railway without spending
a fortune. £4.95
Freezer, Cyril PSL
Book of Model Railway Wiring, PSL, 1st edition 1989, pp144.
Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good.
Two small nicks and slight wear to the dw at the head of the spine.
A clear yet comprehensive introduction by a former editor of the Railway
Modeller. £5.95
Freezer
C J 1001 Model Railway
Questions & Answers, PSL, 1992, pp224.
Hb. Very Good+ /
Very Good+. A model railway
encyclopaedia in question and answer form.
£4.95
Freezer C J The Model Railway Design Manual: How to Plan & Build a Successful
Layout, PSL, 1996, pp160 with 125 track plans.
Large Format. Glazed Boards.
VG. Blank front page loose, slight indentation to the top edge of
the covers, spine slightly sunned. £4.95
Fry A J Bulleid Power: The Merchant Navy Class, Alan Sutton, 1990, pp195. Hb. VG+/VG+. A comprehensive history of the Merchant Navy class, drawing on previously unpublished material. £8.50
Fryer, Charles The Locomotives of James Cudworth, author, pp64. No date. Pb. VG+. James Cudworth was Locomotive Superintendent of the South Eastern Railway from 1845 until 1876. £6.95
Fryer C E J British Baltic Tanks: The Story of the Six Types of British 4-6-4 Tank Locomotives, Platform 5, 1993, pp56. Railway Monographs No.2. Pb. Very Good. An illustrated history of the Baltic tanks designed for the London Tilbury & Southend, The Brighton, The Belfast & County Down, The Furness, The Glasgow & South Western, and The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. £6.95
Fryer, Charles Single Wheeler Locomotives: The Brief Age of Perfection, OPC, 1993, pp112. Large Format Hb. Fine / Very Good. An illustrated history of the final generation of Singles on the Great Northern of Ireland, The Midland, The Caledonian, The North Eastern, the London & South Western, The Great Eastern, The Great Northern & the Great Central Railways. £10.50
Fryer,
Charles British Pullman Trains,
SLP, 1999, pp224. Hb. Very Good /
Very Good. A tribute to all
Britain's steam, diesel and electric Pullman services.
£14.50
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