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Gamble G Diesels around Reading, Bronross, 1978, pp32. Landscape format Pb. Very Good. Early diesel traction in and around Reading. £2.95
Gammell
C J Scottish Branch Lines:
1955-1965, OPC, First Edition 1978, 163 plates.
Large Format Hb. VG+/VG. Red title on the spine
slightly faded. A pictorial survey
with the following sections: Highland, Grampian, Tayside, Fife, Central,
Strathclyde, Lothian, Borders and Dumfries & Galloway.
£8.50
Gammell,
Chris Around the Branch Lines:
No. 2 Great Western, OPC, 1983, 157 plates. Large format Hb.
F/VG. A high-quality
pictorial survey that examines each area in turn.
£7.50
Gammell C J
The Branch Line Age: The Minor Railways of the British Isles in
Memoriam and Retrospect, Bracken, 1988, pp96.
First published by Moorland in 1976.
Hb. Fine/Fine. Examines
branch lines in all five regions and also in the Isle of Man and Ireland. £3.95
Gammell C J The Steam Age, Bracken, 1988, pp96. Hb. VG+/VG+. 1959 was a year of rapid change on British Railways. This album portrays the scenes, month by month, as the author travelled throughout the British Isles recording the passing of the steam age. £3.95
Gammell,
Chris Steam Sheds and
their Locomotives, IA, 1995, pp112.
Large Format Hb. Fine/VG+.
Gives a historical introduction and a sample allocation for
groups of sheds from all six regions.
Illustrated with 160 colour photographs. £6.95
Gammell C J Scottish Branch Lines, OPC, 1999, pp192. Large Format Hb. VG/VG. The later more comprehensive branch-by-branch survey with the following chapters: Highland, Grampian, Tayside, Fife, Central, Strathclyde, Dumfries & Galloway, Borders and Lothian. £10.50
Garbutt, Paul World Metro Systems: An Encyclopaedia of the World's Metropolitan Railways, Capital Transport, 1991, pp152. Pb. Very Good+. A well-illustrated overview of the world's metro systems. £3.50
Gardner,
Jack Brunel's Didcot: Great
Western Railway to Great Western Society, Runpast, 1996, pp128.
Large Format Hb. VG+/VG. An
illustrated history with the final chapter dealing with railway preservation at
Didcot. £8.50
Garnett A F Steel Wheels: The Evolution of the Railways and how they excited Engineers, Architects, Artists and Writers, Cannwood Press, 2005, pp266. Hb. Fine / Fine. "A celebration of the railways and of their enduring effect on our collective imagination." £4.95
Garratt,
Colin Preserved Steam
Locomotives of Britain, Blandford, 1982, pp169, 37 coloured plates,
and 72 b/w photographs. "Smallish"
format Hb. VG/VG.
Edges of the covers rubbed.
Describes and illustrates the historic engines still on display
throughout Britain. £2.95
Garratt, Colin The Golden Age of British Steam Railways from the early Twenties to the Late Fifties, Sunburst / Milepost, 1994, pp184. Very Large Format. Glazed boards with dw. Very Good+ / Very Good+. Bottom corners of the glazed boards bumped. An outstanding collection of over 350 photographs selected from the work of the Rev A. W. V. Mace. £6.95
Garratt, Colin The Golden Years of British Steam Trains, Milepost, 1995, pp196. Large Format Hb. Fine / Very Good+. Atmospheric photographs taken by the Reverend A. W. V. Mace, a prolific railway photographer who was active from the early 20s until the end of steam. Divided into four sections covering the GWR, LMS, LNER and SR. £5.95
Garratt, Colin The Golden Years of British Steam Trains: London Midland Scottish Railway, Milepost, 1995, pp48. Large Format. Glazed Boards. Fine. Evocative photographs taken by the Rev. A. W. V. Mace, a prolific railway photographer whose career ranged from the early 1920s until his death in 1986. £3.95
Garratt, Colin The Golden Years of British Steam Trains: London & North Eastern Railway, Milepost, 1995, pp48. Large Format. Glazed Boards. Fine. Evocative photographs taken by the Rev. A W V Mace, a prolific railway photographer from the early 1920s until his death in 1986. £3.95
Garratt,
Colin The Golden Years of
British Steam Trains: Southern Railway, Milepost, 1995, pp48.
Large Format. Glazed Boards. VG.
Evocative photographs taken by the Rev A. W. V. Mace, a prolific railway
photographer from the early 1920s until his death in 1986.
£3.95
Garrett S R The
Kent and East Sussex Railway, Oakwood, 2nd enlarged edition 1987, pp104. The
second enlarged and revised edition. Locomotion Papers No.56.
Pb. VG.
An illustrated history. £4.95
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
Gerard,
Malcolm and Hamilton J A B Rails
to Disaster: More British Steam Train Accidents
1906-1957, BCA/A&U, 1994, pp124.
Steam Past Series. Hb.
VG+/VG+ with slight browning along the top of the dw.
Each of the chapters is devoted to a major rail accident.
Complements Trains to Nowhere.
£4.95
Gibbons,
David BR Equipment 2: Drawings
from Railnews 'Stockspot', IA, 1990, pp96. Large landscape format Pb.
Fine. Drawings of recent
locomotives, emus and dmus with supporting text.
£5.95
Gibbs P W The S&D 7Fs Remembered, Camelot Locomotive Society, 1986, pp28. Pb. VG+. An illustrated booklet with further footplate reminiscences from Peter Smith. £5.95
Gilbert P T and Chancellor P J A Detailed History of British Railways Standard Steam Locomotives Vol.1: Background to Standardisation and the Pacific Classes, RCTS, 1994, pp172 with pp8 of colour. Large Format. Glazed Boards. VG. Slight wear to the covers at the head of the spine. A definitive study. £12.50
Glenn, D Fereday Rail Routes in Hampshire & East Dorset, IA, 1983, pp128. Hb. Fine/VG. A pictorial survey of a once complex railway network. £5.95
Glenn,
D Fereday The Last Days of Steam
in Surrey and Sussex, Alan Sutton, 1989, pp128. Hb. Fine / Very Good+. A
pictorial album in the Last Days of Steam Series.
£4.95
Glenn, D Fereday More
Last Days of Steam around London, Alan Sutton, 1992, pp152. Glazed boards
with dw. VG/VG- with some wear to
the dw at the top of the spine. "A glimpse into London's stations, termini
and trains during the last days of steam."
£3.95
Glenn, D Fereday
More Last Days of Steam in Hampshire and the
Isle of Wight, Alan Sutton, 1993, pp152. Glazed
boards with dw. Fine/VG+.
"Evocative photographs from the author's own collection." £4.95
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
Glover, John London's Railways Today, D&C, 1981, pp96. Glazed Boards. VG. A thirty-page introduction, followed by a pictorial survey of London's railways at the start of the 80s. £3.95
Glover, John English Electric Traction Album, IA, 1981, pp112. Hb. Very Good / Very Good. A class-by-class survey. £5.95
Glover, John and Marsden, Colin Motive Power Recognition: 4 London Transport Railways and PTE Systems, IA, 1985, pp112. Small format Pb. Very Good. "Wrinkling" to the plastic dw coating. Includes Isle of Wight, Glasgow Underground and the Tyne & Wear Metro. £2.95
Glover, John BR
Diary 1958-1967, IA, 1987, pp128. Glazed
Boards. VG. A history of the decade that witnessed the end of steam and
the introduction of the first generation diesels.
£5.95
Glover, John National
Railways: A Guide to the Privatised Railways, IA, 1996, pp128.
Pb. Fine. A useful insight
into how our railways were privatised. £3.95
Glover, John Railways in and around London Then & Now, IA, 1999, pp255. Large Format Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good+. A lavishly produced album of then and now illustrations, which looks in turn at each pre-grouping railway with a presence in the capital. £7.50
Goode C T The Railways of North Lincolnshire, author, 1985, pp96. Pb. Very Good. An illustrated history of the railways of North Lincolnshire. £4.95
Goode C T Railway Rambles with a Box Camera 2: Sites and Stations, author, 1989, pp58. Pb. VG. Remains of an old price sticker on the cover. Inscription plus brief notes inside the cover plus crosses & ticks at some of the captions. Perhaps the most interesting booklet in this series since it focuses on the railway infrastructure. £3.95
Goodman, John LMS Locomotive Names: The Named Locomotives of the London Midland & Scottish Railway and its Constituent Companies, RCTS, 1994, pp215 with 122 illustrations. Glazed Boards. VG. Spine sunned, top corners of the covers slightly bumped. A detailed account of the names and nameplates carried on LMS locomotives and those of its Constituent Companies. £8.50
Goodman, John L&NWR Locomotive Names: The Named Locomotives of the London & North Western Railway and its Constituent Companies, RCTS, 2002, pp284. Includes A Sequel to LMS Locomotives Names. Large Format. Glazed Boards. VG. A comprehensive reference work. £10.50
Gorton, Tag Steam in Your Garden: An introduction to live steam narrow gauge railways for the smaller garden, Atlantic, 1996, pp80. Large Format Pb. Very Good+. Well-illustrated in colour and b/w. £5.95
Gosling, Ted and Clement Mike
Devon Railways, Sutton, 1997, pp128. Pb.
Very Good+. Sutton's Photographic History of Railways Series.
£4.95
Gosling,
Ted and Clement, Mike Dorset
Railways, Sutton, 1999, pp128. Pb.
Very Good+. Sutton's Photographic History of Railways Series.
£4.95
Goudie F W Metropolitan
to Jubilee: Wembley Park to Stanmore, Forge Books, 1986, pp32.
"Largish" format Pb. Fine.
An illustrated history of the Metropolitan Railway's branch to Stanmore,
now part of the Jubilee line. £8.50
Gough,
John British Rail at
Work: East Midlands, IA, 1985, pp128.
Large Format Hb. F/
VG+. A comprehensive survey
of the East Midlands railway system in the mid-80s.
£6.95
Gough,
John British Rail at
Work: InterCity, IA, 1988, pp128.
Large Format Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good.
Dw internally re-enforced at the head of the spine, and a one
inch tear to the rear bottom edge of the dw internally repaired.
A detailed examination of the nationwide InterCity network before
it was fragmented by privatisation.
£6.95
Gough, Terry The Southern in Hampshire & Dorset, OPC, 1984, 146 plates. Large Format Hb. Fine / Very Good+. A line-by-line pictorial tribute. £6.95
Gough,
Terry Around the Branch Lines No.1 Southern, OPC, 1988, 178
plates. Large Format Hb.
Fine / Very Good+. A
branch by branch pictorial survey.
£7.50
Gough
Terry The Southern in
Surrey & Berkshire, OPC, 1988, pp96.
Large Format Hb. Fine
/ Fine. A typical
high-quality OPC album. £6.95
Gough,
Terry Berkshire Past and Present,
Past & Present, 2002, pp96. Rediscovering
Railways Series. Pb.
VG. A pictorial record of
the county's railways past and present. £4.95
Gough, Terry West Sussex Past and Present, Past & Present, 2002, pp96. Rediscovering Railways Series. Pb. VG+. A pictorial record of the county's railways past and present. £4.95
Gough, Terry Surrey: The West of the County Past and Present, Past & Present, 2002, pp96. Rediscovering Railways Series. Pb. VG+. A pictorial record of the area's railways past and present. £4.95
Gough, Terry Surrey: The East of the County Past and Present, Past & Present, 2003, pp96. Rediscovering Railways Series. Pb. VG+. Slight crease to the bottom front corner of the covers. A pictorial record of the area's railways past and present. £4.95
Gould, David The London & Birmingham Railway 150 Years On, D&C, 1987, pp96. Hb. Fine / Very Good+. An illustrated survey of the Euston to Birmingham line in the 1980s. £3.95
Gould, David The
Westerham Valley Railway, Oakwood, 2nd enlarged edition 1999, pp128.
Locomotion Papers No.72. Pb.
Very Good. An illustrated
history of a Southern Railway branch. £4.95
Goult, Ron
Steam in the North East: A photo-recollection of the 1950s' railway
scene, Dalesman, 1982, pp72. Landscape
format Pb. VG.
Spine of the dw sunned. £4.95
Gourvish T R Mark Huish and the London & North Western Railway: A Study of Management, Leicester University Press, 1973, pp319. VG/VG. Some rubbing to the dw at the base of the spine. A study of the management career of Captain Mark Huish. £14.50
Gower P, Gray B and Vingoe K The Lynton and Barnstaple Yesterday and Today, Oakwood, 1999, pp112. Portrait Series PS8. Pb. Fine. A collection of "then" and "now" photographs. £4.95
Gradon,
W McGowan A History of
the Cockermouth and Penrith Railway, author, 1948, pp36.
Pb. An illustrated
history. £24.50
Graebe, Chris and Graebe, Julie
The
Hornby Gauge 0 System,
New Cavendish,
1st edition 1985, pp336 with over 500 illustrations, 423 in colour.
The Hornby Companion Series Vol.5.
Large landscape format Hb. VG/VG-.
Dw internally repaired at the head & base of the spine, spine
slightly sunned. A lavishly
produced tribute. £16.50
Gray, Edward Manchester Road & Rail, Alan Sutton, 1996, pp126. Britain in Old Photographs Series. Pb. VG. £4.95
Gray, Edward Manx Railways & Tramways, Sutton, 1998, pp160. Pb. VG. Sutton's Photographic History of Railways. With sections on The Isle of Man Railway, Douglas Street Tramways, the Manx Electric Railway, The Snaefell Mountain Railway, The Groudle Glen Railway, and the Douglas Southern Electric Tramway. £4.95
Gray,
Peter Steam in Cornwall, IA,
2001, pp80. Landscape format.
Glazed Boards. Fine. An all-colour
album, mainly Great Western with some Southern. £6.95
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
Green, Oliver The London Underground - An Illustrated History, IA, 1987, pp80. Large format Pb. VG. An illustrated history. £4.95
Greenberg,
Bruce Model Railroading:
A Family Guide, Prentice Hall, 1979, pp167 plus pp16 of colour
illustrations. Large Format
Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good.
Two small tears in the dw, neatly repaired internally. Aimed at
operators of American Lionel, Marx and American Flyer equipment in
"O" and "S" gauges.
£5.95
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
Griffiths, Denis Locomotive
Engineers of the GWR, Guild /Patrick Stephens, 1988, pp184. Hb.
Fine / Very Good+. Conveys the unique engineering and technical character of the
GWR, which had only seven Chief Mechanical Engineers in over 100 years.
£7.50
Griffith,
Edward The Hundred of
Manhood and Selsey Tramways later known as The West Sussex Railway
1997-1935, author, 2nd revised & extended edition 1968, pp64.
First published in 1948. Pb.
Very Good. £7.50
Griffith,
Edward The Hundred of Manhood
and Selsey Tramways later known as The West Sussex Railway 1897- 1935,
author, 3rd edition 1974, pp64. Pb.
VG-. Small stain near the
bottom corner of the early pages else VG. An
illustrated history. £4.95
Griffiths, R
Prys The Cheshire Lines,
Oakwood, 1958, pp54 plus pp8 of illustrations.
Oakwood Library No.5. First
published in 1947. Pb. VG. A history of
the Cheshire Lines until nationalisation in 1948.
£4.95
Griffiths, Roger and Hooper, John Great Northern Railway Engine Sheds Vol.1: Southern Area, Book Law/Railbus, 2001, pp130. In association with Challenger. First published by Irwell Press. Large Format. Glazed boards with dw. Fine/VG+. £10.50
Griffiths, Roger and Hooper, John Great Northern Railway Engine Sheds Vol.2: The Lincolnshire Loop, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, Book Law/Railbus, pp122. First published by Challenger in 1996. Large Format. Glazed Boards. VG. Small dent to the top edges of the covers, and the outer third of the blank rear endpaper is missing. £8.50
Griffiths,
Roger and Hooper, John Great
Northern Railway Engine Sheds Vol.3: Yorkshire & Lancashire, Book
Law/Railbus in association with Challenger, 2000, pp114.
Large Format Hb. VG+/VG. A
comprehensive illustrated history. £12.50
Griffiths, Roger and Smith, Paul The Directory of British Engine Sheds and Principle Locomotive Servicing Points: Supplement No.1, OPC, 2006, pp32. Large Format Pb. VG+. Provides an update, corrections & amendments to both Vol.1 & Vol.2. £5.95
Grimsley
R S The British Locomotive Shed
Directory, Author, 1947, pp110. Pb. Very Good.
Staples rusty. A complete guide to all main line locomotive sheds and works
in Great Britain immediately before nationalisation.
£5.95
Groundwater, Ken Newcastle's Railways: A View from the Past, IA, 1998, pp96. Glazed Boards. VG+. A largely pictorial tribute to the railways of the Newcastle area. £7.50
Groves N Great Northern Locomotive History Vol.1 1847-66, RCTS, 1991, pp123 with 124 illustrations. Glazed board. Fair with wear to the corners of the glazed boards. £7.50
Groves N Great Northern Locomotive History Vol.3a 1896-1911 The Ivatt Era, RCTS, 1990, pp235 with 198 illustrations. Glazed board. Fair with rubbing to the glazed boards at the corners. £8.50
Gunter, Maurice The Story of Wrenn: From Binns Road to Basildon, Irwell Press, 2004, pp154. Large Format. Glazed Boards. A comprehensive illustrated history. £24.50
Gurley N F Narrow Gauge Steam out of Portmadoc: Twenty-five Years of the Festiniog Railway, Bradford Barton, 1980, pp96. Hb. VG/VG. Foxing to the blank endpapers. Black hb cover. £5.95
Gwynne, Bob Celebrating Steam: The Story of Railfest, Nostalgia Road, 2004, pp60. No 57 of a limited edition of 1000. Signed by the author. Railway Preservation Series Vol.2. Pb. Fine. An all-colour pictorial celebration of Railfest 2004, held at the NRM to celebrate 200 years of steam. £2.95
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