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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. Very Good+
/ Very Good. 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
C J Southern Branch Lines
1955-65, OPC, 1978, 166 plates. Large
Format Hb. VG/VG. Loss of colour
down the spine of the dw. A branch-by-branch pictorial survey. £6.95
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 / Very Good+.
Gives a historical introduction and a sample allocation for
groups of sheds from all six regions.
Illustrated with 160 colour photographs - but largely not shed
scenes. £7.50
Gammell C J GWR Branch Lines, OPC, 1995, pp192. Large Format Hb. Fine/Fine. A comprehensive branch-by-branch pictorial survey. £10.50
Gammell C J Scottish Branch Lines, OPC, 1999, pp192. Inscription. Large Format Hb. Fine / Fine. 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
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: Great Western Railway, Milepost, 1995,
pp48. Large Format.
Glazed Boards. Very
Good. 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: 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, 1976, pp112 plus
pp32 of illustrations. Pb.
Very Good. 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
Glenn,
D Fereday Rail Routes in
Hampshire & East Dorset, IA, 1983, pp128.
Hb. Very Good / Very Good. Top
right corners of the cover very slightly bumped.
Publisher's soiled stamp on fep.
A pictorial survey of a once complex railway network.
£4.95
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 London's
Underground: An Illustrated History of the World's Premier Underground System,
IA, 8th edition 1996, pp160 with numerous illustrations & diagrams.
Large Format Hb. Fine / Very Good+. A
standard history of the London Underground.
£6.95
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 Goole and Selby Railway, Oakwood, 1976, pp42 including pp8 of illustrations. Locomotion Papers No.100. Pb. Very Good. Old price sticker on the front cover and covers sunned down the spine. A study of the Goole to Selby line of the NER that ran through an area now dominated by the Drax coal-fired power station. £3.95
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
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 West of Salisbury, OPC, 1984, 143 plates. Large Format Hb. VG+/VG. Tiny nick to the dw at the head of the spine. A line-by-line pictorial survey. £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. Very Good+. 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
Graebe, Chris and Graebe, Julie The Hornby Gauge 0 System, New Cavendish, 2002, pp440 with over 700 illustrations, 650 in colour. The 2002 printing of the revised edition of 1994. The Hornby Companion Series Vol.5. Large landscape format Hb. Fine / Very Good+. Front bottom corner slightly bumped. Page 223/224 is missing; photocopies of the two missing pages have been made at some stage and loosely inserted at the appropriate point. A lavishly produced tribute. £12.50
Grafton,
Peter Men of the Great Western,
A&U, 1979, pp94. Hb.
Fine / Very Good+. Steam Past Series.
Spine of the dw sunned. Uses
hours of tape recordings of conversations with former Great Western employees to
convey the atmosphere of the Great Western.
£5.95
Gray,
Adrian The London, Chatham and
Dover Railway, Meresborough Books, 1984, pp241.
Glazed Boards. Very Good.
Spine slightly sunned. A
highly praised history of the line. £10.50
Gray, Peter W The
Paignton & Dartmouth Steam Railway: A nostalgic trip down the line from
Newton Abbot to Kingswear and Dartmouth, Past & Present, 2001, pp96.
Pb. Fine. Over 150
photographs from Newton Abbot, Torre, Torquay, Paignton, Goodrington, Churston
and Kingswear. £4.95
Gray, Peter Steam on West Country Branch Lines, 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, 1996, pp112. First published in 1983. F/VG+. A remarkable collection of unusual pictures from both the standard and narrow gauge branch lines in North Wales. £5.95
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
Greening, David Steam around Leicester, Becknell Books, 1982, pp32. Pb. Very Good+. Fifty photographs of steam at work in the Leicester area. £3.95
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
Griffiths,
Denis Raising Steam: The Design,
Operation and Driving of Steam Locomotives, PSL, 1989, pp120.
Hb. Fine / Very Good+.
£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
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 GWR Sheds in Camera,
OPC, 1988, 308 plates. Large format
Hb. VG+/VG. Slight wear to the dw
at the head of the spine. Features
some 160 GWR and absorbed company sheds, illustrating the various design styles
and servicing facilities. £8.50
Griffiths,
Roger Southern Sheds in Camera,
OPC, 1989, pp160. Large Format Hb.
Fine/VG+. Superficial wear
mark to the plastic coating of the front dw.
£8.50
Griffiths, Roger and Smith, Paul The Directory of British Engine Sheds and Principle
Locomotive Servicing Points: 1 Southern England, the Midlands, East Anglia and
Wales, OPC, 1999, pp221. Large
Format Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good.
A comprehensive survey of all known locomotive sheds and stabling point
in Wales and Southern England. £12.50
Griffiths, Roger and Hooper, John Great Northern Engine Sheds Vol.1: Southern Area, Book
Law / Railbus, 2001, pp130. In
association with Challenger Press. Large
Format. Glazed boards with dw.
Fine / Very Good+. £10.50
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
Grindlay, Jim British
Railways Steam Locomotives 1948-1968, Transport Publishing, 2007, pp216.
Pb. VG+.
"Numbers, names, building dates, withdrawal dates, technical
details, class notes - lists every steam locomotive owned & built by British
Railways until the end of steam." £5.95
Groundwater,
Ken Newcastle's
Railways: A View from the Past, IA, 1998, pp96.
Glazed Boards. Fine.
A largely pictorial tribute to the railways of the Newcastle
area. £7.50
Gurley N F Narrow
Gauge Steam out of Portmadoc: Twenty-five Years of the Festiniog Railway,
Bradford Barton, 1974, pp96. Hb.
Very Good / Very Good. Some
rubbing to the cover edges and slight wear to the dw at the head of the spine.
Olive green hb cover. £5.95
GWR
Engines Names, Numbers, Types & Classes, D&C, 1982, pp200+.
Glazed Boards. Very Good. A
reprint of the engine books of 1911, 1928 and 1946 with some pages from that of
1938, all originally published by the Great Western Railway.
£6.95
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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