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Jackson, Alan A London's Termini, D&C, 1st edition 1969, pp368, colour frontis and 43 illustrations. Hb. VG/Good+. Multiple inscriptions, probably a presentation copy. Wear to the dw edges, and dw spine sunned. A comprehensive history by an expert on London's transport. £10.50
Jackson, Alan A London's Metropolitan Railway, D&C, 1986, pp416 plus 36 illustrations. Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good+. A definitive history of the Metropolitan Railway until it was absorbed into London Transport in 1933. £32.50
Jackson, Albert and Day, David The Model Maker's Handbook: An illustrated manual of over 1000 techniques for making all types of models, miniatures and dioramas, Guild/Michael Joseph, 1987, pp352. Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good+. An American view of modelling with sections on Painting & Finishing, Improving Vehicles, Figures, Dioramas & Landscapes, Railways, Motors & Engines, Radio-control, Airplanes, Boats, and Cars. £4.95
Jackson B L and Tattershall M J The Bridport Branch, OPC, 1976, pp208. Pb. VG. The covers have been neatly protected with a clear adhesive covering. Spine of covers slightly sunned. A comprehensive history of the Great Western branch to Bridport in Dorset. £6.95
Jackson, David J.
G. Robinson: A Lifetime's Work, Oakwood, 1996, pp234.
Oakwood Library No.98. Hb.
Fine / Very Good. Slight
wear to the dw at the top front corner. £12.50
Jackson-Stevens E
Scale Model Electric Tramways and How to Model
Them, D&C, 2nd Impression 1986, pp196.
Drawings by Eric Thornton. Hb.
Fine/Fine. Red spine of dw
very slightly sunned. "Every
aspect of scale model electric tramways is discussed and their general layout,
arrangement, construction and chief components are examined in detail."
£4.95
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
Jacks
L C Diesels: A Driver's
Reminiscences, BB, 1982, pp111.
Pb. Very Good.
Work around Birmingham during the 1960s on a wide variety of
early diesels. £3.95
Jackson,
Alan A London's Local Railways,
D&C, 1983, pp384 and 64 plates. Inscription.
Hb. VG+/VG+.
An important study by a noted expert on London's transport history.
£9.50
Jackson,
Doug Festiniog Railway .. the
first 150 years, Festiniog Railway Company, 1982, pp24. Large Format Pb. Very
Good. Old price sticker on the
cover. An illustrated booklet published to mark the first 150 years of the
Festiniog railway, and the final restoration of the line between Portmadog and
Blaenau Festiniog. £1.95
Jackson, G Gibbard
The Railways of Great Britain: The Story of their Rise and Progress,
RTS, 2nd revised edition 1935, pp272 with a colour frontis and pp32 of
illustrations. First published in
1923. Inscription. Hb.
No dw. Very Good.
The blank front endpaper is missing, foxing to the page edges and
preliminary pages. Sections on the
Great Western, LMS, LNER, Southern and Other Railways.
£5.95
James, Leslie The
Law of the Railway, Barry Rose, 1980, pp479.
"Largish" format Hb. Very
Good / Very Good. Red dw sunned
particularly on the spine. A
comprehensive manual on the legal principles of railway operation, clearly
presented and citing only those precedents that are necessary to make the basic
principles coherent. £24.50
Jenkins, Stanley C The Witney & East Gloucestershire Railway (Fairford Branch), Oakwood, 1975, pp52 with pp8 of illustrations. Locomotion Papers No.86. Pb. VG. The covers have been neatly protected with a clear adhesive covering. £6.95
Jenkins,
Stanley and Quayle, Howard Railways
across the Pennines, IA, 1990, pp112.
Large Format Hb. F/VG+.
A comprehensive historical survey of the trans-Pennine routes,
from the Newcastle and Carlisle in the North to the Midland's Hope
Valley line in the South. £7.50
Jenkinson, David
The Power of the Duchesses,
OPC, 1985, 276
plates. Power Series.
Large Format Hb. Fine/VG. Dw
spine slightly sunned, small internally repaired tear at the base of the spine.
£8.50
Jenkinson, David The Power of the Royal Scots, OPC, 1986, 290 plates. Power Series. Large Format Hb. Fine / Very Good+. Spine of the dw sunned. £7.50
Jenkinson, David and Whitehouse, Patrick Eric Treacy's LMS, OPC, 1988, pp192. Large Format Hb. Fine / Fine. Spine of the dw slightly sunned. A superb collection of Eric Treacy's photos of LMS locomotives. £5.95
Jenkinson,
David British Railway Carriages
of the 20th Century Vol. 1 The end of an era, 1901-1922, PSL/Guild, 1988,
pp288 with 65 figs & numerous illustrations. Hb. VG+/VG+.
A comprehensive history by an acknowledged authority on railway
carriages. £10.50
Jenkinson,
David The London and
Birmingham: A Railway of Consequence, Capital, 1988, pp88.
Large Format Pb. Very
Good. A series of
well-illustrated essays. £4.95
Jenkinson, David Bedside
Back Track: Aspects of Britain's Railway History, Atlantic, 1993, pp144.
Large Format Hb. Very Good+
/ Very Good+. An anthology of 26
articles in the same style as the well-known Backtrack magazine. £6.95
Jenkinson, David with Edgington, John and Smart, John The Big Four in Colour 1935-50, BCA / Atlantic, 1994, pp192. Large Format Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good+. 300 pre-1951 railway images in colour, over 80% from the company period itself of which over half are pre-war. With sections on the LMS, LNER, London Transport, GWR and SR. £7.50
Jenkinson, David LNWR Carriages: A Concise History (including West Coast Joint Stock), Pendragon, 1995, pp190 with 51 scale drawings and numerous illustrations. First published by OPC in 1978 under the title An Illustrated History of LNWR Carriages. Large Format Hb. Fine / Very Good+. A definitive study of LNWR coaching stock. £14.50
Jenkinson, David Historic Carriage Drawings Vol.2 LMS and Constituents, Pendragon, 1998, pp136. Large Format. Glazed Boards. Very Good+. Illustrations and 4mm scale drawings of LMS coaches. About half the drawings deal with coaches built by the LMS itself, while the remainder deal with coaches from LMS constituent companies. £12.50
Jenkinson, David Highland
in LMS Days, Pendragon Publication, 2004, pp89. Railways in Retrospect No.2. Large Format Pb. Very
Good+. A well-illustrated account.
£6.95
Jennison,
John and Clarke, David Locomotives
in Detail 2: Stanier 4-6-0 Class 5, IA, 2004, pp104.
Glazed Boards. Fine. With
detailed information on the many class variants.
£8.50
Jeuda,
Basil The Macclesfield,
Bollington & Marple Railway: The Great Central and North Staffordshire Joint
Railway, Cheshire County Council, 1983, pp64.
Large format Pb. VG-. Small
wear mark on the front cover. An
illustrated history. £5.95
Jeuda,
Basil Memories of the North
Staffordshire Railway, Cheshire Libraries with Staffordshire Libraries,
1986, pp100. Large Format Pb.
Very Good. A collection of
pre-Grouping photographs of the North Staffordshire Railway.
£6.95
Joby
R S East Anglia,
David St Thomas/D&C, 1987, pp192.
Regional Railway Handbooks No.2.
Hb. Fine / Fine.
A thorough survey of InterCity, Provincial, Railfreight and
Network South East activities in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and
Essex. £5.95
Johnson, Bill British
Railway Locomotive Works in the Days of Steam: An Enthusiast's View,
Challenger, 1995, pp96. Large
Format Pb. Very Good+. Spine of
covers faded. Photos from Ashford,
Crewe, Darlington, Derby, Doncaster, Eastleigh, Gorton, Horwich, Inverurie,
Stratford, Swindon, and Wolverhampton. £4.95
Johnson E M The Midland Route from Manchester Part One: Central to New Mills via Didsbury, Stockport & Marple, Foxline, 1987, pp104. Scenes from the Past: 16 (Part 1). Large Format Pb. VG+. £8.50
Johnson E M Woodhead Part Two: Dunford Bridge, Penistone, Sheffield Victoria and via the Worsborough Branch to Wath, Foxline, 1996, pp128. Scenes from the Past: 29 (Part 2). Large Format Pb. VG+. £8.50
Johnson E M Woodhead The Electric Railway: An Illustrated Historical Review of the Manchester, Sheffield & Wath Electrification, Foxline, 1996, pp128. Scenes from the Past: 29 (Part 3). Large Format Pb. VG. Some superficial creasing to the covers. £12.50
Johnson E M Manchester to Crewe Part 1: London Road (Piccadilly) and Longsight to Wilmslow via the Styal Line, Foxline, 2006, pp168. Scenes from the Past: 51. Large Format Pb. VG. £12.50
Johnson, John and Long, Robert A British Railways Engineering 1948-80, Mechanical
Engineering Publications, 1982, pp636 with 242 line & photographic
illustrations. Edited by Roland C.
Bond. Hb. VG/VG. An
authoritative history of post-war engineering developments on British Rail.
£24.50
Johnson, Peter and Weaver, Rodney Talyllyn Railway No.1 Talyllyn & No.2 Dolgoch, IA,
1987, pp48. Great Preserved
Locomotives No.6. Large Format
Pb. Very Good+.
A well-illustrated history. £2.95
Johnson,
Peter and Whitehouse, Michael Festiniog
in Colour, IA, 1995, pp64. Glazed
Boards. Very Good+. An all-colour
landscape-format album. £4.95
Johnson, Peter Welsh Narrow Gauge: A Colour Portfolio, IA, 2000, pp80. Signed by the author. Landscape format. Glazed Boards. Fine. An all-colour landscape-format album of Welsh narrow gauge lines in the 1990s. £4.95
Johnson,
Peter An Illustrated History of
the Welsh Highland Railway, OPC, First edition 2002, pp128 with 200
illustrations. Large format Hb.
Fine / Fine. A major study of the line from its early fore-runners to the
start of the current rebuilding. £14.50
Johnson, Maurice North
Eastern Steam, IA, 1989, pp64. Steam
5 Portfolios. Glazed Boards.
Landscape Format. Very Good+. An
all-colour album depicting steam operations in the North Eastern Region from
1961 until the end of steam traction. £4.95
Johnson, Stephen Locomotives & Railcars of Bord na Mona, Midland Publishing, 1996, p48. Pb. VG+. Complete details of the locomotives operated by Bord na Mona, The Irish Peat Commission. £3.95
Johnston,
Howard The Comprehensive
Guide to Britain's Railways, EMAP, 4th edition 2001, pp98. Large
Format Pb. Very Good.
A fully updated directory of today's passenger and freight
railways. £2.95
Johnston, Norman
The Irish Narrow Gauge in Colour,
Colorpoint,
2003, pp108. Large Format Hb. VG. Sections
on: The Giant's Causeway Tramway, The Londonderry & Lough Swilly, The Tralee
& Dingle, the Cavan & Leitrim, The West Clare, The County Donegal, and
Industrial Lines. £10.50
Jolly, Stephen and Bayman, Bob Docklands Light Railway: Official Handbook, Capital Transport, 1986, pp64. Pb. VG+. A well-illustrated booklet. £2.95
Jones,
C M Jenkin The North Eastern
Railway: A Centenary Story, British Railways North Eastern Region, 1954,
pp32. Foreword by Sir Ralf
Wedgwood. Pb.
Very Good with slight creasing to the cover. An illustrated booklet, written by a former Assistant General
Superintendent of the North Eastern Railway.
£4.95
Jones,
Edgar The Penguin Guide
to the Railways of Britain, Allen Lane, 1981, pp377 plus pp32 of
illustrations. Hb.
Very Good / Very Good. A
comprehensive historical survey of the entire mainline network.
Each region is considered in turn.
£3.95
Jones
K G Diesels West of
Paddington, IA, 1981, pp96. Hb.
Very Good+ / Very Good+. The
Thames Valley area in the early diesel era.
£5.95
Jones, Kenneth Westcott
Rail Tales of the Unexpected, David St John Thomas, 1992, pp176.
Hb. VG+/VG+.
Some 57 unusual or unexpected incidents on British rails.
£3.95
Jones, Norman Snowdon Mountain Railway – Llanberis, Foxline, pp64 with numerous colour and b/w illustrations. No date. Glazed Boards. Fine. An illustrated history of Britain's only rack railway. £4.95
Jones, Peter and Marshall, Andrew
Irish
Railways Traction & Travel, Metro and Irish Traction Group, 3rd edition 1994, pp144 with pp16 of colour
illustrations. Pb.
VG+. Covers Locomotives,
Multiple Units & Coaching Stock; Train Identification Numbers; Distance
Tables & Speed Restrictions; and Engineers Vehicles.
£4.95
Jones, Peter Building Small Steam Locomotives: A Practical Guide to Making Engines for the Garden Gauges, Crowood Pres, 2008, pp223. Hb. VG+/VG+. "A comprehensive guide to building small live steam engines for a garden railway, aimed at all modellers from beginners upwards." Well-illustrated in colour throughout. £12.50
Jones, Richard West Somerset Railway, IA, 1992, pp64. Steam Portfolios No. 8. Landscape format. Glazed Boards. Very Good. An all-colour landscape-format album of the Minehead branch in preservation days. £4.50
Jowett, Alan Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: from pre-Grouping to the present day, Guild/PSL, 1989, pp300+. Very Large Format Hb. VG+/VG. Half-inch internally repaired tear to the top of the front dw fold. A remarkable atlas with 300 pages of hand-drawn and lettered maps. £28.50
Jowett, Alan Jowett's Atlas of Railway Centres of Great Britain showing their development from the earliest times up to and including the 1990s Vol. 1, PSL, 1993, ppp240. Large Format Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good+. A series of Jowett's remarkable historical maps is used to record the development of twenty railway centres. £16.50
Jowett, Alan Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas of Great Britain & Ireland with the privatised situation as at the 31st December 1993, Atlantic, 2000, pp240. Large Format Hb. Slight creasing at top of rear dw else F/F. A series of Jowett's remarkable historical maps focusing on both the start and end of nationalisation. £26.50
Joy, David A
Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Vol. 8: South and West
Yorkshire (The Industrial West Riding), D&C, 1st Edition 1975, pp304
with 33 plates, 7 illustrations in the text, 9 maps, & a folding map in the
rear. Hb.
Fine / Very Good. Slight
rubbing to the dw along the edge of the spine.
£12.50
Joy, David Railways in Yorkshire 1. West Riding, Dalesman, 1976, pp80. Landscape format Pb. Two-inch crease to the lower front corner of the covers and a diagonal crease across the rear cover else VG. A pictorial history. £2.95
Joy, David Railways in the North: A Pictorial Introduction, Dalesman, 4th edition 1983, pp72. Landscape format Pb. VG. A general introduction to the railways north of Liverpool - Sheffield - Hull, followed by a useful ten-page chapter on suggested further reading. £1.95
Judge A W Engineering
Workshop Practice Vol.3, Caxton Publishing Company, 1948, pp356 with 288
figs. Hb. Very Good / No Jacket. A
practical work on engineering workshop tools, machines, materials and equipment,
engineering manufacturing processes and machining operations. With chapters on Materials
used in the Engineering Workshop; The Hardening, Tempering, and Annealing
of Metals; Metal-Joining, Processes & Operations; The Welding
of Metals; Simple Forging Work; Sheet-Metal Work; Simple
Press Work; Pattern-Making Practice; Foundry Practice; Workshop
Calculations & Data; The Quality-Control System Explained.
£4.95
Judge,
Colin Diesels Nationwide
Vol.2, OPC, 1979, 242 plates. Large
Format Hb. VG+/VG+.
Dw slightly sunned. A
high-quality album recording the rapidly changing BR diesel era.
£6.95
Judge C W and Potts C R An Historical Survey of the Somerset & Dorset Railway: Track Layouts and Illustrations, OPC, 1988, pp135. Large Format Hb. Fine / Very Good+. Detailed plans and pictures of every Somerset & Dorset station. £10.50
Judge
C W and Morten J R The
Peak Line: A Pictorial Journey, Oakwood, 1995, pp86. Portrait
Series No.3. Pb.
Very Good+. A
pictorial journey from Buxton to Ambergate, with an interlude to
Chinley, using photographs from E R Morton's negatives which were taken
between 1930 and 1960. £4.95
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