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MacDermot
ET History of the Great
Western Railway: Vol. 2 1863-1921, IA, 1964, pp362, pp33 of
illustrations and numerous figs in the text.
First published by the Great Western Railway in 1931.
Revised by C R Clinker. No
dw. Hb.
Very Good. The
second volume of Mac Dermot’s definitive history of the Great Western
Railway. £6.95
Macdermott, Brian Modellers' & Enthusiasts Guide to the Somerset and Dorset Line, PSL, 1982, pp96. Glazed Boards. Very Good. Provides useful information on the freight and passenger workings on the S&D main line. £6.95
Mackay,
James Railway Antiques,
Ward Lock, 1978, pp136. Hb.
Wear along the top edge of the dw with a 1/2 inch internally
repaired tear, otherwise VG+/VG. A
collector's guide to rail relics and collectable items with chapters on
Parts and Accessories, Railway Uniforms, Tickets, Timetables and Guides,
Railway Philately, Railway Numismatics, Ephemera, Railway Souvenirs and
Railway Models. £4.95
Maclean A A A Pictorial Record of LNER Constituent Signalling, OPC, 1983, pp220. Large Format Hb. VG+/VG+. Foxing to the titled page. A detailed signalling history of the LNER group of companies. £18.50
Madge, Robin Railways Round Exmoor,
Exmore Press,
2nd revised edition 1988, pp72. Pb. VG+. Examines
the Taunton - Barnstaple, Taunton - Minehead, Exe Valley, Barnstaple -
Ilfracombe, Lynton - Barnstaple, Lynton - Lynmouth, Watchet - Brendon - Hill,
and South Moton - Heasley Mill lines. £2.95
Maggs,
Colin The Weston,
Clevedon & Portishead Railway, Oakwood, 1964, pp48 plus pp8 of
plates. Locomotion
Papers No.25. Pb.
VG with superficial wear to the corners. £3.95
Maggs, Colin Rail Centres: Bristol, IA, 1st edition 1981, pp128. Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good. Dw lightly sunned. A comprehensive well-illustrated view of the Bristol area. £7.50
Maggs, Colin The Birmingham Gloucester Line, Line One, 1986, pp88. Hb. VG/VG. A bookplate or pastedown has been removed from the flyleaf at some stage. Covers the construction, operation, motive power, accidents and train services of this historic route that includes the Lickey incline. £6.95
Maggs, Colin G The Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway, Oakwood, 2nd revised and enlarged edition 1988, pp80 plus pp40 of illustrations. Locomotion Papers No.111. Pb. VG+. A history of the LSWR branch to Ilfracombe. £3.95
Maggs,
Colin The Best of the Last Days
of Steam, BCA/Alan Sutton, 1993, pp142.
Very Large Format Hb. F/VG+
with superficial wear to the dw at the top of the spine. A selection of the best photographs from the publisher's last
days of steam series. £6.95
Maggs,
Colin Branch Lines of
Berkshire, Berkshire Books/AS, 1993, pp145.
Hb. Very Good+ /
Very Good+. Illustrated
histories of the thirteen branch lines in the county.
£5.95
Maggs,
Colin Branch Lines of
Warwickshire, AS, 1994, pp146.
Hb. Fine / Fine.
Illustrated histories of the branch lines in Warwickshire. £5.95
Maggs,
Colin Branch Lines of
Worcestershire, AS, 1994, p146.
Hb. Lower corners of
the covers slightly bumped else VG+/VG+.
Illustrated histories of the branch lines in Worcestershire.
£6.95
Maggs, Colin Branch Lines of Oxfordshire, AS, 1995, pp146.
Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good+.
Illustrated histories of the branch lines in Oxfordshire.
£5.95
Mann R H Steam Locomotive Design Part 1, Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, 1957, pp116 with 46 figs. Pb. VG-. "Revised Price 6/6" stamped on the front cover; some browning to the covers. A technical treatise on steam locomotive design. £14.50
Marks, John Birmingham Railways on Old Picture Postcards, Reflections of a Bygone Age, 1993, pp36. Pb. Fine. £2.95
Marsden
C J This is Waterloo,
IA, 1981, pp56. Large
Format Pb. Very Good.
A series of well-illustrated articles.
£3.95
Marsden, Colin BREL (British Rail Engineering Ltd), OPC, 1990, pp160. Life & Times Series. Large Format Hb. VG+/VG with slight wear to the dw at the top of the spine. Examines Ashford, Crewe, Derby, Doncaster, Eastleigh, Glasgow, Horwich, Shildon, Swindon, Temple Mills, Wolverton and York works in turn. £7.50
Marsden, Colin Class 50, IA, 1991, pp128. Life & Times Series. Large Format Hb. Fine / Fine. A well-illustrated history of the class 50 diesels. £8.50
Marsh,
John and Garbutt, John Images
of Cumbrian Railways, Sutton Publishing, 2002, pp150.
Glazed Boards. Fine.
A second collection of photographs depicted the railways in
Cumbria. £6.95
Marshall,
Alfred W Gear Wheels and
Gear Cutting, MAP, 5th edition 1979, pp92 with 88 figs.
With a chapter on Cutting Spur Gears in the Lathe by Ian
Bradley. Pb.
Fair. Covers and
page edges grubby. "An
elementary handbook on the principles and methods of production of
toothed gearing." £2.95
Marshall, John The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Vol.1, D&C/Kelley, 1970, pp288, colour frontis & pp20 of illustrations. Published under the Kelley imprint, which published David & Charles titles in the United States. VG+/VG-, superficial wear to the dw edges making the dw not quite VG. The first volume of John Marshall's definitive three-volume history of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. £24.50
Marshall, John The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Vol.2, D&C, 1970, pp327, colour frontis and pp20 of illustrations. VG/VG. Contains three oval stamps from the Wigan & District Model Railway Society Library, one inside the front cover, one on the title page, and one at the rear. The second volume of John Marshall's definitive three-volume history of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. £24.50
Marshall, John Forgotten Railways Vol.9: North West England, David St John Thomas, 2nd edition 1992, pp176 with pp16 of illustrations. Inscription. No dw. Hb. VG. £3.95
Marshall, Lawrence O. J. Morris's Southern Railways 1919-1959, Middleton, 1997, pp96. Glazed Boards. Fine. A collection of the photographs by O. J. Morris. £6.95
Marx K Bluebell Line: Historical Album 1879-1965, Bluebell Railway, 1978, pp64. Pb. VG. A useful illustrated history of the Bluebell line. £2.95
Marx, Klaus London, Brighton & South Coast Railway Album, IA, 1982, pp112. Hb. VG+/VG+. A high-quality photographic record of all aspects of the Brighton line. £6.95
Marx,
Klaus Wainwright and His
Locomotives, IA, 1985, pp112. Hb.
Fine / Very Good+. A brief outline of Wainwright's career as Locomotive
Superintendent on the SE&CR followed by an extensive pictorial tribute to
his locomotives. £8.50
Maskelyne
J N Locomotives I have
Known, Percival Marshall, 1959, pp133 and colour frontis.
Large Landscape format Hb. Very
Good / Fair. Page 133
creased. Dw internally
re-enforced at the top and bottom of the spine; 2 inch tear to the rear
dw fold. A series of
articles on individual locomotive classes - each illustrated with a line
drawing - originally published in the Model Engineer.
£14.50
May,
Trevor The Victorian Railway
Worker, Shire Publications, 2003, pp32.
Pb. VG+.
An illustrated booklet. £1.95
McCormack, Kevin The
Southern around London: A Colour Portfolio, IA, 2003, pp80. Landscape
format. Glazed Boards.
Fine. An all-colour
landscape-format album. £6.95
McCutcheon,
Alan Railway History in
Pictures: Ireland Vol.1, D&C, 1969, pp112 with colour frontis.
Hb. F/VG.
Slight wear to the top edge of the dw, spine sunned.
£8.50
McNaught, R. S., Peters, Ivo and Milton, David The Golden Age of Steam: Locomotives of the Great Western and Somerset and Dorset Joint Railways, Western Daily Press, 1980, pp42. Pb. Very Good. Locomotive illustrations, each flanked by a one-page description. £0.95
McNeill D B Ulster
Tramways and Light Railways, Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, 1st
edition 1956, pp24 plus 10 plates & a map of the province.
Transport Handbook No.1. Pb.
VG- with superficial wear to the spine and a sellotape mark inside the
rear cover. A comprehensive survey.
£2.95
McNicol, Steve Flying
Scotsman Profile, RailMac, Australia, 1992, pp40. Pb. VG+.
An unusual illustrated booklet focusing on Flying Scotsman's visit to
Australia in 1988/89. £1.95
Meacher,
Charlie Living with
Locos, Bradford Barton, 1980, pp108.
Pb. Very Good+.
Steam memories centred on Edinburgh and Fife.
£3.95
Menear, Lawrence London's
Underground Stations: A Social and Architectural Study, Midas Books, 1983,
pp143. Large Format.
Glazed Boards. Very Good+. Traces
the history of the Underground through its buildings. £8.50
Meskell, Nick Scottish Class 37s: A Pictorial Tribute to the Former Scottish-based Class 37s Vol.1, Train Crazy Publishing, 2004, pp50 with colour illustrations throughout. "Largish" Landscape format Pb. VG. Half-inch crease across the lower corner of the front cover. £3.95
Middlemass, Thomas Mainly Scottish Steam, D&C, 1973, pp157 with pp16 of illustrations. Hb. VG+/VG. Red spine of dw sunned. Reminiscences of Scottish steam in the 20s and 30s. £5.95
Middlemass, Thomas
Encyclopaedia of Narrow Gauge Railways of Great Britain and Ireland,
BCA/PSL, 1991, pp272 with over 250 photographs.
"Largish" format. Hb.
Fine / Very Good+. Top front
corner bumped. A well-researched
reference work covering over 70 narrow gauge lines.
£6.95
Millard,
Philip A Selected LNWR
Carriages: A Detailed Commentary, LNWR Society, 1989, pp25. Premier Portfolio 7.
Large format Hb. VG.
Essays on LNWR carriages, mostly compartment-type stock made up into
coupled sets. £4.95
Mills
J D How to Photograph Trains,
Fountain Press, 1957, pp96 with pp32 of plates. Small landscape format Hb.
VG/VG-. "The many
unexpected pitfalls which can befall the aspiring photographer are
examined." £2.95
Milner, Chris and Banks, Chris
British
Railways Past and Present No.10 The East Midlands: Leicestershire,
Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire, SLP, 1991, pp128. Pb.
Good+. Slight wear to the
covers, contents VG. Featuring over
70 locations including Leicester, Northampton, Kettering, Peterborough,
Cambridge, March and Ely. £3.95
Minnis, John E. J. Bedford of Lewis: Photographer of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, Wild Swan, 1989, pp102. Large Format Pb. Six-inch crease across the bottom corner of the rear cover else VG. Includes virtually all of Bedford's photographs. £5.95
Minnis, John The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, Tempus, 1999, pp128. Images of Railways Series. Pb. VG+. A pictorial tribute dealing with all aspects of the company. £5.95
Minns
J E Model Railway Engines,
Octopus Books, 1973, pp97. Hb.
Very Good / Very Good. An illustrated history of model railway
engineering. £3.50
Mitchell, David British
Railways Past and Present Special: The Talyllyn Railway, Past & Present,
1997, pp96. Pb.
Very Good+. A nostalgic trip
along the world's first preserved railway.
£3.95
Mitchell, Vic and Smith, Keith
Branch Line to Southwold, Middleton, 1984, pp96. Glazed Boards.
VG+. Spine of covers slightly sunned.
A pictorial survey of 3ft-gauge gauge Southwold Railway
£7.50
Mitchell, Vic and Smith, Keith Branch Lines to Horsham, Middleton, 1984, pp96. Glazed Boards. VG-. Some superficial wear to the covers. Covers the Guildford to Horsham and Horsham to Shoreham lines. £6.95
Mitchell, Vic and Smith, Keith
Branch Lines to Tenterden, Middleton, 1985, pp96. Glazed
Boards. VG+. A pictorial
survey of the Kent & East Sussex Railway from Robertsbridge to Headcorn.
£7.50
Mitchell, Vic and Smith, Keith Crawley to Littlehampton, Middleton, 1986, pp96. Southern Main Lines. Glazed Boards. VG. £7.50
Mitchell, Vic and Smith, Keith Branch Lines to Tunbridge Wells from Oxted, Lewes and Polegate, Middleton, 1988, pp96. Glazed Boards. VG+. Includes the Cuckoo Line. £7.50
Mitchell, Vic and Smith, Keith Woking to Southampton, Middleton, 1988, pp96. Southern Main Lines. Glazed Boards. VG. £7.50
Mitchell, Vic and Smith, Keith West Sussex Railways in the 1980s, Middleton, 1989, pp96. Glazed Boards. Very Good. A pictorial album, illustrations 36 to 55 are in colour. £4.95
Mitchell,
Vic and Smith, Keith Branch
Lines to Seaton and Sidmouth, Middleton, 1991, pp96. Glazed Boards. Very
Good. A survey of two London and
South Western Railway branch lines. £7.50
Mitchell,
Vic and Smith, Keith South
Coast Railways - Brighton to Worthing, Middleton, 1992.
First published in 1983. VG+
with Glazed Boards. £5.95
Mitchell, Vic and Smith, Keith Yeovil to Exeter, Middleton, 1993, pp96. Southern Main Lines. Glazed Boards. VG+. £7.50
Mitchell, Vic and Smith, Keith Branch Lines to East Grinstead, Middleton, 1995, pp96. Glazed Boards. VG. Spine slightly sunned. With sections on Oxted towards East Grinstead, Three Bridges towards East Grinstead, Lewes towards East Grinstead, and East Grinstead. £7.50
Mitchell
W R and Joy David Settle -
Carlisle Railway: A New Edition, Dalesman, 1989, pp96. Pb. VG- with superficial wear to covers. An illustrated history.
£2.95
Morgan, Bryan (Ed) The Railway-Lovers Companion, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963, pp549. Hb. VG/VG. Some foxing to the page edges. A delightful collection from a wide range of authors - possibly the best railway anthology ever produced. £5.95
Morgan, Bryan Transport
Preserved, British Railways Board, 1964, pp40. Pb. Very Good.
"A look at the Museum of British Transport as it appeared in
1963." £0.95
Morrison,
Brian The Power of the A4s,
OPC, 218plates. No date.
Large Format Hb. Fine/VG+. A
pictorial tribute to Gresley's masterpiece.
£6.95
Morrison, Brian London Midland Steam Locomotives: A Pictorial Survey of
ex-LMSR Locomotives in the 1950s Vol.2, BB, 1975, pp96.
Hb. F/F.
Red speckled cover. £4.95
Morrison, Brian Scottish
Steam Album, OPC, 1st edition 1978, 271 plates.
Inscription. Large Format Hb. VG/VG.
An excellent pictorial tribute to post-war Scottish steam.
£5.95
Morrison, Brian BR Diesel Cavalcade, BB, 1979, pp32. Pb. VG+. An album featuring the early years of diesel traction. £1.95
Morrison,
Brian BR Traction in Colour,
IA, 1987, pp96. Large Format.
Glazed Boards. VG+. Top
corners of covers slightly bumped. An
illustrated survey of the 1980s railway scene with sections on: Inter-City &
Inter-Regional, London & South East and Provincial, The Freight Scene, On
Depot, Today's Motive Power - Old & New, and BR Liveries for the 1980s.
£5.95
Morrison,
Brian Steam on Stratford Shed in
the 1950s, OPC, 1989, pp96. Large
Format Hb. Fine / Very Good+. Steam
in and around the ex-Great Eastern shed at Stratford in East London, at the time
the largest steam shed in Britain. £7.50
Morrison, Brian Steam Around London: The Postwar Years, IA, 1992, pp192. Large Format Hb. VG+/VG+. A major high-quality album on London steam from a highly respected photographer. £6.95
Morrison, Brian and Brunt, Ken
British Railways Past and Present No.7 North East, East and South East
London, Past & Present, 1999, pp128 plus pp8 of colour.
Pb. VG.
The later edition with some colour illustrations. Featuring over 70
locations on routes radiating from King's Cross, Broad Street, Liverpool Street,
Fenchurch Street, Cannon Street and Charing Cross.
£4.95
Morrison,
Gavin The Power of the Merchant
Navies, OPC, 1983, pp112. Power
Series. Large Format Hb.
Fine / Fine. £8.50
Morrison, Gavin East
Coast Main Line, Atlantic, 1992, pp48.
The Colour of British Rail Vol.3. Pb. Very Good.
Covering thirty years of change between London and Edinburgh: 1960-1990.
£2.95
Morrison,
Gavin Vintage Railtours:
Railway Correspondence and Travel Society, A pictorial record 1954-69, SLP,
1993, pp192. Large format Hb.
Very Good+ / Very Good. A
nostalgic record of early RCTS steam tours.
£7.50
Morrison, Gavin The Heyday of Leeds Holbeck and its Locomotives, IA, 1994, pp80. Landscape format. Glazed Boards. VG+. A landscape-format all-colour album. £6.95
Morrison, Gavin London
Midland Then and Now, IA, 1995, pp256.
Large Format Hb. VG+/ VG.
Then and now photographs from over 300 different locations on former LMS
lines. £8.50
Morrison,
Gavin East Lancashire Railway,
IA, 1996, pp64. Glazed Boards.
Very Good+. An all-colour
landscape format album. Photographs
from preservation days predominate. £3.95
Morrison,
Gavin The Eastern & North
Eastern Then and Now, IA, 1997, pp256.
Large Format Hb. VG+/VG+.
Then and now photographs from some 300 different locations on former LNER
lines in England. £14.50
Morrison, Gavin Britain's Railways 1948-1998: A Personal View of 50 Years of Change, IA, 1999, pp256. Large Format Hb. VG/VG. A fascinating photographic record of one man's view of the changing scene during the fifty years of Nationalisation. £8.50
Morrison,
Gavin Class 47s, IA, 1999,
pp96. Small format Pb. VG. Two-inch
crease to the top corner of the front cover.
An illustrated history of the class.
£2.95
Morrison,
Gavin Scottish Railways Then and
Now, IA, 1999, pp256. Large
Format Hb. VG+/VG. Lavishly
produced album of then and now illustrations from over 300 different locations
throughout Scotland. £12.50
Morrison,
Gavin The Power of the A1s,
OPC, 2000, pp112. Power Series.
Large Format Hb. VG+/VG. Top
corners of the covers slightly bumped. Records
the career of the original 50 members of the class and also includes
illustrations of the new A1 being constructed.
£12.50
Morrison,
Gavin The Power of the A3s,
OPC, 2002, pp112. Power Series.
Large Format Hb. Fine/VG+. A
pictorial tribute to Gresley's A3s. £8.50
Morrison,
Gavin The Power of the A2s,
OPC, 2004, pp110. Power Series.
Large Format Hb. Fine/Fine. A
pictorial tribute to the A2 Pacifics designed by Gresley's successors Edward
Thompson and Arthur Peppercorn. £8.50
Morrison, Gavin and Swinger, Peter
Britannia Pacifics, IA, 2003, pp112.
Landscape format. Glazed Boards. Very
Good+. A pictorial tribute in both
b/w & colour. £7.50
Morrison,
Gavin The Power of the LMS
2-6-0s, OPC, 2005, pp112. Power
Series. Large Format Hb. Fine/VG+. A
pictorial tribute to the Hughes/Fowler, Stanier and Ivatt 2-6-0s of the LMS.
£10.50
Mourton, Stephen and Pixton, Bob
Birmingham-Bristol Portrait of a Famous Midland Route Part 1:
Birmingham to Cheltenham, Runpast, 2001, pp96.
Large Format Pb. Generally VG+ but with slight creasing to the rear cover.
A largely pictorial study. £5.95
Mowat, Charles Loch The Golden Valley Railway: Railway enterprise on the Welsh Border in late Victorian times, University of Wales Press, 1964 pp121 plus pp13 of illustrations. Hb. VG/VG. Dw spine sunned. The dw has been neatly protected with a clear adhesive covering. A comprehensive history of the branch line that ran up the Golden Valley in Hereford from Pontrilas to Hay. It was eventually absorbed by the GWR. £12.50
Mullay A J Non-Stop London to Scotland Steam, PSL, 1989, pp120. Hb. Fine / Fine. The story of non-stop steam services between Kings Cross and Edinburgh Waverley, in both LNER and British Rail days. £5.95
Murray,
Anthony The Forth Railway
Bridge: A Celebration, Mainstream, First Edition 1983, pp112.
With Charles Maclean and Simon Scott.
Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good.
Three small wear marks on the rear flap of the dw.
A well-illustrated history. £6.95
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