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Talbot, Edward An Illustrated History of LNWR Engines, OPC, 1st edition 1985, pp334. Hb. VG+/VG. Slight wear and tiny tears to the dw at the head of the spine. An exhaustive class-by-class study. £24.50
Talbot, Edward; Millard, Philip; Dow, George; and Davis, Peter LNWR Liveries, HMRS, 1985, pp184 with colour frontis. Very Large Format Hb. VG/Fair. As is frequently the case with this book, the top edge of the dw is a bit tatty; this appears to be because the dw was originally larger than the book. A definitive work, covering all aspects of the LNWR. A final chapter is devoted to the North London Railway. £12.50
Talbot, Edward The LNWR Recalled, OPC, 1987, pp191. Large Format Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good+. Writings and observations on the London and North Western Railway compiled by an acknowledged expert on the company. £10.50
Talbot,
Edward A Pictorial
Tribute to Crewe Works in the Age of Steam, OPC, 1987, 213 plates.
Hb. Fine / Very
Good. Dw sunned on a strip
down the side of the spine. A
high-quality large format album featuring many pre-grouping pictures.
£8.50
'Taliesin' Festiniog Railway Locomotives, AB Publishing, 1988, pp52. Large Format Pb. Very Good. An illustrated locomotive history, including the famous double-ended Fairlies. 'Taliesin' consisted of Rodney Weaver, Paul Ingham, Paul Rees and Peter Johnson. £3.95
Tatlow,
Joseph Fifty Years of
Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland, Railway Gazette,
First edition 1920, pp223. Hb.
Very Good - / Poor. The
corners of the covers are slightly bumped, also slight wear at the top
& bottom of the spine and foxing to the page edges. The badly torn
dw has been repaired internally and has some loss. Tatlow joined the
Midland Railway as a junior clerk in 1867, moved to the G&SWR in
Glasgow in 1875, became General Manager of the Belfast & County Down
at the early age of 34 and finally became General Manager of the Midland
Great Western Railway of Ireland. £16.50
Tatlow, Peter Highland Miscellany, OPC, 1985, 294 plates. Large Format Hb. VG/Fair. Dw internally repaired at the head of the spine and at two corners. A pictorial record of the company's activities in the public eye and behind the scenes. £4.95
Tatlow, Peter Historic
Carriage Drawings Vol.3 Non-Passenger Coaching Stock, Pendragon, 1998,
pp128. Series editor David
Jenkinson. Large Format.
Glazed Boards. Very Good. 4mm
scale drawings, illustrations and background details for a wide range of pre and
post-grouping vehicles. £14.50
Taylor, M Minter The Davington Light Railway, Oakwood, 1968, pp19 plus pp6 of plates. Locomotion Papers No.40. Pb. VG- with some superficial wear to the covers. The history of a short-lived narrow gauge line in Kent built to serve World War I munitions factories. £3.95
Taylor,
Maxwell Railways as a
Career, Batsford, 1959, pp128 plus pp8 of plates.
Hb. VG+/VG-.
Two small tears in the dw and slight loss to the lower back edge.
"Sets out to portray life and work on the railways, the
methods of recruitment and the paths of advancement.”
£4.95
Taylor, Sheila The Moving Metropolis: A History of London's Transport since 1800, Lawrence King, 2002, pp400. In association with London's Transport Museum. Introductions by Oliver Green. Pb. Very Good. A largely pictorial history, mainly in colour. £8.50
Taylor, Stuart Blackburn's Railways in the 1950s and 60s, Foxline, 1994, pp160. Scenes from the Past: 46 (Part 1). Large Format Pb. VG. Some superficial creasing to the covers. Featuring the men of Lower Darwen MPD and the main line via Darwen, Bolton, Salford, and Manchester Victoria. £12.50
Taylor, Stuart Journey by Excursion Train from East Lancashire Part One: Colne, Nelson, Burnley, Accrington & Blackburn, Foxline, 2007, pp128. Scenes from the Past: 26: Part One. Large Format Pb. VG. A pictorial journey from Colne to Blackburn. £12.50
Thomas,
David St John A Regional
History of the Railways of Great Britain Vol.1: The West Country,
Phoenix, First Edition 1960, pp212 with a folding map in the rear.
Hb. VG/VG- with
slight wear along the edge of the dw.
A first edition of the book that launched the monumental History
of Railways Series, later published by David & Charles.
£7.50
Thomas, David St John and Rocksborough-Smith, Simon Summer Saturdays in the West, D&C, 1st edition 1973, pp173. Hb. Fine/VG. A unique study of Western Region holiday operations to the West Country on Saturday 27 July 1957, set in the context of GW summer services. £5.95
Thomas,
David St John The Great
Way West : The History and Romance of the Great Western's Route to the
West, D&C, 1985, pp96. Pb.
VG. A personal
photographic tribute to the Great Western from David St John Thomas, the
'David' of David and Charles. £3.95
Thomas,
David St John The
Country Railway, D&C, 6th impression 1989, pp160. First
published in 1976. Hb.
Fine / Fine. 'Lovingly
portrays the branch and cross-county railway in all its nostalgic,
technical and commercial aspects.'
£4.95
Thomas
D S The Country Railway,
David St John Thomas, 1991, pp160.
First published by David and Charles in 1976.
Pb. Very Good
with tiny wear marks on the cover.
“Lovingly portrays the branch and cross-county railway in all
its nostalgic, technical and commercial aspects.”
£3.95
Thomas, David St John and Whitehouse, Patrick The Great Days of the Express Trains, D&C, 1990, pp208. Large Format Hb. Fine / Fine. Steam nostalgia from the Thomas/Whitehouse team. £4.95
Thomas,
David St John and Whitehouse, Patrick
BR in the Eighties, BCA/D&C, 1990, pp192. Large Format
Hb. Fine / Very Good+.
A comprehensive review of the changes and developments on BR
during the 1980s. £5.95
Thomas, David St John and Whitehouse, Patrick The Romance of Scotland's Railways, Thomas & Lochar, 1993, pp208. Large format Hb. Fine/VG+. Superficial wear to the dw at the head & base of the spine. A nostalgic look at Scotland's railways from the well-respected Thomas-Whitehouse team. £7.50
Thomas, David St John and Whitehouse, Patrick The Trains We Loved, BCA/D&C, 1994, pp192 and 32 paintings by Philip Hawkins. Inscription under the dw flap. Large Format Hb. Fine / Fine. The final book of steam nostalgia from the Thomas-Whitehouse team. £6.95
Thomas, John British Railways Steamers of the Clyde, IA, 1948, pp48. Pb. VG-. Slight crease in the bottom corner of the cover. An illustrated overview of the Clyde fleet inherited by British Railways at nationalisation with a fleet list. £3.95
Thomas, John The Callander & Oban Railway, D&C, 1st Edition 1966, pp200, colour frontis & 42 illustrations. Standard Railway History Series. Hb. VG+/VG. Spine sunned. £8.50
Thomas, John Scottish Railway History in Pictures, D&C, 1967, pp112 with a colour frontis. Railway Picture History Series. Signed by the author. Hb. VG/Poor. Slight loss to the dw at the head & base of the spine. £3.95
Thomas, John The Skye Railway: The History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands Vol.5, David St Thomas and D&C, 2nd revised & extended edition 1990, pp181. Updated by John Farrington. Standard Railway History Series. Hb. Fine/VG. Slight wear to the top edges & corners of the dw. A history of the Highland Railway branch from Dingwall to Kyle of Lochalsh. £8.50
Thomas, John and Turnock, David A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Vol. 15: North of Scotland, David St John Thomas, 2nd edition 1993, pp336 with 44 plates, and a folding map in the rear. Hb. VG+/VG-. Two one-inch internally repaired tears in the dw. £10.50
Thompson,
Alan and Groundwater, Ken British
Railways Past and Present No.11 North Yorkshire (Part I): York and Selby, the
Dales, and Skipton to Garsdale, Past & Present Publishing, 1992, pp128.
Pb. Very Good. Featuring
over 50 locations including York, Northallerton, Selby, Harrogate, Skipton,
Ribblehead and Garsdale. £4.95
Thompson, Alan and Groundwater, Ken British Railways Past and Present No.14: Cleveland and North Yorkshire (part 2), Past & Present Publishing, 1999, pp144. Pb. VG. Over 200 photographs from over 70 locations including Stockton on Tees, Middlesborough, Northallerton, Whitby, Pickering, Malton and Scarborough. £4.95
Thorley
W G F A Breath of Steam:
Vol.1, IA, 1975, pp199 plus 69 illustrations.
Vol.2 was never published. Hb.
VG/VG -. The blank first
page, before the preliminary title page, has been removed at some stage.
Spine of dw sunned, and a one inch internally repaired tear in
rear dw fold. The
autobiography of an LMS shed apprentice from the late 20s until the
early 40s - more technical than most reminiscences.
£5.95
Throp, Arnold Vertical Milling in the Home Workshop, Model & Allied Publications, 1979, pp76 with 51 figs. Pb. VG-. Covers and pages a little grubby. £2.95
Tilling
W G The Locomotives of the
Southern Railway (Central Section), author, 1935, pp34 with 7 illustrations
& a foldout table in the rear. VG.
P. H. Edwards nameplate inside the front cover.
Pb. Slight wear to the covers at the head of the spine.
A survey of the surviving Brighton Line engines.
£8.50
Timpson, John Little
Trains of Britain, Harper Collins, 1992, pp192, illustrated throughout in
colour. Photographs by Alain Le
Garsmeur and additional text by Chris Awdry.
Large landscape format Hb. Fine
/ Very Good. With chapters on: The
Welshpool & Llanfair, The Ravenglass & Eskdale, The Wells &
Walsingham Light Railway, The Snowdon Mountain Railway, The Romney Hythe &
Dymchurch Railway, The Ffestiniog Railway, The Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light
Railway, The Isle of Man Steam Railway, The Leighton Buzzard Railway, and The
Talyllyn Railway. £3.95
Tomlinson, William Weaver Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway: Its Rise and Development, Andrew Reid & Co., 1st edition 1914, pp820 plus 40 plates. Bound in grey cloth with gold lettering to the front cover and spine. The original covers have been carefully restored by Philip Winskill of York Bookbinding. Bookplate inside covers. Hb. No dw. VG. Foxing to the endpapers and page edges. Long regarded as the standard reference work on the North Eastern Railway. The book concentrates on the early period up to 1870; the remaining years are dealt with in a mere 100 pages. £95.00
Toms, George Brush Diesel & Electric Locomotive Works List, Industrial Railway Society, 1999, pp49 plus pp20 of plates. Pb. Fine. A list of all Brush built diesel and electric locos for both UK and overseas use, based on the original leather bound Brush Locomotive Register. Includes a section on Brush Works plates. £4.95
Townend P N East Coast Pacifics at Work, IA, 1982, pp192. At Work Series. Large Format Hb. Fine / Fine. An illustrated history of the Gresley, Thompson and Peppercorn pacifics. £6.95
Townend P N The LNER Pacifics, Atlantic, 1985, pp36. Colour of Steam Vol.4. Pb. Fine. £1.95
Townend P N Top Shed: A Pictorial History of Kings Cross Locomotive Depot, IA, 2nd edition 1989, pp160. Hb. VG/VG-. Several small tears to the dw edges. A well-illustrated history with a significant amount of text. £6.95
Townley C H A, Appleton C A, Smith F D, and Peden J A The Industrial Railways of Bolton, Bury and Manchester Coalfield Part 1 Bolton and Bury, Runpast, 1994, pp206. Hb. Fine/Fine. Traces the development of the private railway systems in Bolton, Bury, Radcliffe, Clifton and Kearsley. £24.50
Townley C H A, Appleton C A, Smith F D, and Peden J A The Industrial Railways of Bolton, Bury and Manchester Coalfield Part 2 The Manchester Coalfield, Runpast, 1995, p207-p461 with 86 illustrations & 32 maps. Remains of a stamp from the previous owner inside the cover. Hb. VG+/VG+. Chapters on Clifton Pendlebury & Agecroft, Pendleton Salford & Eccles, Atherton Leigh & Tyldesley plus an exhaustive treatment of the Bridgewater Collieries railway system. £24.50
Townley C H A, Smith F D and Peden J A The Industrial Railways of the Wigan Coalfield Part One: West and South of Wigan, Runpast, 1991, pp271 with 100 illustrations & 27 maps. Hb. VG/VG. Slight wear to the bottom edge of the covers, repaired tear to the rear top corner of the dw. Contents: Development of the Canal & Railway System, Orrell & Norley Hall, Pemberton, Winstanley & Worsley Mesnes, Ince Collieries, Pearson & Knowles Ince Collieries, Amberswood & Stangeways Hall, Platt Bridge Bamfurlong & Mains, Low Hall Maypole & Wigan Junction, Edge Green Brynn & Garswood, Skelmersdale & Bickerstaffe, and Rainford Upholland & Orrell. A comprehensive meticulously researched study. £20.50
Townley C H A, Smith F D and Peden J A The Industrial Railways of the Wigan Coalfield Part Two: North and East of Wigan, Runpast, 1991, p273-p544 with 100 illustrations & 55 maps. Hb. Fine/Fine. Contents: Haigh & Aspull, Kirkless, The Wigan Coal & Iron Company, Shevington Appley Bridge & Gathurst, Douglas Bank to Westwood, North of Wigan, Standish, Coppull, Chorley & Adlington, Blackrod & Westhoughton, Westleigh & Swan Lake, and Bickershaw & Hindley Green. £24.50
Townroe
S C My Best Railway Photographs
No. 6 SR & GWR, IA, 1948, pp32. ABC
Locomotive Series. Small format
Pb. Very Good.
£2.95
Townroe
S C The Arthurs, Nelsons
and Schools of the Southern, IA, 1973, pp103 plus pp40 of plates.
Hb. Fine / Very
Good. Spine of dw slightly
sunned. A more detailed
version of the author's two pamphlets: Book of the Schools Class
(1947), and King Arthurs and Lord Nelsons of the Southern Railway
(1949). £6.95
Treacy, Eric My Best Railway Photographs No. 1 LMS, IA, 1946, pp32. ABC Locomotive Series. Small landscape format Pb. Fair with wear to the edges of the covers and several small tears. The first publication from a young Canon Eric Treacy. £1.95
Treacy, Eric Portrait of Steam, IA, 1969, pp200. Large Format Hb. Very Good / Very Good. This Ian Allan edition is more difficult to obtain than the later matt reprint from PRC. £6.95
Treacy, Eric Roaming the East Coast Route, IA, 1977, pp112. Colour frontis. Large Format Hb. VG+/VG. One-inch internally repaired closed-tear in the dw, superficial wear to the dw at the head of the spine. A pictorial tribute to the Gresley Pacifics and the Deltics, which provided the front rank power to the East Coast main line for so many years. £5.95
Treacy, Eric Lure of Steam, IA, 1985, pp208. Inscription. Large Format Hb. Fine / Fine. Eric Treacy's first major album, originally published in 1966. £6.95
Treacy, Eric The Best of Eric Treacy, BCA/Thomas & Lochar, 1994, pp192. Editor: David St John Thomas. Large Landscape format Hb. Fine/VG+. A superb collection of Eric Treacy's photographs. £5.95
Trevena,
Arthur Railway Accidents
in Pictures: Trains in Trouble Vol.1, Atlantic, 1982, pp48.
Pb. Very Good. "Over
sixty accidents are described and illustrated with some 80
photographs." £1.95
Trevena, Arthur Trains
in Trouble Vol.2: Railway Accidents in Pictures, Atlantic, 1981, pp48.
Pb. Very Good.
Further unusual pictures of accidents, drawn primarily from two private
collections. £1.95
Trevena, Nigel Steam
Exposure: Photography on Britain's Preserved Railways, Atlantic, 1979, 142
photographs. Signed by the author.
Large landscape format Pb. Very
Good. High quality photographs from
the early years of the preserved lines. £2.95
Trevena N Great Western Main Lines, Atlantic, 1984, pp36. Colour of Steam Vol.1. Pb. VG. £1.95
Trevena, Nigel Steam
for Scrap Vol.1, Atlantic, 1985, p48. Pb.
Slight creasing on the dw else VG; Steam for Scrap Vol.2,
Atlantic, 1985, pp48. Pb.
Very Good. Tiny wear mark
near the top corner of the cover; Steam for Scrap Vol.3, Atlantic, 1987,
pp48. Pb. Fine. In the
decade 1958-68, over 16,000 British steam locomotives were taken out of service
and cut up. This is the story of how it was done.
All three for £6.95
Tufnell R M The
British Railcar: AEC to HST, D&C, 1985, pp96. Hb. VG/VG
with spine of the dw slightly sunned. Follows
the same two-column format as the Locomotive Studies Series.
£8.50
Tuplin W A Great Northern Steam, Allen & Unwin, 1971, pp208 including pp32 of illustrations. Hb. VG/VG. A critical study of the steam engines of the Great Northern Railway. £7.50
Tuplin
W A Midland Steam, D&C,
1973, pp260 plus pp16 of illustrations. Hb.
VG+/VG. Professor Tuplin's appraisal of the steam engines of the Midland
Railway. £8.50
Tuplin W A Great Central Steam, A&U, 2nd Impression 1982, pp234 plus pp16 plates. Hb. VG/Fair. Dw repaired at the head of the spine with slight loss. Professor Tuplin's critical assessment of Great Central steam. £6.95
Turner, John Howard The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway Vol. 1: Origins & Formation, Batsford, 1977, pp287. Ex libris sticker from previous owner inside the front cover. Hb. VG/VG. Superficial wear to the top edge of the dw. The early history of the Brighton line; The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway Vol. 2: Establishment & Growth, Batsford, 1978, pp320. Ex libris sticker from previous owner inside the front cover. Hb. VG/VG. Covers a period of great expansion, and a financial crisis that nearly brought the company to ruin; The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway Vol. 3: Completion & Maturity, Batsford, 1979, pp283 and folding map in the rear. Ex libris sticker from previous owner inside the front cover. Hb. VG /VG. Covers the period from 1870 until 1922. All three volumes of Turner’s definitive history for £36.50
Turner, John Howard The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway Vol. 1: Origins & Formation, Batsford, 1977, pp287. Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good+. The early history of the Brighton line. £12.50
Turner, Keith and Susan The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway, D&C, 1982, pp48. Glazed Boards. VG-. Slight rubbing to the edges of the covers. A detailed history of this minor line, once a part of the Colonel Stephen's empire. £5.95
Turner,
Keith The Lost Railways of
Birmingham, Brewin Books, 1992, pp56. Pb.
Very Good+. An illustrated
booklet. £4.95
Turnock, David Railways in the British Isles: Landscape, Land Use and Society, Adams & Black, 1982, pp259, 44 illustrations & 21 maps. Hb. Very Good / Very Good. A major study divided into three sections. The first deals with the growth of the railway system; the second covers the role of the railways in the evolution of towns and in the growth of industry, agriculture, and tourism; and the third section examines the major reappraisal of railways that has taken place over the last 50 years. £6.95
Twells H N and Bourne T W A Pictorial Record of LMS Road Vehicles, OPC, 1983, 313 plates. Large Format Hb. Fine / Very Good. Slight wear to the dw corners. £10.50
Twells H N LMS
Miscellany [Vol. 1]: A Pictorial Record of the Company's Activities in the
Public Eye and Behind the Scenes, OPC, First Edition 1982, 246 plates.
Large Format Hb. Fine / Very Good+. Spine
of dw very slightly sunned. The
first volume of Harold Twells' superb pictorial study of the LMS.
£8.50
Twells
H N LMS Miscellany Vol.
2: A Pictorial Record of the Company's Activities in the Public Eye and
Behind the Scenes, OPC, 1984, 243 plates. Large Format Hb.
Fine / Very Good+. The
second volume of Harold Twells' superb pictorial study of the LMS.
£8.50
Twells
H N LMS Miscellany Vol.
3: A Pictorial Record of the Company's Activities in the Public Eye and
Behind the Scenes, OPC, 1987, 265 plates.
Large Format Hb. Fine
/ Fine. The final volume of
Harold Twells' superb pictorial study of the LMS.
£8.50
Twells
H N The Railways in and around
Burton upon Trent, Challenger, 1997, pp96.
Large Format Pb. Very Good+.
A well-illustrated study. £7.50
Tyler,
Keith; Bond, John; and Wilkinson, Alan Stanier
8F 2-8-0: A Study of the Stanier LMSR Class 8F Locomotive, Bradford Barton,
1978, pp96. Produced by the Stanier
8F Locomotive Society. Hb.
VG+/VG+. Black
"speckled" cover. A
pictorial album. £4.95
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