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Vallance
H A The Highland Railway,
Stockwell, First Edition 1938, pp224, pp31 of plates and fold-out map at
the front. Inscription.
Hb. No dw.
VG-. Some wear to
the covers and foxing to the page edges.
A first edition of the definitive history of the Highland
Railway. £16.50
Vallance H A The Highland Railway The History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands - Vol.2, D&C, 4th edition 1985, pp210 with 8 colour plates. Additional material by C.R. Clinker and A.J. Lambert. Standard Railway History Series. Hb. Fine/Fine. The major history of the Highland Railway. £6.95
Vallance H A The Great North of Scotland Railway, D&C, 1st edition 1965, pp192, colour frontis plus 58 illustrations. Hb. Fine / Very Good. A first edition of a standard history of the GNoS. £10.50
Vallance H A (Ed) The Railway Enthusiast's Bedside Book, Batsford, 1966, pp264 and 43 illustrations. Hb. VG/Fair. Spine sunned, dw internally repaired at the head of the spine. A delightful pot pourri from seventeen different contributors. £4.95
Vanns, Michael A Rail Centres: Nottingham, Booklaw, 2004, pp128. Glazed boards with dw. Fine / Very Good. A comprehensive well-illustrated history of the Nottingham area. £6.95
Vanns,
Michael A Signalling in the Age
of Steam, IA, 1995, pp112. Small
format Pb. Very Good+. Traces the development of traditional semaphore
signalling from the 1830s until the 1960s.
£3.95
Vanns,
Michael A An Illustrated History
of Great Northern Railway Signalling, OPC, 2000, pp128.
Large format Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good+.
The dw is protected by clear foil which has been fixed to the inside of
the covers by short strips of sellotape. A
detailed examination of Great Northern signalling from 1848 until the 1923
Grouping. £12.50
Vanns, Michael A Severn Valley Railway: A view from the past, IA, 2006, pp96. Glazed Boards. Very Good. An illustrated history of the line until its closure by BR in 1963. £5.95
Vaughan, Adrian Great Western Portrait: 1913-1921, OPC, 1971, pp59. Landscape format Hb. F/F. A collection of pre-grouping Great Western photographs taken by Bill Kenning. £6.95
Vaughan,
Adrian The Kenning
Collection, OPC, 1972, pp59. Landscape
format Hb. No dw.
VG in an attractive green cover with gold lettering.
A selection of pre-grouping photographs taken by Bill Kenning -
mainly GWR, LBSC, SECR and M&GNJt.
£2.95
Vaughan, Adrian Grime & Glory: Tales of the Great Western 1892-1947, BCA/John Murray, 1985, pp191 and pp12 of plates. Hb. VG/VG. £6.95
Vaughan, Adrian Grub, Water and Relief: Tales of the Great Western 1835-1892, Alan Sutton, 1987, pp178 plus pp16 of illustrations. Pb. VG. Stories of the GWR in the 19th century. £4.95
Vaughan, Adrian Obstruction Danger: Significant British Railway Accidents 1890-1986, PSL, 1989, pp256. Hb. VG+/VG+. Adrian Vaughan, himself a former signalman, examines the circumstances of over 30 railway accidents where safety equipment and procedures were neglected or abused. £6.95
Vaughan,
Adrian Isambard Kingdom Brunel:
Engineering Knight-Errant, John Murray, 1992, pp285 plus pp16 of plates.
Hb. VG+/VG. "This is the first biography to show Brunel as he
actually was. Adrian Vaughan, drawing on evidence ignored in Rolt's classic
life, reveals not just an engineer of genius, a fountain of original ideas and
nervous energy, a born actor and a courageous leader, but also a man who was
obstinate, unjust, dictatorial and in the end paranoid."
£8.50
Vaughan,
Adrian The Heart of the
Great Western, SLP, 1995, pp224.
Large Format Hb. VG+/VG+.
Faint scoring marks on the dw else VG+/VG+.
Chronicles the many activities and complexities of the GWR and
its staff in the Oxford and Didcot area, geographically the
"heart" of the system. £8.50
Vaughan, Adrian Railwaymen Politics & Money: The Great Age of Railways in Britain, John Murray, 1997, pp407 plus 20 illustrations. Hb. VG+/VG+. "Britain's railways in their heyday: men & machines, the lure of money, the chaos of competition and striking precedents for today's privatisation." £8.50
Vaughan, John The Power of the 50s, OPC, 1979, 239 plates. Power Series. Large Format Hb. VG/VG with superficial wear to the top edge of the dw. £6.95
Vaughan
J A M Modern Branch Line Album,
IA, 1980, pp128. Hb.
Fine / Fine. Branch lines in the diesel age.
£4.95
Vaughan, John Double-Headed Diesels Nationwide, OPC, 1980, 242 plates. Large Format Hb. VG/VG. £6.95
Vaughan, John Sunset of British Steam, OPC, 1981, 253 plates. Large Format Hb. Fine / Very Good. A high-quality album with 250 pictures from all BR regions. £5.95
Vaughan, John Diesels on the London Midland, IA, 1981, pp112. Hb. VG/VG. Slight wear to the top edge of the dw. The diesel scene on the London Midland Region in the 70s. £4.95
Vaughan, John This
is Paddington, IA, 1982, pp56. Large
Format Pb. VG.
A series of illustrated articles. £2.95
Vaughan
J A M Profile of the Class 50s,
OPC, 1983, 148 plates. Profile
Series. Large Format. Glazed
Boards. VG. £8.50
Vaughan, John The Power of the HSTs, OPC, 1983, 242 plates. Power Series. Large Format Hb. Fine/VG+. £7.50
Veale E W P Railway Scrapbook, Railway Publications, 1962, pp160. Hb. VG/Fair. A readable book covering a diverse range of topics from the gauge wars to continental sea routes, and featuring railway personalities from Stephenson to Gresley and from Samuel Smiles to Henry Smith. £3.95
Vincent,
Mike British Railway
Steam in Colour, BCA/Argus, 1992, pp159. Large Format Hb.
Fine / Very Good+. Recollections
of chasing steam during the 60s with chapters on Main Line - London, The
Sunny South, Broad Swathe of Midlands & Shires, The Borders, The
Lowlands of Scotland, Farther North & Farther North, Back down the
East Coast, and Great Central & London Extension.
£5.95
Vinter,
Jeff Railway Walks: GWR & SR,
Alan Sutton, 1990, pp164 plus 6 coloured plates. Pb. VG.
A detailed description of ten walks along former railway lines in the
south of England. £4.95
Voice,
David How to Go Tram and Tramway
Modelling, PSL, 1982, pp192. Hb.
VG/VG. One-inch internally repaired tear at the head of the dw, spine of
dw slightly sunned. The first half
of the book deals with modelling trams, while the second half is concerned with
building tram layouts. £8.50
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