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(Including other U.K. Metros)
Baker C The Metropolitan Railway, Oakwood, 1960, pp76 plus pp16 of plates. Oakwood Library No.7. First published in 1951. Hb. Paper covered boards with cloth spine. VG-. Some foxing to the covers. £5.95
Barker T C and Robbins Michael A History of London Transport: Passenger Travel and the Development of the Metropolis Vol.1: The Nineteenth Century, Allen & Unwin, 1st edition 1963, pp412. Inscription. Hb. No dw. Very Good. Foxing to the page edges. A comprehensive study of all forms of public transport in London. £10.25
Bayman, Bob Underground Official Handbook, Capital Transport, 3rd edition 1994, pp80. Pb. Fine. Illustrated in colour throughout. £2.95
Boynton, John Main
Line to Metro: Train and Tram on the Great Western Route Birmingham Snow Hill
– Wolverhampton, Mid England Books, 2001, pp110. Large Format Pb. Very
Good. An illustrated history.
£8.50
Bruce, J Graeme Steam to Silver, London Transport, 1975, pp169, colour
frontis and over 150 illustrations. Landscape
Format Hb. Fine / Fine.
An illustrated history of London Transport surface railway rolling stock.
£6.95
Bruce,
J Graeme Steam to Silver,
London Transport, 1970, pp167. Landscape
Format Pb. VG with superficial wear
at the head of the spine. An
illustrated history of London Transport surface railway rolling stock.
£3.95
Cork, Richard Eduardo Paolozzi Underground, Royal Academy of Arts, 1986, pp48, with p16 of colour illustrations. Pb. VG. An illustrated tribute to the Paolozzi mosaics at Tottenham Court Road. £16.50
Day, John R The Story of London's Underground, London Transport, 1974, pp160 plus pp32 of illustrations. Colour frontis. First published in 1963, this is the enlarged edition of 1974, and the first hardback edition. VG/VG-. From Winston Churchill School library with stamps inside the cover & the title page, and a pastedown inside the rear cover. The dw has been covered with clear (non adhesive) foil and tacked neatly in place with two short strips of sellotape inside the covers. A history of the Underground from Gooch's broad gauge engines on the Metropolitan to the Jubilee Line and today's one-man operation. £3.95
Edwards, Dennis and Pigram, Ron Metro Memories: A Pictorial History of Metroland, Midas, 1980, ppp128. Large Format. Glazed Boards. VG. Slight rubbing to the corners of the covers. An armchair odyssey through the countryside served by the Metropolitan Railway, first published in 1977. £5.95
Edwards, Dennis and Pigram, Ron The Golden Years of the Metropolitan Railway and the Metro-land Dream, Midas Books, 1983, pp128. Large Format. Glazed Boards. VG. Top corners slightly bumped. The final volume of the Metropolitan Railway trilogy. £5.95
Edwards, Dennis and Pigram, Ron The Romance of Metroland, Bloomsbury Books, 1986, pp128. Large format Hb. Fine/VG. Tiny internally repaired nick in the dw fold, spine slightly sunned. A further pictorial history of the countryside served by the old Metropolitan Railway, first published with glazed boards by Midas books in 1979. £5.95
Edwards, Dennis and Pigram, Ron London's Underground Suburbs, Baton Transport, 1st edition 1986, pp137. Large Format. Glazed Boards. Very Good. Superficial wear to the corners of the covers. A pictorial review of the expansion of the London Underground into the suburbs between the wars. £6.95
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
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
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
Green, Oliver The London Underground - An Illustrated History, IA, 1987, pp80. Large format Pb. VG. An illustrated history. £4.95
Howson,
Henry The Rapid Transit Railways
of the World, Allen & Unwin, 1971, pp183 plus 40 illustrations.
Hb. VG/VG.
A comprehensive survey of the world's metro systems.
£5.95
Howson H F London's Underground, IA, 6th edition 1986, pp160. Hb. Fine / Very Good+. The standard history of the London underground. £5.95
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
Jolly, Stephen and Bayman, Bob Docklands Light Railway: Official Handbook, Capital Transport, 1986, pp64. Pb. VG+. A well-illustrated booklet. £2.95
Jubilee Line Extension, London
Underground, 1997, p210 - p230. Large
landscape format Pb. Fine. A series of three illustrated articles reprinted from the
April 1997 issue of Modern Railways.
£3.95
Lascelles
T S The City and South London
Railway, Oakwood, 1955, pp36 plus pp8 of plates. Oakwood Library of
Railway History No.11. Pb.
VG. £3.95
Lee,
Charles E The Metropolitan
District Railway, Oakwood, First Edition 1956, pp51.
Oakwood Library of Railway History No.12. Pb.
Very Good. A history of the
second underground railway in London, and its long feud with The Metropolitan
Railway - the first underground railway.
£3.95
Lee, Charles E Sixty Years of the Bakerloo, London Transport, 1966, pp24 plus pp12 of illustrations. Pb. VG. A history of the Bakerloo Line. £3.50
Lee, Charles E Sixty Years of the Piccadilly, London Transport, 1966, pp25 plus pp13 of illustrations. Pb. VG. A history of the Piccadilly Line. £3.50
Lee, Charles E Sixty
Years of the Northern, London Transport, 2nd Impression 1968, pp28 plus pp12
of illustrations. Pb.
VG. A history of the first
sixty years of Northern Line. £3.50
London Transport 1980: Annual report and accounts for year ending 31 December 1980, London Transport Executive, pp40. Large Format Pb. Very Good. An illustrated booklet giving details of London Transport's operations in 1980. £3.50
Ovenden,
Mark Metro Maps of the World,
Capital Transport, 2004, pp136. Large
landscape format. Glazed Boards.
VG. Front top corner bumped.
A comprehensive collection of current official maps or diagrams of every
metro system in the world. £12.50
Passingham
W J The Romance of London's
Underground, Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., 1932, pp243 plus 87
illustrations. Hb.
No dw. Good+.
Slight wear to the covers at the top rear edge of the spine, colours on
covers faded, foxing to the page edges. A
pre-war history of the Underground. £14.50
Randall, Chris Renewing the Tube: Metronet, pp24. Published with Issue 563 of Rail. Large Format Pb. Very Good. An illustrated booklet published when Metronet won a 30-year contract to maintain and upgrade two thirds of the London Underground. £1.95
Smith, Martin Steam on the Underground, IA, 1994, pp96. Pb. Very Good. Some slight creasing on the cover. An illustrated history of steam traction on the London Underground. £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