Books - "railways"
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Mediterranean Island Railways
Railway Histories of the World
Ex-library Hardcover super octavo (VG-) in d/w (G) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: David & Charles (Publishers) Limited 1970
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials P.M. Kalla-Bishop transport trains locomotives Mediterranean Island railways history
The Settle to Carlisle
A Tribute
Hardcover quarto (VG+) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Books 1988
KEYWORDS: specials Roger Siviter transport railways train locomotives history Carlisle
Rails to Roxburgh: The Story of a Provincial Railway
Quarto, illus light card covers with French flaps, illus eps, frontispiece, xii + 256pp, illus, nr. fine
PUBLISHER: Molyneux Press Ltd 2010
KEYWORDS: WJ Cowan New Zealand Central Otago transport railways trains steam engines history Roxburgh engineering
New Zealand Prototypes: Volumes 1 & 2
Plans originally appeared in The NZ Model Railway Journal 1948-1960 & in New Zealand Railway Observer 1946-1947
Two-volume set, quarto, beige light card covers with cloth spine, cyclostyled typed foolscap pages, unpaginated, illus, VG (light staining to covers, tanning)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Model Railway Association 1962
KEYWORDS: Ian TG Johnstone New Zealand model railways scale drawings plans trains locomotives steam engines rolling stock goods vans wagons
Steam in Europe
Quarto, brown cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, 198pp, illus, VG+ (slight staining to boards edges, soiling to eps, bookseller's stamp to fep) in d/w, VG- (damage & staining from black tape to plastic cover, foxing internally)
PUBLISHER: Ian Allan Ltd 1966
KEYWORDS: PB Whitehouse Europe railways transport steam engines locomotioves trains photographic pictorial history Ireland Britain Denmark Norway Sweden Finland Poland Russia Turkey Greece Bulgaria Yugoslovia Rumania Czechoslovakia Austria Italy Switzerland Germany
British Steam Railways
First edition, signed & dated by author, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 326pp, illus with 8 colour plates & 94 photographs, VG+ (browning to eps, bookseller's stamp to fep, foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, bruising & staining to edges)
PUBLISHER: Adam & Charles Black 1961
KEYWORDS: first edition OS Nock Britain British railways trains transport steam engines locomotives enineering carriages stations architecture signals history
Trains at Work in New Zealand
Re-bound in cloth boards with original paper illus covers included, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board, frontispiece, 240pp, illus, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Railway Preservation & Museum 1973
KEYWORDS: GT Radcliffe JA Murphy New Zealand transport trains railways locomotives steam engines photographic pictorial history
The Aspinall Era
Super octavo, dark brown cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, iii + 270pp, illus, VG- (staining to boards, sellotape residue to boards, bookseller's label to front pastedown, two owners' inscriptions in ink to fep, tanning to fep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy foxing & tanning internally, sellotape residue stains internally)
PUBLISHER: Ian Allan 1967
KEYWORDS: HAV Bulleid Sir John Aspinall Lancashire & Yorkshire Great Southern & Western transport railways trains engineering history
The Springburn Story: The History of the Scottish Railway Metropolis
Octavo, orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 260pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG (foxing) in d/w, VG (price clipped, fading)
PUBLISHER: David & Charles / Dawlish Macdonald 1964
KEYWORDS: John Thomas Springburn Scotland Scottish railways trains locomotives engineering history Caledonian and North British steam locomotive builders
London's First Railway - The London & Greenwich
Octavo, maroon heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, 270pp, illus, VG+ (ding to front board lower edge, slight soiling to page fore-edges) in d/w, VG+ (slight soiling to edges)
PUBLISHER: B.T. Batsford Ltd 1972
KEYWORDS: Ronald HG Thomas London Bridge Greenwich transport trains railways construction history viaduct
A History of Russian Railways
Octavo, green boards with gilt lettering in red decorative panel to spine and blind train motifs to front board, top edges green, 326pp, illus, VG+ (slight fading to spine, bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, staining to eps) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, staining to edges, tanning internally)
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1964
KEYWORDS: JN Westwood Russia Russian railways trains rail transport history economic technical history engineering terrain climate locomotives steam engines equipment
Register of New Zealand Railways Steam Locomotives 1863-1971
Imperial octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, vi + 129pp, illus, VG+ (v slight staining to boards) in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing)
PUBLISHER: NZ Railway & Locomotive Society (Otago Branch) Dunedin 1974
KEYWORDS: WILLIAM G Lloyd New Zealand railways transport trains steam engines locomotives history
The NZR Garratt Story
Imperial octavo, turquoise boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 100pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand railway and Locomotive Society Inc 1978
KEYWORDS: EJ Mcclare New Zealand Garratt locomotives railways trains transport steam engines history
The North Staffordshire Railway
Super octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 333pp, illus, VG+ (v slight foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1971
KEYWORDS: Rex Christansen RW Miller North Staffordshire railways trains transport history
Southland's Pioneer Railways 1864-1878
Super octavo, illus heavy card boards with black lettering to orange cloth spine, frontispiece, 72pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to front board upper edge)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society 1965
KEYWORDS: JOP Watt New Zealand history Southland transport railways trains steam engines locomotives engineering Makarewa Bluff Vogel Scheme
AA Discovering Britain's Lost Railways
Oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards with red lettering, illus prelims, 160pp, illus, fine, in d/w, nr fine (creasing to front flap upper edge)
PUBLISHER: AA Publishing 1995
KEYWORDS: Paul Atterbury Automobile Association Britain British railways trains transport steam engines Darlington Penrith Cockermouth Halwill Junction Barnstape Ilfracombe Lynton Bath Green Park Templecombe Ryde Ventnor Newport Cowes Uttoxeter Leek Stoke-on-Trent
Station to Station
Quarto, white light card covers with black lettering to spine, illus prelims, 240pp, illus, fine, in d/w with large French flaps, fine
PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press 2001
KEYWORDS: Steven Parissien railways transport stations architecture buildings history construction structure social political context photography pictorial history drawings sketches plans
Steam Up Indonesia and Thailand
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with black lettering to white spine, frontispiece, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (slight soiling to rear cover, light foxing to front)
PUBLISHER: J & A Publications 1974
KEYWORDS: John Joyce Allan Tilley Indonesia Thailand trains railways locomotives steam engines photography photographic history pictorial record
Atlantic Era
The British Atlantic Locomotive
First edition hardcover super octavo (VG+) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Percival Marshall 1961
KEYWORDS: first edition specials Martin Evans tansport British trains locomotives history railways
Tangiwa Disaster and 30 Other Railway Accidents in New Zealand
Small quarto (looks like a comic-style binding) illus stapled paper wrappers, printed eps, 74pp, illus, VG+ (small crease to rear lower corner, light foxing & tanning to pages)
PUBLISHER: Wilson & Horton Ltd 1972
KEYWORDS: Graham Stewart New Zealand railways trains accidents disasters crashes