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ABOUT US Mortons was founded in 1885 and is a highly respected independent publisher of books, bookazines and magazines. The company specialises in producing high quality publications on topics ranging from railway, military and aviation history to consumer issues, hobbies, crime and politics.

These topics and more are covered by Mortons Books’ imprints: GRESLEY

Britain’s unparalleled history of great railways and locomotives is what Gresley Books seeks to explore, explain and celebrate. Everything is covered from the pioneering days of the early railways to the golden age of steam, the devastating Beeching cuts, the British Rail days, preservation and the ongoing story of modern diesels and electrics.

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War and warfare in all its many forms is the realm of Gallantry Books. This includes the experiences of soldiers and sailors during combat, their lives, their weapons, their equipment, their vehicles and their vessels – alongside a broader view of history’s greatest battles, sieges and campaigns.

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All aspects of aviation history are covered in authoritative detail by Tempest Books. The aviators and aircraft of the Second World War are profiled by our titles alongside more modern fighters, bombers, reconnaissance aircraft and transports. ‘Secret projects’ and experimental designs are also an important part of the Tempest Books portfolio.

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Banovallum Books explores a huge range of modern interests and experiences – from veganism to venomous spiders, from composting to communism, from knitting to fitness. Covering consumer and leisure topics of every variety, Banovallum Books is dedicated to producing high quality titles which offer readers an informed and informative look at lifestyle and specialist subjects.

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Shedding new light on the secrets and mysteries of history is the aim of Timespan Books. Whether it’s the story of ancient Egypt’s 30 dynasties, a biography of Henry VIII’s wives, the slave trade in the 1700s, an account of the Suffragette movement or a recollection of the music of the 1980s, it has a home at Timespan.

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Silver Link is a renowned rail, maritime, road transport and biography publisher.

Recently acquired by Mortons Books and incorporating the imprints Past and Present and The Nostalgia Collection, Silver Link offers a wide range of titles aimed at the enthusiast and nostalgia markets.

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British Railways Stinks DAVID SMITH

The first railway chemical laboratory was opened in 1864 by the London & North Western Railway at Crewe, and the last ones lost their direct link to the rail industry on their privatisation in 1996.

Whatever their expertise, every railway chemist or ‘stink’ has been asked the same question: “What do you actually do”? That is precisely the question this book attempts to answer. It covers many aspects of the work, from a BR chemist going to San Francisco to blow up a watermelon to declaring an empty coal wagon a confined space; from whitewashing a passenger train, in service, in a couple of seconds to questioning, on chemical grounds, the mental state of the chairman of British Rail; from gassing weevils to setting fire to a canal in Derby. British Railways Stinks tells the unusual, astonishing and some times downright hilarious story of the railway ‘nuts’ who decided what exactly the ‘wrong kind of leaves’ were.

About the author: Lead author Dave Smith’s early years were spent in Normanton, Derby, during the Second World War, before he moved to Sheffield aged six. As youngster he would frighten the neighbours by dropping pieces of sodium into his father’s water butt to create huge fountains. Despite being a mischief maker at school he went to college and got some GCEs including maths and chemistry – his favourite subjects. There he met a man who worked at British Rail’s Calvert Street Laboratory and who told him they would employ anyone. So he continued his degree part time and joined BR aged 19 – where he applied science for the benefit of the railway. He has since gone on to chair various committees on international health and safety regulations.

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• Hilarious story of the railway ‘nuts’ who decided what the ‘wrong kind of leaves’ were • Tales from the railway chemists’ lab – torching carriages, gassing weevils and blowing up watermelons with explosives • Written by six chemists who served British Rail during the 60s, 70s and 80s

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Flying Scotsman BRIAN SHARPE

No 1472 was the third of a class of steam locomotives that was eventually to number 79 engines, and did not originally even carry a name. The Great Northern Railway A1 4-6-2 though, was the biggest express steam engine ever to have been seen in Britain at the time. It was chosen to be displayed at a major exhibition at Wembley in 1924, and for this it was given the name Flying Scotsman. It hauled the London & North Eastern Railway’s first King’s Cross-to-Edinburgh nonstop express in 1928. It was the first steam engine in the world to officially break the 100mph barrier.

Flying Scotsman has now become the one steam engine in the world of which everyone knows the name, and which most people would even recognise.

It was briefly the only main line steam engine running in the whole of Britain, and it has travelled across the Atlantic and across America. It has circumnavigated the globe, steamed across Australia, broken the record for a nonstop run with steam (again), and been sold for easily the highest price ever paid for a steam engine.

In 2004, its ongoing 40 years of fame finally earned it a place in the National Railway Museum collection and, after an unprecedented fundraising campaign and a National Heritage Memorial Fund grant, the museum was able to clear the enormous debts of the engine’s then owning company and acquire Flying Scotsman

THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS LOCOMOTIVE

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for the nation, and BRIAN for a British public which clearly holds the engines in high esteem. If it had not acquired fame, largely as a result of its name, in the 1920s and 1930s, then maybe Alan Pegler would not have had the enthusiasm to purchase it in 1963. If it had been scrapped, what would then have become Britain’s most famoust steam engine? And now it’s back. No-one expected it to take ten years of toil, but the National Railway Museum finally has an engine to be proud of. This book tells the story of the legend that is Flying Scotsman the ultimate in British express steam design elegance.

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Mallard ROBIN JONES

On July 3, 1938, LNER A4 streamlined Pacific No. 4468 Mallard reached 126mph, setting a world steam speed record that has never been broken.

It was the zenith of not only a great decade in which glamorous express trains competed to see which could travel from London to Scotland in the fastest time, but also the steam age itself. Author Robin Jones tells the story not only of LNER chief mechanical engineer Sir Nigel Gresley’s Pacifics and Mallard’s international headline-grabbing feat, but also that of the five other A4s still with us – including the ‘Mission Impossible’ repatriation of Dwight D Eisenhower and Dominion of Canada and their cosmetic restoration in their ‘home’ country – to make the ‘Great Gathering’, one of the biggest and most successful events in the history of railway preservation, a dream come true.

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Before Rocket ANTHONY DAWSON

Rocket is perhaps one of the best-known railway locomotives in history. Entered by George and Robert Stephenson and Henry Booth for the Rainhill Trials of October 1829, Rocket was the outright victor and paved the way for the dominance of the steam railway as the major means of communication for the next hundred years or more. But Rocket was not ‘the first’ locomotive – that honour goes to the work of Cornishman Richard Trevithick, while the Middleton Railway saw the first commercial use of steam locomotives in 1812. This book sets out to chart the development of the steam locomotive from its birth with Richard Trevithick up to the momentous year of 1829, showing just how far the locomotive had come in a quarter of century, to go on to be the world-changing invention it became.

• Format: Softback 248mm x 184mm • ISBN: 978-1-911658-25-2 • BIC: WGF • Release date: FEBRUARY 14TH, 2020

• Price: £12.99 US: $19.99 • PAGES: 92

British Railway Disasters ROBIN JONES

This is the story of how Britain’s railway disasters, horrific though they may be, change the network for the better through the crucial lessons that are learned.

It starts with fatalities on early mining tramways before the dawn of the steam age and takes the story up to the present day. While many of Britain’s worst tragedies are covered in depth, such as Quintinshill in 1915 and Harrow & Wealdstone in 1952, the book also looks at others that had resounding consequences for safety.

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Beeching The definitive Guide British Railways Closures and Their Legacy ROBIN JONES

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Described as the most hated civil servant in Britain, Dr Richard Beeching was appointed as chairman of British Railways with one key directive - to cut the soaring losses. The 1950s had seen the start of a mass shift from public to private transport, as lorries, cars, buses and motorbikes replaced trains as Britain’s most popular means of travel. So often pilloried by the press and public for closing numerous picturesque and romantic country branch lines, leaving even many large towns cut off from the railway network, Beeching might also be seen as merely streamlining a process that was already under way. Back in the early Sixties, there were many who thought that not only were the days of steam locomotives numbered, but those of railways too, as mankind, leaping towards the first lunar landings, looked toward hovercraft and hovertrains as the transport of the future. Against the dynamic background of the greatest decade of change of the 20th century, Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones looks back at the forces that were shaping the railway’s fortunes, the Beeching Axe, its critics, aftermath and its repercussions today. Was Dr Beeching the villain of popular legend - or was he a hero who made Britain’s railways into a slimmer, leaner machine far more capable of tackling the challenges of the future? You decide!

A complete account of the 1960s railway line closures and the man responsible.

Brunel’s Big Railway ROBIN JONES

Engineering genius Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western Railway was not only bigger, wider and faster than any other of its day, but linked London to New York via his great steamships from Bristol. His unique broad gauge ‘super railway’ also connected Paddington to Plymouth and Penzance, and for decades was one of the wonders of the world. More than two centuries on, many of his historic structures along the route have been given listed building protection so future generations can admire and enjoy them. This book looks at the history of the railway from London to Bristol and Brunel’s Great Western legacy that was to lead the company to even dizzier heights.

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The Beeching Legacy

THE WEST COUNTRY Expanded PHILIP HORTON

The first edition of this popular volume has been out of print for several years and has become much sought after.

Produced in black and white, the first edition was the first volume in the series, taking a detailed regional look at the Beeching Report, its proposals for closures and modifications of the UK railway QUOTE: network. The report has become legendary and the interest and 5461 debate it generated is no less today than it has ever been since first published. Indeed, with railways now rejuvenated and passenger numbers growing ever larger, the reflection on what Beeching got right and what perhaps in hindsight got very badly wrong makes for fascinating reading.

• Format: Softback 238mm x 172mm This new, expanded second edition has been • ISBN: 978-1-857945-46-1 completely reworked and is now published with colour illustrations both new and replacing the original black ON SALE NOW! and white images where possible. The text has been expanded and updated as appropriate and there are 32 • Price: £25 • PAGES: 192 • BIC: WGF extra pages, bringing the new edition to 192 pages.

The Photographic Artistry of Rail Cameramen 2

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This second book features once again the photographic artistry of many of the UK’s leading railway photographers who, as members of the Rail Camera Club, have been familiar figures at the lineside for many years. The 100th RCC Folio began circulating in the autumn of 2017 and hence the opportunity has been taken of producing this commemorative book; it features work from virtually all the photographers who have contributed to the Folios over those 38 years. The National Railway Museum also commemorated this milestone by hosting an exhibition, Rail Cameramen, at Locomotive Shildon for several weeks in 2018, featuring many of the images contained in this book.

Although until the 1960s many photographers concentrated on ‘traditional’ front % views taken on

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sunny days, several RPS and RCC practitioners assumed rather more adventurous styles and various approaches are included here. The book also includes copies of some of the ‘criticism sheets’ giving comments from colleagues about work submitted.

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One Young Lad’s Later Trainspotting Trips with a camera 1961-1964

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Like so many youngsters in the 1950s and 1960s, Alan Clarke was a keen railway enthusiast and spent a number of years out and about with his ABC Combined Volume and his camera at various rail-related locations up and down the country.

Living in the middle of the country enabled young Alan to visit a number of British Railways regions, thereby gathering a wider range of locomotive numbers and types, faithfully underlining them in his combined volume and, when pocket money allowed, taking pictures as he went along.

These pictures form the basis for this second volume of reminiscences of years gone but not forgotten. The development of Alan’s photographic skills unfolds

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before us in these evocative black and white images.

Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption. The photographs are arranged in sections, one for each trip, with an explanatory introduction to each.

The quality hardback Silver Link Silk Editions are limited print runs and are not intended to be available for long, so grab them while you can! There are just a few copies of the first two volumes in the set available.

• Format: Hardback 169mm x 238mm • ISBN: 978-1-857945-55-3 • Release date: FEBRUARY 24TH, 2020 • Price: £25 • PAGES: 128 • BIC: WGF

Just the ticket BARRY ALLEN • Format: Hardback 152mm x 102mm

• ISBN: 978-1-857945-58-4 • Price: £10 • PAGES: 128 • Release date: DECEMBER 10TH, 2019 • BIC: WGF Written by a booking clerk, an occupation most people might think dull and uninteresting, Just the Ticket reflects on Barry Allen’s career in this profession.

Barry’s own exploits in this job could hardly be described as dull! Humour forms the basis of his story, without which life would be much the poorer. All the events included in the book are based on fact, although most individuals mentioned are now retired or sadly deceased. Barry’s career began during the twilight of steam, a period best known to railwaymen as pre-Beeching.

Modernisation was on the march, but BR still managed to convey cattle, horses and pigeons. Not infrequently would he witness a diesel or electric locomotive’s demise, steam deputising with apparent relish, the drivers sometimes achieving QUOTE: the impossible with their run-down chargers. Electrification, still the order of the 5584 day, spread slowly northwards, erasing the old stations with precision.

Although Barry’s story concerns events relating to the North West, a lot of his experiences were undoubtedly acted out by other individuals, in stations the length and breadth of the UK.

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Devon and Cornwall Rail Freight DAVID MITCHELL

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Running on rails

A sojourn through rail-borne

transport during two centuries

JOHN LEGG AND IAN PEATY

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Railwaymen of the Welsh Valleys 1914-1967

Memories of steam working from Pontypool Road Shed and far beyond!

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PHILIP W.L. WILLIAMS

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By Rail to the Music Halls DAVID JOHN HINDLE

From the Foreword by Gary Morecambe Gary Morecambe writes: ‘David J. Hindle is an author and social historian with a particular interest in the genre of music hall and the history of the railways. In this, his latest book, he flags up parallels to be drawn between the origins of railways and music hall. This is an original concept, notwithstanding that long before the age of the automobile, it was the railways that conveyed audiences and performers to the music halls that evolved to become variety theatres.

World War Two was well underway in 1940, but not for Morecambe and Wise. Fourteen year old Eric Bartholomew and his best friend Ernie Wiseman had been performing in a touring youth theatre as solo acts. For over twenty years Morecambe and Wise learned their craft in Britain’s variety theatres whilst travelling extensively throughout the country. When variety effectively died and many theatres went permanently dark in the 1950/60s, they switched to television spectaculars, which were enjoyed by millions throughout the world.

The profusely illustrated narrative will offer something more than mere reading enjoyment. David’s enthusiasm and expertise on music hall history is unbounded, and, in railway nomenclature, I give this publication the green light.’

• Format: Hardback 169mm x 238mm • ISBN: 978-1-857945-41-6 • Release date: DECEMBER 10TH, 2019 • Price: £25 • PAGES: 128 • BIC: WGF

The Craft of the

Fireman TREVOR MATTHEWS

Those who have been on a footplate experience course, been given a short talk on firing and shown how to use an injector, provided they can stand on a footplate and have minimal skill with a shovel, know that they can generate enough steam to get a lightweight train (generally one coach) from A to B. However, this is vastly different from having to provide steam at or near the registered pressure of the boiler and at such a rate that the engine can develop the horsepower needed to produce the sort of mainline running that we are extremely fortunate to be able to experience at the present time.

In the hey-day of steam many millions of tons of coal were burnt annually by the railway companies, so any small improvement in the thermal efficiency of the locomotives could have a significant effect on the balance sheet. Locomotive engineers tried a number of innovations over the years, most of which were abandoned on the grounds of additional costs of construction and maintenance. Probably not many people are aware that the biggest improvement could have been effected if the overall standards of firing had been brought nearer those of the best firemen.

Footplate observations in steam days showed that some firemen used twice as much coal as the best firemen on the same duty.

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Railways & Recollections

The Dartmouth Steam Railway Vol 82 MIKE HEATH

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JOHN STRETTON AND PETER TOWNSEND

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Railways & Recollections

Bluebell Railway (2nd Edition) Vol 40 KEITH LEPPARD

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British Railways Past and Present: Swindon to Bristol by Both Routes JOHN STRETTON AND TIM MADDOCKS

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The Steam Engines of World War II in Europe PHILIP HORTON

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A Transport Travelogue of Britain

by Road, Rail and Water 1948-1972

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CEDRIC GREENWOOD

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The Severn Valley Railway Stock Book DAVID C. WILLIAMS

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The Llangollen Railway Country Walks from our stations PETER DICKINSON

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Llangollen Railway Visitor Guide PETER DICKINSON

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Model Railways Explained (Beyond the Beginning) BRIAN LAMBERT

The author writes: While in these pages I write about generic items and often reference the real thing, there are many regional variations, and these cannot be taken into account within the confines of this book. Therefore I would recommend that, before starting any regional or era-based project, you undertake a good deal of research to gain the correct facts.

Internet searches, books and perhaps visits to preserved railways or to the national network will usually reveal QUOTE: plenty of detail.

5454 If you are starting out in the hobby or returning to it after several years of absence and have not obtained a copy of The Newcomer’s Guide to Model Railways, I suggest it might be an advantage to obtain one. I hope you enjoy the items you are about to read and hopefully they will help and possibly nudge you into producing a great model railway layout. Remember – think safely, then act.

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Passengers Once More SCOTLAND TERRY GOUGH AND BOB AVERY

Passengers Once More is a series of books charting reinstated or new stations and lines on Britain’s rail network since nationalisation in 1948.

Arranged in line and geographical order each book in the series is copiously illustrated with photographs of all the locations featured.

Data provided for each location includes: • Opening, closing and reopening dates • Map reference • The original railway company and the company currently managing the station • Reference details to photographs of the same location published in the British Railways Past & Present series.

QUOTE: • Comments on the frequency of the service, reasons for opening/ 5577 reopening and other features as appropriate.

This fifth book in the series, by Terry Gough and Bob Avery, takes us to Scotlandd covering all relevant • Format: Softback 238mm x 172mm stations and lines from the smallest halt to the major station developments and the popular • ISBN: 978-1-857945-57-7 new line re-openings.

• Release date: APRIL 24TH, 2020

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Reminiscences - Southern J. C. BECKETT

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This book contains a selection of his collection of photographs taken in the Southern Region of British Railways in the period 1956-1968. At that time he visited areas of particular interest from the Kent coast in the East to Padstow in the West. It is not claimed to offer a complete coverage of all that happened then and there, only a collection of railway activities that caught his attention or that offered the chance of a good photograph – his reminiscences in fact.

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The Newcomer’s Guide to Model Railways BRIAN LAMBERT

In this comprehensive guide to railway modelling, long-time modeller Brian Lambert provides newcomers — as well as established modellers who may want to enhance their skills — with a single-volume source of information on all aspects of the hobby, from the basics of baseboards to the intricacies of modern Digital Command Control. Page by page, modellers will be able to gain more information and explore new techniques, allowing them to progress towards the real goal of the hobby — to build and operate a true model railway, rather than just run a train set.

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On the Iron Road to the Isles The story of the ‘Jacobite’ steam

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The Lads from Liverpool

JAMES SHUTTLEWORTH AND JOHN HUNT

The Railway Photographs of John Corkhill and Peter Hanson 4433

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The Beeching Legacy: South & Central

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Wales and The Marches PHILIP HORTON

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The Furness Railway JOHN R. BROUGHTON

The Furness Railway carried its first goods traffic on June 3, 1846, and its first passengers two months QUOTE: later. Thriving mineral traffic saw the railway 1267 continue to expand over the next four decades, and then the burgeoning tourism industry became a major revenue-earning activity through to the 1920s, when the Furness became a constituent of the new LMS group. Local photographer John Broughton has gathered together a fascinating selection of views of the line, its trains and structures, some from the FR’s very early days, and has revisited the locations to take the equivalent present-day views.

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Steam Tracked Back: Trains in

Retrospect 1967-1960 RICHARD INWOOD AND MIKE SMITH

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Fifty years ago, on August 18, 1959, Burton-uponTrent schoolboys Richard Inwood and Mike Smith met on a train. Subsequently, as members of the school’s Locospotters’ Club, they and their enthusiast colleagues, then in their late teens and early twenties, attempted to see, record and ride behind as much British steam traction as possible in its last years of regular service. From their homes in Burton they ranged widely over the BR network, from the Cromford & High Peak to the Somerset & Dorset, from Oxford to Oxenholme, and their first book Moved by • Format: Paperback Steam was a personal record of their travels.

Supporting the entertaining text are more than 200 • ISBN: 978 1 85794 383 2 previously unpublished photographs, all taken by the authors at the time and thus captioned with a special • Price: £19.99 • PAGES: 128 • BIC: WGF immediacy that brings the story alive.

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Rail Freight since 1968: Bulk Freight PAUL SHANNON

Following the success of the two earlier volumes in this series, covering coal and wagonload traffic, rail freight expert Paul Shannon now turns his attention to bulk freight, which includes an interesting mix of traffics such as metals, aggregates (including ballast), china clay, cement, waste and petroleum.

As usual, the authoritative text is supported by many photographs, together with maps and tables as QUOTE: appropriate.

2996

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• ISBN: 978 1 85794 299 6

• PAGES: 128

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Rail Freight since 1968: Wagonload PAUL SHANNON

This volume examines the gradual shift from wagonload to trainload operation, the cull of public goods depots and small private sidings and the Speedlink years, together with details of wagon types and terminal facilities, and many charts, diagrams and plans.

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2647

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The Railways of Blackpool and the Fylde Volume 1 BARRY MCLOUGHLIN

The railway created Blackpool – its arrival was instrumental in turning a tiny coastal settlement into Europe’s biggest resort.

The coming of the railway was also the impetus behind an enormous social and economic revolution as factory workers from the industrial north began to take advantage of the new QUOTE: era of mass tourism.

1241 Using many fascinating historic and contemporary photographs, as well as maps and personal reminiscence and anecdote, Barry McLoughlin recounts the story of railways on the Fylde past and present, not only the main lines but also the miniature railways and the delightful Knott End branch.

• Format: Paperback

• ISBN: 978 1 85794 124 1 • Price: £17.99

Footplate & Signals L. F. E. COOMBS

• PAGES: 144

• BIC: WGF

QUOTE:

3198

This uniquely fascinating book examines the vital yet seldom-considered railway ‘control interface’ between the driver on his footplate and the signalling systems designed to ensure his safety and that of his passengers.

It considers the way the world of the enginemen, the rudimentary footplates on which they stood and the controls they operated gradually evolved into the enclosed footplate and the modern-day driving cab.

Also examined are the factors governing the driver’s ‘view ahead’ and his responsibilities in avoiding collisions in the days when signalling was either nonexistent or haphazard, through to the introduction of the block system of signalling, continuous brakes and automatic warning systems.

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The Golden Valley Line Past and Present - Swindon to Gloucester

JOHN STRETTON AND TIM MADDOCKS The Golden Valley Line is so called due to the descent from the summit of the line at Sapperton Tunnel to Gloucester being cut through a yellow/ golden limestone ridge – between Swindon, on the Great Western main line and Standish Junction, on the Birmingham-Bristol main line.

This volume, extending the compass to Gloucester, looks at the old days, with comparisons with the present-day scene and also features the doubling work, in conjunction with Network Rail. Men and machines at work give a variety of illustrations and QUOTE: the whole is a fascinating exposition of the 2883 transformation of this once sleepy by-way.

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• ISBN: 978 1 85895 288 3 • Price: £20

One Young Lad’s further

• PAGES: 128

• BIC: WGF

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trainspotting trips with a camera 1961-

1964

ALAN M. CLARKE

Like so many youngsters in the 1950s and 1960s Alan Clarke was a keen railway enthusiast and spent a number of years out and about with his ABC Combined Volume and his camera at various rail-related locations up and down the country.

These pictures form the basis for this reminiscence of years gone but not forgotten.

• Format: Hardback

The development of Alan’s photographic skills unfolds before us in these evocative black and white images. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption. The photographs are arranged in sections, one for each trip, with an explanatory introduction to each.

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British Railways Past and Present

No 30: Somerset DAVID MITCHELL

• Format: Paperback QUOTE:

880

• ISBN: 978-1 85895 088 0 • Price: £19.99 • PAGES: 160• BIC: WGF

British Railways Past and Present

No 35: Shropshire ROGER SIVITER

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QUOTE:

1593

British Railways Past and Present

No 37: South Wales Part 3

QUOTE:

1623

TERRY GOUGH

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British Railways Past and Present

No 64: Bristol & South Gloucestershire JOHN STRETTON

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2697 • Price: £17.99 • PAGES: 128 • BIC: WGF

British Railways Past and Present

No 66: Northamptonshire Part 2 North and East WILLIAM ADAMS

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• Format: Paperback • ISBN: 978-1 85895 285 9

2859

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British Railways Past and Present

No 67: Plymouth and South West Devon DAVID MITCHELL

• Format: Paperback • ISBN: 9781 85895 271 9 • Price: £18 • PAGES: 128 • BIC: WGF QUOTE:

2719

British Railways Past and Present

No 68: South Devon DAVID MITCHELL

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The Cotswold Line Past and Present Subscribers’ Edition

JOHN STRETTON AND TIM MADDOCKS • Format: Hardback • ISBN: 978-1 85895 278 6 QUOTE:

2786

• Price: £30 • PAGES: 160• BIC: WGF

Lost Stations of Yorkshire North & East Ridings ALAN YOUNG

• Format: Paperback

QUOTE:

4532

• ISBN: 978 1 85794 453 2 • Price: £20 • PAGES: 128 • BIC: WGF

Coastal Rail Termini of Britain and Ireland QUOTE:

3635

JOHN HILLMER

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Passengers Once More: Southern England from Kent to Cornwall TERRY GOUGH

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3554

• ISBN: 9781857943554

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Railways and Recollections Rails to the Yorkshire Coast Vol 86 PHIL HORTON

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QUOTE:

5249

Vol 49: Talyllyn Railway Recollections Part 2 Vol 49

QUOTE:

4488

NIGEL ADAMS

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Walter Alexander & Sons Buses and Coaches 1955-1956

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5591

HENRY CONN

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Walter Alexander & Sons Buses and Coaches 1960 HENRY CONN

• Format: Hardback 169mm x 238mm • ISBN: 978-1-857945-60-7 QUOTE:

5607

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London Buses, Coaches & Recollections 1970 Vol 93 MICHAEL H. C. BAKER

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