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Cardiff to Swansea Western Main Lines
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9780853614937 The book was first published in 1977 by the Oxford Publishing Co., then revised for a 1997 edition by T…
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9780853614838 Sidmouth in Devon was already popular as a health resort before the railway age, which first embraced t…
9780853613695 S,B Out of print for at least seven or eight years and possibly much longer, this is a straight reprint…
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S/B 9780853617709 This was the network of lines centred around Kington, whose development followed the success o…
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This railway was conceived as a link between England and South Wales, principally to move coal, but was soon superseded …
As the author observes in his introduction ‘The branch line situated in North Somerset running from Witham on the Wilt…
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S/B 9780853617686 The Maryport & Carlisle Railway was an early player in the railway network and was built to serve …
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9780853617686 S/B An in-depth study of the Stour Valley Line in the more recent Oakwood Press large format, at the…
ISBN:9780853617631 S/B First published in 1973, this fourth edition has been updated by Colin Stone, who made additio…
ISBN:9780853617648 S/B Until summer of 1959 railway travellers between Gloucester and Ledbury had the choice of go…
9780853617587 SB This is a new edition for Oakwood of the book first published in 1970 by David & Charles with…
9780853617595 SB The book begins with an account of Connemara, in the west of Ireland, and the various schemes pu…
ISBN:9780853617570, SOFTBACK OUT NOW
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ISBN:9780853617532, SOFTBACK IN STOCK NOW The Hereford , Hay, & Brecon Railway By John Mair …
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ISBN:9780853615422, SOFTBACK The Whitby-Loftus line cost over £50 million to build in today’s money, but it never …
ISBN:9780853617563, SOFBACK First published in 1964 this new edition comprises the original text but the book has bee…
ISBN::9780853617495, SOFTBACK First published in 1968, this fourth edition was revised by the author prior to his dea…
£22.95
ISBN:9780853617549, SOFTBACK, REPRINT This new Oakwood title gives the Jedburgh Branch, in the Scottish Borders, the …
9780853617556 C. Judge & J. R. Morten This is a slightly revised and corrected edition of the book originally p…
9780853617525 The author explains how in 1955 when he was 16 years old his family moved from Guildford to Northampton…
ISBN:9780853617501, SOFTBACK, REPRINT Second edition with additional photographs.The first edition of this book was p…
TEMP OUT OF PRINT ISBN:9780853617471 , SOFTBACK First published in 1993 the book was revised by the author in 20…
ISBN:9780853613916, SOFTBACK. The first edition of this book was written in 1988 and published in 1990. It’s been o…
ISBN:9780853617457, SOFTBACK A comprehensive illustrated history of the railway line connecting the city of Bristol w…
£17.95
ISBN:9780853617440 , SOFTBACK The small fenland market town of Ramsey in Huntingdonshire was one of the many which su…
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Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps, discover the delights of the many industrial railway systems operati…
Travellers enduring the ride between Cambridge and Ely on elderly Great Eastern Railway coaching stock or later LNER rep…
The railway to Kingswear was extremely busy during the summer months as it served (and continues to serve) both Torquay …
This book is not really so much about the trains themselves, but rather more about the stations, signal boxes, rail…
Brian Poole tells the story of the railway community of Caersws and Moat Lane. He has collected information and illustra…
£11.95
The publication of this book coincides with the 50th anniversary of the closure of the erstwhile Hayling Railway link…
The coming of the railways transformed Ayrshire. By the mid-nineteenth century, blessed with rich coal deposits, fertile…
This book recounts the history of the railway that once served the northern shores of the Firth of Forth and for a cen…
£12.95
This book began some ten years ago when J.R. Thomas was given a series of short articles about minor industrial tramw…
Initially coal was at the heart of it; now stone provides the only traffic. The apparently simple line from Frome t…
Unlike many other railwaymen John Weston did not come from a family steeped in generations of railway service. Early …
The Lake District is a place of outstanding natural beauty. Over the years this beauty has provided the inspiration…
The Aldeburgh Branch, unlike many of the lines inherited or built by the Great Eastern Railway, was not solely reliant…
For the purposes of this book ‘Northern Northumberland’ is regarded as encompassing that area of the county lying …
£10.95
With the closure of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway imminent in 1935, Leslie Catchpole wrote two articles about the rail…
The Wye Valley Railway linked Monmouth with Chepstow and an through the idyllic countryside along the Monmouthshire…
This book, like the two previous volumes in the series, covers ‘minor railways’ in the Berwick-upon-Tweed and A…
Volume One of this work dealt with the South Staffordshire Railway (SSR) ‘main line’ from Dudley through Walsall …
When John Meredith left school at the age of 15 in 1954 he began a career on the railways with a six year apprentices…
Eric Arthur Langridge died in 1999 at the age of 102. He was little known to enthusiasts until his retirement in 19…
The Helston Branch was the southernmost railway on the British mainland, and also the very last branch line to have be…
Eric Arthur Langridge died in 1999 at the age of 102. He was little known to enthusiasts until his retirement in 1959…
Norfolk, one of England’s largest counties, is also one of its most distinctive. The sea is never far away; not t…
The subject of this book is the 43 miles of railway that linked Norwich (Thorpe) to Wells-next-the-Sea on the North N…
Well-known author on railway matters in the West Country, Colin Maggs, tells the story of one of the GWR’s longest …
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Sixteen miles south of Aberystwyth on the wide sweep of Cardigan Bay lies Aberayron one of west Wales’ most picture…
The second volume in this series examines the railways associated with the coal industry. For centuries, until the 1…
£7.95
Hunslet 4-6-0T No. 1215 was one of a class of locomotives built to the order of the British War Department for use by wh…
At one time a scenic coastal railway route linked Girvan with Ayr. The line was built to serve the villages of Maiden…
Railways were very much ‘in the blood’ of John Eric Robinson, born in Crewe in 1902, the second child and eldes…
At the time of the inception of the South Staffordshire Railway (SSR), rail traffic across Birmingham was seriously…
Where was the last foreign invasion onto British soil? Who was the last English king to be slain in battle and which …
The opening of the railway in May 1885 transformed Swanage into a respectable seaside resort with through coaches fro…
There can be no denying that the Battle of Flanders was a significant defeat for the Allies, but it could have been a…
Montgomeryshire is now part of the county of Powys. It is the very low density of population throughout this upland a…
The stories in this book have been collected by Bryan King from the close-knit community of West Glamorgan railwaym…
This book is the first ‘Pictorial Guide’ to be produced by the author. It follows on the successes of the ‘Essenti…
Throughout this fascinating railway’s history the Burry Port & Gwendreath Valley Railway has had a long tradition of d…
This book deal with the fascinating and often tortuous history of one of the least prosperous and most ill-fated of al…
The second volume of Castleman’s Corkscrew, the sobriquet given to the Southampton & Dorchester Railway because o…
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A new and enlarged edition of this title which was first published in 2002. This appalling accident took place on 8th Oc…
Tortillard – a definition The name tortillard has been widely applied to narrow gauge steam railways and trains…
Newquay, a once small coastal hamlet of the Georgian era, is now a substantial holiday resort. In terms of local in…
In Suffolk the cultivation of the land had for generations been the main industry, but agriculture was dependent on…
Robert, James and Henry Coey / Cowie were three brothers who all chose the railways in Ireland as their career path, …
The SSMWCR was originally built as a mineral branch serving a coal mine on the north-east coast, and this it did succe…
Robert Billinton strode the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway like a colossus, managing an elephantine department…
The 6� mile-long single track branch from Watford Junction to St Albans (Abbey) opened on 5th May 1858. The branc…
The five mile branch line from Leuchars Junction, situated on the main line from Edinburgh to Aberdeen a short distan…
Following on the success of the ‘Essential Guides’ for France and for Switzerland, this book has been written t…
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The author started work on this book not because he was strongly pro-Thompson but because he was curious about Th…
North Wales was an area rich in tramway schemes but poor in actual lines. Of the few that were constructed, probabl…
In its final form the Gwendraeth Valleys Railway (GVR) was a line of the utmost simplicity – 2� miles of track ru…
On 4th December 1957, W.J. Trew, as he had done on many previous occasions previously, was driving the 4.56 pm stea…
In The Times of 26th August 1998 there was a news item headed ‘Ministers pledge cash for revival of rail links’.P…
Lawson Billinton, the last of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway’s locomotive engineers, proved a fine craft…
This much enlarged new edition brings the story up to date. It tells of the various railways which served Poole Harbo…
The Jersey Eastern Railway was proposed essentially for passenger traffic. The railway was opened from a temporary termi…
The second volume of James Boyd’s reminiscences of his life-long enthusiasm for railways is told in his own inimi…
This Midland Railway branch was originally built to serve iron ore workings and also provide a passenger service. W…
Revised and updated third edition of the book first published in 1987. Desperate to reach Manchester but thwarted by …
The Wrexham & Ellesmere line was opened in 1895 and was worked by Cambrain Railway and, for a few years at least, this s…
The railway came to the delightful market of Westerham in 1881 and was to serve the town for 80 years. It was originally…
This book focuses on the West Cornwall Railway and the lines it bequeathed to the Associated Companies and the Great …
Colin Chapman continues his excellent surveys of railways in South Wales turning his attention this time to the Barry…
The author begins by describing how, when he left school in 1943, he embarked on an engineering apprenticeship with …
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The district of Lytham and St Annes have always had a character distinctive from that of their northern neighbour on …
A detailed account of both tram and bus services in the Poole area over the past hundred years from the formation f the …
This book is based on the author’s career with British Railways from 1956 to 1995, a career spanning almost 40 year…
It would be incorrect to state that Sir Vincent Raven’s contribution to the development of British railways has b…
Sir William Stanier has had many books written about his locomotives plus two previous biographical accounts of his en…
In the signal box we have what was perhaps the first ‘true’ railway building. A station might look like a country…
Snape Maltings, located on the banks of the River Alde in Suffolk, are famed as the venue for the internationally acclai…
Volume One ended at the point where the author had, with some reluctance, left Leeds City Transport for what at the time…
The author’s interest in the South Yorkshire Joint Railway and the coalfield it serves, stems from a childhood spent i…
Very few road passenger transport professionals, and especially those involved in the now almost vanished municipal sect…
£3.90
64 page of text including 47 photographs of stations, maps and full alphabetical history of halts (description, op…
The Scottish Central Railway was opened in 1848 as part of the Scottish railway system being established during the year…
James Boyd’s love of Irish railways began in the 1930s. These are his reminiscences of his visits. He concentrat…
In the 21st century, when a journey by motor car along the A85 from Comrie to Crieff occupies a mere 10 minutes, it i…
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7 mm drawings of locomotives, reproduced from The Locomotive magazine. The plans are printed on fold-out pages an…
7 mm drawings of locomotives, reproduced from The Locomotive magazine. The plans are printed on fold-out pages and…
7 mm drawings of locomotives, reproduced from The Locomotive magazine. The plans are printed on fold-out pages and bound…
The Pullman name is synonymous with luxury travel by rail. This book examines Pullman services throughout the Britis…
The emergence of Ryde as the principal point of entry to the Isle of Wight was due in no small part to the opening if…
The author presents a comprehensive history of a line opened in 1854, a short portion of which remain open for freight t…
An evocative collection of photographs from the 1950s and early 1960s. The author tells of his memories of those days …
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway 9780853615095
This is the story of a railway whose ambitions were as lofty as the Cambrian mountains through which it sought to bui…
A 5 format, 176 pages, more than 130 illustrations. 9780853614548
£5.95
A romantic look at this delightful narrow gauge railway, beautifully illustrated with Eric Leslie’s evocative drawings…
For almost 100 years the Mangotsfield-Bath line provided a direct rail link from Bath to the Midlands and the north of…
Every railway line is unique, or so will argue the fans who speak fondly of their own favourite part of Britain’s…
The LT&SR derived their chief income from passenger traffic. Goods traffic on the Tilbury line was a secondary concern, …
Running for over 30 miles through remote and beautiful Devonshire countryside, the line from Plymouht to Launceston was …
This volume gives a detailed account of the bus services in the Weymouth and Portland area over a period of seventy…
The story of an unusual railway, as it was the only London & North Western Railway branch in an area where Lancashi…
The Nickey Line’s fame seems to extend much further than most branch lines of similar importance. There are a numb…
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The three railway branch lines which served the landward areas of East Lothian were an unusual trio and were all worked …
London & North Western: a name that excites the imagination and charged the atmosphere with great achievements in the re…
The Suffolk town of Hadleigh, at one time famous for its clothing industry, was a political pawn on the chessboard…
A glorious celebration of a lost era. There are photographs of just over 100 different stations, all with informative ex…
The Great Western & Great Central Joint Railway, together with its northwards extension through Bicester, was the very l…
This second volume continues with a detailed look at the work and men of Stourbridge shed. After considering the locom…
In the five years since the publication of the author’s previous book, Railways of Stourbridge, he discovered the wher…
The Great Northern Railway of Ireland maintained an independent existence for 77 years, much of that time prosperously e…
£11.90
Pre-Grouping carriages? They must be out of the ark – not so – you might well have seen them, once you appreciate…
£25.00
A welcome return for this reprint of the concluding volume of James Boyd’s extensive history of the Festiniog Railway,…
This book completes the story of a career with British Railways from 1951 to 1968. Volume Two covers the period from 195…
This volume is the first of two that together describe a career with British Railways from 1951 to 1968. It is a memo…
The story of the Fawley branch does not follow the usual pattern of a rural English branch line. The first plans for …
For tens of thousands of holidaymakers and daytrippers their first sight of the beautiful resort town of Exmouth has bee…
The Edinburgh Suburban line was the Victorian equivalent of today’s ring road, deigned and built to relieve congestion…
This guide is intended not only to appeal to railway enthusiasts but to those holidaymakers and travellers, francophiles…
It must be said that, for the light railway enthusiast and to the many who finds pleasure in the unusual or eccent…
The Drummond brothers were notable amongst Sottish engineers in that both of them became Locomotive Superintendents. Dug…
In 1870 what did most Victorians know of the Culm Valley in Devon? Nothing or very little. An exception was Arthur Pa…
Why should the Oxted line, amongst so many in the southern counties, deserve a history? After all, it is nowadays just…
Jack Gardner’s Cleaner to Controller was published in 1994 in our now well-established &lsqou;Reminiscences’ series,…
Today it is hard to believe that a railway once ran by the secluded banks of the Cairn water, which flows between the …
Carrying coals to Newcastle has long been proverbially regarded as a pointless exercise, nevertheless virtually all the …
First published in 1987 as a modest book of 96 pages, the second enlarged edition has expanded to 176 pages. Built a…
£4.95
The Bognor Branch Line 9780853613930
Covering the stock from the formation of the SE&CR until the last coaches went out of service in 1962, using official…
£12.90
A detailed history of the bogie carriages on the ‘Brighton Line’. From the grandeur of the Brighton’s Royal Train …
£18.95 £9.95
Taking 30 years of research, and three years to write, this is the first book to give a full detailed history of the e…
Burntisland was initially served by railways that were to form part of the North British Railway Company. The crossing o…
The centrepiece of this railway history is the town of Market Drayton. Canals reached the town in 1835 enabling the pr…
Almost a century has elapsed since the Barry ‘Red Funnel Line’ steamers disappeared from the Bristol Channel excursi…
Dundee was a major centre for early railway construction. By the late 1840s there were no less than three railways wi…
The story of the line from Barnt Green through Redditch and Evesham to Ashchurch, The line from Barnt Green via Reddi…
For centuries Lyme Regis has been noted for its beautiful setting. Millions have enjoyed its charms and the Jurassic C…
£16.00
The railway era arrived in Dumfries and Galloway when the Caledonian Railway built what became the West Coast Main Line …
The Saffron Walden Branch traversed the undulating Essex countryside in that county’s north-west corner. When the town…
New edition with minor revisions of this popular Cumbrian title which has been unavailable for some time. The Coniston…
New softback edition with minor revisions. The history of this company is described in detail and is accompanied by maps…
Running for almost 40 miles across the former North Riding of Yorkshire, the Wensleydale line was one of the longest s…
This short railway, just under three miles in length, linked the fishing port of Eyemouth in the old Scottish Borders …
The story of the line from Wolverhampton to Walsall, Sutton Park and Water OrtonThis route comprises three lines: Wolver…
£22.50
The Ramsey High Street (later Ramsey East) branch in Huntingdonshire was a relative latecomer to the East Anglian railwa…
This is a new edition, enlarged and much revised of the book originally published in 1971 as The Lowgill Branch. Actuall…
The author’s interest in this early railway was triggered by the recovery of some track components excavated duri…
£27.50
The branch lines which served the golfing and seaside resorts of East Lothian were only a handful of miles apart and wer…
Some books come to fruition quickly, but not this one which was well-advanced but unfinished when this Oakwood author …
The Mansfield Railway was brought into being by determined individuals when the major railway companies showed little in…
Joining the Peebles Railway at Leadburn, it would provide connections for passengers both to Edinburgh and to Carst…
Reprinted, with minor corrections, after not having been available for many years. The growth of the Bedfordshire town o…
£37.00
The Leighton Buzzard Light Railway was constructed in 1919 to carry sand from pits near the town about three miles…
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