Books - "railways"
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Over the Garden Wall The Story of the Otago Central Railway
Second Edition
Octavo, illus light card stapled wrappers, printed eps, 60pp, illus, VG (slight rubbing to covers, crease to rear cover lower corner)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society 1967
KEYWORDS: JA Dangerfield GW Emerson New Zealand Central Otago railways trains locomotives steam engines history Wingatui Middlemarch Ranfurly Omakau Alexandra Cromwell Taeri Gorge
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
As Directed by Train Control
Signed, oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards with yellow lettering to spine & front board, 145pp, illus + printed map to rear eps, VG+
PUBLISHER: Ken & Denise Cousins (year?)
KEYWORDS: Ken Denise Cousins New Zealand transport railways trains steam engines locomotives routes photographic pictorial history passengers freight
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
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 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
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
Flying Scotsman
The Extraordinary Story of the World's Most Famous Train
Hardcover octavo (NF) in d/w (NF) ; 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: Aurum Press Limited 2010
KEYWORDS: specials Andrew Roden transport railways trains locomotives British history Flying Scotsman
The New Zealand Railways Magazine
Complete Run Volumes 1-7: Issue 1 Vol 1 May 1st 1926 up to Issue 9 Vol 7 1st April 1933
Super octavo, green boards (vol 1), orange/brown boards (vols 2-7), gilt lettering to spine, each issue individually paginated (aprox 48pp per issue), illus, VG+ (slight bruising to spine extrems, light tanning to eps, NZ Railways stamps to eps & random other pages, some foxing)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Government Railways Department 1926 to 1933
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Railways magazine trains steam engines transport history
The Chronicles of a Contractor being the Autobiography of the Late George Pauling
with an Introduction by J.O.P. Bland
First edition, super octavo, blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, teg frontispiece with tissue guard, xii + 240pp, VG (some bruising to spine extrems & board corners, small ding to rear board upper & lower edges, slight scratching to rear board, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Constable & Co 1926
KEYWORDS: first edition George Pauling David Buchan JOP Bland autobiography travel engineer railways transport Rand
Union Pacific Railroad Painting Guide, 1903-1930 Common Standard No. 22
Quarto, illus light card covers, frontispiece, 108pp, illus + colour chart to rear, VG+ (occasional annotation in ink, v sl soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Union Pacific Railroad Historical Society 1981
KEYWORDS: transport trains railroads paint specification railways reference standard colours
Branch Lines
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: B.T. Batsford Ltd 1957
KEYWORDS: first edition specials O S Nock railways transport English railway trains
Rails out of Palmy
A Guide to Train Excursions out of Palmerston North
Softcover staple bound oblong octavo (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: The New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society, 1991
KEYWORDS: specials Glen Summers New Zealand railways trains locomotives history Palmerston North