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$19.50
xxela57498

Across the Footplate Years


DRAYTON, JOHN

occasional light adhesion, hardback super 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: Ian Allan 1986

KEYWORDS: specials john drayton history transport trains railways britain locomotives rail steam

$30.00
2g29/6

North British Steam Locomotives built 1857-1956 for Railways Oversease


COURT, JOHN H.

Squre imperial octavo, blue/black mottled cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus title page, 112pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (price clipped)

PUBLISHER: D Bradford Barton (date?)

KEYWORDS: John H Court railways trains steam engines North British Locomotive Company Britain locomotives engineering railway history

$20.00
2g29/10

Hyde Railway Accident June 4, 1943


DANGERFIELD, J. A.

Quarto, light card covers with black lettering to front cover & black taped spine, 24pp, illus, VG

PUBLISHER: Otago Railway and Locomotive Society

KEYWORDS: JA Dangerfield New Zealand Otago Hyde railways transport trains steam engine accident disaster history

$30.00
2g29/46

The Concise Encyclopaedia of World Railway Locomotives


RANSOME-WALLIS, P. (Ed)

Imperial octavo, brown/orange cloth boards with gilt lettering in red decorative panel to spine & blind lettering to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, 512pp, illus, VG (fading & foxing to spine, staining to front board, tanning to eps, foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson of London 1959

KEYWORDS: P Ransome-Wallis trains steam engines locomotives railways transport construction electric hydraulic mechanical transmission diesel electric history Switzerland Mexico Australia Britain France USA South Africa Canada

$24.50
xxemd58007

Mediterranean Island Railways


Railway Histories of the World

KALLA-BISHOP, P.M.

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

$18.50
xxemd58012

The Settle to Carlisle


A Tribute

SIVITER, ROGER

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

$65.00
2g31/18

Rails to Roxburgh: The Story of a Provincial Railway


COWAN, W. J.

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

$150.00
2g31/19

New Zealand Prototypes: Volumes 1 & 2


Plans originally appeared in The NZ Model Railway Journal 1948-1960 & in New Zealand Railway Observer 1946-1947

JOHNSTONE, IAN T. G. (Ed)

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

$32.50
2g31/22

Steam in Europe


WHITEHOUSE, P. B.

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

$30.00
2g31/27

British Steam Railways


NOCK, O. S.

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

$47.50
2g31/29

As Directed by Train Control


COUSINS, KEN & COUSINS, DENISE

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

$45.00
2g31/31

Trains at Work in New Zealand


RADCLIFFE, G. T. & MURPHY J. A.

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

$25.00
2g31/36

The Aspinall Era


BULLEID, H. A. V.

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

$25.00
2g31/37

The Springburn Story: The History of the Scottish Railway Metropolis


THOMAS, JOHN

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

$25.00
1b19a/7

London's First Railway - The London & Greenwich


THOMAS, RONALD H. G.

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

$100.00
1b19a/10

A History of Russian Railways


WESTWOOD, J. N.

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

$25.00
2g30/6

Register of New Zealand Railways Steam Locomotives 1863-1971


LLOYD, WILLIAM G.

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

$58.50
2g30/12

The NZR Garratt Story


MCCLARE, E. J.

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

$37.50
1j41a/16

The North Staffordshire Railway


CHRISTIANSEN, REX & MILLER, R. W.

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

$28.50
1j41a/41

Southland's Pioneer Railways 1864-1878


WATT, J. O. P.

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

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