Railway

40 Years of Diverted Trains 1980 - 2020

Author: Kim Fullbrook

Publisher: Kim Fullbrook

Hardback. 120pp. 17cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399094764

Weight: 613g

Original Price: £25.00

Using the best available archive images this album looks back at the bewildering assortment of diesel locomotives and units that could be found on the London Midland Region.

Author: Michael Welch.

Publisher: Rails Publishing..

Hardback. 120pp. 22cm by 26cm.

ISBN 9781854144195

Weight.

Original Price: £19.95

With over sixty years of personal experience of the line, Peter Tatlow describes the difficulties of construction through mountainous terrain and along rocky coasts, the challenges of rival and competitive schemes, and the operation of the line over the years.

Author: Peter Tatlow.

Publisher: Crecy Publishing

Hardback. 160pp. 21cm by 27cm.

ISBN 9781909328440

Weight. 869

Original Price: £27.95

Examples of these tank locomotives can be found in the National Collection and the Swanage railway.

Author: David Madement.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 344pp. 25cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526769817

Original Price: £35.00

Author: Peter Waller

Publisher: Unique

Hardback. 64pp. 21cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9780995749344

Weight: 200g

Original Price: £9.99

The line that ran to nowhere.

Author: John Scott-Morgan.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 208pp. 24cm by 17cm.

ISBN: 9781526726858

Weight: 788

Original Price: £25.00

Author: Philip Atkins

Publisher: Crecy

Hardback. pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9781910809655

Weight:

Original Price: £25.00

In the prelude to the privatisation of BR the Provincial Sector (later Regional Railways) became responsible for local / secondary train services and initiated the refurbishment of 31 Class 37 locomotives, fitted with train heating equipment – hence designated Class 37/4 - to support the shortfall of DMU trainsets. 

Author: Fred Kerr.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 126pp. 22.5x28.8x1.3cm.

ISBN: 9781399096133

Weight: 800g.

Original Price: £25.00

Peter J Green first photographed Class 50 diesels in action in 1975, while they were still being transferred from the London Midland to the Western Region of British Rail. But it was in the early 1980s, when they were named and painted in Large Logo livery, that his interest in the class really took off.

Author: Peter J Green

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 176pp. 22cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781399017824

Weight.1.096Kg

Original Price: £25.00

Author: Peter Waller

Publisher: Unique

Hardback. 160pp. 23.5cm by 27cm.

ISBN: 9780995749382

Weight: 970g

Original Price: £29.99

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.

Author: Brian Sharpe.

Publisher: Gresley Books.

Hardback. 160pp. 17cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781911658023

Weight. 515g

Original Price: £14.99

Stations, signalling & trackwork. Photographs from the Edward Wallis collection.

Author: Kevin Robertson.

Publisher: Crecy.

Paperback. 96pp. 21cm by 27cm.

ISBN 9781909328723

Original Price: £16.50