Railway - Diesel & Electric

A comprehensive and authoritative survey of the locomotives of the post-privatisation era.

Author: Pip Dunn.

Publisher: OPC.

Hardback. 256pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN 9780860936961

Original Price: £25.00

Its design and development. From the popular ' locomotive portfolio' series.

Author: Graeme Gleaves.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 168pp. 25cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526740342

Weight: 969

Original Price: £25.00

Rob Shorland-Ball's researches for this book, and several visits, convinced him that he was putting together a jigsaw of facts. No previously published account of the area have brought together these stories of iron & steel making, limestone quarrying, coal mining, terra cotta, lead mining, and the railway systems they all needed to move their products to market.

Author:Rob Shorland-Ball

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback.144 pp. 22cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781526753779

Weight. 0.870Kg

Original Price: £25.00

The coastal and mountain scenery around the railway lines of North and Mid Wales is among the best in Great Britain. Here we look at the British Railways lines and the trains that ran on them in the years between 1980 and 2000, as recorded by my cameras during my many visits to the area.

Author: Peter J Green.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 140pp. 22x28.6x1.3cm.

ISBN: 9781399091220

Weight: 950g.

Original Price: £25.00

Author: Peter J Green

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 184pp. 21.5cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781399086547

Weight: 1.2kg

Original Price: £30.00

From a pioneering intercity route to EGIP.

Author: Ann Glen.

Publisher: Lily Publications.

Paperback. 112pp. 21cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781911177371

Original Price: £18.00

In 1994 the West Coast Main Line franchise was won by Virgin Trains and it quickly set about improving service by introducing a range of standard trainsets to replace the variety of traction fleets that it had inherited.

Author: Fred Kerr.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 125pp. 22x28.5x1.4cm.

ISBN: 9781526793317

Weight: 900g.

Original Price: £25.00

When British Railways initiated its Modernisation Plan in 1955, its Western Region elected to trial locomotive designs with hydraulic transmission whilst BR encouraged designs with electric transmission.

Author: Fred Kerr.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 124pp. 22x28.5x1.4cm.

ISBN: 9781399004930

Weight: 900g.

Original Price: £25.00