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Early and First Generation Green Diesels in Photographs

Early and First Generation Green Diesels in Photographs

Author: Brian J. Dickson

Publisher: History Press

Hardback. 128pp. 19.5cm by 26.4cm.

ISBN: 9780750992657

Weight: 663g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

BR Swindon Type 1 - Their Life in Industry

BR Swindon Type 1 - Their Life in Industry

This companion book to "Their Life on British Railways" provides an extensive appraisal of "Their Life in Industry" for the forty-eight locomotives which made the successful transition after withdrawal from BR in 1968/69.

Author: Anthony Sayer.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 269pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9781399019170

Weight: 1.45kg.

Original Price: £30.00

Price:    £14.99 

BR Swindon Type 1 - Their Life on British Railways

BR Swindon Type 1 - Their Life on British Railways

This book covers the life of these locomotives on British Railways; a companion volume will provide an extensive appraisal of "Their Life in Industry" for the forty-eight locomotives which made the successful transition after withdrawal from BR.

Author: Anthony Sayer

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 214pp. 25.5x24.5x1.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526792372

Weight: 1.15kg.

Original Price: £30.00

Price:    £12.99 

British Diesel & Electric Locomotives Abroad.

British Diesel & Electric Locomotives Abroad.

A factual and pictorial colour history of the second life overseas of British locomotives.

Author: Anthony P. Sayer.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 288pp. 25cm by 19cm.

ISBN 9781526744692

Original Price: £30.00

Price:    £9.99 

British Railways Diesel Electric Classes 44 to 46

British Railways Diesel Electric Classes 44 to 46

The Mighty Peaks of the Midland Main Line.

Author: Fred Kerr

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 120pp. 21.5cm by 28.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399089944

Weight: 740g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

British Railways in Transition.

British Railways in Transition.

The Corporate Blue and Grey Period 1964-1997.

Author: Jim Blake.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 155pp. 25cm by 19cm.

ISBN 9781526703163

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Chiltern Railways

Chiltern Railways

This book, uniquely, gives an insight to the business strategy and its delivery that underpinned the performance of one of Rail Privatisation’s greatest successes.

Author: Adrian Shooter.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 187pp. 22x28.5x1.6cm

ISBN: 9781526792495

Weight: 1.1kg.

Original Price: £35.00

Price:    £14.99 

Class 66.

Class 66.

Details a brief history of operators who bought Class 66 locomotives.

Author: Fred Kerr.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 160pp. 28cm by 22cm.

ISBN 9781526776259

Original Price: £30.00

Price:    £9.99 

Diesels Diverted

Diesels Diverted

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

Price:    £9.99 

Diesels on the London Midland.

Diesels on the London Midland.

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

Price:    £9.99 

English Electric Class 37/4 Diesel Locomotives, The

English Electric Class 37/4 Diesel Locomotives, The

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

Price:    £9.99 

English Electric Class 50 Diesels

English Electric Class 50 Diesels

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

Price:    £9.99 

Further Look at Southampton's Quayside Railways.

Further Look at Southampton's Quayside Railways.

Lavishly illustrated with many black & white photographs and diagrams.

Author: Dave Marden.

Publisher: Kestrel Railway Books

Paperback. 164pp. 21cm by 27cm.

ISBN 9781905505128

Original Price: £17.95

Price:    £7.99 

Heritage Traction On The Main Line.

Heritage Traction On The Main Line.

Showcasing the many classes of preserved BR locomotives that operate on the national network.

Author: Fred Kerr.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 128pp. 28cm by 22cm.

ISBN 9781526713124

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £6.99 

Large Logo Diesels in View.

Large Logo Diesels in View.

For the author at least the large logo livery is one of the best. He illustrates it beautifully in this full colour album.

Author: Gavin Morrison.

Publisher: Rails Publishing.

Hardback. 96pp. 22cm by 26cm.

ISBN 9781854144348

Weight.

Original Price: £19.95

Price:    £9.99 

Locomotives & Recollections No D1015 Western Champion.

Locomotives & Recollections No D1015 Western Champion.

Illustrated throughout with over 100 colour photographs, together with some classic black and white images for good measure, this volume is a celebration of the Life and Times of Western Champion in action.

Author: John Whitehouse.

Publisher: Silver Link Books.

Paperback. 80pp. 23cm by 17cm.

ISBN 9781857945881

Weight. 248

Original Price: £10.00

Price:    £4.99 

Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2 Co-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives

Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2 Co-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives

From Design to Destruction (Locomotive Portfolio Diesel and Electric).

Author: Anthony P Sayer

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 272pp. 25.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526742810

Weight: 1.4kg

Original Price: £40.00

Price:    £16.99 

Modern Locomotives of the UK.

Modern Locomotives of the UK.

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

Price:    £9.99 

North Eastern Electric Stock 1904-2020.

North Eastern Electric Stock 1904-2020.

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

Price:    £9.99 

Peaks, The.

Peaks, The.

Volume 2 of the 'Heritage Traction in Colour' series

Author: Kevin Derrick.

Publisher: Nostalgia Road Publications.

Paperback. 60pp. 21cm by 20cm.

ISBN 9781903016411

Original Price: £9.95.

Price:    £3.99 

Privatisation Classes,The.

Privatisation Classes,The.

This book looks at the types of locomotives and multiple units that have been introduced into the UK since 1994, when the government privatised British Rail into a series of privately operated franchises.

Author:David Cable

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 263pp. 25.5cm by 19.5cm.

ISBN 9781473864375

Weight.1.030Kg

Original Price: £30.00

Price:    £9.99 

Rails Across London.

Rails Across London.

An in-depth look at the past, present & future of rail transport across Britain's capital city.

Author: John Glover.

Publisher: Crecy Publishing Ltd.

Hardback. 192pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN 9780860936909

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £6.99 

Railways and Industries in North East Wales & Deeside.

Railways and Industries in North East Wales & Deeside.

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

Price:    £9.99 

Railways in North and Mid Wales in the Late 20th Century

Railways in North and Mid Wales in the Late 20th Century

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

Price:    £9.99 

Railways in South Wales and the Central Wales Line

Railways in South Wales and the Central Wales Line

Author: Peter J Green

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 184pp. 21.5cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781399086547

Weight: 1.2kg

Original Price: £30.00

Price:    £12.99 

Scottish Highland Railways

Scottish Highland Railways

Scottish Highland Railways describes eight great journeys by rail through northern Scotland, detailing the history of the lines while travelling along their modern-day routes.

Author: David Tucker.

Publisher: Crowood Press.

Paperback. 160pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781785007927

Weight. 456

Original Price: £19.99

Price:    £6.99 

Southern Region, Electro Diesel Locomotives & Units.

Southern Region, Electro Diesel Locomotives & Units.

The locomotives of class 73 were used extensively throughout the region, in particular on Gatwick Express services, as well as on departmental and track recording trains. Their versatility in being able to work off 3rd rail electricity as well as diesel engined power gave them unrivalled areas of work.

Author: David Cable

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 228pp. 25cm by 20cm.

ISBN 9781526720610

Weight. 0.926Kg

Original Price: £30.00

Price:    £9.99 

Today's London Overground.

Today's London Overground.

This book takes a photographic look at these changes including a look at the routes, the stations and the trains including Classes 172, 315, 317, 378 and the brand new 710s with a brief history of each. And with so much freight sharing the Overground routes this is briefly looked at as well.

Author: Justin Bailey.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 176pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781526772626

Weight: 1012

Original Price: £30.00

Price:    £9.99 

Transforming the Railways of Central Scotland.

Transforming the Railways of Central Scotland.

From a pioneering intercity route to EGIP.

Author: Ann Glen.

Publisher: Lily Publications.

Paperback. 112pp. 21cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781911177371

Original Price: £18.00

Price:    £6.99 

Virgin Trains

Virgin Trains

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

Price:    £9.99 

Western Region Diesel Hydraulic Locomotives in Preservation

Western Region Diesel Hydraulic Locomotives in Preservation

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

Price:    £9.99 

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