Railway - Other

The West Riding of Yorkshire boasted the most complex railway network in Britain, comprised at various times of seven railway companies, with an eighth trying to secure a foothold, eleven significant joint lines and several minor systems.

Author: Bernard Warr.

Publisher: Crowood Press Ltd.

Paperback. 144pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781785008467

Weight: 425g

Original Price: £16.99

A railway journey through the Cold War from London to Kong Kong.

Author: Christopher Knowles.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 220pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781473887442

Original Price: £25.00.

A Celebration of Railway Architecture.

Author: Robin Leleux

Publisher: Unique

Hardback. 128pp. 22cm by 28.5cm.

ISBN: 9780995749375

Weight: 840g

Original Price: £19.99

This is a book that takes the reader off the beaten track, over many years, to provide a wide variety of images from all sorts of unusual and rarely seen passenger and freight services the length and breadth of the country.

Author: John Legg & Ian Peaty.

Publisher: Silver Link Publishing.

Hardback. 192pp. 18cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781857945485

Weight. 719g

Original Price: £25.00

This book takes the reader on a pictorial journey; in time from the early 1970s to 2020 and to places all around Scotland.

Author: John Burnett Kirk

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9781399011181

Weight: 897g

Original Price: £30.00

The line faced almost certain closure in the 1980s, only to be saved by an unexpected last-minute reprieve.

Author: Paul Salveson.

Publisher: Crowood.

Paperback. 208pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781785006371

Original Price: £24.00

This book looks at the network over the last seventy years, from Nationalisation through to the present day. 

Author: Colin Boocock.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 231pp. 22.5x28.5x1.6cm.

ISBN: 9781526780881

Weight: 1.25kg.

Original Price: £35.00

An easy to use guide for all scales and gauges.

Author: Jeff Geary.

Publisher: Noodle Books.

Paperback. 108pp. 21cm by 27cm.

ISBN 9781906419615

Original Price: £17.50

The National Rifle Association, its Tramways and the London & South Western Railway.

Author: Christopher Bunch

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 321pp. 22cm by 28.5cm.

ISBN: 9781473891746

Weight: 1.468kg

Original Price: £40.00

Edward Thompson was the London & North Eastern Railways second Chief Mechanical Engineer, following the death of Sir Nigel Gresley in 1941.

Author: Tim Hillier-Graves.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 288pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN 9781526731166

Weight. 1449

Original Price: £35.00

Rediscovering the Remains of Railways Never Completed

Author: Mark Yonge.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 268pp. c18x25.4x2cm.

ISBN: 9781399018531

Weight: 950g.

Original Price: £30.00

The book itself contains just over 40 photographs and plans and although undated relates to an appeal by the Souther Railway against Westminster City Council to the House of Lords in 1936.

Author: Bruce Murray & Kevin Robertson.

Publisher: Noodle Books.

Hardback. 96pp. 27cm by 21cm.

ISBN 9781906419028

Weight. 541

Original Price: £12.95