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NAILSWORTH AND STROUD BRANCH
by Colin G. Maggs
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This is the fascinating story of the railway, which
had its junction with the Midland Railway's Bristol to Gloucester line at
Stonehouse. Initially the line was built to Nailsworth. The intermediate
station of Dudbridge became a junction when the line to Stroud was opened.
The railway carried an extraordinarily varied range of goods traffic
including cattle feed, stone, timber, bricks, coal also serving various
mills producing cloth, flour etc and even violin strings and umbrellas!
The author is well-known for his railway historys' in and around Bristol and
south-west England. Colin Maggs' local knowledge make this a vibrant and
colourful story and it is interspersed with first-hand reminiscences from
some of the line's railway staff.
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The book is to A5 format and consists of 176 pages with more than 220
photographs/plans etc., it has a glossy laminated colour card cover with a
square backed spine. |
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LP214 |
ISBN 0 85361 559 4
ISBN 978 0 85361 559 0 |
£ 11.95 |
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NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS IN NORTH CAERNARVONSHIRE Volume
Two - The Penrhyn Quarry Railways
by J.I.C. Boyd |
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The subject of this account has engaged James Boyd's curiosity for over 50
years; it concerns on of the most captivating railway sites in North Wales.
This work includes a feast of photographs and delightful drawings, with maps
specially prepared for this erudite coverage of an era now vanished. Not
only railways, but people, places, industries, ships, social orders - now
all a memory - are faithfully recorded, for the Penrhyn railways were
amongst the first 'private' systems born of the French Wars and the
Industrial revolution. The author brings an unassailable, lifetime's
involvement in his subjects.
The series, of which this volume forms a part, are not
only backed by the author's own unique, close personal knowledge in both
fieldwork and documentation, but also by a team of enthusiastic assistants,
each a specialist in his own field.
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The book consists of 232 pages in all, with 95
photographs. It has printed endpapers and is casebound with a gold-blocked
spine. This book has a full colour laminated dustjacket. |
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B5B |
ISBN 0 85361 312 5
ISBN 978 0 85361 312 1 |
£ 18.95 |
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NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS IN SOUTH CAERNARVONSHIRE Volume One:
The Embankment Tramway, Gorseddau Tramway, Festiniog & Blaenau Railway,
Merionethshire Railway, Croesor Tramway, Bettws-y-Coed & Festiniog
Railway, North Wales Narrow gauge Railway, Portmadoc Beddgelert & South
Snowdon Railway
by James I.C. Boyd |
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In 1971 the First Edition of
this title drew readers’ attention from James Boyd’s previous book about
the Mid-Wales Narrow Gauge Railways, to a treasury of long-abandoned
railways in South Caernarvonshire which, until the 1960s had been hardly
investigated. In this Second Edition (in two volumes) the author builds
still further on his life-long and close knowledge of the subject. He
recounts the politics and infighting of the Cambrian, Great Western and
London & North Western Railways to secure a greater foothold and share in
the then-lucrative North Wales slate industry traffic, and wrench more of
it from the monopoly of an entrenched Festiniog Railway.
Within this theatre of marrow
railway plotting, Hugh Beaver Roberts aspired to dominate the scene for
over a decade; then Charles Easton Spooner, finding the Festiniog Railway
too restrictive for his empirical ambitions, contrived his own ascendancy;
finally Henry Joseph Jack cunningly manipulated to dictate electrical and
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Mr Boyd deals with the complexities of
competitive promotions which baffled the Board of Trade, and holds our
attention with amusing extracts from the documents of those times until
the formation of the Welsh Highland Railway…. the subject of the second
volume.
The book consists of 320 text pages
with 64 pages of art paper containing more than 100 photographs. The book
is casebound with
a gold-block spine, printed endpapers and a laminated 2-colour dust
jacket. |
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ISBN 0 85361 365 6
ISBN 978 0 85361 365 7 |
£ 22.95 |
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NAVIGATION on the YORKSHIRE DERWENT
by Pat Jones |
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The middle
reaches of the Yorkshire Derwent were said to offer the finest scenery of
any navigable river in Britain, but today, alas, they lie beyond our reach.
This book outlines the history of the river as a trade route serving Malton,
Stamford Bridge and a number of smaller communities, which for some time
competed successfully with George Hudson’s York & Scarborough Railway. It
tells how its attractions were enjoyed by visitors from York and Leeds. It
describes the motor-boating era of the 1930s and the valiant but ultimately
unsuccessful efforts to reopen all the river’s derelict locks. It also looks
at nature issues, and the equation of conservation with neglect, which
ultimately contributed to the severity of the disastrous floods in March
1999. A5 format, 144 pages, 98 photos/plans with a laminated colour card
cover and a square-backed spine.
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C10 |
ISBN 0 85361 563 2
ISBN 978 0 85361 563 7 |
£ 9.95 |
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NELSON and
YNYSYBWL BRANCHES of the TAFF VALE RAILWAY
by C. Chapman |
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The history of these two principal branches interlocked and over-lapped at
various times. Both lines were originally basic mineral branch lines
focusing on exchange sidings at Stormstown Junction, but were later to see
their orientation changed in favour of the important traffic centre of
Pontypridd, at the hub of the TVR system. Both lines also played an
important part in the steam railcar revolution that gripped the TVR in the
decade after 1903. Finally, in the retrenchment of later years both lines
ended their days by reverting to short mineral branches off the former TVR
main line, with Stormstown Junction regaining its former pre-eminence. The
book is to A5 format with a square-backed Linson cover and consists of 144
pages of art paper, which include 103 photographs and 25 maps/plans.
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LP200 |
ISBN 0 85361 512 8
ISBN 978 0 85361 512 5 |
£ 10.95 |
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NORTHAMPTON &
BANBURY JUNCTION RAILWAY
by S.C. Jenkins
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112 pages printed on art paper throughout. This
detailed text is supplemented by 7 maps and over 50 photographs plus
timetables, Acts, etc. A5. Two-colour Linson cover. |
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OL78 |
ISBN 0 85361 390 7
ISBN 978 0 85361 390 9 |
£ 5.95 |
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NORTH
EASTERN REGION:Pictorial Reminscences
by Ron Goult |
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An evocative collection of photographs from the
1950s and early 1960s. The author tells of his memories of those days
through his fine collection of pictures. The area covered is from
Newcastle in the north to Selby in the south. There is a surprising range
of motive power from the ageing ex-NER locomotives through the LNER types,
to the ‘Standards’ and then the diesels and dmus that replaced them, plus
visitors to the region. The author’s cine film, which is already well
known, makes up the Oakwood Video Library Programmes Railways of the
North East In Retrospect Volumes 1 & 2. Over 140 photographs, 80
pages of art paper, A5 format, with a glossy 4-colour card cover. |
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PS5 |
ISBN 0 85361 489 X
ISBN 978 0 85361 489 0 |
£ 7.95 |
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