NEW RAILWAY TITLES

Southern Way: Special Issue No.8 : The Other Side of the Southern

Kevin Robertson (Ed)
Paperback, 96 pages, 70 b/w, 20 colour, 273 x 215 mm
In series with the main ‘Southern Way’ volumes, this 96 page book looks at things that went wrong on the railway – sometimes unavoidable, sometimes misfortune and sometimes just sheer bad luck. Nothing too macabre either, instead derailments, clear ups, and incident-causing delays, plus of course Bulleid’s that got a bit hot under the casing! This primarily pictorial volume covers the period of both Southern Region and Southern Railway days plus a few earlier occurrences. The photographer sometimes unwittingly affording a glimpse of a background scene rarely seen elsewhere.

Railways Restored 2012

By Alan C Butcher
Paperback, 240 pages, col. Illustrations, col. map, 235 x 172 mm
Published annually for over 30 years, Railways Restored is regarded as the ‘Bible’ by the railway preservation movement and is both well received by reviewers and readers. The book is fully revised to reflect the changes, new schemes and occasional closures, along with listings of locomotives on site. This new and fully updated volume incorporates a list of major events planned for 2012 along with a vast amount of information useful to visitors to over 200 railway heritage sites.

NEW RAILWAY TITLES

North London Railway 1846-2012 : New Updated and Expanded Version

By Dennis Lovett
Hardback, 150 pages, 200 illustrations, 310 x 214 mm
In October 1993 Dennis Lovett was seconded by InterCity to work part time on the North London Line Modernisation Project as Communications Manager, joining the project team full-time when InterCity headquarters closed in March 1994. He suddenly found himself working on a piece of railway about which he knew very little and soon discovered that this was a line with a very complex history indeed. He found throughout his railway public affairs career that it was important to read up on lines such as this, in order to have the answers, so that when journalists and others asked the questions, he either knew the answer or where to find it in the quickest possible time!

Steam Trails: Manchester to Leeds

By Eric Bentley, Bob Pixton
Paperback, 96 pages, Illustrations, 184 x 240 mm
This new title forms the fourth in the popular ‘Steam Trails’ series. The lines covered in this new volume are predominantly those that were operated by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, and so routes like the main line from Manchester to Leeds via Summit tunnel and its associated branches also feature. The late Eric Bentley was a prolific photographer of railways in the area between Manchester and Leeds during the final decade of steam operation.

Virgin Trains : From HST to Pendolino

By John Balmforth
Hardback, 80 pages, Illustrations, 184 x 240 mm
John Balmforth provides readers with a look at the history of Virgin Trains as they celebrate 15 years of service. Emerging from the franchising process in the 1990s, Virgin Trains, although branded as a single entity, was in fact the product of two distinct franchises: the West Coast Main Line and InterCity Cross-Country. The two franchises were, to a considerable extent, amongst the most difficult on offer – the former as a result of its ageing infrastructure and rolling stock and the latter due to the convoluted route network over which it operated – and in its early years of operation Virgin Trains suffered significant adverse comment.

NEW RAILWAY TITLES

North Staffordshire Railway in LMS Days: Volume 2

By Basil Jeuda
The second of three volumes looking at what happened to the North Staffordshire Railway after it became a part of the LM&SR in the Railway Grouping of 1923. This was a period of great social, political and economic change and turmoil, which climaxed with the Second World War. Shortly afterwards, the railways of the United Kingdom were Nationalised, which changed their appearance and the way they were run forever..

Rise and Fall of British Railways Goods & Freight

By John Vaughan
Hardback, 270 x 210mm, 208 pages, 64 colour & 275 b&w illustrations
Until road transport began to make inroads into the goods and freight monopoly enjoyed by the railways, there were thousands of goods yards throughout the UK and every conceivable commodity was transported in railway wagons. This lavishly illustrated book tells the story of the evolution of freight services and the ‘Rise and Fall’ of the local goods train, from the early days to the modern privatised railway and from the steam age to today’s modern traction era, with particular emphasis on the British Railways years from 1948 to 1997.

NEW BUS AND RAILWAY TITLES

   

British Locomotive Catalogue 1825-1923 Volume 6 : GER, NBR, GNoSR, M&GNJR and Minor Lines
Compiled by Bertram Baxter Edited by David Baxter and Peter Mitchell
Softback, 288 pages, 148 x 210mm
Details of every known locomotive are included for the following companies and their constituents:
Great Eastern Railway – North British Railway – Great North of Scotland Railway – Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway – Colne Valley and Halstead Railway – East and West Yorkshire Union Railway – Mid-Suffolk Railway

Mono-Rail : The History of the Industrial Monorails Made by Road Machines Ltd., Metalair Ltd and Rail Machines Ltd
By David Voice – Paperback, 50 pages, 103 illustrations, 296 x 210 mm
The history of the industrial monorails made by Road Machines Ltd, Metalair and Rail Machines Ltd.
Chapters on: The Beginnings and Road Machines (Drayton) Ltd 1946-1967 – Metalair Ltd 1967-1983 – Applications – The Track – The Wagons – The Monorail Collection 1983 to Present

Trackless to Trolleybus : Trolleybuses in Britain
By Stephen Lockwood – A4, hardback, 380 pages
Includes: Stanley King’s ten favourite trolleybus photographs
The Story of the British Trolleybus
Pre history – early trolleybuses outside Britain 1882 to 1910
Early growth 1912 to 1914
Trackless to trolleybus 1922 to 1930
Trolleybuses triumphant? 1931 to 1940
The trolleys come off 1961 to 1970
And then there were two 1971 to 1972
And much more…

NEW RAILWAY BOOKS

BR Passenger Sectors in Colour for the Modeller and Historian
By David Cable – Paperback, 96 pages, col. Illustrations, 280 x 215 mm

In the summer of 1986 BR radically overhauled its regionally-based passenger business for the first time since nationalisation in 1948. The traditional regions such as Western and London Midland were replaced by four new passenger sectors: InterCity (concentrating on the main-line express network), Network SouthEast (concentrating on those services covering London and the Home Counties), Regional Railways (the non-Intercity passenger services in England and Wales outside the southeast some of which involved linkage with the local PTAs) and ScotRail (effectively the old Scottish Region covering all lines to the north of Carlisle and Berwick).

London’s Overground
By John Glover – Hardback, 128 pages, Illustrations (some col.), 280 x 215 mm

In December 2007 a new franchisee – London Overground – appeared on the railway scene. This operation was designed to operate a significant number of surface lines within the Greater London area, including the ex-North London lines of Silverlink Metro and, once completed, the extended East London line that was once part of the Underground network. This impressive new title explores how London Overground is one aspect of a massive development of the non-Underground railway routes in the Greater London area.

 

FREIGHTMASTER

Freightmaster No.64 January – March 2012

By Mark Rawlinson

Fully updated following the December WTT timetable change.
‘ON LOCATION’ in Issue 64 is the popular freight hotspot of DIDCOT ….
- high quality images.
- illustrations of freight services in the vicinity.
- the best vantage points to take photographs.
- Ordnance Survey map extracts to pinpoint the Vantage points.

PICK OF THE WEEK

Great Locomotives Series : Bulleid Pacifics

By John Scott-Morgan
Hardback, 250 x 250mm, 160 pages, 150 colour & 100 b&w illustrations

When O.V.S. Bulleid’s ‘Merchant Navy’ class 4-6-2 appeared on the Southern Railway in 1941, it was controversial. As well as looking unlike any previous steam locomotive, it was full of innovative and untried ideas, and this during the height of the Second World War. A total of 140 such locos were built over the next ten years, 110 of which were a lighter version, the ‘West Country’/'Battle of Britain’ class. This is the intriguing story of these locos in their original ‘air-smoothed’ form.

NEW RAILWAY TITLES

   

An Artist Among The Ashes : A Photographic Record of The End of Southern Region Steam
By David Shepherd – Hardback, 96 pages, 100 colour and 1 b/w illustrations, 210 x 280 mm

This really is a very special colour album. Covered are the depots at Nine Elms, Guildford and Fratton, as well as the later graveyard at Salisbury.

Impermanent Ways : The Closed Lines of Britain Volume 3 – Wiltshire
By Jeffery Grayer – Paperback, 96 pages, 210 x 215 mm
Impermanent Ways ‘Wiltshire’ is the third in this fast growing and increasingly popular series. In this new title, Jeff Grayer has covered the branch and cross-country routes of the county as well as a brief return to some of the former SR routes within the boundary.

Meon Valley Railway Part 2 : A Rural Backwater
By Kevin Robertson – Hardback, 64 pages, 801 b/w, 3 colour illustrations, 210 x 270 mm
This new title, compiled by railway expert Kevin Robertson, forms the second of a three-part series covering the construction, life, and demise of the Meon Valley Railway

Southern Way – Issue No.17
Edited By Kevin Robertson – paperback, 100 pages, b/w 80, colour 8 Illus, 273 x 215 mm
Issue No. 17 is the next installment in the Southern Way series; this is the first of the four regular volumes for 2012 and starts with a definite first: a detailed feature in colour on permanent way.

NEW TITLES

     

Bristol Cars On Film DVD
Region 2 DVD, 62 mins. – This souvenir DVD is based on two high-quality 16mm films shot by the late Ted Ashman, Chief Photographer of the Bristol Aeroplane Company in the mid-1950s. Enhanced by modern location footage and informed commentary, it will be greatly enjoyed by Bristol Car owners and enthusiasts.

Loco Review 2012 edition – By Martin Buck
Contributions from the UK’s leading photographers
Printed on high quality art paper
Expansive and informative captions

No Need to Die : American flyers in RAF Bomber Command – By Gordon Thorburn
This is the first book to be written about a group of remarkable men who left the wealth and comfort of America before the Second World War to volunteer for the most dangerous trade in the world.

Plough & Scatter : The Diary-Journal of a First World War Gunner
By J. Ivor Hanson, Alan Wakefield – J. Ivor Hanson’s personal diary describes his experiences as a gunner on the Western Front in the First World War, which left a deep and lasting impression on him.

Rapid Response : My inside story as a motor racing life-saver
By Dr. Stephen Olvey – Now available in paperback with an updated final chapter, this is the compelling story of the author’s life in motor racing, providing fascinating insight into crashes involving many famous racers and circuits. The book begins with a vivid description of Alex Zanardi’s crash in Germany in 2001

Team Lotus : My view from the pit wall – By Peter Warr
Peter Warr was best-known for his management of the Lotus Formula 1 team, where he was one of Colin Chapman’s closest allies as well as the man who nurtured the early Formula 1 careers of Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell.

NEW BUS AND RAILWAY TITLES

   

Do Not Alight Here : Walking London’s Lost Underground & Railway Stations
By Ben Pedroche – Paperback, 142 pages
Abandoned tunnels, derelict stations, old trackbeds and much more. All are included in Do Not Alight Here, an entertaining and informative book that guides the reader through London’s many remaining disused Underground and main line railway structures.

London’s Night Buses : Volume One 1913-1983
By Philip Wallis – Hardback, 136 pages
In the first ever book on the subject of London’s night buses, Philip Wallis gives the fruits of over 20 years of research into their history. Everything is covered, including some notes on the first all-night trams and their subsequent history. Well illustrated with photographs and maps.

NEW RAILWAY TITLES

    

Civil Engineers Wagons Volume 1 : British Railways: 1948-1967
By David Larkin – Paperback, 96 pages with 147 photographs 273 x 215 mm
The five previous Kestrel Railway Books volumes by David Larkin looked at the revenue-earning wagon fleet operated by British Railways and its immediate successor, British Rail.

LBSCR Elevated Electrification : A Pictorial View of Construction
Stephen Grant – Paperback, 64 pages, 80 b/w illustrations, 270 x 210 mm
With the growing interest in early railways and the similar desire for something a ‘bit different’, author Stephen Grant tells the tale of the LBSCR in all its glory. The origins of this book date from a century ago.

Southern Region Flashback: The South Western Main Line Through Hampshire in the 1950′s
By David Kimber – Paperback, 64 pages, b/w: 801, colour illus., 210 x 270 mm
Southern Flashbacks was the idea of David Kimber using material from his late father’s collection. The result is a carefully chosen selection of views commencing at Bournemouth (then part of Hampshire) and running east through the New Forest to Brockenhurst. The variety of trains, locomotives and workings seen are in stark contrast to the bland variety of today.

Strasbourg to Paris Driver’s Eye View
Available in DVD or High Definition on Blu-ray. This is a Driver’s eye view of the LGV Est, the high speed line from Eastern France. Filmed in 2011 before the final section was built, we benefit from seeing the scenic classic main line for about half the length of this production.

Coming in January – Haynes Great Locomotives Series : Bulleid Pacifics
By John Scott-Morgan – Hardback, 250 x 250mm, 160 pages, 150 colour & 100 b&w illustrations When O.V.S. Bulleid’s ‘Merchant Navy’ class 4-6-2 appeared on the Southern Railway in 1941, it was controversial. As well as looking unlike any previous steam locomotive, it was full of innovative and untried ideas, and this during the height of the Second World War.

NEW RAILWAY AND BUS TITLES

 

BR First-generation Diesel Railbuses – By Evan Green-Hughes
This new volume written by rail expert, Evan Green – Hughes provides readers with everything they need to know about the BR First Generation Diesel Rail buses. The railway industry in the mid-1950s faced a number of challenges. One of these problems was the rapid introduction to service of large number of new diesel and electric locomotives and multiple-units, many of which were untried and untested, whilst at the same time facing a rapid deterioration of the industry’s finances as passenger and freight traffic declined.

British Buses : 1945-1975
By James Taylor – Hardback, 192 pages, 400 colour illustrations, 270 x 210 mm
At the end of World War II, Britain was desperate for new buses and coaches. The manufacturers who had built them is the 1930s hade been diverted to war production and only a tiny number of buses were built during the war. So, many companies new to making buses came into the business after the war, so that the late 1940s and the 1950s saw a fascinating variety of different types reaching the market.

NEW RAILWAY TITLES

    

Book of the Black Fives LM Class 5 4-6-0s : 45000-45074 By Ian Sixsmith
Covers the 1934 batch from Vulcan Foundry and the 1935 engines from Crewe and Part 2 the similar 1935 Vulcan Foundry and Armstrong Whitworth locomotives.

Book of the BR Standard Class 5 4-6-0s By Richard Derry, Ian Sixsmith
Latest in ‘The Book Of’ series, charting in depth the life and times of the 172 Class 5 4-6-0s in the 73000 series, the popular BR successors to the LMS ‘Black 5s’.

Book of the Merchant Navy Pacifics (Second Edition) By Richard Derry, Ian Sixsmith
Second Edition; greatly upgraded and expanded including new sixteen page colour section

Industrial Railways in Colour – South By Michael Poulter
Enthusiasts Club and the Birmingham Locomotive Club-Industrial Locomotive Information Section fuelled the explorations. Other locations rapidly followed in the same year. The enchantment of visits to the Millwall and Royal Docks, Dagenham Dock, Beckton and Purfleet

Working with Steam in Cornwall : Tales from the Clay Country By Philip Rundle
Following the interest shown in his first book, Laira Fireman, it was put to Phil that a second might be of interest, broadening the scope across Cornwall, a county so dear to his heart.

NEW RAILWAY TITLES

Crystal Palace High Level Railway By John Gale
116 pages. 275x215mm. Printed on gloss art paper, card covers.
The three mile long Crystal Palace High Level Railway, running from Nunhead Junction to Edward Barry’s magnificent £100,000 terminus station alongside the Crystal Palace, was opened in 1865. Promoted by the Crystal Palace & South London Junction Railway, a company backed by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, the ownership of the line was transferred to the LC&DR in 1875.

Haymarket Motive Power Depot, Edinburgh : A History of the Depot, its Work and Locomotives, 1842-2010
By Hary Knox – 208 pages. Printed on gloss art paper, casebound with printed board covers
Built in 1842 as an engine shed for the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway, Haymarket has served the railways that radiate from Edinburgh ever since.

London, Brighton & South Coast Railway : The Bennett Collection By Klaus Marx
144 pages. Printed on gloss art paper, casebound with printed board covers
This volume, taking a look at the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway in the early years of the twentieth century, has been compiled mainly from the photographs taken by Henry and Walter Bennett of Hove.

Monorails of the 19th Century By Adrian S Garner
288 pages. Printed on gloss art paper, casebound with printed board covers
This volume records the development of the monorail railway from its inception in the 1820s, when conventional two rail railways were still in their infancy, through to the construction of the successful Wuppertal Schwebebahn built at the end of the nineteenth century.

Western Region Steam : 1950-1965 By Mike Arlett, David Lockett
192 pages. Printed on gloss art paper, casebound with printed board covers 
Each photograph is supported by detailed captions and text by Mike Arlett. By the 1950s, Norman was starting to venture farther afield, a process which was accelerated even further by, first, a move to Bath with his work and, second, a chance meeting with fellow photographer Ivo Peters

Great Western ‘Kings’

Haynes Great Locomotives Series: Great Western ‘Kings’

By Kevin McCormack
Hardback, 250 x 250mm, 160 pages, 150 colour & 100 b&w illustrations
The 30 ‘King’ class 4-6-0s were the GWR’s most prestigious express passenger engines. When introduced in 1927 they were the most powerful steam locomotives in Britain. The most famous was No. 6000 King George V which visited the USA for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad centenary. It was preserved on withdrawal in 1962 and after steam had finished on British Railways it ‘broke the ban’ when it returned to main-line operation, setting the scene for today’s numerous steam specials.

Warships CLASS LOCO

Looking Back at Warships

By Kevin Derrick
Hardback, 22cm x 31cm, 96 Pages, 188 Colour Photographs
An all new 96 page colour photographic album depicting seventy six of the Warships produced by both Swindon Works and the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow that were to be later classified as Classes 41, 42 and 43. Inside we look at class variations, namings, liveries, workings, scrapping, etc from the late 1950s through to their final demise. As this collectable series is already renown, the author has chosen photographs to appeal to the enthusiast and modeller alike with informative captions.

English Electric Traction

English Electric Traction Chester to Holyhead Volume 1: 1959-1983
By Steve Morris

This is the first of two volumes celebrating over fifty years continuous service for English Electric built Diesel locomotives on the route between Chester and Holyhead. This publication covers the period between the first sighting of “EE” traction on the route in 1959, through to 1983. I have made the decision to include only those mainline locomotive classes produced by English Electric.

Freightmaster

Freightmaster No.63 Oct-Dec 2011
By Mark Rawlinson

This issue covers the period OCTOBER to DECEMBER 2011 inclusive
Fully updated
There are now some NEW ‘double’ timetables, to provide more freight timings at popular locations

Transport Paintings

John Chapman’s Transport Paintings

By John Chapman
Hardback, 144 pages, colour illustrations, 238 x 258 mm

The nostalgic and supremely evocative paintings of John Chapman have become world famous in his more than forty-year career. One of the hallmarks of his work is the loving re-creation of various modes of transport, from mighty steam locomotives to horse-drawn trams, and from classic cars to Routemaster buses, all shown in settings appropriate to their era.

Railmotor

Railmotor : The Steam Engine That Rewrote Railway History

By Robin Jones
Hardback, 144 pages, colour and black and white illustrations, 214 x 230 mm

March 2011 saw the reappearance of a ‘fossil’ steam locomotive, rebuilt in all its original 1908 glory,which has now rewritten the history books. Great Western Railway steam railmotor No. 93 is now arguably one of our greatest steam era survivors. Comprising a steam locomotive built into a carriage fitted with driving cabs at either end, it marks the true beginning of the modern railway network as we know it. Today’s railway passenger services are mostly comprised of railcars and multiple units,which are not hauled by a separate locomotive but are self-propelled. All of them can trace their ancestry back to the steam railmotor concept.

The book also covers a now-unique vehicle which reflects the very next stage in railway evolution, North Eastern Railway petrol-electric railcar No. 3170 built in 1903. It is the sole surviving example of the world’s first train to be powered by a petrol-electric engine, and is therefore of immense historical importance. It is now being rebuilt to original condition by acclaimed carriage restorer Stephen Middleton at the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway in Yorkshire backed by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and once operational in 2012, will provide a perfect northern counterpart to the steam railmotor.