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Here you will find the latest books released by Colourpoint. Those published in the last six months or so may be found on previous pages, or you can use the search button. Earlier titles can be found as available by downloading the catalogue at www.geoffgamblebooks.co.uk

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Along UTA Lines
£14.99
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Along UTA Lines is a picture album which gives a detailed portrait of the infrastructure of the railway network in Northern Ireland a few years before the creation of NIR. The book features many of the buildings, bridges and signalling systems which were swept away in the modernisation of the 1980s and 1990s.

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The Mid-Antrim Narrow Gauge
£15.99
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This is a new edition of Dr EM Patterson's book The Ballymena Lines originally published in 1968 and a companion to the same author's book The Ballycastle Railway.

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Route and Branch in Sussex
£8.95
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Anthony Burges helps us recapture the atmosphere of several of the rural branch lines of Sussex in the mid-1950s. As well as photographing the trains, the author's interest extended to the station exteriors and other infrastructure details that are so useful to modellers today. Lines covered include East Grinstead-Lewes (part of which is now the preserved Bluebell Railway), Crowhurst-Bexhill West, Chichester-Midhurst, Pulborough-Midhurst and Petersfield-Midhurst, as well as a look at Schools class 4-4-0s and other steam classes on the Tunbridge Wells-Hastings main line.

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Locomotives of the GSR
£35.00
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This book by Jeremy Clements and Michael McMahon is a long overdue and detailed study of the locomotives of the Great Southern Railways of Ireland, which was the largest of the major Irish railways.

It includes all locomotives inherited by the GSR in 1924, broad and narrow gauge, steam and petrol driven described on a class by class basis, including the pre-1924 history of each engine. This is followed by the details of all locomotives built or acquired between 1924 and 1944 and their subsequent fate under CIÉ.

The book is illustrated with 346 black and white photographs.

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Locomotives of the LMS NCC & its predecessors
£25.00
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William Scott examines the history of the locomotives of the NCC which was a significant part of the LMS empire in Ireland and describes every steam locomotive built between 1847 for the Belfast & Ballymena Railway through to the end of steam in 1970 plus coverage of NCC diesel locomotives and railcars.

The book is well illustrated with 272 b & w photographs and 47 drawings.

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