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Pullman Pride
£9.99
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Offered at £9.99 is the hard-back edition of John Morris' and Anthony Fords book featuring fascinating photographs from the archive of E J Morris - company secretary of the Pullman Car Company.

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Garden Railways - Essential Guide to Construction
£7.50
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Perhaps the dark cold evenings are the time to think of the warmer months to come and turn ones thoughts to building a railway in the garden.

Offered at slightly less than half price is Chris Hatton's book on building a garden railway in which he looks at all the various stages from planning, materials, foundations and civil engineering to track laying, electrics, signals and structures.

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The Atmospheric Southern POST FREE
£4.95

THE ATMOSPHERIC SOUTHERN NOW OFFERED POST FREE WITHIN THE UK ONLY

Offered at a little under half price is a collection of photographs of the Southern taken in the 1960s by Roderick Hale.

A fine art student at the time, he carefully composes photographs of a variety of aspects of railway life, such as queuing passengers, deserted stations, railmen at work, children playing by the line together with really atmospheric photographs of trains.

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Diesel Retrospective Class 47 POST FREE
£18.99

Hot on the heels on the volume on the class 37s, John vaughan now turns his attention to the everlasting class 47s which in most cases are well over 40 years old and still going strong.

the book contains photographs of the class at work on a variety of trains and locations around the country.

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The Power of the 20s NOW POST FREE
£18.99

The second modern image offering from OPC is based on the ever popular class 20 locomotives.

Written by Pip Dunn, it covers the life and times of the class at home and abroad with a small colour section in the middle.

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Narrow Gauge Rolling Stock Irish Railway Pictorial
£10.99
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Desmond Coakham examines in photographs and text the multitude of different types of narrow gauge rolling stock used in Ireland mainly in the 1950s and 1960s.

Published by Ian Allan at £14.99, this is now offered at £12.

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Rowsley - A Rural Railway Centre
£6.99
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Glynn Waite and Laurence Knighton, members of the Midland Railway Society describe in words and pictures life at the former Midland Railway station and depot at Rowsley from the mid 1800s to closure in 1967.

Origionally priced at £12, now offered at £6.99.

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London's Scottish Railways - LMS & LNER
£10.99

AJ Mullay presents the story of the railways in Scotland in the 25 year gap between the grouping in 1923, and nationalisation in 1948.

Published by Tempus at £16.99, it is now offered at £10.99.

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Railways of Nottingham - Colwick MPD & yard
£9.99
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The railways of Nottingham, and especially the Great Northern's Colwick Motive Power Depot and Marshalling Yard plus the Colwick Estates Light Railway and LNWR Colwick shed are the subject of this book by Peter Barry Waite and published by Booklaw.

Originally priced at £19.99, the book is offered at £9.99.

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Passenger Train Operation for the Railway Modeller
£10.99
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Written by Bob Essery, this book published by Ian Allan seeks to give railway modellers an insight into the mysteries surrounding how passenger trains are operated. It looks at the deveopment of passenger services, formations, working practices together with a section on the development of passenger locomotives.

Published at £14.99, it is now offered at £10.99

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Modelling Irish Railways POST FREE
£8.99

Stephen Johnson and Alan O Rourke take a brief look at the history of the railways of Ireland before explaining how to go about modelling the railways of Ireland with its contrast in narrow and broad gauge and a multitude of prototypes to choose from.

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CIE Buses 1945 - 1987 POST FREE
£8.99

Cyril McIntyre looks at the buses operated by CIE in the Republic of Ireland in the period from 1945 to 1987.

Was £14.99, now offered at £8.99.

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First Generation DMUs in East Anglia POST FREE
£8.99

FIRST GENERATION DMUs NOW OFFERED POST FREE TO UK ADDRESSES ONLY

John Brodribb takes a close look at the myriad of 1st generation DMU's which used to ply their way around the main and branch lines of East Anglia from the end of steam to their replacement by more modern types.

Published at £12.99, now offered at £8.99.

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Profile of the Westerns POST FREE
£9.99

PROFILE OF THE WESTERNS NOW OFFERED POST FREE TO UK ADDRESSES ONLY

A reprint of the OPC volume by Nicholas and Montgomery first published in 1980.

Originally priced at £14.99, now £9.99.

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Chesterfield Tramways
£8.99
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Barry Marsden examines in pictures and words the history of the tramway system in Chesterfield from its opening in 1882 through its heyday and eventual decline and closure in 1927.

Published by Middleton Press at £14.95, now offered at £8.99.

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Ilkeston & Glossop Tramways
£8.99
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Barry M Marsden looks at the history of the tyramway systems in Ilkeston and Glossop from their opening in 1903 to decline and eventual closure in 1931 and 1927 respectively.

Published in black and white by Middleton Press at £14.95, now offered at £8.99

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Streets of Glasgow POST FREE
£8.99

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The various different forms of road transport in Glasgow are examined in colour by Alan Millar.

Good quality colour plates show the myriad of liveries worn by buses, trams, and trolleybuses in the 60s and 70s.

Published at £14.99, now offered at £8.99

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The Heyday of the Peaks
£8.99
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Gavin Morrison takes a look in colour at the popular workhorse which lasted from the mid 1950s right through to the late 80s.

Good quality colour plates show members of all three sub classes hard at work whether it be on coal in the East Midlands for the class 44s, or the cross country work from the West Country to the North East, North west, or Scotland for the 46s.

Published at £14.99, now offered at £8.99

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Midland Railway Locomotives Volume 4
£16.00
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This volume, the fourth in the series from Stephen Summerson on Midland Locomotives looks at the goods and later passenger engines designed by Johnson, and at those designed by Deeley, Fowler and LTSR classes.

Due to over-ordering this volume is offered at £6.95 off the publisher's price of £22.95 whilst stocks last.

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