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Other offers may apply from time to time including free postage - this applies to the UK only. See individual books for details.

Offered POST FREE and £5 off the publishers' price of £16.99 is a copy of Gavin Booth's collection of black & white and colour plates covering buses south of a line between the Wash and the Solent.

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Stewart J Brown celebrates the 100th anniversary of Plaxton coachbuilders with a photographic history of the products of the company since 1907.

Offered at £7 off the original price of £19.99

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Offered at £10 off the published price of £19.99 is a copy of David N Clough's book on the English Electric Class 50 locomotive.

He provides a wealth of information on the construction and operation of the class supported by good quality black & white plates.

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Offered at £3 off the published price is a copy of Pete Waterman's book about his collection of model railways. Full of stunning good quality colour plates.

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Offered at £5 off the publishers price of £24.99 is a new copy of T R Pearce's book on the locomotives of the Stockton & Darlington Railway.

The book is a full account of all the locomotives used on the railway between 1825 & 1875 supported by full technical details, plans & where appropriate, photographs or prints.

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Offered at £2 off the publishers' price and POST FREE is a copy of M A Tedstone's book on the Barry Railway Steamers from Oakwood Press in which he describes the development of the pier at Barry and charts the history of the steamship companies which used it.

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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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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 NOW OFFERED POST FREE WITHIN THE UK ONLY

Offered at £7 off the published price of £11.95 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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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 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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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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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 £7.99.

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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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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 £7.99.

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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.

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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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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 NOW POST FREE TO UK ADDRESSES ONLY

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.

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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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