Warwickshire-based engineers Severn-Lamb Ltd have been manufacturing transport-related items for the leisure industry for over fifty years. Their output includes road trains, monorails, theme-park rides and steam launches, but they mainly concentrate on narrow-gauge and miniature locomotives, steam and diesel, for gauges between 7¼” and 3 feet. Over 140 photos, most in colour, illustrate the firm’s output.

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Latest from the Nostalgia Collection is a study of the Railways of Birmingham Past and Present by Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse.

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Roy Fenton of Ships in Focus Publications and Philip Robertson combine to tell the History of William Robertson and the GEM line which was a well known operator of coasters around the UK.

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Kevin Derrick of Strathwood presents a high quality album of colour photographs taken in the 60s in and around the former London Midland Region of British Railways.

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Kevin Derrick from Strathwood presents a colour album covering the various designs of LMS Stanier locomotive.

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The latest book from the RCTS on locomotives of the LMS concentrates on the Hughes and Stanier 2-6-0 tender locomotives and details the history of each locomotive of the class together with supporting photographs and a history of the class in general.

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In a new book published by Visions International, Keith Bulmer tells the story in words and pictures of the Class 56 diesel-electric locomotive from construction both in the UK and Romania, through ownership by British Rail and EWS to preservation and operation by fledgling freight operators.

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This latest volume from Xpress Publishing gives the reader an insight into the complex operation of the former Midland & Great Northern Railway route from Peterborough and Spalding to Kings Lynn and the Norfolk and Suffolk coastal resorts.  The book follows the usual pattern of extracts from logs, maps and plans, timetables and locomotive rosters and allocations.

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The 2001 first edition of Slate Quarry Album by Gordon & Ann Hatherill proved very popular indeed and sold out very quickly.

Further information has come to light and the popularity of the first edition has led the authors to present an enlarged and updated version packed full of black and white and colour plates, maps and diagrams.

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Latest in the series of comparitive books on the railways past and present looks at the South London Suburban Scene.

Michael H C Baker looks at the London Termini, Clapham Junction, Wimbledon, Croydon and Coulsdon and all points in between.

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A further book from Kevin Derrick of Strathwood Publishing looks at the former Western Region Diesel Hydraulic Locomotives with a selction of good quality photographs from around the former GWR and beyond of the locomotives throughout their operating lives and in a variety of liveries.

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Kevin Derrick from Strathwood presents a colour album of previously unpublished photographs of thye various designs of English Electric locomotives used by British Rail in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

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David W Tandy presents a photographic record of the products of the Standard Railway Wagon Company from its works in Heywood from the mid 1950s to final closure in the early 1990s.

Each wagon contract is described with photographs and occasionally plans which will be valuable to historians and modellers alike.

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Steve Chislett and Mike Pearce present a book of memoirs plus the history of the railway to Tisbury and Gillingham.

This book from Millstream Books follows the well known pattern of their books on the Somerset & Dorset with memoirs from staff who actually worked on the line supported by photographs.

Now £2 off publishers' price.

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For anyone interested in the narrow gauge railways of Cuba - this is the definitive history.

Written by Christopher Walker and published by Trackside Publications, here you will find all you ever wanted to know about Cuban Narrow gauge with black and white plus colour photographs, maps, plans and comprehensive listings of rolling stock employed.

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This hefty volume from Venture Publications written by retired Brush employee George Toms is the first of two which seek to look in detail at the products of the Loughborough factory over seven decades.

This volume covers the period from 1940 to the late 1970s and gives a fascinating insight into the designs for both BR, overseas and industrial customers and what happened to the locomotives in general terms after delivery.

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A further volume of high quality Diesel and Electric era photographs comes from Kevin Derrick and Strathwood publishing, this time covering the Eastern region.

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Kevin Derrick from Strathwood presents an album of good quality full size colour prints covering the former Southern Region in the 1960s.

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Kevin Derrick has brought together a collection of good quality colour prints showing the various classes of BR Sulzer engined diesel classes from the early 1960s to the beginnings of the 21st century.

Various locations from the South West of England to the far North of Scotland feature.

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Following on from previous volumes showing train workings, Xpress Publishing turns its attentions to the ordinary weekday and summer Saturday workings for both the Midland and Somerset & Dorset at Bath Green Park in the summer of 1957.

The book includes the full working timetable, engine diagrams, enginemen' s workings, locomotive allocations, train formations, loadings and carriage workings.

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Latest in the series of books from Kevin Derrick and Strathwood looking at BR Diesel Locomotives in the Blue Era covers the former Southern Region and visitors thereto.

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This, the second volume on Great Western Road Vehicles from Trans-Pennine, seeks to portray the raod vehicles in use by the GWR who sought to reduce costs by using a standardised fleet.  Alan Earnshaw continues his pictorial examination of the fleet with hitherto unpublished pictures supplemented by a fleet list of the vehicles concerned.

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Kevin Derrick from Strathwood Publishing seeks to portray the former Southern Region of BR in the sixties whilst the region was going through a period of change.

Good quality colour photographs show the decline and decay and captions record the fate of the locomotives and locations depicted together with notable events which occurred at the time.

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John G Cox looks at the achievements and failings of a great railway developer of the mid 19th Century.

Published by the Railway and Canal Historical Society, the book examines all Peto's known railway undertakings in detail in the context of the social and economic climate at the time.

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Author Tony Vernon is the great great grandson of Archibold Sturrock who provided technical expertise in the early years of the Yorkshire Engine Company of Sheffield.

He tells the story of the company from formation in 1865 through various ups and downs in fortune to closure in 1965, with a short section on the New Yorkshire Engine Company which was formed in 1988 and still trades today.

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Another operating history comes from Xpress Publishing; this time it is the turn of a busy Summer Saturday in 1961 at Exeter Central.

This location on the former Southern Region was well known for its complexity with re-engineing, splitting and joining up of trains, bankers, a local service and goods traffic to occupy the mind of the operators.

Railwaymen who were there at the time tell how all these different aspects of the job were carried out as a matter of routine with timetables, loco rosters, allocations and a blow by blow account of the day's activities.

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The long awaited fourth volume from the RCTS on BR Standard Steam Locomotives covering the 9Fs.  A weighty tome at nearly 1.5 kilos!

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Steve Morris looks at the various diesel locomotive classes which have plyed the North Wales Coast from 1959 to 2008.

It includes the diminutive class 01 shunters marooned on the breakwater at Holyhead right up to the latest GM classes 66 and 67.

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Two new volumes, this and the next cover main and branch lines in Gloucestershire with views across North Gloucestershire of lines in use and some 40 years later. Features some 240 views (amongst others) of Gloucester, Cheltenham, Ashchurch, Tewkesbury, Winchcombe, and Moreton-in-Marsh.

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Just when you think that nothing else can possibly be written on the Somerset & Dorset Railway, another book pops up.

This time it is from local publisher Millstream written by Alan and Christine Hammond who follow the style of earlier publications by producing numbered limited editions.

Each volume looks at typical scenes around the S & D supported by accounts of working on the line from the mundane to the rediculous.

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The RCTS has over the years issued some 19 books detailing the various locomotives of the L.N.E.R. Each volume concentrated on a particular type covering the full history of the class, origin, leading dimensions, date of construction, rebuilding and withdrawal of each engine, together with sections covering detail variation, classification, engine diagrams and allocation and work.

The eleventh volume covered supplementary information and went out of print very quickly hence the 2008 reprint.

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Trevor Lloyd Lee describes how to wire up your layout in a simple and easy to read volume.

Turntables, point motors as well as more complex trackwork is covered.

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Modellers of all scales and gauges will welcome this title published and written by Christopher Vine.

Its 168 pages contain 130 colour photographs and 30 diagrams and takes the reader through all the necessary stages and processes in painting a model.

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