The product of some 50 years of research, this book seeks to detail the evolution of Britain's railway owned ferry fleets and harbours.  Such humble vessels as dredgers, tugs and cargo boats, small ferries and excursion ships are not forgotten.  It centres on the immediate post 2nd World War period and has over 240 photographs.

Author: Richard Danielson

Publisher: Twelveheads Press 

This is a new soft-back volume continuing the series covering the country looking at all industrial locomotives known to have operated or sited within Mid and South Glamorgan and updates the 1951 "Industrial Locomotives of South Wales".

Author: Geoffrey Hill

Publisher: Industrial Railway Society

Essentially this is a spotters' book covering Germany. Covers Locomotives, units and service vehicles.

Author: Various

Publisher: AEB

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A complete listing of all UK based wagons including those leased from abroad.  Covers EWS, Private Owner Wagons, Snow Ploughs, Engineers' stock, Plant, LUL and Channel Tunnel registered stock.

Author: Various

Publisher: AEB

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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Although this book was first published in Zimbabwe, it has only just reaced these shores.  It is written by Geof M Calvert and gives a history of the Zimbabwe Saw Mills Logging Railway between 1911 and 1972.

Plenty of black and white and colour pictures, plans and diagrams.

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The eighteenth book in the Railway Memories series from Bellcode covers the Cleveland and Whitby areas.

Always an area popular with enthusiasts, the author Stephen Chapman details the complex history of the railways which served on the one hand the heavy industries of Teeside together with the outstanding natural beauty of the North Yorkshire Moors.

112 pages with many black and white plates.

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The railways of Peru have been influenced over the years by both American and British practice. This study by Robert D Whetham looks at the railways in the Northern part of the country, most of which have long since closed when the industries they served disappeared.

Softback 96 pages with many black and white photos.

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The NERA publishes a range of highly detailed and informative books on North Eastern subjects and this soft back book edited by John T Teasdale is no exception.

Its 64 pages are full of interesting information and facts on the paraphernalia behind running steam locomotives including detailed plans of buildings and equipment.

Published by the North Eastern Railway Association.

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Published by Silver Link, this book details the railway career of author Roland Ruffell from joining the LNER at Hornsey as a cleaner in 1942 to retirement as a driver at Hertford East in 1990. 

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Published by Trans-Pennine, this book by David Walker and Terry Hastings charts the development of the Isle of Wight railway in preservation.

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Geoffrey Kingscott looks at the history of Trent station which was located just north of the River Trent in the junction of the lines from Leicester to Nottingham, and Leicester to Derby.

Little trace can be seen now, but at one time it was a busy interchange.

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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Produced by Cornish publisher Twelveheads in 2005, this inexpensive book by Michael Messenger covers many of the lesser known industrial railways used for mining, quarrying, clay extraction and other industries in the counties of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset.

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The latest locomotive handbook from the Industrial Railway Society covers the Industrial Railways and Locomotives of Hertfordshire and Middlesex.

Anyone interested in the industrial railways scene wishing to know what operated where and when will find this an invaluable addition to their collection.

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The latest book from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Society as a special edition of their journal is in the name of the late Bob Mills who worked in the railway's Train Control Office.

We were fortunate that he kept copious notes as to what went on on a day to day basis and the book is based on these notes which give a real insight into what went on in the last years of independent status.

The notes are brought together and expanded by Noel Coates

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Local Author Donald Binns takes a close look at the railway History of the Yorkshire town on the Midland route from Leeds and Bradford to Morcambe, Carlisle and Scotland. Published by Trackside Publishing.

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Hedley Clarke looks at the history of the traditional bar and circle emblem as applied to signs on the London Underground. Published by Capital Transport Publishing.

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This is a spotters book covering SBB/CFF/FFS of Switzerland, OBB of Austria, and the various independent operators in the two countries.

Lists all diesel and electric locomotives, units and shunters.

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Roger Siviter commemorates the 40th anniversary of the end of steam traction on British Railways with a look in both Black & white and colour at steam at work between 1964 and the end on 11 August 1968.

It is followed by a short section showing main line steam activity since 1968.

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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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This book by Robert Harley, published by Capital Transport Publishing, relates the history of the Metropolitan Electric Tramway Company in Middlesex and North London from the opening of its first section in July 1904, through ownership by the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933 to closure with the last tram running on 5th February 1939. It includes the routes it operated, its tramcars and staff.

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This book by Allen Civil and Ray Etherington comes from the Industrial Railway Society and traces the history of the Baguley company from the early 1900s,through Baguley Cars Ltd, the Drewry Car Co Ltd, Drewry railcars, & petrol locomotives. It also examines the less successful steam locomotive building after World War 1 .

It contains many llustrations, drawings, tables, lists etc.

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This book, the latest from the North Eastern Railway Association by Williamson, Williamson & Grocock, takes a look at all aspects of NER history from inception to grouping in 1923.

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This book from Artist and Photographers press features the photographs of John Tickner, Gordon Edgar and Adrian Freeman
Once a bastion of steam, the railways of China have been going through a drastic modernisation programme over the past 10 years and the authors of this book have visited China 35 times to create a unique record of the last years of Chinese steam.

The result is probably one of the finest photographic albums currently available on the subject.

In this latest shipping book from Tempus, Ian Collard looks at the 300 year history of the docks at Birkenhead supported by many photographs taken by Ian who is a native of the Wirral.

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David Burkhill-Howarth is an authority on the Abermule disaster and spends a fair part of the year living nearby.

It occurred in 1921 on a single line operated by the Cambrian Railway and the story is told of the accident itself, the people involved, passengers, workers, the railway company, the wreckage, the witnesses, the press, inquest and final verdict.

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David J Smith looks in detail at GWR switch and crossing practice with the aid of copious photographs, diagrams and formulae to enable the GWR modeller to design and build crossing work which is both accurate and authentic.

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Terry Powell looks in detail how coal was transported and loaded from waggons into coastal shipping from the industrial revolution until decline in the 20th Century.

Published by the Chilton Ironworks, the book contains many photographs and diagrams of machinery in use in ports around our coast.

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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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