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MIDLAND AND SOUTH WESTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY VOLUME THREE
Written by Mike Barnsley.
Stock no. 1827609
Published by Wild Swan Publications. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Carriages and wagons. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and sketches. ISBN: 1874103259. Light rubbing to top & tail of spine. Contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and has a tiny nick to lower front vertical edge.

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KEITH PIRT COLOUR PORTFOLIO: GRANTHAM
Written by Keith R. Pirt; Nick Pigott.
Stock no. 1827608
Published by Book Law Publications. 1st 2010. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Compiled by Nick Pigott. Oblong format. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour photos throughout. ISBN: 9781907094897. A lovely copy.

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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE WELSH HIGHLAND RAILWAY
Written by Peter Johnson.
Stock no. 1827607
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 2nd 2009. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Second Edition, revised. The restoration of the Welsh Highland Railway between Caernarfon and the Ffestiniog Railway at Porthmadog and with it the return of steam trains to Beddgelert and the Aberglaslyn Pass is a momentous achievementin the story of Britain's heritage railways. Here we revisit the railway and bring its intriguing story up to date. Large format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w photos throughout. ISBN: 9780860936268. Minor bumping to base of spine. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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THE CANALS OF NORTH WEST ENGLAND VOLUME II
Written by Charles Hadfield; Gordon Biddle.
Stock no. 1827602
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1970. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The Canals of the British Isles series. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0715349929. Boards nice and bright. Top edge of text block has some foxing. Minor browning to endpapers else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned.

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UNUSUAL RAILWAYS
Written by John R. Day; B.G. Wilson.
Stock no. 1827601
Published by Frederick Muller Ltd.. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

From the earliest days of railways, inventors have exercised great ingenuity in devising special forms of proopulsion and track either to meet a particular need (such as to climb gradients beyond the unaided power of an ordinary locomotive), or in an attempt to reduce the cost of construction and operation of an orthodox railway. Some of the many systems devised are included here... Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w diagrams and photos. Boards lightly bowed. Text block and endpapers browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is worn at edges with some slight loss, scuffed to rear panel, foxing to verso.

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THE LONDON LT
Written by Ken Blacker.
Stock no. 1827589
Published by Capital Transport. 1st 2010. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The LT type bus which started to appear on London streets in 1929. The first vehicles of this class of over 1400 vehicles had outside staircases while the most developed examples led the way to the STL of 1932. All the variations are covered here, including the famous Bluebirds, the 'Scooter' single deckers and the two coaches. Large format. Matt pictorial boards. B/w photos throughout. ISBN: 9781854143426. A lovely copy of a rare book. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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LONDON COUNTRY
Written by Laurie Akehurst; David Stewart.
Stock no. 1827588
Published by Capital Transport. 2nd 2001. Very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Second Edition. The story of how London Country tackled an elderly fleet and uneconomic route network to become one of the leading constituents of the National Bus Company until borken up into smaller companies in September 1986. Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour photos throughout. ISBN: 1854142518. Rubbing to front edge of board. Large, pale damp stain to half-title page. Else contents are lovely. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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LONDON BUSES BEFORE THE WAR
Written by Ken Glazier.
Stock no. 1827587
Published by Capital Transport. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour and b/w photos. Glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 1854141821. Slight discolouration to half-title page (created during printing process). A couple of minor marks to lower margin edge of one or two pages. Else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper has a few minor marks.

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LONDON'S 1950S BUSES: A CLASS ALBUM
Written by James Whiting.
Stock no. 1827586
Published by Capital Transport. 1st 2009. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour photos throughout. ISBN: 9781854143280. A lovely copy.

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LONDON TROLLEYBUSES: A CLASS ALBUM
Written by Hugh Taylor.
Stock no. 1827585
Published by Capital Transport. Very good condition.

A precis of each class of trolleybus and their movements around the system. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour photos throughout. 120 pages. ISBN: 1854143026. Ex-lib with library label to lower front endpaper (neat) and library plain label to rear pastedown (medium sized label). Else Contents clean. Remains of library label residue to base of spine and a few grubby marks to rear board.

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ROUTEMASTER VOLUME ONE 1954-1969
Written by Ken Blacker.
Stock no. 1827584
Published by Capital Transport. 2nd 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Second Edition. The story up to 1969, just after the building of Routemasters came to an end, their production life shortend by the start of the large scale introduction of one-man buses. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w and a few colour photos. ISBN: 1854141783. Pale foxspots to half-title page else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.

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LONDON BUSES IN THE 1960S
Written by Ken Glazier.
Stock no. 1827583
Published by Capital Transport. 1st 1998. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w and colour photos. 224 pages. ISBN: 1854142054. A lovely copy.

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