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| Camp Coach Holidays On The GWR | 218pages | Hardback |
| Mike Fenton | 1999 | £24.95 |
| A really beautiful book, a superlatively well illustrated record of the Great Western's camping coach scheme before the war. The author has undertaken an enormous amount of research to produce this account, meeting and getting to know many folk who took such holidays in this period, and the result is a warm and personal record of life in the 1930s. The photographs are largely from personal collections, and contain a surprisingly large amount of detail and information of railway interest. I think that this is railway publishing at its very best, and all credit is due to the author and his publishers for producing such a valuable and charming book. | 
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| Didcot Engineman | 264pages | Hardback |
| Bernard Barlow | 1994 | £21.95 |
| Beautifully assembled and presented, as you would expect, but more importantly a very well written and intelligent account of one man's career on the footplate, based mostly at Didcot, as the title suggests. The photographs accompanying the text are of a very high quality, and are very relevant to the narrative, astonishingly so in several cases. Spanning the War years, with all its attendant upset and disruption, Bernard's amazingly detailed recollections provide us with a fascinating insight into a lost way of life. | 
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| Edwardian Enterprise GWR | 208pages | Hardback |
| Norris, Beale and Lewis | 1987 | £17.95 |
| A collection of well illustrated essays describing and illustrating a period of great expansion on the Great Western Railway, the time when the network was finally completed by the construction of high speed or more direct routes and cut offs all over the system. Many other developments are featured, from electric suburban workings through "auto trains" to major new freight facilities. Canons Marsh goods depot in Bristol is shown when new and in use, very different to its current rather strange appearance as part of a recent redevelopment. | 
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| Folkestone's Railways | 94pages | Softback |
| Brian Hart | 2002 | £14.95 |
| Another superlative production from this most reliable of publishers, beautifully put together and laid out, and a real pleasure to handle and read. The author has a deep knowledge and affection for the Folkestone and its railways, being born there in 1949 and getting to know the steam age railway and its personalities well. This book details the story of the railway's construction and development up until 1960, and covers the harbour branch and main line developments equally well. The photographic content is excellent, with much of Pre-Grouping interest being evident in addition to a few charming snaps from the Hart family album - wonderful. |
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| Goods Traffic of the LNER | 112pages | Softback |
| Geoff Goslin | 2002 | £15.95 |
| Much has been written about passenger train operation over the years, whilst the less glamorous goods side of things has been rather overlooked, despite being the prime source of income to most railways in the days when they "paid their way". For the LNER at least, this book seeks to redress the balance, although the coverage has had to be selective owing to the large size of the subject. Starting with a survey of locomotive types, contrasting geographical goods areas and their traffics and services are then examined in more detail. Well illustrated throughout, the result is a reminder of the enormous scale of the operation in the days when everything went by rail. | 
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| Great Western Pictorial No 2 | 92pages | Hardback |
| John Hodge | 1999 | £17.95 |
| Definitely one for the Great Western fans amongst us, a classic album of trains, mainly taken during the zenith of steam on the South Wales and West of England main lines. There is particularly good coverage of South Wales, and train compositions are shown to good effect. | 
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| GWR Goods Services: An Introduction | 142pages | Softback |
| Tony Atkins and David Hyde | 2000 | £17.95 |
| As this is the first book of what will be a series, covering the subject in considerable detail, it is a little more "wordy" than one might expect. Do not let this put you off however - it is well worth reading. It sets out the historical background and technical details of the subject before moving on to describe the different sources of traffic across all of the company's goods districts. The photographs included are of considerable interest, showing many facilities and aspects of goods handling in great detail and, amongst other views there is an "Aberdare" hauled goods (including an LSWR van) passing through Bath before Oldfield Park halt was built. It is strangely uncredited as such and appears on page 59. I am very much looking forward to future volumes, and the publisher and authors are to be applauded for shedding light into a fascinating but neglected part of british railway history. | 
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| L&NWR West Midlands Album | 48pages | Softback |
| Roger Carpenter | 1988 | £4.95 |
| Still in print after 10 years, this little book is worth a second look. Photographs taken by a platelayer called Thomas Hinckley, the subjects are mainly locomotives photographed at Bescot, Walsall and New Street. There are some lovely shots, I particularly liked the Special tank on page 13, no cab but a bent footplate, and the saloon and carriage truck on page 45, both of them wonderfully archaic looking vehicles. | 
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| Raymond Williams' LMS Steam in the Thirties | 90pages | Hardback |
| Peter J. Boswell and R. J. Essery | 2002 | £19.95 |
| A rather nicely produced "traditional" photograph album of LMS engines, mainly taken on the Western and Midland divisions between 1935 and 1939. What distinguishes this book is the quality of the photographs, there are some very fine locomotive portraits included.. | 
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