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  A Pictorial Guide to Alpine Railways 
                        by Mervyn Jones          £16.95 /  €26.00

This first Pictorial Guide by the author is radically different from his previous publications.  In researching about alpine railways, in addition to information about the railways, he has chosen to include interesting facts about the places through which trains pass.   .... more

  Sir William McAlpine - A Tale of Locomotives, Carriages and Conservation                   by John Chacksfield           £10.95

Every business needs a ‘Champion’ if it is to succeed. This is particularly so of railway preservation with its multitude of personal opinions and prejudices and where emotion often has a stronger pull than business acumen. The railway preservation movement has therefore been particularly fortunate that in its midst it has had for over 40 years Sir William McAlpine as its ‘Champion’.   .... more

  THE ATOCK/ATTOCK FAMILY -  Worldwide Railway Engineering Dynasty
by  Ernie Shepherd    £15.95

Ernie Shepherd, discovered Martin Atock had served part of his apprenticeship
at the Stratford works of the Eastern Counties Railway, where his father George was in charge of carriages and wagons for 29 years.   Little did he know that he would trace four generations and 13 members of the family involved in railways spanning a period of nearly 130 years.           .... more

BURRY PORT & GWENDREATH VALLEY RAILWAY and its ANTECEDENT CANALS Vol. Two:  The Railways and Dock  
by  R.W. Miller    £19.95

Throughout this fascinating railway’s history the Burry Port & Gwendreath Valley Railway has had a long tradition of doing things a little differently. The railway was originally built as a canal (covered in Volume One). This second volume picks up the story with the conversion to a railway.           .... more

THE ANSTRUTHER & ST ANDREWS RAILWAY 
by Andrew Hajducki, Michael Jodeluk & Alan Simpson    £15.95

This book continues the story of the East Fife Railways and deals with the fascinating and often tortuous history of one of the least prosperous and most ill-fated of all of the small companies that struggled to complete the coastal loop from Thornton to Leuchars, the Anstruther & St Andrews Railway.     .... more