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Introducing
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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.
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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’.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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