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The THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE
RAILWAY Volume One: Dudley-Walsall-Lichfield-Burton (including the Black
Country Branches) by Bob Yate £19.95
At the time of the inception of
the South Staffordshire Railway (SSR), rail traffic across Birmingham was
seriously impeded by the restrictive nature of the route arrangements around
Curzon Street and Lawley Street stations. This new railway was intended as a
through route for traffic to and from Southern England and South Wales to
Northern England, bypassing this bottleneck.....
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The Essential Guide to Welsh
Heritage and Tourist Railways by Mervyn Jones £16.95
This the fifth Oakwood Press
publication by the author on European railways and fourth in the Essential
Guide series. This guide lists a total of 62 locations throughout Wales
(including five on the borders in England) where heritage and tourist
railways and related activities can be found.But
also included are interesting facts about places and events close to where
trains pass.....
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SWANAGE 125 years of
Railways by B. L. Jackson £16.95
The opening of the railway in
May 1885 transformed Swanage into a respectable seaside resort with through
coaches from Waterloo, it also saw the seaborne trade in Purbeck stone
transferred to rail as was a large quantity of the clay traffic.British
Railways, after much resistance from the local community, closed the branch
to passenger traffic in 1972. ....
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SIR
SYDNEY CAMM - From Biplanes & 'Hurricanes' to 'Harriers' by J E Chacksfield £10.95
Sydney Camm’s greatest
achievement was the creation of the Hawker ‘Hurricane’ fighter, which during
the Battle of Britain shot down more enemy planes than the combined scores
of all other means, whether air-, sea- or land-based.Camm
had a patron, Sopwith, who realized his potential, however, he is recorded
as saying: ‘He was a genius - but quite impossible’.....
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RETURN FROM DUNKIRK -
Railways to the Rescue - Operation Dynamo (1940) by Peter Tatlow £13.95
There can be no denying that the
Battle of Flanders was a significant defeat for the Allies, but it could
have been a great deal worse. For every seven soldiers who escaped through
Dunkirk, one man was left behind as a prisoner of war.
The success of Operation Dynamo was that a quarter of a million
experienced soldiers returned to England.....
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RICHARD MAUNSELL, AN
ENGINEERING BIOGRAPHY by J E Chacksfield £11.95
IT’S BACK – First published in
1998, this long out of print title has been reprinted (with a few revisions)
by popular demand.
As a locomotive engineer he was
a man of very definite opinions as affecting locomotive design, and he
clearly left his mark on the locomotive stock of the Southern Railway. Here,
then, is how Richard Maunsell rose to the top of his chosen profession.....
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MONTGOMERY'S BUSES -
An Empire of Independents by Brian Poole £15.95
Research often starts with a concept for a single essay and this is the case
with this work. Brian Poole started by
interviewing Bill Cross who was a young fitter when Mid-Wales Motorways was
created in 1937. He quickly realised that there was a very big story hidden
within the families of the Montgomeryshire bus and coach industry and many
others have recounted their memories ....
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YESTERDAYS PAPERS - Vol 3:
Life in England between the wars 1918 - 1938 From the pages of the Isle of Wight
County Press by Alan Stroud £13.95
Like the previous volumes in this
series, this is a dip into the archive of the Isle
of Wight County Press, this time for the years 1918 to
1934, to give a view of events and attitudes of those times from a
contemporary perspective – an unvarnished version of the truth free from
modern day judgements. ....
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Neath Enginemen - Reminiscing
Steam in South Wales
compiled
by
Bryan King
£13.95
The
stories in this book have been collected by Bryan King from the close-knit
community of West Glamorgan railwaymen. They tell of life on the railway in
another era, primarily working from the two Neath engine sheds - Court Sart
and N&B - but also included are stories from Swansea and Margam. The many
incidents and accidents are recalled by those who were there.....
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The Wisbech & Upwell
Tramway
by Peter Paye £15.95
Passengers arriving by the Great
Eastern Railway for the first time at the fenland port of Wisbech before the
Great War, intending to travel to the canal side villages to the south-east
of the town, could be forgiven for disbelieving the sight which greeted
them. They would be cajoled to join the service standing in the back
platform, which was unlike any other they had encountered
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