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Opposition to railways from the 19th to 21st centuries.

Author: David Brandon & Alan Brooke.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 416pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781526700209

Original Price: £30.00

From George Stephenson to the Present Day

On the 27th September 1825, the first public railway steam train left New Shildon for Stockton-on-Tees. The driver was George Stephenson and the engine he was driving was the ‘Locomotion No.1’.

Author: George Turner Smith.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 204pp. 18x25.2x1.7cm.

ISBN: 9781526736390

Weight: 800g.

Original Price: £25.00

Rob Shorland-Ball's researches for this book, and several visits, convinced him that he was putting together a jigsaw of facts. No previously published account of the area have brought together these stories of iron & steel making, limestone quarrying, coal mining, terra cotta, lead mining, and the railway systems they all needed to move their products to market.

Author:Rob Shorland-Ball

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback.144 pp. 22cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781526753779

Weight. 0.870Kg

Original Price: £25.00

Ogmore, Garw & Porthcawl branches.

Author: John Hodge & Stuart Davies.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 222pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN 9781526726599

Original Price: £30.00

The West Riding of Yorkshire boasted the most complex railway network in Britain, comprised at various times of seven railway companies, with an eighth trying to secure a foothold, eleven significant joint lines and several minor systems.

Author: Bernard Warr.

Publisher: Crowood Press Ltd.

Paperback. 144pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781785008467

Weight: 425g

Original Price: £16.99

This is a book that takes the reader off the beaten track, over many years, to provide a wide variety of images from all sorts of unusual and rarely seen passenger and freight services the length and breadth of the country.

Author: John Legg & Ian Peaty.

Publisher: Silver Link Publishing.

Hardback. 192pp. 18cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781857945485

Weight. 719g

Original Price: £25.00

Scottish Highland Railways describes eight great journeys by rail through northern Scotland, detailing the history of the lines while travelling along their modern-day routes.

Author: David Tucker.

Publisher: Crowood Press.

Paperback. 160pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781785007927

Weight. 456

Original Price: £19.99

This is the first time a specific book containing the best of S.C. Townroe's images (the majority seen for the first time) has been available,

Author: Kevin Robertson.

Publisher: Noodle Books.

Paperback. 120pp. 21cm by 27cm.

ISBN 9781909328167

Weight. 501

Original Price: £16.50

This book looks at the network over the last seventy years, from Nationalisation through to the present day. 

Author: Colin Boocock.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 231pp. 22.5x28.5x1.6cm.

ISBN: 9781526780881

Weight: 1.25kg.

Original Price: £35.00

From the MS&LR period to British Railways.

Author: Bob Pixton.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 232pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN 9781526735997

Original Price: £30.00

This long anticiated second volume of colour images from Terry Cole is sure to find a place on many bookshelves.

Author: Terry Cole.

Publisher: Noodle Books.

Paperback. 96pp. 21cm by 27cm.

ISBN 9781906419561

Weight. 413

Original Price: £16.50

The locomotives of class 73 were used extensively throughout the region, in particular on Gatwick Express services, as well as on departmental and track recording trains. Their versatility in being able to work off 3rd rail electricity as well as diesel engined power gave them unrivalled areas of work.

Author: David Cable

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 228pp. 25cm by 20cm.

ISBN 9781526720610

Weight. 0.926Kg

Original Price: £30.00