The Guide to Model Railways Volume 4
Whether you’re a curious beginner or an established modeller, The Guide to Model Railways will be published every quarter and is your ticket to the fascinating and intricate world of railway modelling. This fully illustrated and comprehensive guide to the hobby covers everything from the basics of baseboards to the workings of modern digital command control, enabling modellers to expand their knowledge and explore new techniques.
Railway 200 by Owen Haywood
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This publication will recount some of the numerous highlights that played out across the industry throughout the year, with a plethora of photographs capturing each moment for posterity. Whether your allegiance is to the earliest days of the story, the modern age of rail travel or anywhere in between, we’ll have you covered.
Settle & Carlisle Revival: The Line that Refused to Die by Brian Sharpe
The Settle & Carlisle railway runs across the roof of England, reaching the highest point on any main line railway in the country, and carries both passenger services and freight traffic. But it has also been fortunate enough to survive two attempts to close it and in fact should probably never have been built at all…
Legendary Locomotives by Robin Jones
In Legendary Locomotives, author Robin Jones selects a line-up of the world’s very finest engines – those locomotives that stand head and shoulders above the rest – and explains why they can now truly be regarded as legends.
Among the engines featured are the Stourbridge Lion, the fabulous Fairlies, Royal Scot, Stepney, Clun Castle, Tornado and more.
Crewe Works – A Celebration of Steam by Keith Langston
Crewe Works – A Celebration of Steam by Keith Langston is a comprehensively illustrated record of steam locomotive building and maintenance at Crewe Works. Fortunately, important engineering work was still carried out at Crewe Works in 2023. Given the reduced size of the works, and reduction in numbers employed, it would not be unfair to say that the once ‘beating heart’ of the town is at least a ‘discernible pulse’.
Diesel and Electric Locomotives around the UK in the 80s and 90 by Roger Rounce
Roger Rounce presents a round-the-UK tour of diesel and electric locomotives from Devon and Cornwall right the way up to Scotland and covering everything else in between.
This 192-page book takes in Vic Berry’s scrapyard, ‘The Factory’ at Old Oak, new Class 60s at Loughborough, Knottingley TMD, Class 58s at Euston during loss of overhead electric power, Eastfield TMD, last days of the ill-fated ‘European’ at Shenfield and so much more.
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