| Publisher |
Title |
| Ian Allan - OPC |
LSWR
Carriages in the Twentieth Century - Gordon Weddell
The LSWR was the largest of the three companies that came together
in 1923 to form the Southern Railway and had a diverse collection
of coaching stock including rail motors and electric units. This is
a detailed examination of the development of the passenger carrying
rolling stock and includes the electric trains on the Waterloo &
City line as well as suburban. 75 pages of scale drawings, an authoritative
text and data giving numberings and withdrawal dates, plus photographs,
make this an essential reference work. 202 black/white photos. 224
pages. Hardback |
| Ian Allan - OPC |
Southern Railway Passenger Services October 6th 1947 |
| Ian Allan - OPC |
Southern Branch Lines |
| Ian Allan - OPC |
Southern Signals, A Pictorial record of |
| Ian Allan - OPC |
Southern Sheds, An Historical Survey of - Chris Hawkins & George
Reeve Reprint |
| Ian Allan - OPC |
Southern Stations, An Historical Survey of - George Pryer &
Graham Bowring Reprint |
| Ian Allan - OPC |
Southern Wagons - Volume 1 : LSWR |
| Ian Allan - OPC |
Southern Wagons - Volume 3 : SECR |
| Ian Allan - OPC |
North Devon Line - by John Nicholas (Out of print - only 1 copy
left) |
| Ian Allan - OPC |
Salisbury to Exeter Line: The Main Line - by Derek Philips and George
Pryer |
| Ian Allan - OPC |
Salisbury to Exeter Line: The Branches - by Derek Philips and George
Pryer |
| Crusader Press |
The Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway (Out of print - only 2 copies
left) |
| HMRS |
LSWR and SR Livery Register |
| Irwell Press |
The
Ilfracombe Line - John Nicholas
With The Ilfracombe Line we now alight upon the shimmering Atlantic
shore. It was to become both main line and ‘branch’, and
opened in 1874 as a single track from Barnstaple Junction. It soon
carried enough traffic to justify the LSWR doubling most of its
length and a new Barnstaple Town station opened in 1898 to connect
with the narrow gauge to Lynton. The Ilfracombe terminus was enlarged
several times by the South Western and Southern to cater for a burgeoning
summer holiday traffic.Through passenger services from Waterloo
were a feature of the line, a coach or two during the winter months
expanded to full-length corridor restaurant car trains on summer
Saturdays, including the Atlantic Coast Express and Devon Belle.
The Great Western also served the resort, not only with through
services from Paddington, but from Manchester, Wolverhampton, Cardiff
and Taunton.Working was full of interest, with a single line over
the Taw and Yeo at Barnstaple, and a profusion of signal boxes,
ground frames, crossing boxes and signalling, a legacy of the line’s
cheap construction. The hills rising up behind Ilfracombe meant
sharp gradients of 1 in 40 and 1 in 36 up to the summit at Mortehoe
and Woolacombe, demanding two or three locomotives on the heavy
holiday trains.Beyer Peacock purpose-built the famous Ilfracombe
Goods 0-6-0s for this difficult line. Later they were replaced by
a variety of LSWR 0-4-4Ts and modern Southern and Great Western
2-6-0s appeared in the 1920s. Bulleid light Pacifics came later,
and diesel-hydraulics before closure in 1970. Based on extensive
delvings among the archive material over many years and information
from a great number of people who both worked and used the line,
this book provides the fullest account yet. It includes a wide variety
of track plans, signalling diagrams and photographs, many never
previously published.
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| Irwell Press |
An Illustrated History of Plymouth's Raillways |
| Irwell Press |
An Illustrated
History of Exmoor's Raillways
A look at the railways of one of the South West's most attractive
corners, though it ranges a little beyond the true geographical confines.
The book devotes a separate section to each of the area's five railway
lines (Barnstaple - Ilfracombe, Barnstaple - Taunton, Taunton - Minehead,
Lynton and Barnstaple, West Somerset Railway). Considerable primary
source research has been undertaken in an effort to come up with something
a little different and it is hoped that the end result provides a
brief, and sometimes off-beat, insight into railway operations in
the West Somerset and North Devon areas.
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| Irwell Press |
The
North Cornwall Railway - David Wroe
The North Cornwall Railway is slipping from memory, for nigh on
thirty years have passed since the last trains ran between Okehampton
and Padstow. It was not photographed very much, and, with every train
seemingly a Drummond T9 and two coaches, not much used either! Despite
this, between 1879 and 1966 the line brought merchandise and coal,
taking away fish, cattle, meat and rabbits in quantity. Country people
used the train to Exeter, and even ventured to London. Menfolk went
to the two great wars, many not to return. Another view of it altogether
was taken by London holiday makers who arrived in great numbers from
the 1920s onwards, drawn to the coves and beaches from Boscastle to
Rock and from Padstow to Porthcothnan. The North Cornwall would never
have existed without the backing of the London South Western Railway.
The latter left it as a separate concern, though it supplied the trains
and staff to work it. From 1923 it ceased to pay dividends on absorption
into the Southern Railway and thenceforward the line took a share
in whatever modernisation could be afforded, mostly track, signals
and new coaches for the holiday traffic. Even after the arrival of
the West Country 4-6-2s in 1947 places like Tresmeer were still lit
by oil lamps. They were still there in 1964 when the diesel railcars
arrived... |
| Irwell Press |
LSWR
Engine Sheds Volume 1 - Chris Hawkins and George Reeve
In the first of three volumes the Locomotive Sheds of the London
South Western Railway (Western Section) are discussed in great detail.
From the plains of Salisbury to Okehampton high up on Dartmoor, to
Plymouth on the south coast and Wadebridge in north Cornwall. Many
interviews were carried out with former railway staff and their information
about day to day life at these sheds has been cleverly married to
a wealth of primary material from The Public Record Office Kew and
British Railways. With an extraordinary number of unpublished photographs,
track plans and diagrams LSWR Engine Sheds is the most comprehensive
account yet on these remarkable railway 'outstations'.
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| Irwell Press |
The
Okehampton Line - John Nicholas & George Reeve
The Okehampton line from Exeter was a main line railway some sixty
miles in length which for almost a century provided an alternative
route to Plymouth. It passed through spectacular countryside as well
as the important market town of Tavistock which boasted Sir Francis
Drake as one of its notable residents. This book gives a detailed
account of all aspects of the line between Cowley Bridge and Devonport
Junctions, together with some background of the railway beyond at
Exeter and Plymouth. A full description of the line including maps,
track and signalling diagrams and many photographs, mostly previously
unpublished, complete we hope, a definitive account of The Okehampton
Line. |
| Irwell Press |
Portland's
Railways - Martin Smith
Independent, remote, isolated... South Coast branch lines? No -
they were not all the same. Forget the meandering little railway passing
through wooded river valleys, idly serving picturesque wayside stations
on its way to a golden beach or two. In fact, forget all the cliches.
The branch line from Weymouth to the Isle of Portland was very different,
serving a community that owed more - far more - to quarrying and the
Admiralty and war than it ever did to tourism. The railways serving
the Isle of Portland were very 'local' in their nature - indeed, like
the island itself, they had an independent air, born largely of remoteness
and isolation.Portland's railway history is a fascinating one, not
least because of its comparative complexity, tightly confined within
a 'scarred, treeless rock' or, to put it rather more romantically,
'the Gibraltar of Wessex'. Even before the nineteenth century was
out, no less than five different railway companies and a Government
department had been involved in the development of just nine miles
of railway. That didn't automatically mean that the line served the
locals in perfect fashion - in 1898 the local newspaper fired an editorial
broadside '...the scenes which are to be witnessed almost daily and
nightly at Portland Station are a disgrace. The narrow exposed platform
is a positive death trap...' Much of the text, many of the photographs
and most of the archive large-scale Ordnance Survey maps and printed
ephemera are being seen in print for the very first time. |
| Irwell Press |
Southern Special Traffic |
| Oakwood Press |
Barnstaple and
Ilfracombe Railway - Colin Maggs
120 pages of art paper. 82 photographs with locomotive drawings
and track plans. A5 format, Linson two-colour cover square backed.
LP111 - ISBN 0 85361 368 0 |
| Oakwood Press |
Brookwood Necropolis
Railway - John Clarke
Surely one of the most unusual train services to operate on a British
railway was the service operated from Waterloo to Brookwood Necropolis,
near Woking. It conveyed the deceased and their accompanying mourners
to their final resting place, the Brookwood Necropolis which at one
time was the largest cemetery in the world. The Necropolis was originally
promoted as concerns about public health in the nation’s capital
and elsewhere had increased, London having suffered its first cholera
epidemic in the mid-nineteenth century. The service finally ceased
shortly after World War II. The railway had many unusual features,
in the cemetery there were two stations one for the Anglican section
and another for the Non-Conformist section. Somewhat surprisingly
there were licensed premises at the stations. Visitors to the station
bars have said that there were notices displayed stating ‘Spirits
served here’! This is the third edition of this very popular
book, and it has been significantly enlarged. 128 pages printed on
art paper throughout to A5 format, with a square backed Linson cover.
58 photographs, plus 17 maps plans of buildings, track layout and
special rolling stock used on the line as well as tickets and other
ephemera connected to the railway and the Necropolis company.
LP143 - ISBN 0 85361 471 7
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| Oakwood Press |
Exeter and Exmouth
Railway - Colin Maggs
For tens of thousands of holidaymakers and daytrippers their first
sight of the beautiful resort town of Exmouth has been the railway
station, which has served the town for more than 130 years. The Exmouth
branch is an interesting line, being one of the few in the West Country
which still features business and holiday traffic in appreciable quantity.
It is a commuter line in the best original Southern Railway tradition.
The first proposals for a railway to Exmouth go back to the birth
of railways in 1825, but it was to take until 1861 before the railway
opened. The branch was little affected by either of the World Wars.
In 1962 half a million journeys were made on the line, so it was a
surprise when the Beeching Report of 1963 threatened closure. The
branch has secured its place in railway history as the first line
to be removed from the Beeching plan voluntarily - in other cases
reprieve only came after the Minister’s refusal to accept closure
proposals. The line continues to thrive today and in 1995 it saw the
opening of a new station at Digby & Sowton. The book is to A5
format and is printed on 128 pages of art paper; it includes over
120 photographs/ drawings with a Linson cover and square-backed spine.
LP203 - ISBN 0 85361 430 X
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| Oakwood Press |
Isle of Portland
Railways - Volume One: The Admiralty and Quarry Railways |
| Oakwood Press |
Isle of Portland
Railways - Volume Two: The Weymouth/Portland Railway; The Easton/Church
Hope Rly |
| Oakwood Press |
Isle of Portland
Railways - Volume Three: The Railway and associated bus services |
| Oakwood Press |
Portfolio Volume
4 : LSWR - Mike Sharman
7mm drawings of locomotives, reproduced from The Locomotive magazine.
The plans are printed on fold-out pages and bound to the handy shelf-size
of A5 format.
PF4 - ISBN 0 85361 386 9 |
| Oakwood Press |
Rails to Poole
Harbour |
| Oakwood Press |
Railways of Purbeck |
| Oakwood Press |
Seaton Branch
and Seaton Tramway |
| Oakwood Press |
Service Stock
of the Southern Railway |
| Oakwood Press |
Sidmouth and Budleigh
Salterton Branches |
| Oakwood Press |
Signal Boxes of
the LSWR: A Study of Architectural Style |
| Oakwood Press |
Southern Railway
Branch Line Trains |
| Oakwood Press |
Southern Railway
Halts, Survey and Gazateer |
| Oakwood Press |
Southern Railway
Passenger Vans |
| Oakwood Press |
Southern Suburban
Steam 1860-1967 |
| Oakwood Press |
Waterloo and City,
A new history |
| Oakwood Press |
Waterloo to Southampton
Line |
| Oakwood Press |
55Years on the
Footplate - Reminiscences of the Southern at Bournemouth |
| George Pryer |
Vol 2 - East Dorset: Dorchester to Holmsley, Swanage branch, Broadstone
to Bournemouth West, West Moors to Downton |
| George Pryer |
Vol 3 - Somerset and Dorset: Bath to Broadstone, Evercreech to Burnham
and Wells and Bridgwater branches |
| George Pryer |
Vol 5 - Exeter to Templecombe: Exeter Central to Milborne Port,
Exmouth, Sidmouth, Seaton and Lyme Regis branches |
| George Pryer |
Vol 7 - Templecombe to Salisbury and Oakley |
| Wild Swan |
Bishops Waltham Branch |
| Wild Swan |
LSWR Locomotives - Drummond |
| Wild Swan |
LSWR Locomotives - Urie |
| Wild Swan |
Southern Branch Lines - Vol 2 |
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The
West Country : Southern Railway Reflections - Terry Gough
First published in 1984 as 'The Southern West of Salisbury' by
OPC, this new edition with revisions, provides a pictorial album of
former LSWR lines in Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. See
the Adams tank engines on the Lyme Regis Branch, the Beattie Well
tanks at Wadebridge, to busy scenes at Exeter Central and rural delights
of the branch lines. 4 maps; 147 b/w photos. 96 pages. Softback |
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WILTSHIRE
IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS - Kevin Robertson
First volume of this series explores the development of rail transport
in this rural county. From the railway workshops, drawing offices
and loco-sheds of Swindon, along LSWR routes and the GWR lineto the
tiny rural stations and halts in the countryside are shown in 130
contemporary photos, notices, tickets and documents. Sbk. Was 6.50
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BRANCH
LINES AROUND PLYMOUTH - Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith
Featured are the lines of the Admiralty Dockyard, the GWR Millbay
Terminus and the LSWR Stonehouse Pool. The eastern group of lines
follow; these include the freight routes to Sutton Harbour and Cattewater,
also the passenger branches to Yealmpton and Turnchapel. The southern
end of the Lee Moor Tramway is also included. 120 black/white photos.
96 pages. Laminated hardback |
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LSWR
- WEST COUNTRY LINES: Then and Now - Mac Hawkins
This fascinating album compares classic photographs of the L&SWR
throughout the West Country in the days of steam, including the lines
of the 'withered arm' and Atlantic Coast Express services withprecisely-matched
shots of the same scenes today. 180 locations shown in 360 black/white
photos. 224pp. Hbk. Was 19.99 |
Bristol East Signal Box 