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Category: Rolling Stock
LNER Passenger Trains & Formations 1923-67
Steve Banks and Clive Carter have created a new must have book for the LNER enthusiast. LNER Passenger trains and formations 1923-67 gives a comprehensive guide to the principal services of the LNER and BR Eastern and North Eastern regions,…
Freight Train Formations -David Ratcliffe
David Ratcliffe has produced an excellent reference book for modellers of the rail blue and sectorisation periods. Freight Train Formations is a well produced volume detailing trains from the mid 1970’s up to the early 1990’s. There are lots of…
BR Air Braked Wagons in Colour – David Ratcliffe
BR air braked wagons in colour is compiled by David Ratcliffe, an expert on wagon subject. This new guide complements his previous volumes in the British Railway Pictorial series on Private Owner Wagons and International Train Ferry Wagons. Aimed at…
BR Mark 1 and Mark 2 Coaching Stock
Hugh Longworth has produced the definitive guide to BR Mark 1 and Mark 2 Coaching Stock. If you have an interest in BR railway coaches this book will be a must for you. Hugh Longworth has spent a lot of time…
Weathering Rolling Stock – Tim Shackleton
Tim Shackleton is the recognised guru when it comes to weathering model trains. Weathering Rolling Stock, the latest volume in the excellent aspects of modelling series, reveals many of Tim’s secrets so that the average modeller can get some great…
Modelling the British Rail Era
Modelling the British Rail Era: A guide to Modelling the classic Diesel and electric age, covers the period 1964 to 1994. Ian Fleming, Ken Gibbons, Steve Flint, and Jeff Taylor have combined to produce a modellers guide to the rail…
BR First Generation DMUs – Hugh Longworth
BR First Generation DMUs by Hugh Longworth is likely to be regarded as a definitive work on the subject. The level of statistical detail provided by Hugh Longworth is incredible, providing depot allocations and composition of units, and will satisfy…
British Railways Unfitted and Vacuum Braked Wagons in Colour
British Railways Unfitted and Vacuum Braked Wagons in Colour by Trevor Mann This full colour compendium illustrates the fleet of non-fitted and vacuum-braked freight wagons built by British Railways, for both revenue-earning traffic and departmental use, during the period from…
Freightliner – Paul Shannon
Although widely deprecated both at the time and subsequently, the Beeching Report was not the wholly negative document of popular legend. Among the more positive aspects was Beeching’s vision of the potential for the railway industry of the container and…