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9781909328372 | Gardners Books, November 1, 2015, cover price $15.45
Product Description: Kevin Robertson has hunted with multiple clients for dangerous game, and over the years he has had a number of funny, interesting, and sad encounters. Now for the first time ever, Doctari has committed these stories to paper, and we guarantee these anecdotes will keep you entertained for hours...read more
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9781571572967 | Safari Pr, January 16, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Kevin Robertson has hunted with multiple clients for dangerous game, and over the years he has had a number of funny, interesting, and sad encounters.
Product Description: The last of a long line of Chief Mechanical Engineers on the GWR, Frederick W. Hawksworth took over the highest position at Swindon in 1941, his reign destined to last just eight years. Despite the restrictions placed upon him by war, it remains an enigma as to why a highly competent and experienced engineer failed to pursue both the development of the steam engine, as his contemporary Bulleid did, or likewise continue to increase production efficiency, as in his direct predecessor, Collett...read more
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9780711034907 | Ian Allen Pub, March 17, 2013, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The last of a long line of Chief Mechanical Engineers on the GWR, Frederick W.
Product Description: For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Soil conservation technicians job, or to apply for a better job. What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines...read more
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9781486136254 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Soil conservation technicians job, or to apply for a better job.
Product Description: Issue No. 17 is the next installment in the Southern Way series; this is the first of the four regular volumes for 2012 and starts with a definite first: a detailed feature in color on permanent way. Regular features on this subject have proven to be one of the most popular items and the reader is in for a definite treat this time...read more
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9781906419714 | Ian Allen Pub, March 12, 2012, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Issue No.
Product Description: This new title, compiled by railway expert Kevin Robertson, forms the second of a three-part series covering the construction, life, and demise of the Meon Valley Railway. It focuses on the operational years of what was a rural backwater, again using much previously unseen material...read more
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9781906419684 | Ian Allen Pub, March 5, 2012, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This new title, compiled by railway expert Kevin Robertson, forms the second of a three-part series covering the construction, life, and demise of the Meon Valley Railway.
Product Description: The next installment in the ever-popular Southern Way series, Kevin Robertson brings readers another fantastic new title. The lead article in this volume includes a feature on the station at Singleton. Here was a location born out of a belief it could successfully serve the nearby Goodwood racecourse, and yet apart from a brief flurry of activity, was destined to be one of the quietest of rural backwaters...read more
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9781906419639, titled "The Southern Way: Issue No. 16" | Ian Allen Pub, December 6, 2011, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The next installment in the ever-popular Southern Way series, Kevin Robertson brings readers another fantastic new title.
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9781906419547 | Noodle Books, September 28, 2011, cover price $22.95
Product Description: This new title, produced by expert Kevin Robertson, concentrates on the coaches of the GWR in great detail. There has been a renewed interest in the rolling stock of the old Great Western Railway in recent years. While several books exist describing the history of the stock, this is the first title produced illustrating the subject in color...read more
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9781906419622 | Ian Allen Pub, September 1, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This new title, produced by expert Kevin Robertson, concentrates on the coaches of the GWR in great detail.
Product Description: As with the provision of main-line diesel locomotives, where BR acquired classes with differing forms of transmission, so it was with the acquisition of diesel multiple-units, where, although the vast majority were fitted with mechanical transmission, a number were also supplied either with hydraulic transmission or as diesel-electrics...read more
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9780711035119 | Ian Allan Pub, December 31, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: As with the provision of main-line diesel locomotives, where BR acquired classes with differing forms of transmission, so it was with the acquisition of diesel multiple-units, where, although the vast majority were fitted with mechanical transmission, a number were also supplied either with hydraulic transmission or as diesel-electrics.
Product Description: The Meon Valley Railway (MVR) was a cross-country railway in Hampshire that ran for 22.5 miles between Alton and Fareham, closely following the course of the River Meon. The railway was authorized in 1896 and opened in 1903, making it one of the last railways of any size to be built to main-line standards in the United Kingdom...read more
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9781906419479 | Ian Allen Pub, March 27, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Meon Valley Railway (MVR) was a cross-country railway in Hampshire that ran for 22.
Product Description: This title is a new and enlightening look at Oliver Bulleid's life, was undoubtedly one of the most controversial railway engineers of the 20th century. The author uncovers some startling new facts which run contrary to popular beliefs...read more
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9780711034396 | Ian Allen Pub, June 3, 2010, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: This title is a new and enlightening look at Oliver Bulleid's life, was undoubtedly one of the most controversial railway engineers of the 20th century.
Product Description: Fifty years ago it was still possible to travel to some of the former Southern Railway holiday destinations in Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall by rail. Since then, the ravages of economics and the rise of the motor car have resulted in many of these locations no longer being accessible by train, and of those few that do survive, certainly not behind steam...read more
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9781906419387 | Special edition (Noodle Books, April 22, 2010), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Fifty years ago it was still possible to travel to some of the former Southern Railway holiday destinations in Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall by rail.
Product Description: The transport of goods by train remained an important part of railway operation well into the 1960s. As such, railway-owned and -operated road vehicles were a familiar sight, though the individual and distinctive company colors were replaced by a standard crimson and cream livery similar to those previously carried by passenger rolling stock...read more
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9781906419295 | Noodle Books, January 14, 2010, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The transport of goods by train remained an important part of railway operation well into the 1960s.
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9780752454658 | Gardners Books, November 30, 2009, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A history of Wiltshire railways
Product Description: The years between 1947 and 1962 witnessed a revolution in rail transport. Locomotives which had been retained for war service were now being retired and replaced by newer designs. Side by side, they presented a unique comparison. Eastleigh was the main steam works and shed for the Southern Railway, and would, over the years, see engines of all types...read more
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9780752450353 | History Pr Ltd, June 1, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The years between 1947 and 1962 witnessed a revolution in rail transport.
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9781906419127 | Gardners Books, January 8, 2009, cover price $23.60
Product Description: A new book which concentrates on the development of signalling specifically on the Western Region, and which will be invaluable reading and a first point of reference for all modellers as well as general railway enthusiasts.In the 1970s through to the mid-1980s there was considerable work on BR's Western Region in terms of replacing the life-expired semaphore signalling with colour light signalling...read more
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9780711033283 | Ian Allan Pub, June 19, 2008, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A new book which concentrates on the development of signalling specifically on the Western Region, and which will be invaluable reading and a first point of reference for all modellers as well as general railway enthusiasts.
Product Description: During World War 2 Britain's railways were in the frontline and were targeted by the Luftwaffe's violent offensive against the homeland. Many railway workers lost their lives, and locomotives, rolling stock and infrastructure were destroyed...read more
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9780860936237 | Ian Allan Pub, February 19, 2009, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: During World War 2 Britain's railways were in the frontline and were targeted by the Luftwaffe's violent offensive against the homeland.
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9781906419899 | Gardners Books, October 25, 2012, cover price $22.00
9781906419790 | Gardners Books, July 26, 2012, cover price $21.45
9781906419325 | Gardners Books, July 22, 2010, cover price $22.00
9781906419189 | Gardners Books, October 8, 2009, cover price $21.60
9781906419059 | Gardners Books, September 4, 2008, cover price $19.45
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Product Description: Whilst the Southern Railway was the smallest of the 'Big Four' railway companies at the Grouping in 1923 in the UK, it encompassed a massive range of operation, from the highly intensive electrified services in the London suburbs through to the sparse pick-up freights on the lines in Devon and Cornwall...read more
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9780711032330 | Ian Allan Pub, February 19, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Whilst the Southern Railway was the smallest of the 'Big Four' railway companies at the Grouping in 1923 in the UK, it encompassed a massive range of operation, from the highly intensive electrified services in the London suburbs through to the sparse pick-up freights on the lines in Devon and Cornwall.
Hardcover:
9781571571632 | Safari Pr, September 1, 2007, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside.
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9780711032415 | Ian Allan Pub, May 24, 2007, cover price $27.05 | About this edition: The mid-1960s witnessed not only the demise of the bulk of the Isle of Wight railway network but also the withdrawal of the last remaining vestiges of the Victorian steam railway.
Product Description: Designed by Oliver Bulleid for the Southern Railway, although the prototype was not completed until after nationalization, the 'Leader' class was revolutionary. The locomotives had an unusual configuration with two power steam bogies, utilizing sleeve valves and chain drive rather than more conventional valve gear...read more
Hardcover:
9780860936060, titled "The Leader Project: Fiasco or Triumph" | Ian Allan Pub, February 28, 2007, cover price $32.20 | About this edition: Designed by Oliver Bulleid for the Southern Railway, although the prototype was not completed until after nationalization, the 'Leader' class was revolutionary.
Paperback:
9780860936282 | Ian Allan Pub, May 30, 2009, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Designed by Oliver Bulleid for the Southern Railway, although the prototype was not completed until after nationalization, the 'Leader' class was revolutionary.
Product Description: It is now almost a century since the first electrified suburban services were introduced by the London, Brighton & South Coast and London & South Western railways. From these small beginnings a vast network of electrified lines serving much of southern and southeastern England has emerged, providing commuters and travellers with essential links to and from the Metropolis and across the region...read more
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9780711030879 | Gardners Books, November 4, 2005, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: It is now almost a century since the first electrified suburban services were introduced by the London, Brighton & South Coast and London & South Western railways.
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