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Surplus books (prices do not include postage) *= latest additions

150 years of British Railways - ed. M. Hedges [Hamlyn/W.H. Smith] £3
150 years of British Steam - [Connoisseur Books] £3
A Century of Steam Trains - Derek Avery [Brockhampton Press] £2
A History of the LNER 2: The age of the streamliners 1934-39 - Michael P. Bonavia [George Allen & Unwin] £3
A History of the LNER 3: The last years 1939-48 - Michael P. Bonavia [George Allen & Unwin] £3
An introduction to model railways - ed. Pat Hornsey [New English Library] £3

BR motive power combined volume 1989 [Ian Allan abc] £3
BR electric multiple units - Brian Hardy [Bradford Barton] £5
British Rail scrapbook 1948 [Ian Allan] £4
British Rail scrapbook 1950 [Ian Allan] £4
British Rail scrapbook 1953 [Ian Allan] £4
British steam lives! - Colin Garratt [Bounty] £3
Buses, trolleys and trams - Dunbar [Bounty - facsimile of 1987 edition] £3

China's railways, todays image - P.B. Whitehouse [Millbrook] £1
Colin Garratt's World of Steam - Colin Garratt [Octopus] £3

Double headed trains 1, South - Derek Cross [Ian Allan] £5
Down the line to Bristol - Searle [Baton] £2
Down the line to Dover - Searle [Midas] £2

Everyone's book of classic cars - Peter Roberts [W.H. Smith] £1
Fired by steam - Geoffrey Wheeler [Magna] £3
Great Western steam around Bristol - Colin Williams [Bradford Barton] £5
Halcyon days of buses - Parke and Francis [Ian Allan] £3
Heritage Railways of the British Isles - Anthony Lambert [Grange Books] £3

Lineside Camera: Yorkshire Steam - G.W. Sharpe [Henry Boot Group] £5
Living with London Midland locomotives - A.J. Powell [Ian Allan] £5
LMS Miscellany volume 3 - H.N. Twells [OPC] £8
LMSR Locomotives 1923-1948 volume 2 - H.C. Casserley [Bradford Barton] £5
LNER Locomotives 1923-1948 - H.C. Casserley [Bradford Barton] £5
Locomotive panorama volume 2 - E.S. Cox [Ian Allan] £10
Locomotives - Chant [Chancellor] £3
Locomotives of the Great Western Railway - Bloom [Jarrold] £2

Main Line Steam - D.C. Williams [Jarrold] £3
Main Line Steam into the 1980s - P.J.C. Skelton [Jane's] £3
Model Railway Engines - J.E. Minns [Octopus] £1
Modern Railways - G. Freeman Allen [Hamlyn] (ex library copy) £3
Modern Railway Working volumes 1- 8 (published in 1912-14) - Macaulay and Hall [Gresham] £60 the set

On steam, British standard gauge railways rescued from extinction - Nock [Granada] (ex library copy) £3
On the rails - Burton [abc books] £3
On the Settle and Carlisle Route - T.G. Flinders [Ian Allan] £5
Our Home Railways volume 1 - W.J. Gordon [Railway Publications] £3
Preserved steam in Britain - Patrick B. Whitehouse [George Allen & Unwin] £1

Rail 150 - Jack Simmons [Eyre Methuen] £2
Railway and Steam Enthusiast's Handbook - Body & Body [Avon Anglia] £8
Railway antiques - Mackay [Ward Lock] £3
Railway (Magazine) Annual 96 - Nick Pigott [APC] £3
Railways in Yorkshire 1: West Riding - David Joy [Dalesman] £5
Railway Wonders of the World volumes 1 and 2 - F. A. Talbot [Cassell] £15 for both
Railway World Annual for 1983, 1986 £1 each
Roaming the Western Rails - George F. Heiron [Ian Allan] £3

Seaport to Seaside - J.W. Gahan [Countyvise] £5
Some Classic Locomotives - Hamilton Ellis [Allen & Unwin] £3
Steam Days - Gerald T. Robinson [BCA/Ian Allan] £5
Steam entertainment - Hume and Duckham [David and Charles] £1
Steam: Great Trains and Railways - John Westwood [Sundial] £3
Steam Railways - C. Hamilton Ellis {BCA] £3 or £2 (ex library copy)
Steam Railways around the World - Keith Strickland £3
Steam Spirit - [W.H. Smith] £1
Steam Trains - Fitzsimons [Magna] £3

The Art of Railway Photography - L.A. Nixon [Bradford Barton] £3
The Big Tube (Great Northern and City Railway) - J. Graeme Bruce [London Transport] £5
The Furness Railway - Sankey and Norman [Dalesman] £5
The great book of trains - Hollingsworth and Cook [CLB] £5
The LMS scene - Maurice Earley [OPC] £5
The love of trains - Hand & Edmondson [Octopus] £5
The Pictorial story of railways - E.L. Cornwell [Hamlyn-Nelson] £1
The picture story of world's railways - C. Johns [World Distributors] £5
The Pilmoor, Boroughbridge and Knaresborough Railway - Patrick Howat [Bairstow] £5
The Settle to Carlisle - Roger Siviter [Baton Press] £2
* The trains of Lionel's standard gauge era - H H Carstens [Model Craftsman Publishing] £2
The trains we loved - C. Hamilton Ellis [Pan] £3
The Welsh Marches - Roger Siviter [Bloomsbury] £3
The Wonderful World of steam locomotives - P.B. Whitehouse [Hamlyn] £3 or £2 (ex library book)

The world encyclopedia of locomotives - Colin Garratt [Lorenz] £5
Trails of steam volume 1: North West from Paddington - Colin Walker [OPC] £7
Trains - Franco Tanel [White Star] £5
Trains 1969 - Snell [Ian Allan] £5
Trains Annual 1966 - [Ian Allan] £1
Transport in Angola in 1972 - Eduardo Gomez de Albuquerque e Castro (in Portugese) £2
Travelling by Train in the Twenties and Thirties - Philip Unwin [Allen & Unwin] £3

Up the line - Geoff Swaine [Crowood] £3

World steam since 1980 - Lou Johnson [W.H. Smith] £3

Catalogues - list now complete £1 each + postage except where noted

Arnold Rapido 1967/68; 1968/69; 1987/88; 1990/91; 1991 novelties
Atlas N gauge European edition undated
Auhagen-Bausatze 1972

Bachmann 2000

Bassett-Lowke it isn't very clear which years some are: 1920s ? in poor condition; 1930s/40s ? in poor condition; Scale Model Railways Gauge 0 1941/42; 1946; 1948; 00 gauge 1949 ; 0 gauge 1953; Model Railways 0 and 00 1957 (112 pages); 1957 (72 pages); Model Railways and Engineering 1960s ? £5 each including postage

Berliner TT Bahnen 1976/77
Bonds 1950 (130 pages); Model Handbook 1964 (40 pages) £3 each including postage

GEM (George Mellor) 1956; 1965; 1967-68
Graham Farish 1981, 1985, 1989 (N gauge)

H&M no cover 1950s/60s?
Hornby 1976 (22nd edition); 1980 (26th edition); 1988 (34th edition); 1995 (41st edition); 2000 (46th edition)
Hornby Dublo 1953/4 £2

Kitmaster 1961
K's undated but pre-1971, one red cover, one grey cover

Lima H0 1968/69; another one which is undated 84 pages
Lionel 1975

Marklin 1967/68; one other pre-1971 with 12 pages
Minitrix 1968

PC Models 1972 loco name and number plate lists
Peco 1950; 1957; 1968; 1971; 1982
Piko 1968/69 + 2 others which are undated

Ratio 1954
Rocket Precision undated but pre-1971

Stewart-Reidpath undated but 1923-47 £3
Trix 1937-8; 1938-1939; 1939-1940 (these 3 at £3 each); 1992; 1993
Vero (from East Germany) undated

Walker & Holtzapfel not very clear which years some are: 1940s or 1950s ? (64 pages); 1940s or 1950s ? (28 pages); 1957 (48 pages); 1960s ? (40 pages); W&H 1967 (116 pages)

Whitney 17th edition
Wills undated but pre-1971
Zeuke TT (in German) 1972/73; one undated

Magazines

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If you are not able to collect the magazines (from South Manchester) then the cost of post and packing needs to be added. In the UK this adds about £1 for one small pre-1960 magazine; £5 for a whole year or £9 for 3 years. We will be happy to give an exact price for your requirements.

* = updated list; **= the very latest changes

* 16mm Today (garden railways): 1990 November; 2003 February, May, August; 2004 February, November; 2005 November; 2006 February

** Back Track: Volume 1 (1987) no.3; Volume 3 (1989) nos.3, 4; Volume 5 (1991) no.5; Volume 7 (1993) nos.3-6; Volume 8 (1994) nos.1, 4; Volume 10 (1996) no.11; Volume 15 (2001) no.12; Volume 16 (2002) nos.6-7; Volume 17 (2003) no.11; Volume 25 (2011) nos.7-9

** British Railway Journal numbers 4, 6, 8, 9, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22

* British Railway Modelling: 1993 December; 1994 January, March, August, October-December; 1995 all except February or March; 1996 January-April, July; 1997 February-April, July-September, November; 1998 all except June, October or November; 1999 all except June or November; 2000 all except March, August or October; 2001 all except April; 2002 all except January, April, May or August; 2003 February, July-September, November; 2004 all except August; 2005 all except May, July or October; 2006 all except March; 2007 all except February or September; 2008 all except January; 2009 full year; 2010 all except May; 2011 January-June
BRM Annual 2009 and 2010 at £2 each
British Railway Modelling: A Century of Progress - Essery £2

** British Railways Illustrated:
Loose copies: Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 complete; Volume 5 except Nos 1 or 10; Volume 6 except Nos 3, 4, 5 or 9; Volume 7 except Nos 5, 8, 11 or 12; Volume 8 No 7; Volume 9 complete; Volume 10 Nos 1, 2, 3, 6, 9; Volume 11 No 4; Volume 13 No 3; Volume 16 No 6.

** Buses 1968 April, June-October; 1969 February-May; 1975 August, October, November; 1977 September; 1979 January; 1983 January-May; 1987 April-June, August, September, December; 1992 January, February; 1995 January, February, April; 1996 January, April, August, November; 1997 April; 1998 October; 2003 not February, May or June; 2004 January-September; 2007 June, July, September-December; 2008-10 full years; 2011 January-October

* Buses Extra numbers 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 23, 28, 42-44, 74, 75, 77

* Buses Focus 1994 Autumn; 1995 Summer; 1996 Spring, Autumn; 1997 Spring, Autumn; 1999 Spring, Summer, Autumn; 2001 Summer

** Buses Illustrated 1962 April, September-December; 1963 February, April, May, July-November; 1964 February-July, September-December; 1965 full year; 1966 not November; 1967 not April-June; 1968 February

Bygone Railways 19th February 1994

Classic Trains (from USA): Fall 2009

** Continental Modeller 1982 November/December; 1985 September/October; 1986 January/ February; 1991 March, November; 1992 September, November, December; 1993 February; 1994 April, May; 1995 July, October; 1996 January, April, May, July, August, October, November; 1997 February, April, June-August, October, November; 1998 January-March, June, July, September, November, December; 1999 January-August, December; 2000 February-May, July, September-December; 2001 January, May, June, November, December; 2002 February, March, May, June, July, September-November; 2003 January, June, September, October-December; 2005 September-December; 2007 December; 2008 February

** Eisenbahn Journal (in German) 1996 numbers 1, 3 (January, March)

** Eisenbahn Kurier (in German) 1991 numbers 1-3, 5-12; 1992 numbers 1-8

** Eisenbahn Modellbahn Magazin (in German) 1993 numbers 1-9, 12; 1994 numbers 2-11

* Garden Rail: numbers 4-8, 15, 25, 60, 61, 76, 77, 90-101, 103, 106-114, 116, 120-122, 125, 129, 130, 132-134, 140, 165

Great Trains parts 1-24 £5 the lot

G Scale Journal: Spring 2009

Heritage Railway: March 2004; March 2005 (No 77) to December 2006 (no 92)

History of Railways Parts 1-48 (but missing part 34) £10 the lot

* Hornby Magazine 2007 April/May, August/September, October, December; 2008 full year; 2009 full year; 2010 January--September, November; 2011 November, December

* Hornby Railway Collector: November 2001 (no. 360)-April 2006 (no. 408) except September 2004 (no. 391)

* Junior Mechanics and Electricity 1920 January, June, July; 1922 May-December; 1923 all except September; 1924 January, February, April-June

** LGB Depesche numbers 59-61, 64-69, 71-74, 76-83

* Light Rail Review numbers 1-5, 7

* LMS Journal: Nos. 9, 14, 15, 19 £5 each

* Loco Modeller issues 1-5: 1983 October, November; 1984 February, March, April

Locomotives Illustrated Number 4 Peppercorn Pacifics; Number 16 Stanier Pacifics, Number 60 GWR 0-4-2T

London and North Eastern Railway Magazine: August 1936; May 1941; March 1943

* Marklin Magazine August/September 2009

** Meccano Magazine May 1966; January, April 1968

* Mixed Traffic (3mm Society magazine) in a binder: numbers 139-150, 153, 155-162

* Model Buses numbers 6-8, 10, 11, 17-32

Model Collecting Today August/September 1998

* Model Collector January 1991-November 1992

* Model Engineer: in binders 1937-1979 (not all complete years); loose copies from 1942-1963 and 1975-78
These were published weekly until 1963, then fortnightly. 30p per copy

* Modellers' Back Track: Volume 1 number 4

* Modelling Railways Illustrated: Volume 2 nos 8, 9; Volume 4 nos. 2, 3, 5-7

* Model Rail: 1999 February/March, October; 2000 January-April, August, October-December; 2001 full year; 2002 full year; 2003 March-June, October, November; 2004 March-December; 2005 full year; 2006 all except July; 2007 not January, March or April but includes Spring and Christmas; 2008 full year + Summer; 2009 January-March, May-July, October; 2010 January, February, April-July, September, October

* Model Railroader (from USA): Bound volumes 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952. Loose copies: 1978 April; 1981 May, July, December; 1982 June; 1984 February, September, October; 1987 July, August, December; 1988 March, July, August; 1989 January, February, July, December; 1990 December; 1991 June; 1992 January; 1994 November; 1997 February, March, May; 1998 all except January; 1999-2002 full years; 2003 May; 2004 full year; September; 2007 January, May, August, October, November; all 2008 except January or December; all 2009 except January; 2010 January, August
Great Model Railroads 2005 £2

Model Railroad Planning (from USA): 2002; 2006

** Model Railway Constructor Bound volumes 1966-1975
Loose: March 1936; February-April 1939; March 1940; 1942 (not January or February); some 1946; 1942 complete; 1946-1951 (except January 1947 or August 1951); 1956-1958 (except March 1956); 26 from 1960s; 34 from 1970-1978; full years from 1979-1983; 14 copies from 1984-June 1987 (the last one).
In binders: January 1974- June 1987 (the last one)

* Model Railway Constructor Special Numbers 1, 4 £1 each

* Model Railway Enthusiast September 1998

* Model Railway Journal: 1, 2, 5, 10, 21, 25-30, 33, 34, 38, 40-42, 46-54, 58, 60, 61, 62, 64-70, 72-76, 78-80, 82, 83, 90, 93, 95-98, 136 at £1 each

* Model Railway News bound volumes (no advert pages): April 1950-December 1951, January 1952-July 1953
In binders: 1971 (January-August, then became Model Railways)
Loose copies: August 1931; 1938 (January, May, October), 1944 (May, August), 1945 (March, April, May, September, October, November), 1946 (February-October, December); 1949; 225 copies from August 1952 - August 1971. From September 1971 Model Railway News changed its name to Model Railways

** Model Railways Bound volume: 1975
Complete years in binders: September 1971-December 1972, 1973, 1974, 1979-1982, 1984
Loose copies: 1972 February, November; 1973 May, June, August; 1975 complete; 1976 January, February, November; 1977 March, September-December; 1978 not February, September or October; 1979 not July; 1980 May, July, September, October; 1981 not July; 1982 January, February, August-December; 1983 except October; 1984 January-March, May-August; 1987 July-December; 1988 all, 1989 all, 1990 all, 1991 January, February, April-November; 1992 June, October
All About Model Railways, Building Model Railways, Compact Model Railways, Designing Model Railways £1 each

* Model Trains (Airfix): 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983

* Modern Locomotives Illustrated number 176 (April/May 2009)

* Modern Railways (was Trains Illustrated): complete years for 1965-1967, 1968 (except July); 1969 (except August); 1970-1991; 1994 (except August); 1995-2000; 2005 January, March; 2009 June, August; 2011 January-March

* Modern Railways Pictorial 1981 May; 1982 not March or November; 1983 January, March, May-November; 1984 January, March-May, August-October; 1985 September, November; Modern Railways Pictorial Profiles numbers 1-12

* Modern Tramway: January, May, June, August-December 1962; all 1963; all 1964; all 1965 except September or November; all 1966 except September; all 1967

* Narrow Gauge Times: numbers 1-8

* Narrow Gauge World: numbers 16-20, 22, 24-31

North West Railway Enthusiast Volume 1 number 1 to Volume 2 number 5. The name then changed to Northern Railway Enthusiast Volume 2 number 6 to Volume 3 number 8. The name then changed again to
Northern Railways Volume 3 numbers 9-12; Volume 4 numbers 1, 3, 4

NRHS Bulletin (from USA): Winter 2008

Practical Model Railways: 1983 December-March 1989

* Rail (fortnightly) 6 from 2004; 21 from 2005; numbers 531, 532 and 552 from 2006; number 579 from 2007; 20 from 2008; 9 from 2009; 22 from 2010; 8 from 2011

** Rail Enthusiast bi-monthly June/July 1981-February/March 1982; monthly April1982-April 1987 complete

* Rail Express 2005 January; 2007 March; 2010 February-April, September-November; 2011 January-April

Railfan and Railroad (from USA): 2006 August; 2009 June; 2010 February-November; 2011 January-July

Railroad Magazine (from USA): March 1966

Railroad Model Craftsman (from USA): August 1983; May, October 1990; January, February 1997

* Railway Magazine: In binders: 1967 March to December, 1968-1974, 1982-1990
Loose copies in full years: 1964; 1965; 1969; 1975-1981, 2003-2006, 2007 (missing November), 2008, 2009
Odd loose copies: 6 from August 1932 to June 1935; 11 from 1942 to 1948; 8 from 1958; 2 from 1961;
1965 July to December; 7 from 1966; 4 from 1967; 8 from 1968; 54 copies from March 1970 to December 2009; 2010 (all except March); 2011 January-April
Souvenir issues: 1997 July, 1998 July, 2000 January, October

* Railway Modeller:
Bound volumes for 1971 and 1973
Loose copies: 1953 September-November; 1954 June-August, October; 1955 January, March, May, June, December; 1956 not February, April, July; 1957 not January or September; 1958 not February or October; 1959 full year (August/September was a combined issue); 1960 all except February, April, June or September; 1961 all except February, April, June or September; 1962 January, March-June, August, November, December; 1963 February, April-July, September, December; 1964 January-May, August-November; 1965 except May, September, October or December; 1966 April, August, October-December; 1967 January, March-May, August, September, December; 1968 not February or September; 1969 full year; 1970 full year but no cover on November; 1971 February, May-December; 1972 full year; 1973 not May; 1974-1994 full years; 1995 March-September, December; 1996-2002 full years; 2003 missing November; 2004-2009 full years; 2010 April, May, October, December; 2011 January, April

* Railway Reflections 21 copies

Railways: in binders December 1939/January 1940-December 1940, 1941-1951

Railways Today Number 2

* Railway Wonders of the World 43 parts out of 50 £10 the lot

* Railway World 1954 November; 1965 June; 1966 September-December; 1967 January, February, April, June; 1968 February-May, August-December; in binders 1969-1972 and 1982-1990

* Scale (Model) Trains: 1982 April-December; 1983 January-May, November; 1984 January- March, August, September, October/November; 1985 February/March, December; 1986 February, April, June, August-December; 1987 June-September; 1990 September; 1991 April; 1995 March, June

* Steam Days 1992 August; 2005 September; 2007 June; 2011 May, October

* Steam in the Peak numbers 75-106 in binders [Journal of the Peak Rail Society]

* Steam Railway Magazine in binders: 1980-1985+ Rocket 150 edition; 1986-1999; 2000 January, November, December; 2001- 2003, 2005 (11 copies), 2006 (14 copies), 2008 (9 copies), December 12th 2008 (number 357) - 14th October 2010 (number 370) Bargain price to clear - £1 per year

Steam Spirit volume 1 £1

* Steam World: 1998 March; 2003 October, December; 2005 January; 2006 January

* The Larger Scale Journal: 33 copies from Volume 1 number 1 to Winter 2010

* Today's Railways: 2006 September; 2007 September, November; 2008 August, September, December; 2009 January; 2010 November, December; 2011 January, February, April

Traction Annual 2007/8, 2008/9, 2009/10 £1 each

Trains (from USA): 1997 February; 2010 August - November; 2011 January-August (Trains) Steam Today 2008

* Trains Illustrated all 1955 but no covers; December 1956; 1967 Summer, Winter; 1968 Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
* Trains Illustrated British Railways then and now numbers 6-15, 18, 24-27, 33-35, 41, 49-52, 55
* Trains Illustrated the last years of British steam numbers 2, 3, 4, 5

* Tramways and Urban Transit 2007 May, June, September

* Vintage Roadscene numbers 1-15, 17-29, 31-35

* Your Model Railway: 1984 October-December; 1985 except May; 1986 complete; 1987 January-June

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