Stamford Shop

On-Line Bookshop

!We don't want to leave you but we think we ought to go.

Robert started this business from a back bedroom in our Chiswick flat in 1974 and it has kept us harmlessly occupied now for fifty years. That seems enough, our joints are rusting and striding about carrying huge boxes of books no longer appeals. Reluctantly we pulled down the shutters for the last time at the end of August 2025.

We are no longer open to casual callers but sales from this site continue.
We shall continue to open by appointment while we still have sufficient stock for it to be worthwhile.
The web site sales will also continue to operate for the time being.
The sale discounts still apply!
For an appointment e-mail books@roberthumm.co.uk, or try phoning 01780 766266, we are still often working around the shop

Retirement Sale - All Stock Must Go!
Thousands of good clean railway books, British and foreign, booklets, time tables, bound periodicals.
Sale prices for shop callers only:
Old and recent : 50% off marked prices
New : 25% off cover prices
Plus many special bargains.
Sale prices for online buyers : the web site now applies an across the board 30% discount.

Robert Humm & Co specialises in rare and out-of-print books about railways, other transport and industrial history. We also stock a wide selection of new books on railways.
For over a quarter of a century our shop was in the former station master's house at Stamford railway station but with the end of our lease there we moved to 59 Scotgate, Stamford PE9 2YQ in 2016.

Our Scotgate shop is convenient for the town centre, parking, the A1 Great North Road and the railway - Stamford station, with an hourly service on the cross-country Birmingham to East Anglia railway, is ten minutes walk. Stamford itself is a handsome town with fine architecture, excellent shopping and restaurants - it is well worth a day out in its own right.

We offer a mail order service and welcome enquiries by phone, post or e-mail. Our knowledgeable and helpful staff are always happy to help.This is not primarily an on-line business, however most of our new books and a little selection of our second-hand stock are listed on this site; most of the listings can be ordered on-line.
So far as the new books go, we have stopped re-stocking and much that was formerly listed is no longer available from us. Everything out of stock has now been weeded out and the pared-down New Books sections will reward a browse because there is quite a lot there which is now out of print, still at publishers' original prices and now discounted as well.

Best Selling Items

Narrow Gauge Rails Through The Cordillera. £11.43 Bent. Very large, 144 pages. Soft back. Was £17.95 now £8, this price will apply when the checkout has automatically applied the discount. find out more		The Welsh Highland Railway. £6.00 Lee, C E. WHRSoc & D&C, 1962. Octavo, 48 pages including 16 pages of photo plates, maps, drawings, folding locomotive drawing, card covers, bright copy. find out more		Holiday Haunts 1947. £25.00 Great Western Railway. Large octavo, 656 pages, folding GWR system map in pocket, details of each holiday resort, sepia photos of beauty spots, etc, hotel and boarding house advertising. Pictorial card covers with bathing belle, VG+. find out more

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