Signalling The Caledonian Railway.
£30.00
Summers.
Very large, 328 pages, many photo illustrations, diagrams, maps, glazed boards. ** Surely the most comprehensive of company signalling studies. The author describes the block system and the controlling of single lines under the Caledonian; he explains the working of points, signals, level crossings, and the management of a signal box; he examines the organisation of signalling operations. There are chapters on early signalling developments and on modelling, and there are copious appendices on a wide range of topics. The book is crammed with useful and fascinating detail and warmly recommended.
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| | Culm Valley Light Railway.
£15.00
Messenger, M.
Very large, 96 pages, many photos, graphs, line drawings and maps. Hard back. **History of pioneer light railway which survived into the 1970's.Tells the story of a Devonshire Light Railway engineered by Arthur Pain, which was later sold to the GWR.
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| | Caradon & Looe.
£16.00
The canal, railways and mines.
Messenger, M.
Very large, 168 pages, illustrated with maps and photographs, soft back. **The definitive history of the Liskeard & Looe Union Canal, the Liskeard & Caradon Railway and the Liskeard & Looe Railway, now fully revised.
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Rails To Newquay.
£16.95
Railways - Tramways - Town - Transport. OL148.
Vaughan.
Medium, 288 pages, photos, maps etc. Soft back. **An excellent local history. The first 60 pages give a brief history of the town, dwelling particularly on its industries and transport (including the charming Newquay Airport from which I once made an epic, but delightful, day trip to Essex). Subsequent chapters deal more fully with the Treffrey Tramway, the Newquay Tramway and harbour, the Cornwall Minerals Railway, the GWR and the numerous branch lines with which the area was blessed. Out of print, one copy left.
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| | The Minehead Branch 1848-1971.
£24.99
The history of the West Somerset and Minehead railway companies.
Coleby.
Very large, 392 pages, well illustrated with photographs and contemporary illustrations, structure drawings, site plans and maps, hard back. ** Second edition of this exhaustive line history which includes operation, detailed line descriptions, and an original and interesting extra - an alphabetical list of employees.
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| | North Devon Clay.
£21.00
The story of an industry and its railways.
Messenger.
Very large, 120 pages, photo illustrations, maps, track and junction plans, locomotive and rolling stock drawings, hard back. **A complex history of a private line originally engineered by the notable J B Fell which subsequently became part of the light railway empire of H F Stephens. Idiosyncratically run, and worked by an eclectic assortment of motive power, it served the Marland clay works and the local community, eventually becoming part of BR who closed it finally in 1982.
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