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Latest Additions to the list
(buy the latest books whilst they’re still available) |
 Signalling
Centres in the North-East : No 2A
LEEDS The North Eastern Railway lines, including Leeds City
Station , by Richard Pulleyn.
NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY ASSOCIATION Announce our new publication
– expected late January 2023. ISBN 978-1-911360-37-7.
Price £20.00 Nett, inclusive of post & packing to NERA and SRS
members Available from: The Sales Officer, NERA, 31 Moreton
Avenue, Stretford, Manchester, M32 8BP. Email:
sales@ner.org.uk
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 Bradford
Railways in Colour Volume 3: The GNR and L& Y Lines After Steam
By Alan Whitaker &N Jan Rapacz
Published 2021 by Willowherb Publishing. 112 pages hardback
ISBN 978 0 9935678 7 2
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 Closed Railways
and Stations in West Cumbria
Author: Ruth Mansergh
I have just published a book about lost railways and closed stations
in West Cumbria.
I’m in the process of writing one about South Cumbria.
Available from Amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09BM8G91M/ref=sr |
 The
Rishworth Branch
Author: Jeffrey N Fisher
Published 2020 by Oakwood Press
ISBN 9780853613916
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 Great
Northern Outpost Vol 3
By Alan Whitaker and Jan Rapacz
Published 2020 by Willowherb Publishing.
Colour photos of the last years of the Queensbury lines
ISBN 9780993567865
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 West
Riding Steam
By Derek Huntriss
Published 2019 by Never Again Publishing. Hardback
225 mm x 258 mm 128 pages. Full-colour photos with extended
captions
ISBN 978 1 9160733 0 2
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 The
Yorkshire Lines of the LNWR
By Neil Fraser
Published 2019 by Oakwood Press. Paperback 148
mm x 210 mm 208 pages illustrated
ISBN 978 0 85361 561 3
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
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Book list in alphabetical order |
 Along Familiar Lines.
Mark Neale's latest book looks at the human story of railways in the Bradford area.
It includes stories from the days of construction, operation, and the
more modern era.
Included are features on the Aire Valley, Queensbury, Idle, and Yeadon
lines.
The book can be obtained from Saltaire Bookshop, Haworth Station,
Embsay Station, at £3.50.
Or direct from the publishers, City Gent, PO
56. Bradford BD13 3XR for £4 which includes postage. |
 Baildon
Station, & the Shipley to Guiseley Railway 1876 - 2016
Available for £3 from Baildon Library.
Recommended by Malcolm Mallison.
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 Bradford
Railways in Colour Volume 2: The GNR and L& Y Lines
By Alan Whitaker &N Jan Rapacz
Published by Willowherb Publishing
ISBN 978 0 9935678 3 4
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
Bradford
Railways in Colour Volume 3: The GNR and L& Y Lines After Steam
By Alan Whitaker &N Jan Rapacz
Published 2021 by Willowherb Publishing. 112 pages hardback
ISBN 978 0 9935678 7 2
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 Bradford
Railways in Colour Volume 4: The Midland Lines After Steam
By Alan Whitaker & Jan Rapacz
Published 2022 by Willowherb Publishing. 112 pages
hardback
ISBN 978 0 9935678 8 9
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 Broken
Rails : How Privatisation Wrecked Britain's Railways
Written by the boss, Christian Wolmar, based around the events of
the Hatfield crash in October 2000.
Goes on to explain the chaotic mess that is & always has been Britain's
railways.
Available from Amazon -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Broken-Rails-Privitisation-Britains-Railways/ |
Closed Railways
and Stations in West Cumbria
Author: Ruth Mansergh
I have just published a book about lost railways and closed stations
in West Cumbria.
I’m in the process of writing one about South Cumbria.
Available from Amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09BM8G91M/ref=sr |
 Eleven
Minutes Late : A train journey to the soul of Britain.
Nothing to do with lost railways as such, but a polemic, in turns very
funny and very depressing, on the state of today’s railways,
how we got there, and how things aren’t likely to improve in any
foreseeable future.
Recommended by Malcolm Mallison. My copy £2.99 remaindered.
Available from Amazon -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eleven-Minutes-Late-Journey-Britain |
 Great
Northern Outpost Volume 1
The Bradford and Thornton Railway by Alan Whitaker & Jan Rapacz.
Published by Willowherb Publishing ISBN 9 780993 567803
Includes 108 x almost full-page colour illustrations.
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
Great
Northern Outpost Vol 3
By Alan Whitaker and Jan Rapacz
Published 2020 by Willowherb Publishing. Colour
photos of the last years of the Queensbury lines
ISBN 9780993567865
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 The
Great Northern Railway In The West Riding
By Martin Bairstow. Over 150 photo's & maps.
See also The Queensbury Lines The Great Northern Railway In the West
Riding - Part 2 below.
Available from Amazon -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Northern-Railway-West-Riding/ |
 Great
Provincial Stations: Leeds Termini
By Bob Pixton & John Hooper First published 1998 by Challenger
Publications ISBN 1 899624 27 9
Re-published 2006 by Book Law ISBN 1 899624 27 9
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 Keighley
Bus Museum & its forerunners.
£12.95 A4 format paperback 118 pages.
In stock at Reid's Bookshop, Cavendish Street, Keighley. |
 The
last years of Yorkshire steam
By Peter Tuffrey
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 L
& NWR Society Journal
The L&NWR Society Journal Vol. 5 no 3 Dec 2006: “Cleckheaton & The
Leeds New Line”
8 1/2 page illustrated article by Jack Walne. |
 The
Leeds New Line: The Heaton Lodge & Wortley Railway
By Roy Waring Published 1989 by Oakwood Press ISBN 0 85361 369 9 out
of print.
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 The
Leeds New Line: The Heaton Lodge & Wortley Railway
Published 2023 by Oakwood Press Paperback 96 pages
ISBN 978 0 85361 369 5
Note: This is a reprint - with a new ISBN and a slightly revised
front cover - of the book originally published in 1989.
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
  Lost
Railways of south & west Yorkshire
Latest book from Gordon Suggitt. (See also Huddersfield Examiner
article)
Starts off in the early days of the important & often neglected Leeds
Middleton railway.
All the old favourites & loads of extra stuff I didn't know about.
Available from Countryside Books -
http://www.countrysidebooks.co.uk/ |
 The
Lost Railways of Yorkshire's West Riding: The Central Section -
Bradford, Hal;ifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield
By Neil Burgess. Published 2014 by Stenlake Publishing Ltd.
ISBN 9781840336573.
Available from Amazon -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Railways-Yorkshires-West-Riding/dp/1840336579
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 Otley
& Ilkley joint railway
Arthington-Apperley Junction-Shipley-Otley-Ilkley
1992 by F W Smith and Martin Bairstow ISBN 978-1-871944-06-8 out of
print
May be a second hand one available from Amazon -
http://www.amazon.com/Otley-Ilkley-Joint-Railway/dp/1871944066/
Recommended by Malcolm Mallison |
 The
Queensbury Lines The Great Northern Railway In the West Riding - Part
2
Written by & published July 2015 by Martin Bairstow ISBN 978 1 871944
44 0
See also The Great Northern Railway In The West Riding above.
Currently in stock at Haworth Railway Station.
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 The
Queensbury Lines
By Alan Whitaker & Bob Cryer Published 1984 by Dalesman Books ISBN 0
85206 807 7 out of print.
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 Railway
Buildings of west Yorkshire 1812-1920
By George Sheeran. This book is right up my street, an archaeological
approach to railways.
Doesn't concern us with all the boring convoluted financial
development of companies, train workings & timetables.
It is out of print but I managed to acquire a copy using Fullerton's
Booksearch -
www.hotfroguk.co.uk/
Failing that try Amazon -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Railway-Buildings-West-Yorkshire-1812-1920/ |
 Railway
Character Lines
By Mike Collins Published by Athena Press.
Come meet the railway characters of old, the "originals, mavericks,
eccentrics, defectives, or plain straightforward barmpots" introduced
to us by the author who for many years worked as a British Rail Civil
Engineer based in Yorkshire. The book is bursting with hilarious
anecdotes, tales of mishaps and unforeseen incidents laced with the
dour humour of the locals in their broad Yorkshire brogue.
Recommended by Richard Brown. Available from Amazon -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003U2TRWC |
 Railway Developments around Leeds & Bradford since 1968
Author Dave Peel, Publisher Pen & Sword
Hardback, Full colour photos £30.
ISBN 978 1 47388 313 0
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 A
Railwayman’s Odyssey
By Stan Hall. Pages 71-86 of his
autobiography cover the period between May 1951 and October 1953 when
Stanley Hall was Station Master at Battyeford
on the .ex-LNWR “Leeds New Line”. Stanley Hall has also written
several books about railway accidents.
Author: Stan Hall, Published 2012,ISBN 978 0 7110 3750 2
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 Railways
of Bradford & Leeds
The Railways of Bradford & Leeds - Their
History and Development
Author: Peter Waller
Published 2023 by Pen & Sword Hardback 220 mm x 290 mm 206
pages. ISBN 978 1 52677 342 5
A pictorial history with large format black and white and colour
photos - mostly from the 1950s to the 2010s,
though some views
date back to the early 1900s. All with extended captions. Also
includes maps, timetables and a bibliogrraphy
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 Railway
Memories No. 4 Bradford
By Alan Whitaker & Brian Myland Published 1993 by Bellcode Books ISBN
1 871233 03 8
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 Railway
Memories No 11 : Halifax & The Calder Valley
By Jack Wild & Stephen Chapman. Plenty of old Halifax photo's,
including North Bridge & St Paul's.
Available from Amazon -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Halifax-Calder-Valley-Railway-Memories/ |
 Railway
Memories No 13 : Huddersfield Dewsbury Batley
By Robert Anderson. I use this book loads, essential cross reference for the Lost Railways site.
Available from Amazon -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Huddersfield-Dewsbury-Batley-Railway-Memories/ |
 Railway
Memories No 20 : West Riding Steam Pictorial
By Robert Anderson. Published by Bellcode Books ISBN 9781871233 20 9
Recommended by Malcolm Mallison. Available from Amazon -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/West-Riding-Steam-Pictorial-Photographic/dp/1871233208
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 Railway
Memories No. 22: Return to Leeds
By Robert Anderson & Peter Rose Published 2009 by Bellcode Books ISBN
978 1 871233 22 3
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 Railways
through Airedale & Wharfedale
By Martin Bairstow Published 2004 by Martin Bairstow ISBN 1
871944 28 7
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 The
Reshaping of British Railways (The Beeching Report)
The Reshaping (?!) of British Railways, better known as the Beeching
Report, or the Gospel According to the Antichrist. You too can have a
remaindered hardback reprint. Suggested uses- firelighters, cat
litter, darts practice. Read it and be appalled- if you think the
reality was bad, praise the Lord that it was never fully implemented.
No stations between Skipton and Carlisle, Harrogate to York closed,
Ilkley line closed....
Recommended by Malcolm Mallison.
Available from Amazon -
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reshaping-British-Railways-Railway-Board/dp/0007511965/ |
The
Rishworth Branch
Author: Jeffrey N Fisher
Published 2020 by Oakwood Press
ISBN 9780853613916
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 Settle
to Carlisle: An Artist's Odyssey
A new book by artist Les Packham. The book consists of
watercolours and written information about the views along the Settle
to Carlisle railway line.
Available from Jeremy Mills Publishing Limited -
http://www.jeremymillspublishing.co.uk/index.html |
Signalling
Centres in the North-East : No 2A
LEEDS The North Eastern Railway lines, including Leeds City
Station , by Richard Pulleyn.
NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY ASSOCIATION Announce our new publication
– expected late January 2023. ISBN 978-1-911360-37-7.
Price £20.00 Nett, inclusive of post & packing to NERA and SRS
members Available from: The Sales Officer, NERA, 31 Moreton
Avenue, Stretford, Manchester, M32 8BP. Email:
sales@ner.org.uk
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 Skipton
& Ilkley Line
The Skipton & Ilkley Line, F.W. Smith & Donald Binns. 1986- presumably
out of print. Includes photos of the bridges along that stretch of
line,
demolished with almost indecent haste after the last train ran.
Available from Amazon -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00131N1HY
Recommended by Malcolm Mallison. |
 Thomas
The Privatised Tank Engine
Forwarded by Ian Hislop, written by Incledon Clark, Railway
Development Society & Nick Clark. Published 21 Apr 1994 ISBN
1857800222.
Whilst not strictly about steam railways it is definitely worth a
read.
Recommended by Richard Brown. Available from Amazon -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thomas-Privatised-Tank-Engine-Hislop/dp/1857800222
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 Those
Were The Days
Barrie C. Woods ISBN: 978-0-9564820-3-7 54 Holts Lane, Poulton-le-Fylde,
Lancs.FY6 8HW Tel: 07967 251090 E.mail:
bcwoods124@gmail.com
In brief the book describes my activities along with my friends who as
a trainspotter in the late 1950s travelled extensively during those
years to 4th August 1968, when steam finished on BR. We used many
forms of transport such as Mini buses, Coaches, Trains, Bicycles,
Motorbikes, Cars, even Hitchhiking and Ferries! Many amusing incidents
occurred through the period which are included in the book, such as a
contretemps with a herd of Bullocks, our coach catching fire on the
M1, the Castleford ‘Snow’ incident, some strange overnight encounters,
hitchhiking a lift on a 9F and of course run-ins with various Shed
Foremen! |
 Too
Busy to Delegate: More Railway Characters (Railway Character Lines)
By Mike Collins Published by Athena Press
Retired Civil Engineer Mike Collins' second foray down the branch
lines of memory have produced a host of humorous new faces and some
recognisable 'barmpots' from his first volume. Notable among these are
Bill the prankster, the helpful if hilarity-prone Wendy, and the
megalithic figure of Mike's No. 2,
John Midgley.
Recommended by Richard Brown. Available from Amazon -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003U2TSGM |
West
Riding Steam
By Derek Huntriss
Published 2019 by Never Again Publishing. Hardback 225 mm x 258
mm 128 pages. Full-colour photos with extended captions
ISBN 978 1 9160733 0 2
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
 West
Yorkshire Railway Stations from Aberford to Yeadon
By Peter Tuffrey Published 30/07/2011 by Amberley Publishing ISBN
9781445603070
We like this one & there is a massive big up to this website, thanks
Peter.
Available from Amberley -
http://www.amberleybooks.com
Amazon -
http://www.Amazon .co.uk |
 West
Yorkshire Railway Stations
By Norman Ellis Published 1989 by Bond Publications ISBN 1 872062 00 8
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
The
Yorkshire Lines of the LNWR
By Neil Fraser
Published 2019 by Oakwood Press. Paperback 148 mm x
210 mm 208 pages illustrated
ISBN 978 0 85361 561 3
Recommended by Paul Holroyd
Vintage Carriages Trust |
