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Reference:
Item No | Old DB Ref | Title | Authors | ISBN | Publisher | Published At | Year Published | Format | NRM Classification | Primary Theme | Condition |
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22250 | Gen-Rail026 | Railway Architecture | Cockman, F G | Shire | London | 1988 | E5B | Architecture | |||
22265 | Gen-Rail028 | Railway Station Architecture (Reprint) | Lloyd, David; Insall, Donald | David & Charles | Newton Abbot | 1978 | E5B | Architecture | |||
22280 | Gen-Rail030 | Railways Between the Wars | Casserley, H C | David & Charles | Newton Abbot | 1971 | B5-6 | ||||
22295 | Gen-Rail032 | Railways of Britain: GWR, LMS, LNER,and SR. | Home; Todd; Mitton | A C Black | London | 2018 | A1 | ||||
22310 | Gen-Rail034 | Railways of Britain – Past & Present | Nock, O S | Batsford | 1949 | A1 | |||||
22325 | Gen-Rail036 | The railways of Britain : an historical introduction | Simmons, Jack | Routledge & Kegan Paul | London | 1961 | A1 | ||||
22340 | Gen-Rail038 | Railways as a Career | Taylor, Maxwell | Batsford | London | 1959 | H3 | ||||
22355 | Gen-Rail040 | Railway Buttons, Badges & Uniforms | Froggatt, David J | Ian Allan | 1986 | Hardback | H2 | Welfare – Uniforms and Clothing etc. | |||
22385 | Gen-Rail044 | Railway Carriages 1839-1939 Veteran & Vintage | Kitchenside, G M | Ian Allan | London | 1964 | E12 | Carriages / Coaches | |||
22415 | Gen-Rail048 | Railway centenary, 1825-1925 : supplement to the Locomotive, railway carriage & wagon review, commemorating the opening of the first public railway & a souvenir of the tenth International Railway Congress. | Locomotive Publishing Co. | London | 1925 | A1 | |||||
22490 | Gen-Rail060 | Railway Engineers | Nock, O S | Batsford | 1955 | E1 | |||||
22520 | Gen-Rail063 | Railway Handbook 1945/6 | Railway Gazette | Railway Publishing co | London | 1945 | Z | ||||
22550 | Gen-Rail066 | Railways of England. 5th ed [Reprint] | Acworth, W M | Ian Allan | London | 1964 | A1 | ||||
22580 | Gen-Rail072 | Railways for all. 4th ed. rev and enl. | Gairns, John Francis; Taylor, J Kenneth (Revised and enlarged by) | Ward Lock | London | 1934 | A2 | ||||
22595 | Gen-Rail076 | The railway & commercial gazetteer of England, Scotland & Wales.19th ed | MCCorquodale | McCorquodale | London | 1938 | SR | ||||
22610 | Gen-Rail080 | The Railway-Lovers Companion | Morgan, Bryan (edited by) | Eyre & Spottiswoode | London | 1963 | Q0A | ||||
22640 | Gen-Rail084 | Railway Modernization | General Electric Co Ltd | General Electric Co Ltd | London | 1960 | E9 | ||||
22670 | Gen-Rail088 | Railway picture postcards | Bray, Maurice | Moorland Publishing | Ashbourne, Derbys | 1986 | Q3-4 | ||||
22685 | Gen-Rail089 | Railway Pictorial No 1 Winter 1946/7 | Lake, G H (edited by) | Greenlake Publications | |||||||
22910 | Gen-Rail094 | Railway progress, 1909 - 1959 [Jubilee year publication]. Vol 1 | Stephenson Locomotive Society. | Stephenson Locomotive Society | London | 1960 | A1 | ||||
22940 | Gen-Rail098 | Railways Restored 2007 | Butcher, Alan (edited by) | Ian Allan | 2023 | Q1A | |||||
22955 | Gen-Rail099 | Railways Restored 2008 (29th Edition) | Butcher, Alan (edited by) | Ian Allan | 2023 | Q1A | |||||
22985 | Gen-Rail104 | Railway Roundabout | Christianson, R | Ian Allan | 1997 | ||||||
23015 | Gen-Rail110 | The railway servants : a century of railway trade unionism 1871 to 1971 | National Union of Railwaymen | National Union of Railwaymen | Reading | 1971 | H2 | ||||
23120 | Gen-Rail126 | Railways of today : their evolution, equipment and operation | Allen, Cecil J | Frederick Warne | 1929 | A1 | |||||
23135 | Gen-Rail127 | Rail Tours - 3 Binders – Leaflets / Photos / Tickets etc | Allen, Peter (collected by) | Personal Collection | |||||||
23150 | Gen-Rail128 | Railway Trainmens' Manual | Aitken, J | Aitken | 1936 | G1 | |||||
23165 | Gen-Rail130 | An Outline of Railway Traffic Operation | Cameron, T F | Railway Publishing Co | London | 1946 | G1 | ||||
23300 | Gen-Ro148 | Royal journey : a retrospect of royal trains in the British Isles. 2nd ed | Ellis, C Hamilton | British Railways Board | London | 1960 | G3A | Trains - Royal | |||
23405 | Gen-Sh006 | Shunter duties : also includes stabling points for main line locos, DMUs, EMUs | Woodley, Geoff; Wood, Ron | Inter City Railway Society | Tiverton | 1979 | E6 | ||||
23450 | Gen-Sig004 | A centenary of signalling,1856-1956: John Saxby (1821-1913) and his part in the development of interlocking and of the signalling industry which began with his patent of 1856 for protecting junctions. | Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company | Westinghouse Brake & Signal | London | 1956 | E15 | Signalling | |||
23555 | Gen-Sig012 | A review of signalling and telecommunications development in the Western Region of British Railways. | British Railways Western Div | BR Western Region | Bristol | 2019 | E15 | Signalling | |||
23600 | Gen-Sig018 | Signal Box. A Great Western Signal Box. Exhibit | Paddington Station | 1925 | E15 | Signalling | |||||
23615 | Gen-Sig020 | Signals – Siemens Electrical Signalling Equipment | SGE | Siemens & General Electric | 1947 | E15 | Signalling | ||||
23630 | Gen-Sig022 | Signalling Installations for British Railways – Siemens | SGE | Siemens & General Electric | 1959 | E15 | Signalling | ||||
23645 | Gen-Sig023 | Signals – BR Automatic Warning System | British Transport Commission | 1970 | E15 | Signalling | |||||
23750 | Gen-St052 | Stockton & Darlington. History of First Public Railway | Heavisides, M (edited by) | Heavisides & Sons | 1912 | ||||||
23765 | Gen-Sta002 | Standard Gauge Light Railways | Kidner, Roger Wakely | Oakwood Press | Sidcup | 1937 | D1A | ||||
23840 | Gen-Ste012 | Steam Boilers and Supplementary Appliances | Fowler, William Henry | Scientific Pub. Co | London | 2014 | E0 | Engineering - Steam Boilers | |||
23870 | Gen-Ste016 | Steam Engineering | Pullen, W W F | Scientific Publishing | Manchester | 1901 | E0 | Steam | |||
17380 | Biog-129 | Steam in the Blood | Hardy, R H N | Ian Allan | 1975 | H1 | Steam | ||||
24035 | Gen-Ste034 | Steam for Scrap – The Complete Story | Wakefield, Tony; Trevena, Nigel ; Earnshaw., Alan | Atlantic | Penryn | 1993 | E8F | Steam | |||
24065 | Gen-Ste037 | Steam Sheds - Various Documents | (to be determined) | Folder | Steam | ||||||
24200 | Gen-Ste052 | Steel Highway: Railway planning and making | Allen, C J | Longmans Green | 1928 | A3 | Steam | ||||
24275 | Gen-T008 | Tiltled Trains of Great Britain | Allen, C J | Ian Allan | 1946 | G3 | |||||
24350 | Gen-UR108 ? | Railway Block Telegraph Regulations | Aitken, J N O | SBA | Signalling | ||||||
24395 | Gen-V006 | 1850-1925 vintage album | Kite, J E | Roundhouse | Hatch End | 1966 | Q3-4 | ||||
24410 | Gen-W002 | Walschaert's Valve Gear for model locomotives. Rev ed | Greenly, Henry; Steel, Ernest A (revised by) | Percival Marshall | London | 1954 | E8B | ||||
24425 | Gen-W008 | Waterloo Sunset | Blake, Jim | Platform 10 for London Passenger Transport League | London | 1987 | Q3-4 | ||||
24500 | Gen-W030 | World's smallest public railway : the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch | Ransome-Wallis, Patrick | Ian Allan | London | 1962 | D2 | ||||
24515 | Gen-War001 | D-Day-50th Anniversary of Normandy Landings | Southern Newspapers | 1993 | War – Railways during War | ||||||
24590 | Gen-War007 | Heavy Goods Engines of the War: v. 2. The Stanier 8F 2-8-0 | Rowledge, John Westbury Peter | Springmead | Poole | 1977 | B4-7 | War – Railways during War | |||
24605 | Gen-War008 | The British Railways can “take it' | Hind, John Robert | Valentine & Sons | Dundee | 1943 | B4-7 | War – Railways during War | |||
24620 | Gen-War010 | Facts about British railways in wartime, 1943. | British Railways | British Railways | London | 1943 | B4-7 | War – Railways during War | |||
24650 | Gen-War013 | Holton Heath – Railways - OtherTransport at (Cordite) | Whicher, Joe (newsletter 88) | Sussex Transport Interest Group | War – Railways during War | ||||||
24665 | Gen-War014 | Dorset at War -Diary of WW2 | Legg, Rodney | Dorset Publishing Company | 1990 | War – Railways during War | |||||
24710 | Gen-War019 | The 2-8-0 & 2-10-0 locomotives of the War Department, 1939-1945 : Stanier L.M.S. type 2-8-0, British Austerity 2-8-0, British Austerity 2-10-0, Robinson L.N.E.R. class O4 2-8-0. | Pollock, D. R. ; White, D. E. | Railway Correspondence and Travel Society | London | 1946 | Booklet | B4-7 | War – Railways during War | ||
24725 | Gen-War022 | Longmoor Military Railway | Bagnall, R. A. (edited by) | Railway Correspondence and Travel Society | London | 1966 | Booklet | B4-7 | War – Railways during War | ||
24770 | Gen-War026 | Swanage at War - D Day 50 Year Booklet | Chacksfield, K Merle | Swanage Town Council | War – Railways during War | ||||||
24785 | Gen-War027 | D-Day 50th Anniversary Year 1994 Booklet | Southern Tourist Boards | 1994 | War – Railways during War | ||||||
24800 | Gen-War028 | Dorset in Wartime – D Day 50th Anniversary | Dorset County Council | 1994 | War – Railways during War | ||||||
24815 | Gen-War030 | Prisoners of War Exhibition (May 1-June 10 1944) | Red Cross & St John | 1944 | War – Railways during War | ||||||
24830 | Gen-War031 | Victory - Daily Echo WW2 60th Anniversary Souvenir | Newspaper | Daily Echo | 2005 | War – Railways during War | |||||
24860 | Gen-War034 | Wartime – We'll Eat Again - A collection of recipes | Patten, Marguerite; Museum, Imperial War | Imperial War Museum/Hamlyn | 1990 | War – Railways during War | |||||
24965 | Local-Dor042 | Bound to the soil. A social history of Dorset, 1750-1918. | Kerr, Barbara | John Baker | London | 1968 | Z | Local History & Amenities | |||
24995 | Local-B004 | Bournemouth & Purbeck O.S Map Sheet 195 1.50 | Survey, Ordnance | Ordnance Survey | 1974 | Local History & Amenities | |||||
25010 | Local-B005 | Discovering prehistoric Bournemouth and Christchurch. A record of local finds in the twentieth century, etc. [With illustrations, including maps.] | Calkin, J Bernard | Red House Museum and Art Gallery | Christchurch | 1966 | Booklet | Z | Local History & Amenities | ||
25025 | Local-B006 | Bournemouth Pictorial - Resort History – Newspaper | Newspaper | Mirror Group - West of England | 1978 | Local History & Amenities | |||||
25040 | Local-B008 | The Antiquities of Brownsea Island | National Trust | National Trust | London | 1968 | Z | Local History & Amenities | |||
25055 | Local-Ch002 | Church Knowle – A Purbeck Parish through the ages | Tennent, R J | Anglebury Bartlett | 1981 | Z | Local History & Amenities | ||||
25070 | Local-Co001 | Village on the hill: Colehill in Dorset | Sadler, George | Dorset Publishing Company | Wimborne? | 1992 | Z | Local History & Amenities | |||
25085 | Local-Co002 | Corfe Castle Encyclopadedia | Legg, Rodney | Dorset Publishing Company | Wimborne? | 2000 | Z | Local History & Amenities | |||
25100 | Local-Co003 | Cleall's Guide to Corfe Castle (Booklet) | Cleall | Cleall's | Corfe Castle | 2020 | Booklet | Local History & Amenities | |||
25115 | Local-Co005 | Corfe Castle. Millennium of St Edward (Programme) | Committee, St. Edward Millennium | St Edward Millennium Committee | 1978 | Local History & Amenities | |||||
25130 | Local-Co007 | Corfe Castle Village Leaflet 1996 | Society, Corfe Castle | Dorset RDA Community Projects | 1996 | Local History & Amenities | |||||
25160 | Local-Dor011 | Dorset - The King's England (History Book) | Mee, A | Hodder & Stoughton | 1947 | Local History & Amenities | |||||
25175 | Local-Dor012 | Dorset - City & County Histories | Bettey, J H | David & Charles | 1974 | Local History & Amenities | |||||
27890 | Manual-E-1925 | Instructions applicable to the Electrified Lines (Direct Current conductor rail system). 1st June 1925 | Southern Railway | London | 1925 | Manual | D4 | Manual (Operations or Systems) | Poor | ||
28460 | Manual-Ga-1952 | Codes of practice for gangers, sub-gangers and lengthmen. (BR12804) | British Railways | British Railways | London | 1952 | H5 | Manual (Operations or Systems) | Poor | ||
31175 | Rail Mag 009 | Railway Magazine Volume 9 1901 July to December | Magazine | Railway Magazine | 1901 | Poor | |||||
28040 | Manual-E-1966 | Electrified lines instructions (direct current system) (BR 29857) | British Rail (Southern Region) | British Rail (Southern Region) | London | 1966 | Manual | D4 | Manual (Operations or Systems) | Good | |
28055 | Manual-E-1966 | Supplement no 2 to "Electrified lines instructions (direct current system) (BR29857/2) | British Rail (Southern Region) | British Rail (Southern Region) | London | 1974 | Manual | D4 | Manual (Operations or Systems) | Good | |
33605 | Rules-BR-1950 | Rules for observance by employees [Cover: Rule Book 1950] (BR87109) | British Railways, | British Railways | London | 1950 | Manual | H3 | Rules/Regulations – British Railways | Good | |
35000 | S-Bo005 | Boscastle Story | Tawse, J | James G Tawse | 1992 | Softback | E8F | Good | |||
40025 | S-Loc018 | Locomotive engineers of the Southern Railway and its constituent companies. | Webb, Ben | Ian Allan | London | 1946 | Softback | E1 | Good | ||
27320 | Manual-Dies-1958 | Driving instructions of diesel locomotives and diesel trains. ((BR3003/6) | British Railways | London | 1958 | Loose Leaf | Manual (Operations or Systems) | Fair | |||
27650 | Manual-Dr-1938 | Express Stock [4-coach corridor units; 5-coach corridor Pullman units; 6-coach corridor units] operation and description of electrical equipment for the information of motormen. (WX476) | Southern Railway | Southern Railway | London | 1938 | Manual | Manual (Operations or Systems) | Fair | ||
27905 | Manual-E-1935 | Instructions applicable to the Electrified Lines (Direct Current conductor rail system). 8th June 1925 Re-issued [and revised?] 1st October 1935. (Ex 415) | Elliott, G M | Southern Railway | London | 1935 | Manual | D4 | Manual (Operations or Systems) | Fair | |
27920 | Manual-E-1941 | Instructions applicable to the Electrified Lines (Direct Current conductor rail system). 8th June 1925 Re-issued [and revised?] 1st June 1941. (Ex 773) | Southern Railway | London | 1941 | Manual | D4 | Manual (Operations or Systems) | Fair | ||
28070 | Manual-Elec-1967 | Working instructions for A.C. electrified lines. (BR29987) | British Railways | London | 1967 | Hardback | D4 | Manual (Operations or Systems) | Fair | ||
28085 | Manual-E-1975 | Extracts from Working instructions for A.C. Electrified Lines (BR29988) | British Railways | London | 1975 | Manual | D4 | Manual (Operations or Systems) | Fair | ||
28100 | Manual-E-1976 | Electrified Lines working instructions (BR29857) [direct current system] | British Rail (Southern Region), | British Rail (Southern Region) | London | 1976 | Manual | D4 | Manual (Operations or Systems) | Fair | |
29135 | Manual-Wint-1965 | Winterisation and frost precautions. | British Rail, Southern Region. R M & E E Dept. | British Rail - Southern Region. | London | 1985 | Manual | G1 | Manual (Operations or Systems) | Fair | |
37355 | S-Bu017 | Master Builders of Steam | Bulleid, Henry Anthony Vaughan | Ian Allan | London | 1963 | Hardback | E1 | Biography - Locomotive Engineers (Various) | Fair | |
39575 | S-Ke007 | The Kent & East Sussex Railway. rev ed. | Garrett, Steven R | Oakwood Press | Tarrant Hinton,Blandford | 1980 | Booklet | D1A | Regional Railways - Kent & East Sussex | Fair | |
39905 | S-Loc007 | Locomotives of the London Brighton & South Coast Railway. 3rd ed. | Tilling, W G (comp) | W G Tilling | London | 1932 | Softback | E8E | Fair | ||
28205 | Manual-EMU-1949 | Electric multiple unit stock : description & operation of electrical equipment, for the information of motormen. | British Rail, Southern Region. | British Railways - Southern Region | London | 1949 | Manual (Operations or Systems) | Needs Conservation | |||
34280 | Rules-Sig-1949 | Instructions to be observed during fog or falling snow and during severe snowstorms. | British Railways - Southern Region | London | 1949 | Softback | E15 | Rules/Regulations – Signalling | Needs Conservation | ||
39020 | Manual-Head-1943 | Engine head signals (WX 480) | Southern Railway | Southern Railway | Dorking | 1943 | Softback | E15 | Needs Conservation | ||
25190 | Local-Dor023 | Dorset Camera 1855-1914 | Burnett, David | Dovecote Press | 2014 | Local History & Amenities |