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Author

Title & Details

Price

BB801A

Barfield, T.

When There Was STEAM
Memories of a Western Region Fireman

BB, 19 pp. 116, with 20 illus on 16 plates, map & plan.
Locomotive working centred on Kidderminster depot, 1950s.

£6.50

BB801B

Barfield, T.

PANNIERS AND PRAIRIES
More Memories of a Western Region Fireman

BB, 1981 pp. 108, 13 illus.
Based at Kidderminster shed. (sl tired)

£6.00

BB802

Gwillam, R.

A LOCOMOTIVE FIREMAN LOOKS BACK
BB, [1979] pp. 151, with 10 illus.
Period, from 1951.

SOLD

BB803

Fleming, D.J.

ST PHILIPS MARSH
memories of an engine shed

BB, [1980] pp. 114, with 30 illus on 16 plates.
Period 1956 until closure in 1964.

£5.00

BB804

Jacks, L.C.

DRAWN BY STEAM memories of a Tyseley locoman
BB, [UND] pp. 164.

£6.50

BB805

Jacks, L.C.

DIESELS a driver's reminiscences
BB, [1982] pp. 112. 22 photos.
Work in the Birmingham area during 1960s.

£5.00

BB806

Drayton, J.

ON THE FOOTPLATE
memories of a GWR engineman

BB, 1976 pp. 111, with frontis, 20 illus & a map.
Over 50 years on the GWR and BR(WR) from 1923, based mostly on Welsh depots. Illustrated by photographs, mainly by the author.

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BB807

Mountford, E.R.

SWINDON GWR REMINISCENCES
BB, [1982] pp. 112. 17 photos.
Author was a works apprentice in 1930s.

£5.00

BB808A

Bushell, G.

LMS LOCOMAN
Wellingborough Footplate memories

BB, [1982] pp. 112. 14 photos.
Reminiscences of a fireman, 1933-40.

£5.00

BB80B

Bushell, G.

LMS LOCOMAN
Willesden Footplate Memories

BB, [1982] pp. 112. 14 photos.
Reminiscences 1940-8.

£5.00

BB808C

Bushell, G.

L.M.S. LOCOS from the footplate
BB, [1984] pp. 128.
Further reminiscences 1933-48.

£5.00

BB809A

Essery, T.

FIRING DAYS at SALTLEY
BB, [1980] pp. 174, with frontis (portrait) & 13 illus on 8 plates (pp. 81-88).
Locomotive work centred upon Saltley motive power depot, Birmingham, 1950-59.

SOLD

BB809B

Essery, T.

More FIRING DAYS at SALTLEY
BB, [1981?] pp. 163, with frontis (portrait) & 14 illus on 7 plates.

Locomotive work centred upon Saltley motive power depot, Birmingham, 1950-59.

£5.00

BB810A

Johnson, P.G.

THROUGH THE LINKS AT CREWE
Top Link Footplate Memories [Vol 1]

BB, [1980] pp. 123.
Reminiscences of a fireman in 1940s/50s.

£6.00

BB810B

Johnson, P.G.

THROUGH THE LINKS AT CREWE
More Top Link Footplate Memories Vol 2

BB, [1981] pp. 124.

SOLD

BB811

Stokes, K.

BOTH SIDES of the FOOTPLATE
BB, [1984] pp. 111.
Reminiscences of work on the LMSR in Yorkshire, 1924 to the end of steam.

£5.00

BB812

Burgess

WORKING WITH LMS STEAM
BB, 1983 pp. 143. 14 illus.
Reminiscences of a shed fitter, 1932-60s.

£5.00

BB813

Bonnett, H.

SMOKE AND STEAM!
GN and LNER footplate memories

BB, 1981 pp. 109. 15 illus.

£5.00

BB814

Dixon, N.

YORKSHIRE LOCOMAN
LNER memories

BB, 1983 pp. 112. 17 photos.

£5.00

BB815

Semmens, P.

NORTH EASTERN ENGINEMAN
[Driver Syd Midgley and fifty years of Steam]

BB, 1980 pp. 119, with 23 illus on 16 plates (pp. 53-60, 77-84).
Period, 1914-1963, NER-LNER-BR.

£5.00

BB816

Potts, G.C.

BANKERS and PILOTS
Footplate Memories

BB, [1984] pp. 136. 17 photos.
Reminiscences of Mexborough, 1922-52.

£5.50

BB817

Hill, J.

BUCKJUMPERS GOBBLERS AND CLAUDS
A lifetime on the Great Eastern and LNER footplates.

BB, 1981 pp. 112. 13 photos.
Period 1913-1960. Includes WWI service in the Railway Operating Department (ROD) of the Royal Engineers.

£5.50

BB818A

Meacher, C.

LNER FOOTPLATE MEMORIES
The story of twenty-five years on and off shed

BB, 1978 pp. 150, with 22 illus, 2 maps & 2 plans.
Centred upon Haymarket and St Margaret's locomotive depots, Edinburgh.

£6.00

BB818B

Meacher, C.

LIVING WITH LOCOS
BB, [1980] pp. 108, with 9 illus & a map.
A sequel to his LNER FOOTPLATE MEMORIES (1978). Memoirs based on Thornton motive power depot, Fife; steam locos, LNER & BR(ScR).

£5.50

BB819

McGregor, J.A.

All Stations to MALLAIG!
the West Highland line since Nationalisation

BB, 1982 pp. 112, with 20 photos, 2 maps.
A history 1948-80.

£4.50

BB820

Stephen, R.D.

STEAM SUPREME recollections of Scottish railways in the 1920s
BB, [1980] pp. 151, with 48 illus on 24 plates.

£4.50

BB821

Dunbar, A.G. &
Glen, I.A.

fifty years with SCOTTISH STEAM
BB, [1982] pp. 112. 15 photos.
Dunbar's recollections of Scottish steam locomotives from 1912, including his experiences as a fitter with Caledonian Railway, editede by Glen, partly from previously published articles.

£4.50

BB822

Hooker, A.E.

NINE ELMS ENGINEMAN
BB, [1984] pp. 124.
Reminiscences of a fireman 1940-48, including participation in the Locomotive Exchange Trials, 1948.

SOLD

BB823

Hollands, G.

SOUTHERN LOCOMAN
BB, [1982] pp. 110.
Reminiscences of work, primarily as a fireman at Tunbridge Wells West, 1940s-50s.

£5.00

BB824

Jackman, M.

ENGINEMAN S.R.
BB, [1982] pp. 112. 18 photos.
Memoirs of a footplateman based at Bricklayers Arms, 1947 to the end of steam traction.

£4.50

BB825

Norman, H.

FOOTPLATE DAYS on the SOUTHERN
BB, 1983 pp. 112. 15 illus.
Reminiscences of a fireman at Stewarts Lane, 1948-50s.

£5.00

BB826

Aynsley, B.W.

NOTHING LIKE STEAM!
footplate work on Southern Region

BB, [1980] pp. 112, with 12 illus.

SOLD

BB827

Burke, M.

SIGNALMAN
BB, [1982] pp. 112.
Reminiscences of work in the north-west of England since 1953.

£4.50

BB828

Fawcett, D.

GANGER GUARD and SIGNAL-MAN
Working memories of the Settle & Carlisle

BB, 1981 pp. 112.

SOLD

BB829

Kalla-Bishop, P.M.

LOCOMOTIVES AT WAR
army railway reminiscences of the Second World War

BB, [1980] pp. 151, with 16 illus on 8 plates.
Depots in GB: Martin Mill, Longmoor, Melbourne, the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Rly, and military railways in Northern Ireland and at bases abroad.

£5.00

 

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