Ironstone Mining in the Lincolnshire Wolds

Society of Lincolnshire History  2017   £15

On steep western slopes of the Lincolnshire Wolds, between Market Rasen and Caistor, is a large outcrop of ironstone which was mined between 1867 and 1969. Most was dug by underground mining but some was gained by digging away the hillsides. Buildings, railways and tramways also helped to transform the hillsides above Claxby and Nettleton into an industrial landscape. This book details the history of the development, growth and closure of the mines. It describes the machinery and tells of the miners themselves, the risks they took, how they worked and relaxed.

This much sought after book written by Russell Wear to commemorate the 150th anniversay of Andrew Barclay & Co Ltd (and it predecessors) is a must have book for anyone interested in this important Kilmarnock based locomotive builder.  Soft cover.

THE STRONACH-DUTTON RAILROAD SYSTEM OF TRACTION

NGRS 234

£6.95

This little-known railway system was invented around 1913 after the realisation that rails which were heavy enough   to carry a locomotive were far stronger than was necessary for wagons or carriages.

The idea was that the track   would be built in lighter materials with the main weight of the locomotive being carried on road wheels which  ran alongside, the loco being located on the rails by small bogies.

Experience Plus

Kerr Stuart vertical boilered locomotives

INDUSTRIAL LOCOMOTIVE SOCIETY reprint  £6.75  Members £6

The Story of the Hampton and Kempton  Waterworks Railways

by Ron Howes and Jim Hewitt   Kempton Engine Trust  2015 

Paperback, 76 pages   £4.50

Vertical Boiler Locomotives - Volume 2

Industrial Locomotive Society Publication  2016

£29.95

Listed by manufacturer and heavily illustrated, an essential addition to the history of this type of locomotive.

Modelling Heavy Industry

A guide for Railway Modellers

Arthur Ormrod

Crowood Press

£18.99 softback

H C S Bullock his life and locomotives

A biography written by his son K A Bullock

A to B books 2017  £11.95

The locomotives of Tom Smith

Builder of more than 50 miniature locomotives

A to B books 2016  £9.99

The Nuttall Ruston Lists by Brian Gent and John de Havilland

Dennis Duck Publications 2001 

softback, new  £4

Details of the Ruston and Hornsby Locomotives owned by Edmund Nuttall, Sons and Co Ltd.