The Railways of Sir Arthur Percival Heywood Vol. 1 Duffield Bank and Dove Leys

by James Waterfield  RCL Publications 2019

Hardback £47.50   Members £45

The author has spent many years studying and researching the work of Sir Arthur Heywood, particularly with regards the ‘Minimum Gauge Railway’. He has also built fine full-size working replicas of the locomotives Effie and Ursula, plus various items of Heywood rolling stock, including bogie carriages. This first volume covers the development of Sir Arthur’s idea and the establishment of his experimental 15 inch gauge line at Duffield. Much fresh information is contained in the text and many new, previously unpublished photographs are included. Even those images previously published, are the subject of fresh scans from originals where possible, giving a clarity not seen before. The locomotives and rolling stock are covered in detail, including over forty detailed scale drawings, prepared by Mike Decker. Coverage is given to the houses, the workshops at Duffield, the 9 inch line at Dove Leys and the Heywood locomotives and stock that ran on the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway. Volume two will cover the Eaton Hall Railway.

336 pages, over 300 photographs, 42 modellers’ scale drawings, 40 drawings, diagrams, maps and plans.

The Bungay Locomotive List

Ken Scanes  Donald Duck Publications 2001

softback, shop soiled   £3

The M.E. Engineering Locomotive List

Dennis Duck Publications

softback, shop soiled £3

Building the Mallaig Railway - a photographer's story

Hege Hernaes   Glenfinnan Museum  2020

Hardback,     £30

130 pages landscape

In July 2017, Glenfinnan Station Museum received, out of the blue, an email with an interesting attachment. A black & white photograph of ‘Cooper & Co.’s Railway Stores’ had come to light, revealing the appearance of one of the shops that used to serve the many navvies on the Mallaig Railway at the dawn of the 20^th century. No visual record of these stores had been known to exist.Generously illustrated with more than 100 pictures from 1900, this book is the story of the events and photographic revelations that followed on from that first picture, the years of research that ensued and the new knowledge that was gained in the process. It is a story about the people who built the Mallaig Railway and how they went about building it, engagingly written by the museum’s curator Hege Hernæs.

Rails along the Fathew - Story of the Talyllyn Railway

  Ian Drummond

Holne Publishing 2020  £25.95

A4 size, 224 pages hardback

Talyllyn 150 Reflections - Remembering the Talyllyn Railway 150th anniversary celebrations

  Ian Drummond

Holne Publishing 2020  £9.95

A4 size, 64 pages softback

Tours from the NGRS early years

  Narrow Gauge Railway Society 2020

Large Softback  £3.95

A4 size, 24 pages; 

A History of the Sandwell Park Collieries

   N A Chapman  Heartland Press 1997

Softback   £8.50

Paperback 132 pages,

The Railways of Bord na Mona - Industrial Narrow Gauge in the 21st Century

   Ted McAvoy  Branchstow Books 2022

Softback   £10.95

Landscape  64 pages

The Railways of Bord na Mona Industrial Narrow Gauge in the 21st Century by Ted McAvoy. The 3ft gauge railways of Bord na Mona were by far the largest network of narrow gauge ever seen in the British Isles. Moving as much as 4 million tonnes of peat each year, they featured more than 200 British built locomotives, before building their own from the 1990s. Each year around 200 miles of temporary tracks were laid. This book covers all aspects of the railways since 2000. Includes full colour photography.

Railways and Industries in North East Wales and Deeside

 Rob Shorland-Ball  Pen and Sword 2021

Hardback  144 pages  £25

Rob Shorland-Ball's researches for this book, and several visits, convinced him that he was putting together a jigsaw of facts. No previously published account of the area hasbrought together these stories of iron & steel making, limestone quarrying, coal mining, terra cotta, lead mining, and the railway systems they all needed to move their products to market. There were narrow and standard gauge railways – 80 miles of tracks in the Shotton Steel Works; industrial sites like Brymbo Iron and Steel Works; and since 2003 the Airbus factory which makes 100ft long wings for Airbus 380s that are too long to be moved by rail!