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  • REVIEWS: Monorails of the Early 20th Century

    REVIEWS: Monorails of the Early 20th Century

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Adrian S Garner Published by Lightmoor Press www.lightmoor.co.uk 208 pages, black & white, 283 x 220mm, hardback. £25.00 THIS amazing piece of work is a follow-up to the author’s 2011 book that covered monorails in the 1800s, moving on to detail those built from 1900 to the end of the Second World War –…

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  • Tyneside Railway – The 1970s and 1980s

    Tyneside Railway – The 1970s and 1980s

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Colin Alexander Published by Amberley www.amberley-books.com 96 pages, colour, 235x165mm, softback. £14.99 THIS is a picture and caption format book that takes a nostalgic look back to the railways around Newcastle during the period of huge change that was the 1970s and 80s. It is filled with mostly modern traction shots, but with a…

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  • REVIEWS: Night Trains of British Rail

    REVIEWS: Night Trains of British Rail

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Alan Whitehouse THIS book does ‘exactly what it says on the tin’ as a picture and caption collection of night shots of British Rail workings taken mostly in the 1980s. Back then, the variety was much greater than today – both in terms of locos used as well as traffic carried. Passenger, parcels, mail,…

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  • British Rail Diesels

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Mick Hymans Subtitled ‘The lives of the early diesels in photographs’, this book sets out to catalogue every British Railways diesel type from Class 15 to Class 55 plus shunters and prototypes resulting from the 1955 Modernisation Plan. To attempt this in only 160 pages means that each class does not receive more than…

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