Railway - Great Britain & Ireland
Aerofilms
From the Air Britain's Railways
Then & Now [Volume Two]
Second volume of aerial photographs across the country, comparing 2000/1 with the same location in the 1920s to 1970s. Substantial large format hardback. The first volume compared 1997 in 'Britain's Railways from the Air' (see separate listing).
AGNEW, W. A.
Electric Trains - Their Equipment and Operation
Volumes One & Two - Including Notes on Electric Locomotives, Electro-Pneumatic Brakes, Regenerative Braking, Air-Operated Doors, etc.
Detailed 1930s study of technical aspects of electric traction, illustrated with photographs and fold-out diagrams throughout in two substantial volumes.
AHRONS, E.L.
The Steam Railway Locomotive - Explaining the Component Parts and Method of Working of Modern Steam Railway Locomotives
AHRONS, E.L.
Locomotive & Train Working in the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century
Volumes 1 to 6
Pioneering articles covering pre-grouping locomotives and their workings. Originally printed in 'The Railway Magazine' between 1915 and 1927, a selection from each area of the British Isles was published in six illustrated volumes between 1951 and 1954.
AHRONS, E.L. & NOCK, O.S.
The British Steam Railway Locomotive
Volume 1 and 2 from 1825 to 1965
A classic railway study, this history of the British steam locomotive was first produced as a series of articles by E.L. Ahrons in 1925. It was published as a single volume in 1927 and the history continued in a second volume by O.S. Nock in 1966.
