Enquiries to: treasurer <at> mmrs.co.uk

Railway books from Robert Fysh
Various hardback railway books at £1 each. [See also road vehicles in For Sale].
SAE for list to: Mr. R. Fysh, 57 Moss Lane, Timperley, Cheshire WA15 6LQ

MMRS surplus book stock (prices do not include postage)

These are £1 each
British steam revival - Skelton and Huxtable [Jane's]
Famous railway photographers: P Ransome Wallis [David and Charles]
Great Railway Journeys of the World - Frayn, ...., Wood [BBC]
George Stephenson - J.Rowland [Odhams]
Great Western Kings - super profile - C.J.Freezer [Haynes]
Guinness Book of Rail Facts and Feats 1971 - John Marshall [Guinness]
Guinness Book of Rail Facts and Feats 1981 - John Marshall [Guinness]
Locomotives of the North Eastern Railway - Nock [H.O.Lloyd]
Locospotters Annual 1968 [Ian Allan]
Light Rail Review nos 1-5, 7 (Platform 5) £1 each
Live steam - Eatwell and Cooper-Smith [Fitzhouse]
Midland Railway locomotive album 1880-1910 - R. Higgins [Vintage carriages trust]
Model railway engines – J.E. Minns [Octopus]
Model railways locomotive album - Doherty [MAP]
Modern methods of railway operation - R. Hammond [Frederick Muller]
Non stop! London to Scotland steam - A.J.Mullan [Alan Sutton]
Rail 150 - Jack Simmons [Eyre Methuen]
Railway World Annual for 1976, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1988
Severn Valley steam - Gerald Nabarro [Routledge and Kegan Paul]
Steam entertainment - Hume and Duckham [David and Charles]
Steaming through Britain - A. Burton [Arrow]
Steam trains - Colin Garratt
The development of the locomotive 1803-1896 - C.E. Stretton [Bracken]
The golden age of steam - J. Pudney [Hamish Hamilton]
The GWR: a new history - F. Booker [David and Charles]
The return of the Great Britain - Goold-Adams [Weidenfeld and Nicholson]
This is York - Michael Harris [Ian Allan]
Trains Annual [Ian Allan] 1967
20th Century steam - Avery [Wordsworth Editions]

These are £2 each
British trams in camera - Thompson [Fraser Stewart]
Down the line to Bristol - Searle [Baton]
Down the line to Dover - Searle [Midas]
Down the line to Southend - Searle [Bloomsbury]
Marklin catalogue not sure of the year, probably 1950s, 12 pages with code Oa537 on the front
Operating your layout - M. Andress [PSL]
Period railway modelling buildings - Vivien Thompson [Peco]
Rocket 150 - O.S. Nock [Ian Allan]
Stopping train Britain - Frater [Hodder and Stoughton]

Other items
Crafts Annual 1926 (front cover missing) £5
Railways of the World Parts 1-7 by Fred A. Talbot £3 for the lot
Railway Wonders of the World Parts 1-50 (of 50) by Clarence Winchester £15 the lot
The New Household Encyclopedia Parts 1-52 (of 52) £5 the lot
Trix Twin catalogues: 1937-38, 1938-39, 1939-40 £10 each

MMRS magazine stock

We try to keep the lists below up to date, but there may be copies which have been sold or which are not yet listed. If there is something which you particularly require then let us know and and we will have a search.

Our online prices are 50p for one, £1.30 for three, £4 for 12, with some exceptions which are listed.

If you are not able to collect the magazines (from South Manchester) then the cost of postage needs to be added. To give you some idea of postage charges within the UK, a single magazine pre-1950, when they were relatively small, will cost about 75p each, £2.50 for a whole year or £5 for 3 years. Recent magazines are much heavier and postage will cost about £1 each, £7 for a year, £12 for 2 years or £15 for 4 years.

Aero Modeller Volume 1 number 11 (October 1936) £2

Backtrack: Vol 1 Nos 3 & 4, Vol 3 Nos 3 & 4, Vol 4 No 6

British Railway Modelling: loose copies in complete years for 1997-2000, 2002-2008; 43 odd copies from December 1993 to February 2009. Annuals for 2008 and 2009 at £2 each

British Railways Illustrated: 10 copies from Volume 1 no.6 to Volume 13 no.4

Continental Modeller 15 loose copies from Winter 1979 to May 2009

Garden Rail: 2000 March to December and June and September; 2001 full year; 2002 full year and December;
2003 January, February, May to November; 2004 January; 2006 January, May to December; 2007 January to April, June to November

Garden Railways (from the USA): 2000 October and December

Great Western Railway Journal 10 copies from No 3 (Summer 1992) to No 22 (Spring 1997)

Heritage Railway: March 2005 (No 77) to December 2006 (no 92) except for number 76 (August 2005)

Hobbies Weekly 300 copies from 1936, 1937, 1943, 1945-1950, four binders and Hobbies Handbooks for 1949, 1950 and 1951 £30 for the lot

Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society: Autumn 1961, Autumn 1962, 38 copies from 1975 to 1989

LMS Journal: Nos. 1-19 £5 each

Locomotives Illustrated: Nos. 47 (LMS 2-6-4T), 58 (LMS 3P 2-6-2T), 60 (GWR 0-4-2T), 63 (Midland 4-4-0),
72 (Ivatt 2-6-0 and 2-6-2T)

London and North Eastern Railway Magazine: August 1936; May 1941; March 1943; also the British Railway Magazine (successor to the L&NER magazine) October 1948; March 1949

Meccano Magazine: October, November and December 1924 have no covers and are stapled together £5

Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician: Volume 3 1900 £5

Model Engineer: in binders 1937-1979 (not all complete years); loose copies from 1942 to 1963

Modellers Back Track: Vol 1 Nos 2 & 6,  Vol 2 Nos 4 & 5

Modelling Railways Illustrated: April 1995

Model Rail: full years 2000, 2005-2008 and odd copies from 1997-2009

Model Railway Constructor: (bound volumes) 1938, January 1939-January 1940, February 1940-January 1941;
(in binder) 1986;
Loose copies in full years: 1946-1958 (except for January 1947);
odd loose copies from 1946, 1973, 1975, 1976

Model Railway Journal all in excellent condition: 105 loose copies from 10-175 at £1 each

Model Railway News bound volumes: 1925, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940 and 1941, 1941, January-June 1949, July 1949-December 1950, April 1950-December 1951, January 1952-July 1953, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, November 1958

Model Railways complete years in binders: 1976-1981, 1984

Model Railways and Locomotives bound volumes:Volume 1 (1909), Volume 2 (1910), Volume 3 (1912)

Model Trains (Airfix): 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983

Modern Railways (was Trains Illustrated): 1962 (bound), 1963, 1964, 1983-1991 (in binders); over 100 loose copies from 1968-2000; full years 2004-2006 (loose copies)

Modern Transport (Ian Allan): issues 1-10

Motive Power Monthly (Ian Allan): 16 issues from February 1986 to September 1991

British Railways Illustrated: 10 copies from Volume 1 no.6 to Volume 13 no.4

North West Railway Enthusiast (became Northern Railway Enthusiast in April 1983 and Northern Railway in August 1984) (in binders): Volume 1 (1981-82), Volume 2 (1982-83), Volume 3 (1983-84), Volume 4 nos 1-5 only. £10 for the lot.

Practical Model Railway: December 1983-December 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988

Rail in binders: (May 2000) 383-394, 395-406, 407-418, 419-430, 431-437, 438-451, 455-466, 467-476 (December 2003) Loose copies, various for 1990 and 1991 and others still to be checked.

Rail Enthusiast 14 copies from April 1983 to December 1987

Railway Bylines: Volume 2 issue 6 (October/November 1997)

Railway Magazine: In binders: 1967 March to December, 1968-1974, 1982-1990
Loose copies in full years: 1975-1981, 2003-2006, 2007 (missing November), 2008, 2009
Odd loose copies: 6 copies from August 1932 to June 1935; 11 from 1942 to 1948; 8 from 1958; 2 from 1961;
1965 July to December; 28 copies from March 1970 to January 2009
Souvenir issues: 1997 July, 1998 July, 2000 January, October

Railway Modeller: complete years in binders 1959, 1961-1963, 1966, 1969-1981, 1983-1992, 1996-2000;
bound volumes: 1959, 1981, 1982;
full years, loose: 1967-1989, 1992, 1993, 1996 -1999, 2000 (January to October), 2004-2009.
Odd copies from 1959, 1966, 1977-2009

Railway Reflections: Nos 6-9, 11-17, 19-28. all for £15

Railways: in binders December 1939/January 1940-December 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951; also 76 loose copies from September 1943 to September 1951

Railway World: in binders 1969-1972; 1982-1990
full years, loose: 1973-1981
odd copies including 1992 January to October; some 1961, 1963, 1967 and 1968

Steam Days: 1994 July; 2005 April-August, October-December; 2006 January, March, April, July-October, December; 2007 April-June, September, October, December; 2008 February, June-August

Steam Railway Magazine in binders: 1980-1985+ Rocket 150 edition £20, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, January+November+December 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 (11 copies), 2006 (14 copies), 2008 (9 copies)

Trains Illustrated: January 1959, Summer 1967, Winter 1967-68, Spring 1968, Summer 1968, Autumn 1968, Winter 1968-69
Large format: Nos. 2-10, 12-15, 17, 18, 20, 24-27, 33-35, 49-55
Diesel loco special issue

Trains Illustrated Steam Alive! : issues 2-5 and 7-12 in binder

Trains Illustrated British Railways Then and Now: issues 6 to 8 and 10 to 12

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