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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]
Live steam - Eatwell and Cooper-Smith [Fitzhouse]
Locomotives of the North Eastern Railway - Nock [H.O.Lloyd]
Locospotters Annual 1968 [Ian Allan]
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]
Narrow Gauge into the Eighties - G.T. Heavyside [David & Charles]
Non stop! London to Scotland steam - A.J. Mullan [Alan Sutton]
Preserved Steam in Britain - Patrick B. Whitehouse [George Allen & Unwin]
Rail 150 - Jack Simmons [Eyre Methuen]
Railway World Annual for 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]
The World Guide to Model Trains - Peter McCoy [Sphere]
This is York - Michael Harris [Ian Allan]
Trains Annual [Ian Allan] 1967
Working steam locomotives of the world - Colin Garratt [Octopus]
20th Century steam - Avery [Wordsworth Editions]

These are £2 each
A Century of Steam Trains - Derek Avery [Brockhampton Press]
Britain's Railways at War 1939-1945 - Alan Earnshaw [Atlantic]
British Locomotives of the 20th Century Volume 2 (1930-1960) - O. S. Nock [PSL]
British trams in camera - Thompson [Fraser Stewart]
Building Model locomotices - Roche and Templer [Ian Allan]
Down the line to Bristol - Searle [Baton]
Down the line to Dover - Searle [Midas]
Down the line to Southend - Searle [Bloomsbury]
Great Train Disasters - Geoffrey Kichenside [Siena]
Historic industrial scenes,Wales - D. Morgan Rees [Moorland]
History of the Chiltern Line - John M.C. Healy [Greenwich Editions]
Light Rail Review nos 1-5, 7 (Platform 5)
Line clear ahead, 75 years of ups and downs - O.S. Nock [PSL] (ex. public library copy)
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]
Scottish Steam Today - P.J.G. Ransom [Richard Drew Publishing]
Steam Railways of Britain - O.S. Nock [Blandford]
Steam Works (BR locos and workshops in the age of steam) - Derek Huntriss [BCA]
Still in steam, a guide to working steam railways 1978 - E/L. Cornwell [Ian Allan] (ex. public library copy)
Stopping train Britain - Frater [Hodder and Stoughton]
The Atlas of Train Travel - J. B. Hollingsworth [Excalibur]
The Forth Railway Bridge - Anthony Murray [Mainstream Publishing]
The Illustrated History of Railways in Britain - G. Freeman Allen [Marshall Cavendish]
The Pocket Encyclopaedia of British Steam Locomotives - O.S. Nock [Blandford]
The Settle to Carlisle - Roger Siviter [Baton Press]
The World's Great Railway Journeys - Tom Savio [Connaught/New Holland]
Traction engines in close-up - E.H. Sawford [Bradford Barton]
Train Journeys of the World [AA]
Trains in Trouble Volume 1 - Arthur Trevenna [Atlantic]
Trains in Trouble Volume 2 - Arthur Trevenna [Atlantic]
Trains in Trouble Volume 3 - Ken Hoole [Atlantic]
Trains in Trouble Volume 5 - Alan Earnshaw [Atlantic]
Yesterday's Railways - Peter Herring [David & Charles]

These are £3 each
50 years of preserved steam on the mainline - Whiteley and Morrison [Guild Publishing]
150 years of British Railways - ed. M. Hedges [Hamlyn/W.H. Smith]
A day in the life of British Rail - Murray Brown [Guild Publishing]
A History of the LNER 1: The first years 1923-33 - Michael P. Bonavia [George Allen & Unwin]
A History of the LNER 2: The age of the streamliners 1934-39 - Michael P. Bonavia [George Allen & Unwin]
A History of the LNER 3: The last years 1939-48 - Michael P. Bonavia [George Allen & Unwin]
A Lifetime with 0 gauge, Crewchester and others - Jack Ray [Atlantic]
All Stations to Murder - Barry Herbert [Silver Link]
British Steam, a profile - ed. by P.B. Whitehouse [New English Library]
Building Model Locomotives - Ed. S. W. Stevens-Stratton [Ian Allan]
Discovering Britain's Lost Railways - Paul Atterbury [AA]
Electric Euston to Glasgow - O. S. Nock [Ian Allan]
Engine 6000 - O. S. Nock [David & Charles]
George Hudson, the rise and fall of the Railway King - Brian Bailey [Allan Sutton]
Great Northern Locomotive History Volume 1 (1847-66) - N. Groves [RCTS]
Great Western 4-6-0s at Work - Michael Rutherford [PRC]
Great Western in Colour - O.S. Nock [New Orchard Editions]
History of Railways Volume 2 [bound in 1986 from a weekly magazine, 500+ pages]
History of the great trains - Chris Cook [BCA]
History of the great trains - Chris Cook [Weidenfeld & Nicholson] (ex. public library copy)
In Search of Steam 1962-68 - Robert Adley [BCA]
Inverness to Crewe - Martin Evans [Model Aeronautical Press]
Light Railways - W. J. K. Davies [Ian Allan]
Locomotives: A Picture History - B. Reed [Piccolo]
London Midland and Scottish - C. Hamilton Ellis [Ian Allan]
London under London: a subterranean guide - Trench and Hillman [John Murray]
Marshall's Book of Railways - Ed. C. E. Waller [Percival Marshall]
Modern Railways - Cecil J. Allen [Faber and Faber]
North Eastern pacifics, a pictorial survey - Norman E. Preedy [Bradford Barton]
Notes and Data on Railway Engineering - Frank Reeves [Charles Griffin]
On steam, British standard gauge railways rescued from extinction - Nock [Granada] (ex. public library copy)
Rail Tales of the Unexpected - K. W. Jones [David St. John Thomas]
Railway (Magazine) Annual 96 - Nick Pigott [APC]
Railways of the Western Region - Geoffrey Body [PSL]
Railways of the World Parts 1-7 by Fred A. Talbot
Royal Scots of the LMS - ed. Doherty [Ian Allan]
Signalling in the age of steam - Michael Vanns [Ian Allan]
Southern Steam - O.S. Nock [Pan]
Steam: Great Trains and Railways - John Westwood [Sundial]
Steam railways of the world - P.B. Whitehouse [Hamlyn/St. Michael]
Steam was my calling - E. S. Beavor [Ian Allan]
That was my railway - Frank L. Hick [Silver Link]
The archaeology of railways - P.J.G. Ransom [World's Work Ltd.]
The golden age of steam - O.S. Nock [Black] (ex. public library copy)
The pictorial encyclopedia of railways - C. Hamilton Ellis [Hamlyn]
The pictorial story of railways - E. L. Cornwell [Hamlyn]
The Rail Enthusiast's quiz book - Howard Johnston [Arcturus]
The Railway Vanishes - H. G. Forsythe [Silver Link]
The trains we loved - C. Hamilton Ellis [Pan]
Trams on the Road - David Gladwin [Batsford]
Treacey's Routes North - Whitehouse and Powell [David & Charles]
Tribute to British steam [Ian Allan]
Victorian and Edwardian Locomotives - David Baxter [Moorland]
World steam since 1980 - Lou Johnson [W.H. Smith]

These are £5 each
British Railways Illustrated Annual Number One [Irwell]
British Railways Illustrated Summer Special No. 1 [Irwell]
Broken Rails, How privatisation wrecked Britain's railways - Christian Wolmar [Aurum]
Crafts Annual 1926 (front cover missing)
Great Northern Railway engine sheds Volume 1: Southern area - Griffiths and Hooper [Irwell Press]
Inter City 125 (Super Profile) - R.M. Tufnell [Haynes]
John Ramsbottom - Robin Pennie [L&YRS]
Liverpool and Manchester 3: Lancashire and Yorkshire lines - Bob Pixton [Kestrel]
Living Steam - Anthony Lambert [Connaught/New Holland]
LNWR Miscellany Volume 2 - E. Talbot [OPC]
London Midland steam on shed - 45562 [Bradford Barton]
Model Railways and their Builders - Jack Ray [Atlantic]
More Great Western steam on shed - C. L. Williams [Bradford Barton]
Narrow gauge model railways - Michael Andress [Almark]
Profile of the Southern Moguls - Les Elsey [OPC]
Railway Disasters Cause and Effect - Stanley Hall [PRC]
Tales of the Glasgow and South Western Railway - David L. Smith [Ian Allan]
The New Household Encyclopedia Parts 1-52 (of 52)
The picture story of world's railways - C. Johns [World Distributors]
The world encyclopedia of railways - Colin Garratt [Lorenz]
Trains and Transport - Anderson and Swinglehurst [Bracken Books]
Twenty locomotive men - C. Hamilton Ellis [Ian Allan] (ex. public library copy)

Other items
Along Hornby Lines - Bernard Huntington [OPC] £10
A Pictorial Record of Great Western Engines Volumes 1 and 2 - J.H. Russell [OPC] These are the original versions in a slip case. The case and one of the book spines is rather battered but the insides are good. £20
Blue Pullman - Kevin Robertson.NEW BOOK contains detail drawings and photographs of BR’s original Midland and GW Diesel Blue Pullman units of the early 1960s. Will go well with the forthcoming Heljan 00 model. £14.50
Bradshaw's Railway Manual, Shareholders' Guide and Directory 1869 (reprint) - [David & Charles] £10
Guild of Railway Artists: the Great Western Collection - Hollingsworth [Blandford] £10
Historic Industrial Scenes: Wales - D. Morgan Rees [Moorland Publishing] £10
Pictorial Record of LNWR signalling - Richard Foster [OPC] (ex. public library copy) £10
Rail 7 portfolios: The 47s - Howard Johnston [Jane's]
Steam engines (50 coloured illustrations) [J. Salmon Ltd.] £10
The Garden Railway Manual - C.J. Freezer [PSL] £10
The Wild Swan Profile book of Stanier’s Duchesses. NEW BOOK, provides just about every detail you need to know about these locos. £18.00
Trix Twin catalogues: 1937-38, 1938-39, 1939-40 £10 each
Railway Wonders of the World Parts 1-50 (of 50) by Clarence Winchester £15 the lot

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 60p for one, £5 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 postal charges within the UK, one pre-1950 magazine, when they were relatively small, will cost about 75p, £3 for a whole year or £7 for 3 years. Recent magazines are much heavier and postage will cost over £1 each, £8 for a year, £12 for 2 years or £16 for 4 years.

We can offer payment by credit or debit card (via Paypal) - particularly useful for overseas buyers where currency exchange is involved.

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 Magazine (successor to the LNER magazine): October 1948, March 1949

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: Volumes 1-18 £10 per volume

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 numbers 6, 11, 13, 14

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 Lancashire and Yorkshire Society: Platform 19, 21-36

Lancashire and Yorkshire Society Magazine numbers 216, 219, 222-228

LMS Journal: Nos. 1, 3-19 £4 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

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

Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician: Volume 3 1900

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 year for 2002 plus 29 odd copies from 1998-2007

Model Railway Constructor: (bound volumes) 1938, January 1939-January 1940, February 1940-January 1941.
In binders: 1976-82, 1986;
Loose copies in full years: 1946-1951 (except for January 1947), 1956-1958 (except for March 1956).
Odd loose copies from 1946, 1973, 1975, 1976

Model Railway Journal all in excellent condition: 103 loose copies from 10-175 at £1 each

Model Railway News bound volumes (no advert pages): 1925 facsimile, 1926, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1940 and 1941, January-June 1949, July 1949-December 1950, April 1950-December 1951, January 1952-July 1953, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953
In binders: 1949, 1965, 1966
Loose copies: 1938 (January, May, October), 1940 (March, September), 1944 (May, August), 1945 (March, April, May, September, October, November), 1946 (February-October, December), January 1951 - August 1971 except January 1960.
From September 1971 Model Railway News changed its name to Model Railways.

Model Railways complete years in binders: September 1971-December 1972, 1973-1982, 1984. Bound: 1975

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

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

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.

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

Railfan and Railroad (USA magazine) 33 copies from January 1988 to December 2009

Railroad Model Craftsman (USA magazine) still being sorted

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, 1969, 1971-1981, 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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