FREE Railway Books to a good home - ANDOVER (UK)

[FastLeg]

Downsizing, so no longer have space for these, so free to a good home. British Rail 70s-80s-90s Good to fair quality (some ex library).

Also UK Freight DVD Set (10 hours on 5 DVD's)
Also various VHS tapes inc. Archive British Diesel & Electric Tracion Vols 1-3.

Collection ONLY from near Andover (Hampshire, UK) within the next week!

Also many magazines 60-70-80-90-00 Modern Railways, Railway World, Rail, Modern Railway Pictorial, Motive Power Monthly. These are optional. If you want the books and not the magazines then fine.

Hurry! Hurry! Or they're all going to the dump/recycling, alas.



List of Books
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Class 45 (D11-D137) operating manual
ECML Working Timetable 14-May-79 to 11-May-80

Large format Hardback:-
Diesels Nationwide (Keith Montague) 1977
Diesels & Electrics on Shed Vol 3 Western Region (Rex Kennedy) 1981
British Rail at Work - East Midlands (John Gough) 1985
Power of the Peaks (Keith Montague) 1978
Power of the 50s (J Vaughan) 1979
Power of the Westerns (C Judge) 1977
British Rail in Colour 1968-1990 (John Glover) 1988
Life & Times Series - Freightliner (Michael J Collins) 1991
Diesels on the Regions - Eastern Region (J.S. Whiteley) 1984

Large format Softback:-
BR Fleet Survey #4 Diesel-Electric Types 1-3 (Haresnape/Batty) 1989
Sectional Maps of Britain's Railways at Jan 1982 (IA)

Medium format Hardback:-
English Electric Traction Album (John Glover) 1981
Electric Trains in Britain (B.K.Cooper) 1979
BR Motive Power Panorama (Dobson/Chalcroft) 1981
Motive Power Annual 1987 (Brian Morrison)
Two Miles a Minute (O.S.Nock) 1980
Diesels & Electrics in Action (G.M.Kitchenside) 1976
APT - A Promise Unfulfilled (Hugh Williams) 1985
Western Diesels in Camera (J.A.M.Vaughan) 1977

Medium format Softback:-
The Last Years of the Class 40s (A,Wyn Hobson) 1985
Freight Only Vol 1 - Northern England (Rhodes/Shannon) 1987
Vulcan Locomotives (Vulcan Foundry/P.Riley) 1955/2003
Preserved BR Diesel & Electric Traction Handbook (H.Johnston) 1987
BR Signalling Handbook (Stanley Hall) 1992
Freightmaster #27 (M.Rawlinson) 2002
Class One (M.Rawlinson) Summer 2002
Line by Line - WCML (Buck/Rawlinson) 2000
Line by Line - GWML (Buck/Rawlinson) 2001
Line by Line - ECML (Buck/Rawlinson) 2002

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[Gloster]

One thought. If you don’t manage to get someone to collect them, take them to a charity shop rather than the dump. Any charity shop will do, but a charity bookshop is best. My local charity bookshop got some rather obscure railway books last month and most have already been sold.

 

[D6130]

....or, alternatively, why not donate them to your nearest preserved railway (Watercress Line?) for fundraising sale in their bookshop.

 

[32475]

....or, alternatively, why not donate them to your nearest preserved railway (Watercress Line?) for fundraising sale in their bookshop.

My thoughts entirely!

 

[Andy Pacer]

....or, alternatively, why not donate them to your nearest preserved railway (Watercress Line?) for fundraising sale in their bookshop.

An excellent idea.

 

[Busaholic]

One thought. If you don’t manage to get someone to collect them, take them to a charity shop rather than the dump. Any charity shop will do, but a charity bookshop is best. My local charity bookshop got some rather obscure railway books last month and most have already been sold.

Absolutely, with the books, but not the magazines, and almost certainly not the VHS tapes. If I'd been selling those books through my bookshop, as a generalisation I'd have probably started by charging £4 a book (three for £10) and would have expected the majority to have sold within the month.

 

[FastLeg]

Alas, the charity shops around my way are not taking any books at all.

Thought about Watercress Line (Alton) but I'm really short on time and a near two-hour round trip (plus petrol) is not really viable at the mo. If I had a reason to go to Alton, that's what I'd do, but... I don't.

The magazines (apart from a few interesting ones) are off to the dump (recycle) tomorrow.

Thx for your ideas

 

[Gloster]

Why not ask the Watercress line if they have anyone who lives nearby and could collect them?

 

[FastLeg]

Why not ask the Watercress line if they have anyone who lives nearby and could collect them?

Hmm. Good idea.

 

[FastLeg]

No luck with Watercress Line

"Thank you very much for your kind thought with regards to the books but we have so many we cannot find room for them all."

 

[yorksrob]

I always look for old copies of Modern Railways when at preserved railways etc.

 

[woolos]

Try oxfam as they have some book shop and they sell on the the internet

 

[Dr Hoo]

I always look for old copies of Modern Railways when at preserved railways etc.

I dare say that you are well familiar with the Vintage Carriages Trust at Ingrow on the Worth Valley, Rob. They have a massive selection and ‘all in a good cause’.

 

[yorksrob]

I dare say that you are well familiar with the Vintage Carriages Trust at Ingrow on the Worth Valley, Rob. They have a massive selection and ‘all in a good cause’.

I've not seen the shop/stall before, but will certainly seek it out.

 

[341o2]

I'll take them on if noone else will

 

[FastLeg]

All gone now...