Thirty Years at Bricklayers Arms: Southern Steam from the Footplate Tapa dura - 1976

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Newton Abbot.: David & Charles., 1976. 152pp, photographs. DW has light shelf wear. Internally, clean & unmarked.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

David & Charles, 1976-03-25. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.9985 cent in x 21.9833 cent in x 14.5889 cent in.

United Kingdom: David & Charles, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The jacket is a bit rubbed and edgeworn but has suffered minimal paper loss. A little faint foxing on the page edges and first and last few pages; otherwise internally clean and tightly bound. Slight spinal lean.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1976 Southern steam from the footplate.
The Bricklayers' Arms locomotive depot remained a steam shed until the 1960s, and this book is a largely first hand description of foot-plate work over a period of thirty years, documenting the changes in working methods and conditions as well as in the locomotives themselves. With photographic illustrations, mostly from private collections and some published here for the first time. Anyone who has memories of the line between London and Ramsgate, Bricklayers Arms Shed and the locos that worked the line such as the Schools 4-4-0s and the Bulleid Pacifics.

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David & Charles, 1976-03-25. Hardcover. Like New. 1.9985 cent in x 21.9833 cent in x 14.5889 cent in.

David & Charles, 1976. Hardcover. . Very good condition./Very good dust jacket. . Book is as described - NO defects or marks of any kind.