robert gratton (5 Ergebnisse)

Maroon hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Fading to spine of jacket. Previous owner inscription to front paste-down. 280mm x 220mm (11" x 9"). viii, 280pp. B/w illustrations. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG. 1st. The best and most detailed work on this Derbyshire narrow gauge railway. 280pp, well illustrated. Fine copy in VG dust wrapper - just a little age toned on edges, Scarce.

Hardcover. Zustand: gut. 1989. Another excellent work from the pen of Mr Robert Gratton. Excellent publication that is now out of print - it is to the usual high standard of presentation that I have come to expect from this author. This book, like his earlier Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway, is a classic that can only increase in value as time. At the time of writing, his earlier publication has gone from circa £50 to over £500 per copy. I am quite confident that this edition is destined for a similar future Five Stars Wonderful addition to my book/shelf no matter how many times you suggest a trade in I won't ! An excellent book about a terrific topic. The amount of detail in this book is unbelievable. This book has been out of print for some time and it was good to be able to acquire a clean copy complete with dust jacket. Bob Gratton has written fully researched history of the ALR based upon his delvings over a number of years. Zusatzinfo 298ill.19M. Verlagsort Oxon Sprache englisch Fahrzeugtechnik Fahrzeuge Flugzeuge Schienenfahrzeuge ISBN-10 0-906867-72-X / 090686772X ISBN-13 978-0-906867-72-3 / 9780906867723 Eisenbahn Feldbahnen railways In englischer Sprache. 288 pages. 27,4 x 21,8 x 3 cm.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st. Without doubt the most detailed history yet published on any English narrow gauge railway. 357pp, many colour and b&w photos, detailed drawings of rolling stock, buildings etc, detailed maps and plans - so good you could rebuild the railway from it! Not cheap, but a superb high quality production on heavy art paper in brown buckram boards. Fine copy in similar dust wrapper. Rare. Heavy - please inquire for overseas postage.

Hardcover. Zustand: gut. November, 2005. I must admit that I have long been put off purchasing this book due to the somewhat high price tag. However, I have just taken the plunge and now wish that I had done so when the first book was published. Don't be deceived by the apparent size of the photos - this is a large format book (almost A4 and best part of an inch thick with just over 350 pages) - and it needs to be to facilitate presentation of the excellent engineering drawings at a scales ranging from 16mm =1ft through to 4mm = 1ft. These feature not only the various locomotives and rolling stock but also track construction, some buildings, the tunnel portals and even fencing! Colour representations of the trains in each of the three main liveries used are also thoughtfully presented, including the NSR Madder Lake period which is not so well known. For those wishing to build models of the line this book is a treasure-trove of information and detail. The fact that the author worked on with BR's Permanent Way Department for some time might have something to do with the excellent quality of the drawings! The paper used is quite thick and slightly glossy, which gives a beautiful presentation of the many photographs, some of which are quite new to me despite many years of researching the history of the line. The depth of detail in the various chapters of the book can only be described as outstanding. This book should become THE standard by which ALL other railway histories or documentaries should be measured and can only salute the author, Mr Robert Gratton, on his fantastic achievement. My only regret is that it appears to be currently out of print. Indeed, I have already paid over the original publishers price to get my copy and expect this book to become a well sought after collectors item - it certainly deserves to be one. I can only hope that the publishers will take note and do another print run in the near future. The Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway, had it lasted until the mid to late fifties would have probably have been a strong contender for railway preservation. However with just a short life of thirty years from its opening in 1904 to its closure in 1934, railway preservation had not even been thought of, in those early years. The railway ran from Waterhouses( 9 miles from Leek, Staffordshire) to Hulme End in the Staffordshire Moorlands, for a distance of eight and a half miles through the beautiful Manifold Valley in the heart of the Peak District. It was quite unusual as far as Narrow Guage Railways are designed, with a track gauge of 2ft 6ins and unsual, because of its purpose of being able to transport standard gauge railway wagons, loaded onto specially designed narrow gauge flat wagons which were built specially for this railway. The standard gauge wagons were loaded onto the narrow gauge wagons at Waterhoues, where the railway connected to the Leek to Waterhouses main line. These were then taken along the valley and off loaded at several staions throughout the valley, onto short sections of standard gauge track which was laid on a raised platform at most of the stations along the valley. The larger wagons were hand pushed off the narrow gauge wagons onto these short sections of standard gauge track, so that their contents could be unloaded to supply all the farms situated in this remote part of the Manifold Valley, where roads were steep and just simple cart tracks, inaccessable to ordinary road vehicles. The empty wagons or reloaded wagons could then be returned to Waterhouses for collection by the standard gauge locos and sent to various destinations throughout the rail network. The main purpose of transporting these goods though, was for milk, which was collected from farms and taken to the Ecton Milk Factory. From here the treated milk was loaded into standard gauge glass lined milk tankers, which were then taken to Waterhouses to be assembled into trains, which took the milk to Finsbury Park in London. This was run on a daily basis every morning, which lasted until 1928, when the factory at Ecton finally closed. The L.&.M.V.L.Rly only ever had two locomotives which were rather large engines for a narrow gauge line, these were named E.R. Calthrop(No1) & J.B. Earle(No2), named after the railways designer and chief engineer. They were of Indian design (after the Barsi Light Railway which was built in India in the 1890s by E.R.Calthrop) before the L.& M.V.L.Rly was begun. The locos were built by Kitsons of Leeds, who also built the slightly larger Barsi Light Railway locomotives. Besides the seven transporter wagons, there was also a lare bogie box van for produce and four large bogie coaches with unusual sloping shed type roofs and open balconies with wrought iron railings. These consisted of two first/third class carriages & two brake/thirds. These were used on a daily basis throughout the life of the railway making two and sometimes three return journeys each day with extra journeys during the summer bank holidays, which became popular with tourist after the 1st WW. The railway first ran under the ownership of The North Staffordshire Railway Company and was taken over by the LMS in 1923 when the four big railway groups were formed. Due to dwindling passenger numbers and the introduction of the motor vehicles that were now able to access the valley, the railway finally closed in 1934 and two years later the whole track was dismantled and apart from Hulme End Station, and the many bridges that sriss cross the River Manifold, all other buildings were dismantled. There have been many publications about the L.&.M.V.L.Rly over the years but this delightful book published just recently is the best book yet on this magnificent little railway. It is quite a large book with dozens of photos and lots of illustrations and scale drawings, covering all the locos, wagons, carriages, buildings, bridges,track laying dimensions etc etc, as well as many chapters detailing the planing, construction, grand opening, running.