Recent additions to stock in the
Bluebell Railway Shop

Released in January 2006

• Welsh Valleys: Monmouthshire Eastern Valleys (featuring Newport Docks)
  By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
  This volume makes an important contribution to local history, as it includes so much of the former heavy industry of the area. The vast mileage of the sidings serving collieries and steel works is impressively illustrated and also detailed on maps. The great variety of traffic by rail to and from Newport Docks is portrayed dramatically, before commencing an armchair journey inland and up 1400ft. to the highest station on BR in Wales.
   
• Narrow Gauge: Greek Narrow Gauge (featuring the Thessaly and the Peloponnese Systems)
  By John Organ, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
  This publication portrays the narrow gauge railways of Greece with the limited number of surviving lines during the later days of their existence. Although a shadow of their former extent, there is still much to interest the narrow gauge enthusiast in this fascinating country. Massive locomotives and quaint railcars are shown often in rugged and impressive mountain scenery.

For release on 18th February 2006

• Midland Main Lines: Bromsgrove to Gloucester (including Ashurst to Great Malvern)
  By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
  

For release on 18th March

• Eastern Main Lines: Potters Bar to Cambridge
  By Vic Mitchell and Allen Mott, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
  
• Brunel - A Railtour of his Achievements
  By Vic Mitchell, Price: to be advised
  

To place an order please telephone the Bluebell Shop at Sheffield Park on 01825 720803, or send a fax to 01825 720839, or e-mail the Retail department (remove -NOSPAM before sending)

The Nostalgia Classic Library
THE ILLUSTRATED RAILWAY CHILDREN
By Edith Nesbit

Foreword by Jenny Agutter
Edited by Will Adams
Hardback - 238mm x 172mm
176 pages and c.60 b&w Illustrations

Silver Link (The Nostalgia Collection) have just published "The Illustrated Railway Children (Special Centenary Edition)" which we, in the shop, thought would make an excellent Christmas present.

It is priced at £16.99 (10% discount for members).

To place an order please telephone the Bluebell Shop at Sheffield Park on 01825 720803, or send a fax to 01825 720839, or e-mail the Retail department (remove -NOSPAM before sending)

Released in December 2005

• Eastern Main Lines: Newcastle to Hexham (including the Allendale Branch)
  By Roger Darsley, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
  The eastern part of the route parallel to Hadrian's Wall formed part of one of the earliest railways in Britain and has a fascinating past. This is told with many interesting historic photographs and maps, numerous recent views making astonishing comparisons. Unusual pictures include a train fording a river and another bypassing a tunnel.
   
• Southern Main Lines: Faversham to Dover (including Faversham Quay)
  By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
  No other main line in the south has served a cathedral city, a continental port and collieries simultaneously. Agricultural and commuter traffic adds to the resulting diversity of the illustrations. Full coverage of the long forgotten branch to Faversham Creek is given and detailed maps of every location are provided. The various dock lines at Dover are also given extensive coverage.

• London Suburban Railways: St. Pancras to Barking
  By J.E.Connor, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
• Eastern Main Lines: Cambridge to Ely (including St. Ives to Ely)
  By Richard Adderson and Graham Kenworthy, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
  

The following books were reprinted in November 2005

• Southern Main Lines: Bromley South to Rochester - First Published in November 1993
  By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
• Tramways Classics: Bournemouth & Poole Tramways - First Published in February 1995
  By Roy Anderson, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
  
• Tramways Classics: Gosport and Horndean Tramways - First Published in June 1997
  By Martin Petch, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
  
• South Coast Railways: Chichester to Portsmouth - First Published in December 1984
  By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
  
• Branch Lines Around Weymouth - First Published in July 1989
  By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
  

Released on October 22nd, 2005

• Western Main Lines: Gloucester to Cardiff
  By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
• Roman Roads of Hampshire
  By Alex Vincent, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for members)
  NB: Roman Roads in Sussex and Roman Roads in Surrey were published in July 2000 and April 2001 respectively. Please place an order if you would like either of these publications.

To place an order please telephone the Bluebell Shop at Sheffield Park on 01825 720803, or send a fax to 01825 720839, or e-mail the Retail department (remove -NOSPAM before sending)

Stocks of the 2006 Bluebell Railway Calendar are now available in the shop priced at £5.50 each.

Members are entitled to a 10% discount when making purchases over £10.00.

Working members can buy the calendar for £4.95.

Released on September 17th, 2005

• Trolleybus Classics Series: "Brighton Trolleybuses"
  By Andrew Henbest, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for BRPS members)
• Welsh Valleys: "Pontypool to Mountain Ash"
  By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for BRPS members)

• Trolleybus Classics Series: "Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Trolleybuses"
  By Barry Marsden, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for BRPS members)
• Trolleybus Classics Series: "Cardiff Trolleybuses - A Capital City System"
  By Stephen Lockwood, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for BRPS members)

• Country Railway Routes: "Bath to Evercreech Junction "
  By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for BRPS members)

To place an order please telephone the Bluebell Shop at Sheffield Park on 01825 720803, or send a fax to 01825 720839, or e-mail the Retail department (remove -NOSPAM before sending)

New in stock at the Bluebell Shop

The two DVD set is selling for £22.99 (i.e. for both volumes) and to mail order there is a £1.50 charge for P&P. Alternatively you can purchase it at our shop on Sheffield Park Station which is open daily.

The original videos are still available and the price has been reduced to £16.00 each.

Please order by either calling 01825 720803, or e-mail the Retail department (remove -NOSPAM before sending)

The Tom Martin Collection is a series of 16mm films shot by a founder member of the BRPS. When he died in 2002 his collection of films was passed to the Bluebell Railway by his sister, and now resides with the South East Video Archive in Brighton.

In this double DVD package:-

• Volume One, 'The Great Adventure' was released on VHS in October 2003 and has now been re-edited and includes a commentary by Bob Symes. It shows Stepney just after arrival in May 1960 along with our first two coaches. Julian Pettifer interviews John Leroy, our first chairman. The volume finishes with the arrival of engine 9017, the 'Dukedog'. We see the engine collected at Adison Road (Kensington Olympia), follow it to Sheffield Park and see its entry into Bluebell traffic.
• Volume Two, 'Specials, Celebrities & Anniversaries' shows the era of the through specials from London before the closure of the line via Ardingly. We see visitors of all types, be they engines, such as the Caledonian Single No.123, or celebrities such as Dr Beeching, Mr Pastry and Elsie and Doris Waters. This volume has commentary by Bob Symes and archive commentary by John Sutter.

Published July 2005

• Country Railway Routes Series: "Oxford to Bletchley (including Verney Junction to Banbury)"
  By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for BRPS members)
• Midland Main Lines Series: "Rickmansworth to Aylesbury (including the Chesham Branch)"
  By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for BRPS members)
• Specialist Railway Books Series: "Colonel Stephens - Insights into the man and his empire"
  By Philip Shaw and Vic Mitchell, Price: £18.95 (10% discount for BRPS members)

• Great Railway Eras Series: "Talyllyn - 50 Years of Change"
  By Vic Mitchell, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for BRPS members)

Published June 2005

• Trolleybus Classics Series: "Ipswich Trolleybuses"
  By Colin Barker, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for BRPS members)
• Tramway Classics Series: "Hull Tramways"
  By Paul Morfitt and Malcolm Wells, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for BRPS members)

• Narrow Gauge Series: "Cornwall Narrow Gauge"
  By Maurice Dart, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for BRPS members)
• Western Main Lines Series: "Hereford to Newport (via Caerleon)"
  By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Price: £14.95 (10% discount for BRPS members)

This is the second volume in the colour series of books about the Isle of Wight railways in the steam era. It commemorates the 40th anniversary of the final year of railway operation of the Ryde-Newport-Cowes and Ryde-Brading-Sandown-Shanklin-Wroxall-Ventnor lines.

This 100 page book complements 'Ryde by Steam Volume One' and contains views of each station, halt and level crossing on the post 1956 Island lines. There are fascinating 'behind the scenes' pictures of the daily life of the Island railways showing exterior station views, life on the platform (even after the train has departed) and superb action shots. There are some extra ordinary views of Island steam in its heyday taken from unusual and out of the way locations, captured through the lens of some of this country's leading railway photographers.

• 100 pages all colour
• 126 pictures by the country's premier railway photographers
• hardback
• popular A4 landscape format
• every station and halt on the Ryde-Cowes & Ryde-Ventnor lines included
• unique exterior station and 'behind the scenes' views of the Island railways
• photographers' royalties donated to the '24 Calbourne Overhaul Appeal'
• Medina Books quality publication.
• £18.99

Also still available-

Volumes 1 & 2 on sale
From the Bluebell Railway Shop.

• Hove Station in 1897
• Pulborough to Petersfield in 1930s and '50s
• Sesley Tram 1930
• The Great Marquess at Chichester 1967
• Isle of Wight in 1960s
• Brighton Kemptown & Preston Park Signal Box 1960s
• Hayling Island Branch 1963
• Last days of steam at Waterloo in 1966

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