Special Offers in the
Bluebell Railway Shop
Back issues of
BLUEBELL NEWS
Available to personal callers to the shop at Sheffield Park: back numbers of the Bluebell News for sale at £1.00 each. These are surplus to the requirements of the Society's backnumber service, and so are being offered for general sale, whilst stocks last.
Stocks as of Tuesday 10 January 2006:
An Illustrated History of the
Lewes & East Grinstead Railway
by Klaus Marx
Was £35, now being sold for £20 whilst stocks last.The definitive history of the line of which the modern day Bluebell Railway is a part, including also the Ardingly branch. Covers the promotion, construction and opening of the line, a detailed description of the route and its stations, passenger and goods services over the years, the locomotives which worked over the line, the cricket, military operations and royal visits at Sheffield Park, incidents, the pre-war rationalisations and the post-war run-down to closure, the 1956 re-opening and the final closure. The narrative ends with early days of the resurrection of a section of the line by volunteers.
256 pages, including index. Size 8.5 x 11.5 inches.
"As They Were" - Railways on OS Maps in 1950s
Book One - Southern England
Was £25, now being sold for £12.50 whilst stocks last.An Atlas showing the precise location of railways as they existed in the 1950s before the widespread closure of branch lines and secondary routes.
176 pages of reproduced Ordnance Survey maps, in colour.
Covers Cornwall , Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent.
View a review of this book on the Southern E-mail Group's web site.
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