Author

Tom Cunnington

Date

17th January 2026

Reading Time

2 minutes

Our library has one of the widest and largest ranges of books of books for railway modellers – covering prototype railways and modelling. The library is open for browsing on Thursday evenings from 7-9pm (unless there is a lecture), and on our monthly open afternoons. Check out the calendar for details. Members can borrow most books to read and work from at home.

We recently added the following books to our extensive library collection. For full details of the collection, and an online searchable catalogue, visit our Library page.

Library Number	Title	Author
BR297/2	Speedlink Volume 2: The Air-Braked ‘New’ Batches	David Larkin
PO23/16	Private Owner Wagons – A Sixteenth Collection	Ian Pope & Keith Turton
PO23/17	Private Owner Wagons – A Seventeenth Collection	Ian Pope & Keith Turton
BR403/1	British Railways Steam Locomotives 1948-1968 Volume 1: Designs inherited from the GWR and LNER	Hugh Longworth
BR102/6	Acquired Wagons of British Railways, The Volume 6: Other Minerals (Including Pre-Groouping and Loco Coal Designs) Other Opens and Vehicle-carriers	David Larkin
NE118	The Wansbeck Railway: Morpeth to Reedsmouth and on to Bellingham and Rothbury	Roger Jermy
AM490	Weathering Models: Make Rolling Stock, Structures, and Details More Realistic	Jeff Wilson
M433/09	The 7mm Narrow Gauge Modeller’s Handbook	Peter Jackson (Ed)
M433/10	Going Narrow Gauge: How to capture the look of a narrow gauge railway	Peter Jackson (Ed)
BR419	London’s East End Diesels	D. Brennand
GB309	Merseyrail Electric: The Award-Winning Network	Martin Hilbert
GB310	Milk on the Rails: a brief history of milk tank traffic	Matthew Pinto
A90	Requiem for Steam: The Railroad Photographs of David Plowden	David Plowden
GW339	Great Western Siphons: A history of their design, development and operation	John Lewis
GW315/4	Broad Gauge Engines of the Great Western Railway, The – Part 4: 1852-1874	The Reverend Canon Brian Arman
GW422/2B	GWR Goods Services: Part 2B – Goods Depots and their Operation	Tony Atkins
GW413	Great Western Railway Dean 40ft Vans	Barry Scott
SR166/1	Waterloo to the Atlantic Coast During the Diesel Era Part 1: Waterloo to Exeter Central	Bernard Mills
SR166/2	Waterloo to the Atlantic Coast During the Diesel Era Part 2: Exeter to the Atlantic Coast	Bernard Mills
BR102/7	Acquired Wagons of British Railways, The Volume 7: Hopper Wagons (Coal, Loco Coal, Coke, Iron Ore & Ballast) and Ballast Plough Brake Vans	David Larkin
NE371/2	Great Eastern Railway, The: The Late 19th & Early 20th Century 1862-1924	Charles Phillips
NE371/3	Great Eastern Railway, The: From the Grouping to the Elizabeth Line	Charles Phillips
SR467	Crystal Palace High Level Railway, The	John Gale
BR390	British Railway Infrastructure Since 1970: An Historical Overview	Paul D Shannon
BR391	British Rail Engineering Limited, A History of	Richard Marks