wagonman's Private Owner Wagons of Somerset

[buffalo]

Richard Kelham's Private Owner Wagons of Somerset has just arrived from Black Dwarf Lightmoor. First impression is that it is at least as good as expected and I'm looking forward to may hours of stuying and modelling.

 

Well done Richard!

 

Nick

[wagonman]

Richard Kelham's Private Owner Wagons of Somerset has just arrived from Black Dwarf Lightmoor. First impression is that it is at least as good as expected and I'm looking forward to may hours of stuying and modelling.

 

Well done Richard!

 

Nick

 

Thanks Nick. I hope you enjoy reading it.

 

 

Richard

[wagonman]

If anyone is thinking of buying my book on the "PO Wagons of Somerset" can I make a plea that they buy from a specialist bookseller like the Titfield Thunderbolt in Bath or Bill Hudson in Matlock and not from Amazon. Amazon are a bunch of tax-dodgers who treat their staff like serfs. Ignore if you can the tempting offers of a discount – it was all of 1p last time I looked!

 

Thank you.

 

 

Richard

[lakeview770]

Ive looked in a few places for this and it says its out of print, is there to be another print run? If I still lived in Bath and Whitmans Bookshop was still open I’d have had a copy already lol. I do miss the small independent bookshops, many a day I’d cross the road to Whitmans Bookshop and the gentleman who worked the transport dept would say “just got this in, its right up your street” and he was usually right.

 

Andy

[Gilbert]

 

 

http://www.titfield.co.uk/index.htm

 

I'm sure Simon would post it...he likes it

 

"As the author states in his introduction, research for this book started thirty years ago and although work on it can hardly have been continuous I know enough about the subject and localities already to stick my neck out and state that this is a thoroughly researched and hugely informative record of its subject. It is an admirable record and account of actual wagons, including more and better pictures of wagons and their liveries than one could reasonably expect at this remove in time, and the details of the owning and operating companies and individuals are very well done too. As if that were not enough there is also a wealth of detail on the collieries of Somerset, including large scale Ordnance Survey map extracts showing surface plans and connecting railways and a lot of photographs which in some cases show extraordinary levels of detail. Stand out images for me (all reproduced across a full page) are a panorama of the sidings at Radstock S&D (p81) a stunning picture of Dunkerton sidings complete with operating Peckett (p36) and Vobster Stoneworks (p174). Another thing this book illustrates with several pictorially brilliant examples is what private owner wagons looked like after pooling and the Second World War. All in all this book is everything that I had hoped it would be and will without doubt become one of the all time classic works of railway reference".

[wagonman]

Ive looked in a few places for this and it says its out of print, is there to be another print run? If I still lived in Bath and Whitmans Bookshop was still open I’d have had a copy already lol. I do miss the small independent bookshops, many a day I’d cross the road to Whitmans Bookshop and the gentleman who worked the transport dept would say “just got this in, its right up your street” and he was usually right.

 

Andy

 

 

Late to the party as usual... The book is most definitely not out of print. If Simon can't supply you with a copy I'm sure the publishers (Lightmoor) could. Contact me direct if you are still having problems.

 

Richard