Within United KingdomAbout this Item: The Permanent Way Institution, 1947. Green Boards. Condition: Good.!st Edition, reprint. The gilt title lettering on the spine is faded, and there is slight scuffing to the top and bottom of the spine. First reprint of the first edition. 338pp plus index, including several pull out charts. Neatly inscribed with the names of two previous owners and containing the original 1948 receipt for 15 shillings!
Size: 5 1/2' x 9'. Seller Inventory # 0007621 5. Within United KingdomAbout this Item: The Permanent Way Institution, London, 1956. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titles to front board and spine, this 1956 hardcover Second Edition is VG.
Railway Tracking System
453pp+24pp of full-page pictorial adverts for fishplates, ballast tampers,track recorder vehicles, track jacks, joint shims, Thermit welding, track aligners, maganese steel rails, rail fasteners, spike anchors, wheel flange lubricators Turplat keys, and lever Boxes. With Forewords, 10 Chapters, 22 tables, Several fold-out graphs, B/W Photos of Track and scale drawings of switches and crossings etc, plus Index. Slight wear to corners, odd marks to boards, otherwise VG Size: 8vo - over 7¾' - 9¾' tall. Seller Inventory # 0016172 6. Within United KingdomAbout this Item: The Permanent Way Institution, Nottingham, 1979. Condition: Good. Hardcover with jacket in good condition.
Fifth edition. Jacket is marked, tanned and scored. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are creased and nicked. Spine head and front leading corners are taped. Hardcover spine ends are bumped. Page block is tanned and marked.
Previous owner's name penned on FEP. Minor marks on a few early pages.
Pages smell slightly of smoke. Contents are clear throughout. Seller Inventory # 483642 8. Within United KingdomAbout this Item: The Permanent Way Institution, London, 1971. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. Bound in clean black leatherette with bright, gilt titles to front board and spine, this 1971 hardcover Fourth Edition is VG.
XXXV/607pp+12pp booklet in pocket at end, showing graphical analysis of Cant, Speed, Transisition and Lead Diagrams. With Foreword by W.
Introduction, 11 Chapters, Index and 30 tables. Condition all VG Size: 8vo - over 7¾' - 9¾' tall. Seller Inventory # 0016171 11. From New Zealand to United KingdomAbout this Item: The Permanent Way Institution, England, 1979. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG.
Fifth Edition. Clean green cloth on board with gilt titles. Mild yellowing and foxing to head edge. Just a few foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge.
Railway Track Design
Clean content, b/w illustrations and line drawings. Binding is very good. 533p plus XXXii p of coloured advertising. Dj: soft rubbing and light few only small scratches. Thin creasing to head & foot of spine and head & foot of flaps spine.
Seller Inventory # 031446 12. Within United KingdomAbout this Item: The Permanent Way Institution, 1964.
Condition: Very Good. Third edition hardback, 1964, with no jacket. In overall very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - red cloth boards slightly marked. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears very little read; no annotations or inscriptions - owner's name in pencil to front pastedown and a couple of British Rail District Engineer's Office, Shrewsbury, stamps to prelims; text, illustrations, charts, period advertisements and diagrams bright and clear throughout. Retains the extensive range of fold-out charts to rear. Not an old library book.
Seller Inventory # 170263 14.