{"title":"Alan Postlethwaite","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"model-railway-detailing-manual-book-alan-postlethwaite-9781844252015","title":"Model Railway Detailing Manual","description":"Railway modellers constantly refer to photographs for details of real scenes. Here, a whole library of useful illustrations is brought together to give a single reference source, arranged in over 70 themed mini chapters.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49505054851345,"sku":"GOR001908960","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50649692963089,"sku":"GOR008521505","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50713443434769,"sku":"GOR009682726","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51436838781201,"sku":"GOR003735282","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1844252019.jpg?v=1750725332"},{"product_id":"more-odd-corners-of-the-southern-from-the-days-of-steam-book-alan-postlethwaite-9780750927093","title":"More Odd Corners of the Southern from the Days of Steam","description":"Alan Postlethwaite's second survey of the neglected aspects of the Southern railway builds on the success and originality of his first volume. This fresh collection of unusual facts and photographs of the Southern records, and celebrates, the trackside buildings, engineering structures, decoration and artwork, ticketing and paperwork, signs and advertising of a remarkable transport system. His book will be necessary reading for all railway enthusiasts and a valuable record for those who have a special interest in the history of the region. While many of the pictures include steam, the focus is on those peripheral items of the railway that are so often glossed over in publications devoted to trains and locomotion. Chapters describe station frontages, platform canopies, country stations, halts and closed stations. Also included are huts, sheds, yards, tunnels, bridges, signals, signal-boxes, posters and signs, and there is a section on coaches, old and new. Full captions date and describe the subject matter and set it in context, and references are provided for further reading.  More Odd Corners of the Southern will be invaluable to preservationists, modellers and historians of the Southern, and it will be a lively read for the general railway enthusiast.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49505089028369,"sku":"GOR004335373","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49561534660881,"sku":"GOR009816677","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51818307354897,"sku":"GOR007664695","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0750927097.jpg?v=1751431610"},{"product_id":"last-days-of-steam-on-the-southern-book-alan-postlethwaite-9780750912051","title":"The Last Days of Steam on the Southern","description":"A photographic tour around the old LSWR, when most of the services were still steam-operated, from tiny Victorian tank engines to the might of the BR standard designs, providing an evocative picture of the railway, its trains and people during the final decade of steam.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49519832039697,"sku":"GOR002474937","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52437647360273,"sku":"GOR005397941","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0750912057.jpg?v=1751440710"},{"product_id":"last-days-of-steam-on-the-southern-book-alan-postlethwaite-9780750908269","title":"The Last Days of Steam on the Southern","description":"A selection of fully captioned photographs collected here for the first time. The South Eastern and Chatham Railway was part of the Southern Railway grouping of 1923. This evocative collection of photographs captures the romance of the last days when steam could be said to be truly operational on the SECR.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49529050956049,"sku":"GOR002781124","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49599770591505,"sku":"GOR007013022","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53449702834449,"sku":"GOR006229211","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0750908262.jpg?v=1751010542"},{"product_id":"odd-corners-of-the-southern-from-the-days-of-steam-book-alan-postlethwaite-9780750919395","title":"Odd Corners of the Southern from the Days of Steam","description":"The author presents a collection of facts and photographs to shed light on the long history of the Southern Region of BR and its predecessors. The age of Southern steam was made of more than locomotives and trains - it also consisted of rolling stock, paperwork and all the infrastructure of a complex transport system. The book aims to illustrate these often overlooked aspects of the railway, as observed during the 1950s and 1960s but with origins identified as early as the mid-19th century. It covers the whole of the Southern area, from Kent to Cornwall, including the Isle of Wight and a selection of closed lines and stations. The book features rare and commonplace examples of station architecture, yards, sheds, signal types, signal-boxes, trackwork, bridges, coaches, wagons, electrification, signs, lamps, maps, tickets and notices, as well as ordinary railwaymen and their work.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49533649092881,"sku":"GOR007494005","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0750919396.jpg?v=1751137767"},{"product_id":"last-days-of-the-steam-railway-book-alan-postlethwaite-9780750915045","title":"The Last Days of the Steam Railway","description":"The period of the 1950s and 60s was the end of an era for steam railways, offering enthusiasts the opportunity to capture them for the last time. This volume presents over 140 of the pictures taken, from expresses and cross-country services to branch lines, narrow gauge, freight and \"specials\".","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49539916628241,"sku":"GOR001983995","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53465066438929,"sku":"GOR002334922","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0750915048.jpg?v=1751431395"},{"product_id":"last-days-of-steam-on-the-southern-book-alan-postlethwaite-9780750904131","title":"The Last Days of Steam on the Southern","description":"A collection of photographs of the London, Brighton \u0026amp; South Coast Railway during the 1950s and 60s - the final decades when steam still reigned supreme.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49549789430033,"sku":"GOR005262810","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50779930067217,"sku":"GOR014069089","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0750904135.jpg?v=1751010533"},{"product_id":"best-of-southern-steam-book-alan-postlethwaite-9780750924573","title":"The Best of Southern Steam","description":"This volume collects 200 historic photographs of the last decade of steam on the Southern Region of British Rail. The pictures cover the whole of the south, from Kent to Cornwall, including the Somerset and Dorset joint line and others now closed. Each image celebrates the power and glory of steam.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49585212358929,"sku":"GOR005162534","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51706721632529,"sku":"GOR006020025","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52487316308241,"sku":"GOR010862432","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0750924578.jpg?v=1751043004"},{"product_id":"odd-corners-of-the-southern-book-alan-postlethwaite-9780752456546","title":"Odd Corners of the Southern","description":"The author presents a collection of facts and photographs to shed light on the long history of the Southern Region of BR and its predecessors. The age of Southern steam was made of more than locomotives and trains - it also consisted of rolling stock, paperwork and all the infrastructure of a complex transport system. The book aims to illustrate these often overlooked aspects of the railway, as observed during the 1950s and 1960s but with origins identified as early as the mid-19th century. It covers the whole of the Southern area, from Kent to Cornwall, including the Isle of Wight and a selection of closed lines and stations. The book features rare and commonplace examples of station architecture, yards, sheds, signal types, signal-boxes, trackwork, bridges, coaches, wagons, electrification, signs, lamps, maps, tickets and notices, as well as ordinary railwaymen and their work.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49614019756305,"sku":"GOR007655874","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52152978473233,"sku":"GOR008315836","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0752456547.jpg?v=1751009858"},{"product_id":"adventurous-model-railway-plans-book-alan-postlethwaite-9781852606138","title":"Adventurous Model Railway Plans","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49642663149841,"sku":"GOR001876302","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49655664836881,"sku":"GOR002952926","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50470167642385,"sku":"GOR002325966","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852606134.jpg?v=1750899881"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-alan-postlethwaite.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}