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Appointments can be made by contacting the library via email or telephone. Our ebooks and eaudio service is now available online through the cloud library. Thomas the really useful engine by uk, egmont publishing isbn. Since 1997, bookfinder has made it easy to find any book at the best price. For information about the cataloguing service see about library hub cataloguing. Here you can find all of our secondhand books currently available for sale. Below youll find lists of some of the various drawings and archive materials we hold in. The children in this charming story find the country railway a joy and actually play on the tracks. Over a period of 50 years 1,277 books were published in this series. George routledge was the most famous of the yellowback publishers with his railway library series of more than 1,200 books published from 1848 until 1899. Buy railway architecture shire library 1st edition by bill fawcett isbn. Railway books for sale in uk 88 used railway books. Routledge library editions reissue volumes from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many imprints associated with routledge in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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