British Railways Pocket Books 1-4

AUTHOR: Platform 5 PUBLISHER: Robert Pritchard ISBNS: 978-1-909431614/621/638/645

PRICE: £5.75 each (books 1-3), £5.95 (book 4)

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THE LATEST editions of the four popular Platform 5 Motive Power Pocket Books are now available, priced at £5.75 each for the Locomotives, DMU and

Coaching Stock books, while the enhanced EMU book is now £5.95. Like last year, the books are perfect bound. The latest releases see the Locomotives book, which first appeared in 1978, now on its 63rd edition, while the Coaching Stock book is on its 45th edition and the two multiple unit books are both on their 34th editions; these books have certainly stood the test of time as regards longevity!

With the exception of the EMU book, they are the same paginations as last year. The Locomotive book is 104 pages, the DMU book is 88 pages, the Coaching Stock book is 112 pages. The EMU book, on the other hand, now runs to 160 pages – a sure sign of the change towards more EMU and BMMU trains on the national network. The EMU book now contains a host of new classes with vehicles numbers that have been ordered since the last

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