archie57 Posted March 14, 2017 Report Share Posted March 14, 2017 As rare as rocking horse poo! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262889343770?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Lewis Posted March 14, 2017 Report Share Posted March 14, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, archie57 said: As rare as rocking horse poo! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262889343770?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT There are three copies for sale on Abe Books and one on Amazon https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&an=H+Newton&tn=Canals&kn=&isbn= Tim Edited March 14, 2017 by Tim Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_fincher Posted March 15, 2017 Report Share Posted March 15, 2017 Did it have every narrow boat on the system listed, so that you can underline each one as you spot them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archie57 Posted March 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2017 It had a ( ISTR incomplete) list of GUCCC boats so you could underline them. Perhaps not quite as rare as I thought! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted March 15, 2017 Report Share Posted March 15, 2017 1 hour ago, alan_fincher said: Did it have every narrow boat on the system listed, so that you can underline each one as you spot them? I was thinking the same thing, but I doubt it! As well as my own '60s Ian Allan locospotters' books I have an older one, about 1949 I think, given to me many years ago by a neighbour, and the front covers appear to be the work of the same person. I guess they must have had an in-house illustrator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmelly Posted March 15, 2017 Report Share Posted March 15, 2017 16 hours ago, archie57 said: As rare as rocking horse poo! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262889343770?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT 17 and arrf pence was quite a substantial amount for a small book back then methinks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted March 15, 2017 Report Share Posted March 15, 2017 3s/6d in 1948 equates to £6.29 in todays prices. My Dad earned £6 per week in 1955. My Ian Allan British Railways Locomotives combined volume (hardback) cost 10s/6d in 1958 (two Bob a week pocket money was saved up). The thinner paperback ones for regions, diesels & electrics for the same year were 2s/6d each (around 60 pages). So 3/6d in was a lot of money in '48. Overpriced then - and now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Lewis Posted March 17, 2017 Report Share Posted March 17, 2017 On 3/14/2017 at 21:15, archie57 said: As rare as rocking horse poo! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262889343770?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT My copy has just arrived and I was interested to see that under the list of canals the navigation authority of the nationalised ones is listed as British Railways. I was under the impression that after nationalisation the canals were run by the Docks & Inland Waterways Executive. Was there a transition period? Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted March 17, 2017 Report Share Posted March 17, 2017 (edited) The Docks & Inland Waterways Executive was one of five Executives set up under the British Transport Commission as part of the post-war nationalisation programme. The Railway Executive traded as "British Railways". I believe that on nationalisation the railway owned canals initially came under the Railway Executive, but were subsequently transferred to DIWE. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Transport_Commission Edited March 17, 2017 by David Mack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archie57 Posted March 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2017 I was talking to an old boatman some years ago who still had a free travel concession on the railways, dating from this period Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivergate Posted March 18, 2017 Report Share Posted March 18, 2017 Thanks for the heads up on this item - looking forward to it arriving On 14/03/2017 at 21:15, archie57 said: As rare as rocking horse poo! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262889343770?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billh Posted March 18, 2017 Report Share Posted March 18, 2017 15 hours ago, archie57 said: I was talking to an old boatman some years ago who still had a free travel concession on the railways, dating from this period And I know a retired railwayman who asked for, and got, a discount on his CRT boat licence. Something to do with working on the railways in 1962?Was that when BWB was formed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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