The Industrial Railway Record

The "Industrial Railway Record" is our society magazine, and contains a wide range of articles on all forms of industrial railways. As well as features on the history of various industrial systems and locomotives, we cover such matters as locomotive and rolling stock builders, industrial railway working practices, locomotive dealers and contractors and small lines that did not employ locomotives, as well as book reviews. Each issue also has a letters page, for readers feedback on articles. Although the IRS is a British society and the majority of content is on UK matters, we do also cover overseas industrial railways, and many issues include an article on a foreign subject. However current news items are not usually covered in the magazine, as these are left to the "Bulletin", the IRS members' newsletter.

The "Record" is published four times a year, and distributed to all IRS members with the "Bulletin". The magazine consists of 6.5 x 9 inch pages, well printed on glossy paper, with a two-colour card cover. Articles are well illustrated, and often include maps or track plans. Scale drawings of locomotives and rolling stock are a regular feature. At the moment there are 44 pages + cover per issue.

A full index of volumes 1 - 16 of the 'Record' is available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format from the Downloads page.

Non-IRS Members may take out a subscription to the Society's magazine, or buy individual copies and back copies.

There are 4 issues per year and the cost of a subscription is £15.50 for 2008 (4 issues), or £28.50 for 2008/2009 (8 issues).

NOTE: A subscription just to the 'Record' only does not confer the privileges of IRS membership.

All prices are in UK pounds (£), and include postage to anywhere in the world, at surface postal rates. Cheques/Postal orders to be made payable to "Industrial Railway Society". UK postage stamps are acceptable in payment for small amounts. All orders for "Record" subscriptions, individual copies and back copies of the magazine should be made to following address - NOT to S.Geeson:-

S.C. Robinson, 47 Waverley Gardens, London, NW10 7EE, England

Foreign orders: We can accept cash and cheques in UK Sterling, or cash in Euros, or US, Australian and New Zealand dollars ONLY, due to the exorbitant bank charges for converting other foreign currency and foreign cheques. However we do have a special facility to accept French bank cheques (see here). UK postage stamps are acceptable in payment for small amounts. Orders for outside Europe can be sent via Air Mail, at an extra cost of 35% of the order. Unfortunately the only credit card facilities we have at present are via the PayPal scheme.

Recent issues of the 'Record'

A full listing of the contents of all issues of the "Industrial Railway Record" can be found in the Archives section.
A full index of volumes 1 - 17 of the 'Record' is also available from the Downloads page.
Small 'filler' items and the letters page are not included in the list of contents

	No.194 - September 2008 - £4.00 Wolverhampton Gas Works Hunslet Engine Co 2146? Blaendare British Oak, Crigglestone - the Earlier Staith Early British Locomotives for Sweden Yorkshire Tar Distiller's Wagons A Mystery Coke Ovens Locomotive
	No.193 - May 2008 - £4.00 Early Hudswell Six-coupled Industrials Penlee Quarries Ltd Some Crane Locomotives of R & W Hawthorn The Red Marl Industry Marketing the Machine (loco adverts) Calcutta Port No.16 (India) English Electric Battery Locos: A Further Contribution The Gjers Mills Sentinels
	No.192 - March 2008 - £4.00 Stanton Ironworks: the Historical Context Stanton Ironworks 2007: End of an Era War Department in the Middle East Barton Quarries Sentinels is Transit
	No.191 - November 2007 - £3.75 Saddle Tanks at Bersham Earl Shilton Quarries Underground Mining Machinery Ltd Early Days at the Pyewipe Works Courtaulds Ltd's Dunstall Park Works British Exiles in Argentina Winson Engineering Bird & Co of Dudley
	No.190 - September 2007 - £3.75 All Change at Beckton Maschinebau - Anstalt Humboldt (Germany) Exploring Industrial Railways in Cluj (Romania) The Year Round Pantomime (Brandon Pit Coll.) William Gittus Wagon Works Destination West Bank (Widnes) Moyse Locotracteur (France)
	No.189 - May 2007 - £3.75 Memories of the Gibraltar Dockyard Railway Mystery Forestry Railway Locations English Electric Battery Locomotives An Unusual Locomotive at Darwen King George V Graving Dock Southampton Fort Augustus HENRY DE LACY III
A full listing of the contents of all issues of the "Industrial Railway Record" can be found in the Archives section.

Back Copies of the 'Industrial Railway Record'

A number of back copies of the Society magazine are still available; please order these from Mr Robinson. All prices are post free, including overseas (via surface mail).

Special offer: if you order 4 or more of the 'Record' issues marked **, then there is an extra price reduction of 20%.

There are only very limited stocks of some issues - please give an alternative if possible.

Bob Darvill has a number of out of print issues of the "Industrial Railway Record" between 55 & 155 which are for sale. If you are interested please email Bob for details of prices and what numbers he currently has available. Similarly Stan Robinson has some out of print issues of "IRR" - write to him with your wants, enclosing an SAE please, and he will try to assist.