First Edition: Very good dark blue textured cloth boards (hardback), 10.00 x 7.75 inches approx., gilt lettering to the spine, clean and tight bindingworn dust jacket in a poor condition, chipped and rubbed with tears and losses.  With tabular appendices of notable engineering features, locomotive types, classes and dimensions, fastest and longest train journeys, etc. Exhaustive index and appendices, 247 photographic reproductions and 22 diagrams in the text. Very good reference.