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Author: Leslie Oppitz Publisher: Lost Railways ISBN: 9781853066962 Category : Railroads Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
Traces the history of the county's railway lines from their opening in the 19th century, their heyday around the turn of the century and, in many cases, their closure in the 20th century.
Author: Ted Gosling Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing ISBN: 9780750920018 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 126
Book Description
During the great age of steam, most railways in Dorset were operated by the Southern Railway and the Great Western Railway. These Dorset railway companies and daily life on the branch lines during this era and beyond are recorded in this text amid many captioned photographs. Bygone railway stations are affectionately recalled, together with open cattle trucks and luxurious Pullman coaches that served our great-grandfathers' generation.
Author: Tim Hillier-Graves Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport ISBN: 9781526748355 Category : Languages : en Pages : 240
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Although closed to traffic in 1966, with most of its infrastructure swiftly destroyed by British Railways, this unique railway line still lives in the minds of many, some too young to remember it in its heyday. For more then a hundred years it courted disaster and could on a number of occasions have succumbed to overpowering financial pressures, but it survived with the help of partnerships with larger, more secure companies, namely the Midland Railway and the London & South Western Railway. Later on, after the grouping in 1923, the line came under the control of the L M S and the Southern Railway. It was unfortunate that the line suffered in later years, from inter regional rivalry between the Western and Southern Regions of British Railways, which led to its eventual closure. The variety of companies involved in its running meant that during its lifetime the small pool of locomotives needed to service the line was supplemented by the best each partner could offer. So from the beginning to the end there were a myriad number of types of locomotive running over the Mendips providing a lively variety of motive power. This heavily illustrated book traces this unique and fascinating history and brings to life this singular, much missed and loved railway.
Author: David Mitchell Publisher: British Railways Past & Present S. ISBN: 9781858950891 Category : Dorset (England) Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
Covers: railways around Bournemouth; The Somerset and Dorset line north from Bournemouth; The Great Western line from Weymouth; Weymouth, the Quay line and the Easton branch; Branches to Abbotsbury, West Bay and Lyme Regis; and the preserved Swanage branch.
Author: Colin Maggs
Author: Colin Maggs
Author: Colin Gordon Maggs
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Author: Leslie Oppitz
Author: Ted Gosling
Author: Tim Hillier-Graves
Author: Robin Atthill
Author: David Mitchell
Author: Nigel Welbourn
Author: Branch Line Reinvigoration Society