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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: Paul D Shannon Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1399089919 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 254
Book Description
This book examines in words and pictures the network of British branch lines and other secondary routes that survived the mass closures of the 1960s. While nearly 4,000 route miles were lost between 1963 and 1970, the cuts were less severe than they might have been. Some lines were reprieved because of their social importance, even though they would never pay their way in purely commercial terms. They included some lengthy rural routes, such as those serving the Far North of Scotland, Central Wales and the Cumbrian Coast, as well as some urban backwaters such as Romford to Upminster and the St Albans Abbey branch. As the 1970s progressed, closures became scarce, but cost-cutting measures included the singling of some lines as well as scaled-down stations and simplified signalling. Yet even today, some pockets of traditional operation survive. Mechanical signal boxes still control many hundreds of miles across the network, in areas as diverse as West Cornwall, East Lincolnshire and South West Scotland. This book also celebrates several reopened and new lines, ranging from the major Borders Railway project in Scotland to the Stansted Airport and Barking Riverside branches in South East England - making the point that the branch line concept is far from dead.
Author: Colin Maggs
Author: Colin Maggs
Author: Colin Gordon Maggs
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Author: Leslie Oppitz
Author: Ted Gosling
Author: Robin Atthill
Author: Nigel Welbourn
Author: Branch Line Reinvigoration Society
Author: Colin G. Maggs
Author: Paul D Shannon