Author: Colin Maggs
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445612348
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
A lavishly illustrated title from acknowledged railway expert Colin G. Maggs, presenting the story of Dorset’s branch lines.
The Branch Lines of Dorset
Author: Colin Maggs
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445612348
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
A lavishly illustrated title from acknowledged railway expert Colin G. Maggs, presenting the story of Dorset’s branch lines.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445612348
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
A lavishly illustrated title from acknowledged railway expert Colin G. Maggs, presenting the story of Dorset’s branch lines.
Branch Lines of Dorset
Author: Colin Gordon Maggs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840151459
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840151459
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Branch Lines of Dorset
Locomotives of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
Author: Tim Hillier-Graves
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 9781526748355
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 9781526748355
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
Lost Railways of Dorset
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.
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.
Dorset Railways
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.
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.
Dorset Railways Through Time
Author: Mike Phipp
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398108553
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Explore the fascinating photographic comparison between Dorset's past and present railways through time.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398108553
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Explore the fascinating photographic comparison between Dorset's past and present railways through time.
Dorset Traction
Author: Mark Jamieson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445671689
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
The photographs chosen for this book, published for the first time, represent the traction Dorset has enjoyed over the years since the end of steam in 1967, and the landscape that they pass through.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445671689
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
The photographs chosen for this book, published for the first time, represent the traction Dorset has enjoyed over the years since the end of steam in 1967, and the landscape that they pass through.
The Branch Lines of Somerset
Author: Colin Maggs
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445625644
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
A lavishly illustrated title from acknowledged railway expert Colin G. Maggs, presenting the story of Somerset's branch lines.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445625644
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
A lavishly illustrated title from acknowledged railway expert Colin G. Maggs, presenting the story of Somerset's branch lines.