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This is a vivid, contemporary account of the sights and sounds of the last two years of steam on British Railways from the detailed diaries of a journalist, photographer and sound recordist in north-west England in that final theatre of steam operations.
From the BRITISH RAILWAYS PAST AND PRESENT series, a collection of archive railway photographs from Avon, the Cotswolds and the Malverns, together with recent photographs of the same views.
Takes readers on the 8-mile ride along the Bristol Road to the Lickey Hills, Rubery and Rednall, and to Cotteridge, Moseley and Alcester Lanes End. This title also gives the opportunity of sampling the maze of routes in Balsall Heath known as 'The Chinese Railway'.
Talks about: Sheffield and Rotherham; Pennine routes from Penistone; lines around Barnsley; Wakefield, Castleford and Knottingley; the railway town of Doncaster; and Goole and Selby.
Takes in the routes to the north-east and east of the town, together with the trolleybus route west to Whitmore Reans and the bus services beyond to Pendeford and Codsall. This work also talks about services to Bushbury Hill, Pear Tree (Low Hill), Amos Lane, Wednesfield Road and beyond, Willenhall Road, Walsall, Bilston and Darlaston.
This 47th volume in the growing Recollections series takes us to the edge of Fenland Britain for a visit to the Nene Valley Railway the only preserved line in the country to have been restored to the European Berne loading gauge. This enables the line to run a wide variety of trains made up of both British and European rolling stock.
For the younger reader there are wonderful pictures of buses and coaches that they will never have seen. There will, for example, be half-cab single and double deckers the like of which are no longerin production. Some will be recognised from models and books, while others will be seen for the first time.
Explore the Lake District with the Furness Railway Tours
The 'Golden Valley Line' - is so called due to the descent from the summit of the line at Sapperton Tunnel to Gloucester being cut through a yellow/golden limestone ridge - between Swindon, on the Great Western main line and Standish Junction, on the Birmingham-Bristol main line
The second Silver Link Silk Edition takes us to the major northern railway city of York. David Mather takes us on a journey through time from the early steam age to the high speed trains of today.
Railways and the cinema have a long association, from early silent films to "Harry Potter". This guide lists more than 700 feature films that have British railway content, and offers details of when and where the sequences were filmed, whether on the contemporary railway or using the facilities of the preserved lines.
Provides coverage of: The West Coast Main Line from Gretna to Glasgow; The Glasgow and South Western through Dumfries and Kilmarnock; The 'Port Road' to Stranraer and branches; Ayrshire coast lines from Largs to Girvan; Routes through Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire; and Railways of southern Glasgow.
Features a pictorial survey of the ports on both sides of the sea and the varied traffic between them - including that to and from the Isle of Man. This work covers ferries, mail ships, local services, cargo and cattle ships, tourism, cruising, and more.
The stations of the West Somerset Railway provide an excellent 'stepping off point' to explore the wonderful Somerset countryside and villages therin.
The official West Somerset Railway Guide Book, one of a set of three comprehensive books that Silver Link are pleased to produce for the railway. These beutifully illustrated, high quality full colour books make for interesting and informative reading.
The original Severn Valley Railway linked Hartlebury with Shrewsbury and having operated for 101 years it was closed as a through route in 1963. It was gradually reopened between Bridgnorth and Kidderminster during 1970-1984. This album looks at some of the results and successes on a northbound journey. A Silver Link Silk Edition.
Following the success of Alan's semi-autobiographical Sixties Boys books, he has yet again come up with another gem with The Sixties Boys On Tour. Five time-worn OAPs trying to relive their youth is a recipe for hilarious escapades with old flames, adversaries, chaotic gigs and lots more, all told in Alan's inimitable racy style.
This story is unusual, it documents both the restoration & reinstatement of both platforms of the former GWR country station and the building of a new standard gauge running line with its own private station and rolling stock. Even more remarkable is that all of this was achieved on a tiny budget and by the toil and dedication of a tiny workforce.
This book looks at the rail-connected quarries of Bardon Aggregates, a company that started from small beginnings to become the country's largest rail-operated stone extractive company with four 'super-sized' quarries. The histories of the various quarries, internal railways, connections with the main-line and stock are described.
This book covers the different types and applications of 15" gauge railways from the Duffield Bank Railway of the 1870s (and its antecedents) to the modern pleasure park lines and sites. David Jones has made contact with a number of enthusiasts, some associated with the Miniature Railway Museum Trust, who have contributed illustrations.
This new Past & Present Companion is being published to mark the 150th Anniversary of the lines opening! The railway opened on 1st May 1872 and originally ran for nine miles from Totnes to the ancient stannary town of Ashburton, via Staverton and Buckfastleigh. In 2007, the line carried over 100,000 passengers and was Heritage Railway of the Year.
The author writes: This little book is my way of saying thank you to the moor and hopefully showing others some of its beauty. I am not a professional photographer and make no apologies for the rawness of my photos. I go on Dartmoor to walk and enjoy.
This book contains images taken between 1951 and 1978, the majority are in colour and have never before been published. Covering all the major bus and trolleybus operators in the area, together with a few smaller but well-known companies, most of the pictures show the buses in pre-National Bus Company and Passenger Transport Executive liveries.
2013 marks 150 years of steam on the Ffestiniog and this book focuses on the locomotives, as well as showing a comparative views through the years. What the book does show is both progress in the past by the railway and the health of current operations to take them into the next 150 years!
Following the end of steam in 1968, the future looked gloomy for what many considered the epitome of railway routes, the Settle and Carlisle line. Against that backdrop, this book was conceived. A companion for the journey which sets out the background to the line, some the main features of the route and the locomotives which grace the tracks.
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