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Branch Lines Of Wiltshire by Colin Maggs w/ dust jacket
Branch Lines of Wiltshire By Coling G. Maggs
Copyright 1992
Hard Cover with dust jacket
146 pages
Table of Contents
Introduction1
Swindon to Highworth2
Cricklade to Ludgershall12
Dodsdown Brickworks Railway37
Ludgershall to Tidworth40
Savernake to Marlborough44
Dauntsey to Malmesbury48
Chippenham to Calne62
Chippenham to Trowbridge74
Holt to Patney & Chirton91
Corsham to Quarry Tunnel116
Grateley to Bulford and Associated Military Lines120
Salisbury, Alderbury Junction to Downton, the Milford Goods Branch, and
Salisbury Market House Railway128
The Military Branches: Fovant Railway, Codford to Codford Camp, and
Heytesbury to Sutton Veny Camp140
Summary
Although most of the branch lines in Wiltshire were associated with the Great Western Railway, this company, to its chagrin, did not have exclusive rights in the area. The Midland & South Western Junction Railway audaciously cut through the heart of the GWR's territory, even Swindon itself, linking the industrial Midlands with the busy port of Southampton, while in the south of the county the London & South Western Railway reigned supreme.
It was, therefore, an area of some diversity as far as rail traffic was concerned. It was also in this county that many military branches sprang up on Salisbury Plain in the first forty years of this century.
Here for the first time under one cover are all Wiltshire's branch lines. The lively and informative text outlines the county's main railway routes and then describes in detail the branch lines serving each, giving the history along with many amusing or tragic incidents which occurred on the branch in question.
Comprehensively illustrated with more than 180 fascinating photographs and ephemera associated with the lines, most of which are no longer in existence, this volume provides a wide-ranging view of over a century of rail travel in Wiltshire.
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