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Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway by Keith Turner Hard Cover
The Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway by Keith Turner
Hard Cover
44 pages
Copyright 1980
CONTENTS
Introduction
1 CONCEPTION
The Manifold Valley - the idea - the Light Railway Order - the
L & MVLR Co-E. R. Calthrop
2 BIRTH
Calthrop takes over - construction - the route - opening day - the
steambuses
3 LIFE
Under the NSR - under the LMS - operation
4 DEATH
The end of an age - closure - the footpath and after
5 LOCOMOTIVES AND ROLLING STOCK The locomotives - the coaches - the goods stock
6 TODAY
A walk down the line - in miniature
Bibliography Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
There is neither road nor footpath down the whole length of Manifold Valley, though these occur here and there. But the little railway threads its inmost recesses in a delightfully casual way, playing hide and seek with the cliffs and the waters, and the cars are built to make the best of the views in all directions.
- Thomas L. Tudor The High Peak to Sherwood 1926
This book is the story in words and pictures of that little railway of the Manifold Valley. It is a railway which I never knew personally, being of a different generation. Indeed, more than 45 years have passed since the last engine steamed its unhurried way down the line - but its memory stubbornly refuses to fade. Each year countless thousands still thread those inmost recesses, only this time on foot, for a footpath now plays hide-and-seek with the cliffs and the waters, and the casual little trains run only in the imagination.
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