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Bishop’s Castle by John Scott Morgan Portrait of a country Railway Soft Cover
Bishops Castle by John Scott Morgan Portrait of a country railway
Soft Cover
52 pages
Copyright 1991
INDEX
Early Morning EncounterPage 3
1 Courthouses and ClosuresPage 5
2 More of the SamePage 11
3 `Never in England or Elsewhere'Page 15
4 Year of the WaspPage 19
5 Pride Before FallPage 25
6 `The Last Parliamentary'Page 27
Taking StockPage 47
AppendixPage 49
ON THE BACK COVER:
The story of the Bishop's Castle Railway is an extraordinary one by any measure, a triumph of hope over expectation; a Will Hay script that ran for decades only to expire, funnily enough, as his gentle comedies began to popularise precisely the sort of undertaking represented by the Bishop's Castle Railway. That even Colonel Stephens should turn it down is perhaps the keenest measure of its limping decrepitude. Yet it draws us still, a concern so beset by financial and legal difficulties, and overall impecuniousity as to beggar belief. A railway moreover, with the Receiver as `proprietor' through more or less the whole of its existence, a railway that eluded both the Grouping and the bemused attempts of the Board of Trade to make it conform to recognised rules and regulations. The line, according even to one of its champions, `was practically of little value'.
Buses, `them in London' and a Gradgrind Receiver, it was felt locally, had conspired in the line's demise, though the air of farce was maintained to the end, the demolition train on one occasion in the last sombre weeks arriving at Craven Arms two days early. Tempers rose while the station master fussed about for a key to unlock the gate barring access to the branch. Demolition was complete by May 1937, when the last remnants of the junction were finally taken away and the wonder of an exquisite, and probably unique, country railway was gone forever.
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