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Country Railway, The By David St John Thomas w/ dust jacket
The Country Railway by David St John Thomas
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
160 pages
Copyright 1977 published by Book Club Assoc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Introduction6
2 The Building of the Branch Line11
3 In Business27
4 The Village Station42
5 The Country Railwayman58
6 The Country Train74
7 South Molton92
8 Deeper into the Countryside103
9 Ireland and the Isle of Man119
10 The Railway in the Landscape137
Appendix: the Abermule Disaster154
Bibliography and Acknowledgements 157
Index 158
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION:
Everyone loved the country railway with its neat stations and colourful gardens, the shining brasswork of its tank engines, viaducts daringly built over gushing rivers, embankments carpeted with flowers, and guards whose appearance and voice as well as the traffic they carried in their vans reflected exactly the character of the terrain being served. Basing his work on deep historical research and rich personal experience, David St John Thomas lovingly portrays the branch and cross-country railway in all its nostalgic, technical and commercial aspects. He tells of the days of high expectation when the local promoters first met and chose the architectural style for their stations, sees the navvies at work hacking through the countryside, reports the arrival of the first trains, recalls the troubled realism when traffic receipts failed to provide enough for dividends. Stations, signalboxes, engines and their men, coaches and trucks, cattle docks and railway pubs, junctions and termini, varied landscapes, special occasions and disasters ...
In words and pictures here is a unique study for railway enthusiasts and for those who just miss the passing of the country train.
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