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Gone With Regret Recollections of the Great Western Railway 1922-1947 Behrend
Gone With Regret Recollections of the Great Western Railway 1922-1947 Behrend
Gone With Regret Recollections of the Great Western Railway 1922-1947 Behrend
Gone With Regret Recollections of the Great Western Railway 1922-1947 Behrend
Gone With Regret Recollections of the Great Western Railway 1922-1947 Behrend
Gone With Regret Recollections of the Great Western Railway 1922-1947 Behrend
Gone With Regret Recollections of the Great Western Railway 1922-1947 Behrend
Gone With Regret Recollections of the Great Western Railway 1922-1947 Behrend
Gone With Regret Recollections of the Great Western Railway 1922-1947 Behrend

Gone With Regret Recollections of the Great Western Railway 1922-1947 Behrend


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Gone With Regret Recollections of the Great Western Railway 1922-1947 Behrend
 
Gone With Regret Recollections of the Great Western Railway 1922-1947 by George Behrend
Hard cover with Dust Jacket (dust jacket has damage)
83 Illustrations
Copyright 1966 THIRD EDITION 1969   Revised and with 25 additional illustrations (to the Second edition)
204 pages  Indexed

CONTENTS
Introduction9
Highclere12
Newbury and the Weymouth Line22
Glorious Devon and The Cornish Riviera41
From Marlborough to West Wales61
Oxford91
Interlude in Italy108
Croeso i Gymru112
The Last Days of the Corris132
Smiling Somerset137
"And Until Further Notice"152
Appendix I: Museums and Societies engines160
Appendix II: GWR Running Shed Codes162
Appendix III: Names, Numbers, Types, Classes165
Appendix IV: GWR Lorries and Buses169
Appendix V : Vacuum Fitted and Accelerated Freight189
Appendix VI: GWR Wagon Codes191
Bibliography194
Index196
List of Societies coaches203
ILLUSTRATIONS
Plates 1-21Abetween pp 32-33
Plates 22-46Abetween pp 64-65
Plates 46B-72between pp 96-97
Plates 73-94between pp 128-129
Plates 94A-113between pp 160-161
Index of Illustrationspage 204

For George Behrend, the railway systems of the world fall into two groups-the Great Western, and the others. Much of his life has been spent within sight and sound of it and even during the 1939-45 War, while serving overseas, he had a remarkable encounter with THE railway, as he relates in the chapter "Interlude in Italy". But then, the old Great Western always was remarkable.
This book is an evocation of that remarkability, that distinctive something which made the G.W.R. just what it was in the years which followed the Grouping. up to 1947, when it disappeared with its fellows into the limbo of British Railways-a necessary operation, perhaps, but none the less a saddening one. For some years after that, it is true that we could say, with Tennyson, that though much was taken, much remained, hut now the massive inroads of modernisation are rapidly obliterating the last remnants of that most individual of railways. So before it is too late, the author has put on record his recollections of what he, and many others, will always think of as Gone With Regret.

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