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Lost Lines Eastern by Nigel Welbourn Soft Cover
Lost Lines Eastern by Nigel Welbourn
Soft Cover
128 pages
Copyright 1995 REPRINTED 2001
CONTENTS
Introduction3
1 Historical perspective4
2 Geography of the region9
3 The Pally passengers10
4 Back to Buntingford15
5 Stour Valley stopping trains20
6 Making tracks to Maldon29
7 A sea interlude: The lost Master34
8 The line that refused to die36
9 Freight-only ports40
10 A branch to nowhere45
11 The last train from Aldeburgh50
12 Terminal tales54
13 Breckland and Broadland byways58
14 A royal gateway65
15 Memories of the M&GN72
16 Fenland crossings79
17 Union with Cambridge85
18 Loss at the races94
19 Saved by the bells98
20 The Lincolnshire coastlines103
21 Lost links with Lincoln113
22 Pass over the Pennines119
23 Gricing at Grantham127
ON THE BACK COVER
Since the Nationalisation of Britain's railways in 1948 the nation's railway network has almost halved, with the closure of duplicate and unremunerative lines. Although Dr Beeching is widely regarded as the perpetrator of the policy that led to many of these closures - as indeed he was in so far as he was Chairman at the time of the infamous Reshaping Report in the early 1960s - it was a process that had started well before his rise to power. The result of these closures is that Britain has a remarkable heritage of closed railways and stations, some well known and others less familiar, but all of which have a fascinating history. In the `Lost Lines' series Nigel Welbourn, who over more than 30 years has visited and revisited most railway lines in the British Isles, provides an illustrated history to many of these lines. Dividing the country into the BR regions, each volume is illustrated with a superb range of some 250 mono illustrations - photographs, maps, ephemera and tickets. This volume, covering the Eastern Region, examines many of the most fascinating lines in the area, including the much-mourned Midland & Great Northern Joint, the Mid-Suffolk, the Woodhead route, the Southwold Railway and many other lines, all of which have a remarkable story to tell.
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