British Railways The First 25 Years Volume 14: by J. Allan Hardback

Product Information\n\nBritish Railways The First 25 Years Volume 14: by J. Allan Hardback\n\nClick on the Image to Enlarge zoom_in\n\nDESCRIPTION\nThis is the fourteenth in a series of books depicting the first 25 years of British Railways, and the first to concentrate on a single line. It covers the Somerset & Dorset, a line which captured the imagination of enthusiasts out of all proportion to its size and importance, and achieved cult status. Most attention was on the 26\uFFFD miles between Bath and Evercreech Junction. In contrast, the line south of Templecombe to Bournemouth was very much a poor relation with enthusiasts. Except for summer Saturdays when through holiday trains ran, the Somerset & Dorset was essentially a secondary line with a reasonable amount of goods and coal traffic on the northern section. We hope to have struck a reasonable balance between the two aspects of this rather Jekyll and Hyde line. Our journey begins at Bournemouth West, joining the L&m