 | Main Lines Books Published |  |
| Main Lines Books Published | |
| The Arbroath and Forfar Railway | Oakwood | |||
| Niall Ferguson | £14.95 | 240 pages | Softback | 2000 |
| A solid chunk of Scottish railway history, a minor network around Dundee and its convoluted history. Part eventually becam the Caledonian main line, but subsequent rationalisation chose another route, and the whole network withered and died, the last "stub" failing in 1967. One copy left (Jan 2008). | ||||
| Birmingham to Bristol, Part 1 Birmingham to Cheltenham | Runpast | |||
| Stephen Mourton and Bob Pixton | £14.99 | 96 pages | Softback | 2001 |
| Subtitled "Portrait of a Famous Midland Route", this is a better than average photographic book covering a route with an interesting history. The Camp Hill line and Worcester Loop are included and the photographic selection, whilst including a few key modern shots, is predominantly steam era with a good proportion being pre-nationalisation. The historical detail included in the text is comprehensive and detailed and the photographs reveal some interesting backwaters along the route, for example Birmingham's Central Goods Depot, Worcester's Midland shed and long closed original stations along the route. | ||||
| The Eleven Towns Railway | R&CHS | |||
| Jeffrey Wells | £12.95 | 96 pages | Softback | 2000 |
| The story of the Manchester and Leeds main line, the first trans Pennine railway which subsequently became known as the Calder Valley. This company subsequently changed its name to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, and the route changed and developed as traffic expanded. This book gives a good feel for the line as built, and includes reproductions of fifteen 1845 lithographs. | ||||
| Paddington To Ealing | Middleton Press | |||
| Mitchell and Smith | £14.95 | 96 pages | Hardback | 2000 |
| An ambitious subject for the "Middleton Treatment", mind boggling arrays of sidings and junctions and a huge variety of rolling stock over the years, all of which are well illustrated and explained. | ||||
| Railways Across Mid Cheshire | Foxline | |||
| Alan Wilkinson | £14.95 | 112 pages | Softback | 2001 |
| A more varied than normal photographic study, covering an area with a lot of industry, notably salt mines, all with associated industrial railway operations. Along the main routes, the coverage of station buildings and infrastructure is especially well done, even including sreetscenes featuring station entrances. The rise and fall of Northwhich motive power depot is also given its own coverage, as is much else of interest. | ||||
| Saxmundham to Yarmouth | Middleton Press | |||
| Richard Adderson and Graham Kenworthy | £14.95 | 96 pages | Hardback | 2001 |
| This covers a particularly interesting route, the major part of which now forms part of the line to Lowestoft. The northern section above Beccles was abandoned in 1959 to avoid the maintenance of two spectacular swing bridges, with the former branch via Gorleston remaining as a continuing rail link to Yarmouth - you'll have to read the book to understand it all! This is one of the best books from this publisher, in addition to the whole route the photos show the rebuilding of the two swing bridges in superb detail, and the decline of Yarmouth South Town from Railway hub to wasteland is depressingly well shown. | ||||
| Woodhead The Electric Railway | Foxline | |||
| E.M. Johnson | £17.95 | 192 pages | Softback | 2001 |
| Following on from the same author and publisher's two excellent books on the Woodhead route, this book shows the electric era on the railway in comprehensive detail. Detailed views of construction together with photographs along the route illustrate every aspect, with depots junctions and yards being well featured. The book contains a lot of information and background to the engineering of the electrification, including the Dutch excursions both temporary and permanent of the locomotives - highly interesting. | ||||