 | Main Lines Books Published |  |
| Main Lines Books Published | |
| Great Western Pictorial No 2 | Wild Swan | |||
| John Hodge | £17.95 | 92 pages | Hardback | 1999 |
| Definitely one for the Great Western fans amongst us, a classic album of trains, mainly taken during the zenith of steam on the South Wales and West of England main lines. There is particularly good coverage of South Wales, and train compositions are shown to good effect. | ||||
| The Great Western Railway in East Cornwall | Runpast | |||
| Alan Bennett | £9.95 | 80 pages | Softback | 1990 |
| From Saltash to Lostwithiel, and featuring the Looe and Bodmin routes, a well put together photographic history of all the railway lines in this area. Reprinted in 1998, the excellent photographs feature the work of Peter Gray and the history is brought up to date with recent developments on the Bodmin and Wenford Railway. | ||||
| Taunton Steam | Millstream | |||
| Colin Maggs | £16.95 | 160 pages | Hardback | 1991 |
| Comprehensive history, including all branch and loop lines in the area. There is extensive photographic coverage mainly from private collections, with very full coverage given to motive power and also including the accidents at Norton Fitzwarren. A substantial part of this book describes the realities of steam working, including the unusual. | ||||
| The Vale Of Glamorgan Railway | Oakwood | |||
| Colin Chapman | £11.95 | 176 pages | Softback | 1998 |
| A well illustrated account of a secondary main line in South Wales which whilst closed to passengers still sees considerable freight traffic and occasional diverted through passenger trains. There is an ongoing possibility of passenger re-opening, but in the meantime this is an interesting record of the history and present state of the line, still double track throughout, with the exception of the usual "double to single to double with facing crossover" type junction at Bridgend. | ||||
| Westbury to Bath | Middleton Press | |||
| Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith | £14.95 | 96 pages | Hardback | 1995 |
| A comprehensive photographic survey of a relatively short stretch of railway, with good photographic coverage of Limpley Stoke station. My little business even gets a mention, although the contemporary shots were unfortunately taken before we put up the new running-in board. All periods are covered and this book also has the best photographic coverage of Bath that I have recently seen together in one book. | ||||
| Woodhead (Part One) | Foxline | |||
| E.M. Johnson | £12.95 | 128 pages | Softback | 1996 |
| Covering the route from Manchester as far east as Woodhead, this is a splendid album of high quality photographs. With extended and highly informative captions, all eras are covered from Sacre tanks to Rail Blue electrics. It is hard to believe that this heavily engineered main line no longer reaches across the Pennines. I visited the sad junctions at Dinting some years ago after the preservation sceme had failed and just after the lines had just been rationalised. The rain came down in sheets and at the end of the line at Hadfield dead colour light signals and wire-less overhead gantries completed the melancholy mood. | ||||
| Woodhead (Part Two) | Foxline | |||
| E.M. Johnson | £14.95 | 268 pages | Hardback | 1997 |
| Continuing along the line from Dunford Bridge to Sheffield Victoria, but also covering the Worsborough branch to Wath and featuring Darnall locomotive depot. By the time that the author was putting this book together he knew that there would be a third volume covering the "electric" era on Woodhead and consequently this album consists exclusively of steam era images, some of them being very early views. As with part one, the quality of photographic reproduction is excellent and the captions are both well informed and extended. | ||||