Mapping Britain's Lost Branch Lines
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- ISBN 9781446302835
- Weight: 1338g
- Dimensions: 23 x 269mm
- Publication Date: 25 Oct 2013
- Publisher: David & Charles
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Today there is a nostalgia in Britain for the golden age of the railways, a period usually defined as the first half of the 20th century. Steam was king, and Britain still enjoyed a remarkably comprehensive railway network, a network whose tentacles connected towns, villages and even hamlets across the entire country.
At its heart were rural routes and branch lines, the latter often the creation of small companies driven by local needs and local finance. Firmly at the centre of British life, these lines were, for so many remote areas, a social and economic lifeline.
Today, branch lines are part of a lost world, an era when railway maps of Britain showed lines crisscrossing every county – many of which had distinctive, but also lost, names. By bringing together old maps, images of old branch lines and modern photographs of relics that can be discovered today, this book celebrates a Britain of fond memories.
At its heart were rural routes and branch lines, the latter often the creation of small companies driven by local needs and local finance. Firmly at the centre of British life, these lines were, for so many remote areas, a social and economic lifeline.
Today, branch lines are part of a lost world, an era when railway maps of Britain showed lines crisscrossing every county – many of which had distinctive, but also lost, names. By bringing together old maps, images of old branch lines and modern photographs of relics that can be discovered today, this book celebrates a Britain of fond memories.
Paul Atterbury is a long-time expert on BBC TV's Antiques Roadshow, and has written on railways, Victorian culture and arts, as well as many other topics. He is also the author of Along Country Lines, Branch Line Britain, Along Lost Lines, Life Along the Line, Paul Atterbury's Railway Collection and Paul Atterbury's Wonder Book of Trains. Paul lives in Weymouth.
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