Branch Lines of Gloucestershire
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A01=Colin Maggs
Art Architecture & Photography
Author_Colin Maggs
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-WG
Category=WGF
COP=United Kingdom
Cultural History
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Format=BC
History of Engineering & Technology
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IMPN=Amberley Publishing
Industrialisation
ISBN13=9781848683488
Local & Urban History
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PD=20110430
Photography
POP=Chalford
Price=€20 to €50
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PUB=Amberley Publishing
Railway Books
Railways
Social & Economic History
Subject=Transport: General Interest
Trains
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WMM=172
Product details
- ISBN 9781848683488
- Weight: 467g
- Dimensions: 172 x 248mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2011
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: Chalford, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The range and number of lines in Gloucestershire, and the type and diversity of the locomotives operating both branch and main lines, make it a particularly interesting railway county. In this well-researched book, all of Gloucestershire's branch lines are described in an entertaining and highly informative narrative. We encounter horse-worked lines and one line boasting the longest railway bridge in England. There is also a line operated by a veteran tank engine, complete with open-backed cab, and a timber bridge still in use in the 1950s. Against the national trend and a background of closing lines and stations, rail traffic in Gloucestershire increased and new halts were opened. Gloucestershire became the testing ground for an experimental geared locomotive, which it was hoped would revolutionise motive power on rural lines. It did not, however, meet with success, although the introduction of rail buses on some branches had a more positive effect. A marvellous, wide-ranging view of over a century of rail travel in Gloucestershire, highly illustrated with over 200 fascinating photographs and ephemera, this volume will appeal not only to steam railway enthusiasts, but also to local historians.
Colin Maggs is one of the country's foremost transport and engineering historians and has written over one hundred books as well as innumerable magazine articles. He has also made several TV and radio appearances. In 1993 he received the MBE for services to railway history. He lives in Bath.
