Branch Lines of Warwickshire
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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
HMM=248
IMPN=Amberley Publishing
Industrialisation
ISBN13=9781848683464
Local & Urban History
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PD=20110215
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
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- ISBN 9781848683464
- Weight: 431g
- Dimensions: 172 x 248mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2011
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: Chalford, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The branch lines of Warwickshire had unusually interesting and evocative station names, from the pleasant and graceful Henley-in-Arden and Salford Priors to Maxstoke, which suggests a particularly efficient locomotive fireman. The branch lines showed a great diversity of railway activity, from a horseworked line carrying passengers and goods to a railway worked on the principle of descending loaded wagons hauling up empties by means of a cable. As well as conventional types of locomotives there were a few rarities, including a standard gauge articulated Fairlie, and a bus which was capable of running on both road and rail. This was not the only innovation, as before 1914 the Stratford-upon-Avon & Midland Junction Railway was carrying out experiments whereby telephone conversations were made to callers aboard the train and those stationary. The branch lines were built between the early nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century. One branch line developed to main line status and then reverted back to branch line. Although many eventually became part of the GWR, some belonged to the London, Midland & Scottish Railway empire. This book describes the county's main railway routes and gives details of the branch lines serving each, and interesting incidents that occurred. In this well-researched book, Colin G. Maggs provides a marvellously wide-ranging view of over 165 years of rail travel in the county. Highly illustrated, with over 150 fascinating photographs and ephemera The Branch Lines of Warwickshire will appeal not only to 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.
