Railway Journey Around South West England

Description

A Railway Journey Around South West England in the late 1950s & 1960s has been created from photographs taken by the author, his father, plus friends Alan Maund, John Dagley-Morris, and Ellis James-Robertson. Also, through contacts made via B & R Video Productions the author has been able to use images taken by Barry Eagles and Jim Oatway (the latter via his son, Nigel Oatway OBE). Virtually all of the photographs, a mixture of colour and black & white, have never previously been published. Steam is the predominant motive power but modern traction does appear including: gas turbine 18000 in colour, a ‘Hymek’ in ‘just delivered’ condition, ‘Warships’ and a ‘Western’.

Highlights are the 1961-closed Midland & South Western line between Cheltenham and Ludgershall, the Somerset & Dorset north of Templecombe (including the Highbridge branch and Mangotsfield), plus the Eclipse peat works narrow gauge system on the Somerset Levels. Other locations include: Swindon works, Malmesbury, the Calne branch, Thingley Junction, Holt Junction, Castle Cary, Taunton, Hemyock, Sidmouth Junction, Exmouth Junction shed, Crediton, Barnstaple, the North Devon & Cornwall line, Bude, Meldon (quarry, viaduct and halt), Defiance platform, the Liskeard to Looe branch, Bodmin North, Gwinear Road, and concluding with nine colour slides at Wadebridge.  The contents include a fully illustrated GWR route map from Worcester depot as well as the many high resolution images made on the journey and explained in the text.

There are 128 pages, 100 b/w images, 100 colour images and 16 photos of tickets and GWR notices.

It is hardback, 215mm x 255mm and priced at £25.00 plus £4.00 p/p.