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Since the 1960s thousands of miles of track and hundreds of stations have been closed across Britain. Bestselling author and antiques expert Paul Atterbury traces 36 routes that it has long since ceased to be possible to travel by train but are nevertheless still rich in railway culture. Paul Atterbury encounters crumbling bridges and viaducts, old buildings and railwayana and, complementing the contemporary photographs, he illustrates the journeys with pictures and ephemera of the railways he encounters in their heydey. Packed with archive photographs of trains and life on the old railways Lost Railway Journeys is a romantic, nostalgic, elegiac journey across all parts of Britain that invites the reader to dream of days and trains that once were.
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Example contents include:
- The South West
- Lynton & Barnstaple
- Princetown
- Lyme Regis
- Bridport...
- The South
- Westerham
- Hawkhurst
- Calne
- Isle Of Wight
- Cheltenham-Andover...
- Central
- Wantage
- Nailsworth
- Horncastle
- Buxton-High Peak
- Wales
- Cardigan
- Amlwch
- Ruabon-Barmouth
- Carmarthen-Aberystwyth
- The North
- Grassington
- Silloth
- Derwent Valley
- Cockermouth-Sellafield
- Scotland
- Kirkcudbright
- Loch Tay
- Dunblane-Crianlarich...
Brief Description:
Since the 1960s thousands of miles of track and hundreds of stations have been closed across Britain. This title traces 36 routes that it has long since ceased to be possible to travel by train but are nevertheless still rich in railway culture. It illustrates the journeys with pictures and ephemera of the railways.
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