by Robert Western
In The Times of 26th August, 1998 there was a news item headed 'Ministers pledge cash for revival of rail links'. Prominent against the text was a large photograph of Bassenthwaite Lake station, taken in 1959. Holidaymakers and local people are alighting from the two-coach train, the people in the photograph look... More >>>
by Robert Western As featured in R&ER Magazine Number 188 (March 2008)
Lake Coniston, with its undoubted beauty, might well have been the obvious destination for a railway; a line to provide access for visitors to come and enjoy this special area of the Lake District. Certainly Coniston did get a railway but providing a... More >>>
by R.W. Kidner
One of the early Oakwood Press Light Railway Handbook series, this is book number 3. The book lists English Narrow Gauge railways operating in 1946, including drawings of station layouts and stock lists.
Railways included are:-
Manifold Valley
Lynton and Barnstaple
Southwold
Eaton Hall
Ashover
Rye and... More >>>
By David Llewellyn Davies
Aonther of the Oakwood Press "Locomotion papers" series, this is the 1974 reprint of the original 1962 edition, with minor corrections.
The book outlines the history of this 2ft, 4 and a half inch gauge railway (the gauge chosen as being half standard gauge!) from construction in 1872 until its closure in... More >>>
Second Edition (1937) copy of this book, published by Mr R W Kidner.
6 pages of black and white photographs and many line drawings of railway routes and locomotives.
Softback, 6 in. x 4 in. approx, 48 pages.
Front cover has mark on right hand side running the length of the cover, and there is a faint pencil notation on the top right hand... More >>>
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