by Mark Smithers.

Mark Smithers is a highly respected author and researcher of narrow gauge history; his articles have appeared in numerous professional journals. Mark's totally new study of Sir Arthur Heywood and his work, researched largely from primary sources and written with the full cooperation of the Haywood family, covers estate and garden railways before 1870. Included is the Duffield Bank Railway, its workshops, locomotives and rolling stock; the commercial impact of Heywood's early work (including connections with John Fowler and W.G. Bagnall Ltd); the Eaton Hall Railway and its locomotives; Nine and fifteen inch gauge railways at Doveleys; the role of the Minimum Gauge Railway; Heywood equipment on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway; the Heywood legacy and renaissance today.

Hardback 22cm x 28 cm, 184 pages, lavishly illustrated with black and white photos and line drawings