With an array of nostalgic photographs and ephemera, this work celebrates the heritage of branchline and rural Britain. It explores surviving lines, and lines n

This book examines in words and pictures the network of British branch lines and other secondary routes that survived the mass closures of the 1960s. While near

The infamous ‘Beeching Axe’ swept away virtually every Scottish branch line in the 1960s. Conventional wisdom viewed these losses as regrettable yet inevitabl

This comprehensive book is aimed at all those railway modellers who wish to create a realistic model of a branch line. First of all it examines the origins, dev

A lavishly illustrated title from acknowledged railway expert Colin G. Maggs, presenting the story of Warwickshire's branch lines.