The Swindon to Gloucester Line is a new edition of the classic authoritative account of the history of the railway line between Swindon and Cheltenham.  More than 120 illustrations, accompanied by the author's informative captions capture the atmosphere and formative years of the line. The narrative retells the story the line from its planning and construction through to its opening in the 1840s and on through the years of its operation to the present day.  Locomotives, engine sheds, train services, and GWR bus services are all concisely and comprehensively described, together with GWR's first railmotor service, which was in operation between Chalford and Stonehouse.  The book also includes chapters on the branch lines to Cirencester and Tetbury and a chapter on the various mishaps and accidents also makes for absorbing reading, offering an insight into some of the hazards that the drivers and other workers had to face.

The Swindon to Gloucester Line

MAGGS, Colin Gordon

History

Sutton Pub Ltd

200 nostalgic steam photographs recapture the end of the age of steam in Bristol and Somerset.

The Last Days of Steam in Bristol and Somerset

World

A wide-ranging view of more than a century of rail travel in Wiltshire.

Branch Lines of Wiltshire

Americas

Branch Lines of Somerset

Branch Lines of Berkshire

The branch lines of Warwickshire had unusually interesting and evocative station names. This is lively and fascinating account of the locomotives and branch lines of Warwickshire and the people who worked on them.

Branch Lines of Warwickshire

Business & Money

Collects photographs taken during the 1950s and early 1960s in both town and country locations, featuring famous companies, small branch railroads, locomotive sheds, and stations

The Best of the Last Days of Steam

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Motorbooks Intl

Although the majority of the branch lines of Hampshire belonged to the London & South Western Railway - the Great Western Railway, South Eastern & Chatham Railway and the London, Brighton, & South Coast Railway making only minor intrusions - they offered the opportunity to see a wide variety of locomotives serving both rural outposts and the major towns.All the Hampshire branches are described in detail, and the text includes lively anecdotes of the trains and those who served them. The book is illustrated with over 150 black and white photographs, maps and ephemera, which capture the history of the county's railways.

Branch Lines of Hampshire

Showing the history of the railways in the West of England from their beginnings to the present day, Colin Maggs uses a collection of black and white photographs accompanied by detailed captions, and a lengthy introduction. There are locomotives in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and south-west Wiltshire. From locomotives on shed to pictures of stations; from tunnels to railway docks; and from pictures of the last up broad gauge train at Truro in 1892 to a 1988 shot of an electric train at Weymouth, here is all the variety that the railways of the West of England can offer.

Colin Magg's West of England

The Mangotsfield to Bath Branch (Locomotion Papers)

The Oakwood Press

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