Holiday Reading. ....

[rogerfarnworth]

A couple of books for holiday reading!

Holiday Reading!

Two great paperbacks! Michael Williams; The Trains Now Departed – Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights of Britain’s Railways; ISBN 978-0-099-59058-3. Tom Chesshyre; Ticket to Ride …

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Michael Williams; The Trains Now Departed – Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights of Britain’s Railways; ISBN 978-0-099-59058-3.

Tom Chesshyre; Ticket to Ride – Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys; ISBN 978-1-84953-826-8.

Two excellent paperback books for an enjoyable read on holiday! I picked up both second-hand at very reasonable prices.

 

[Calthrop]

Thank you for this. The Trains Now Departed definitely feels, from the description, tempting. Assorted delightful lines featured: I'd feel inclined to buy it, for its covering the Stratford-on-Avon & Midland Junction alone. I love that line, and only wish that I had ever had the good fortune to see anything of it when operational -- strikes me as the quintessence of barmy highly-rural British lengthily over-grown-branch-line, rambling pointless rail routes !

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Thank you for this. The Trains Now Departed definitely feels, from the description, tempting. Assorted delightful lines featured: I'd feel inclined to buy it, for its covering the Stratford-on-Avon & Midland Junction alone. I love that line, and only wish that I had ever had the good fortune to see anything of it when operational -- strikes me as the quintessence of barmy highly-rural British lengthily over-grown-branch-line, rambling pointless rail routes !

Have a hardback copy of the book, acquired in 2017, will dig same out and have a re-read of the relevant chapter.

Favourite section in the book, though, is possibly the chapter on the invariably eccentrically run 'Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway' and what happened to a certain debt collector / bailiff in late 1866.