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The Country Railway

by Tim Bryan
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780747812548
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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  • Pages: 64
  • Original Price: INR 499.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 154 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Great Britain / General

While the coming of the railways to Britain's towns and cities in the nineteenth century transformed their fortunes and gave urban dwellers new opportunities to travel across the country, the effect on the largely rural population of the country was arguably far greater. And while some of the initial trunk lines were designed to link major cities, the network of smaller cross-country and branch lines that followed opened up large tracts of previously remote countryside, providing new markets for agricultural produce but also ending the isolation of many rural communities. For many railway enthusiasts, the country railway was typified by the shorter but no less important branch line. Many of these railways began life as independent companies promoted by local people wishing to ensure their community was linked to the main line, but inevitably they were often taken over by large operations like the Great Western, but inevitably remained an important part of the districts and communities they served.

Tim Bryan spent twenty-one years working as a curator at the GWR adn STEAM museums in Swindon and is new Head of Collections at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon. He has also written Railway Workshops, Railways in Wartime and The Great Western Railway for Shire.

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