Although London has inherited a complex and comprehensive railway network, there are a large number of l ines which have disappeared. This book examines the history of many of these lines. '
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Nigel Welboum lives in Ash in Hampshire and is a civil servant. He is the author of all the previous volumes in this highly successful series.
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Ever wondered what those bare patches of land are next to a railway line in the London area? Well this book covers many of the lost railways and railway sites that once covered London, from the busy mainline railway terminals with their goods yards to the quiet west London lines to Staines, Rickmansworth and Uxbridge. Underground fans can read about the Aldwych branch and King William Street along with a few other closed tube stations. Also find out what existed in the Croydon Tramlink area before it arrived.
This book will make any railway enthusiast want to get out and look for these interesting sites that, in many cases, are largely intact albeit without track or without buildings. There's a lot of disused railway land out there in the London suburbs that may not be there for much longer if development of land carries on as it is now. Artefacts are still out there to be found (i found a shed full of perfect Underground conductor rail insulators at North Weald station!).
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Like its companion volumes in Nigel Welbourn's Lost Lines series, this book is distinguished by expert and beautiful b/w photography and by a commentary that is clear and informative for newcomers. One image that stays with me in particular is of the original Tay Bridge shortly after the disaster of 1879. This is apparently a postcard on sale at all good newsagents, rightly described by Welbourn as `morbid', but showing, I suppose, that it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
The book does not pretend to be a comprehensive study, and I make no complaint of that in general. Some of the lines selected are very welcome because they have had comparatively little coverage elsewhere, notably the track from Ayr to Girvan via Turnberry, the wartime line to Cairnryan and perhaps even the little narrow gauge railway from Campbeltown to Machrihanish near the Mull of Kintyre, of which there was little or nothing to be seen when I and my family visited the area in the late 1970's. All the same, I can't help regretting that Welbourn has been quite so conventional as he has been in most of his choices. The Waverley route, for one, has been documented to death by now, and it's no wonder that Welbourn has nothing fresh to say about Riccarton Junction, as it has all been said and re-said times without number. The lines he picks in the Trossachs are beautiful to be sure, but I would have been a lot more grateful for some fresh material on the line to Aberfoyle and particularly for something on the quixotic route from Balloch to Stirling. In Glasgow he picks the abandoned termini at St Enoch and Buchanan Street, but that great city once boasted an absorbing network of small lines starting within striking distance of its very centre.... Read more ›
The book does not pretend to be a comprehensive study, and I make no complaint of that in general. Some of the lines selected are very welcome because they have had comparatively little coverage elsewhere, notably the track from Ayr to Girvan via Turnberry, the wartime line to Cairnryan and perhaps even the little narrow gauge railway from Campbeltown to Machrihanish near the Mull of Kintyre, of which there was little or nothing to be seen when I and my family visited the area in the late 1970's. All the same, I can't help regretting that Welbourn has been quite so conventional as he has been in most of his choices. The Waverley route, for one, has been documented to death by now, and it's no wonder that Welbourn has nothing fresh to say about Riccarton Junction, as it has all been said and re-said times without number. The lines he picks in the Trossachs are beautiful to be sure, but I would have been a lot more grateful for some fresh material on the line to Aberfoyle and particularly for something on the quixotic route from Balloch to Stirling. In Glasgow he picks the abandoned termini at St Enoch and Buchanan Street, but that great city once boasted an absorbing network of small lines starting within striking distance of its very centre.... Read more ›
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