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Written in a very readable style, this book begins with the opening of local lines in the 19th century, describes their use in the heyday of steam around the turn of the 20th century and, in many cases, their later closure. Preserved lines are also covered.
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Lost Railways of Durham and Teesside - Robin Jones
I purchased this book as both a railway enthusiast and as a Teessider. Sadly, as Bogart said in Casablanca 'I was mislead'. This book should have more accurately titled 'Lost Railways of the Durham Coalfield'. If so it would have been more apposite to the subject (and, I hasten to add, I would still have bought it).
Instead this book - apart from the chapter on the Clarence Railway - ignores Teesside altogether. To see this, look at the entry for Middlesbrough in the index. This town, the heart of Teesside, gets only one mention, and that is in the context of the limits of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It ignores utterly the dense and tangled network of (mainly) lost lines linking Middlesbrough with the East Cleveland ironstone working area and the neighbouring towns along and across the Tees. There is still room for a book on Teesside's railways. This book does not fill that gap.
Having go that off my chest, I return to the book. It is a handy volume supplementing past books by such as Ken Hoole, and also acts as a good introduction to the more magisterial Regional Railway History of Great Britain volume for the North East (now alas hardly available, although most NE libraries have a copy on their shelves).
It covers, in a narrative fashion, the main branch lines in Durham, and ranges from the NW lines that traversed the hilly moors to Consett, through to the lines serving the pits of East Durham and their extensive internal rail systems via the rails laid through the seemingly ever lowering wooded landscape of SW Durham and the earlier coalfield villages that were and are scattered along the valley floors. Many of the pictures are also new to me at least.
If you are from outwith the area, this book would be an invaluable starter before visiting the new Shildon branch of the National Railway Museum. And - when you get to that Museum - spare a few minutes to look at the nearby muddy fields which will soon be the home of an entirely new plant, a plant which will be dedicated to building a whole new generation of British DEMU rolling stock.
186 years after Shildon saw the firebox of Locomotion being lit to inaugurate the start of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825, the railway is still central to the North East
David Walsh.
I purchased this book as both a railway enthusiast and as a Teessider. Sadly, as Bogart said in Casablanca 'I was mislead'. This book should have more accurately titled 'Lost Railways of the Durham Coalfield'. If so it would have been more apposite to the subject (and, I hasten to add, I would still have bought it).
Instead this book - apart from the chapter on the Clarence Railway - ignores Teesside altogether. To see this, look at the entry for Middlesbrough in the index. This town, the heart of Teesside, gets only one mention, and that is in the context of the limits of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It ignores utterly the dense and tangled network of (mainly) lost lines linking Middlesbrough with the East Cleveland ironstone working area and the neighbouring towns along and across the Tees. There is still room for a book on Teesside's railways. This book does not fill that gap.
Having go that off my chest, I return to the book. It is a handy volume supplementing past books by such as Ken Hoole, and also acts as a good introduction to the more magisterial Regional Railway History of Great Britain volume for the North East (now alas hardly available, although most NE libraries have a copy on their shelves).
It covers, in a narrative fashion, the main branch lines in Durham, and ranges from the NW lines that traversed the hilly moors to Consett, through to the lines serving the pits of East Durham and their extensive internal rail systems via the rails laid through the seemingly ever lowering wooded landscape of SW Durham and the earlier coalfield villages that were and are scattered along the valley floors. Many of the pictures are also new to me at least.
If you are from outwith the area, this book would be an invaluable starter before visiting the new Shildon branch of the National Railway Museum. And - when you get to that Museum - spare a few minutes to look at the nearby muddy fields which will soon be the home of an entirely new plant, a plant which will be dedicated to building a whole new generation of British DEMU rolling stock.
186 years after Shildon saw the firebox of Locomotion being lit to inaugurate the start of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825, the railway is still central to the North East
David Walsh.
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