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The Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway
The Story of a Welsh Rural Byway
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 9781526744784
Pub Date: 2020-10-19
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
232 Pages
Unusually among Welsh narrow-gauge railways, the 2ft 6in gauge Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway was built to benefit agriculture, not minerals. After several failed attempts to connect the market town at Welshpool with the rural community around Llanfair Caereinion, the 1896 Light Railways Act paved the way for the railway which opened in 1902.
The Vale of Rheidol Railway
The Story of a Narrow Gauge Survivor
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 9781526718075
Pub Date: 2020-04-30
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
208 Pages
Built to carry minerals from mines in the Rheidol valley, the 2ft gauge Vale of Rheidol Railway found its niche carrying tourists to the tourist attraction at Devil’s Bridge, 12 miles inland from the Cardigan coast resort of Aberystwyth.
The Corris Railway
The Story of a Mid-Wales Slate Railway
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9781526717559
Pub Date: 2019-10-30
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
208 Pages
One of Wales’ oldest narrow gauge railways, the 2ft 3in gauge Corris Railway was built to carry slate from several quarries in the Dulas valley to wharves on the river Dyfi.
Allied Railways of the Western Front - Narrow Gauge in the Somme Sector
Before, During and After the First World War
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9781473887633
Pub Date: 2019-04-25
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
264 Pages
The Somme sector of the Western Front was held by French forces until early 1916, when the British and Dominions Third and Fourth Armies moved into the northern part, before the joint First Battle of the Somme from July to November 1916. In 1917, with the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, British responsibility moved further south.
Rebuilding The Welsh Highland Railway
Britain’s Longest Heritage Line
Price: $36.00
ISBN: 9781473869912
Pub Date: 2018-08-30
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
288 Pages
THE REVIVAL AND RESTORATION of the Welsh Highland Railway is one of the greatest heritage railway achievements of the 21st Century, yet its success followed more than one hundred years of failure.
Twenty First Century Narrow Gauge
A Pictorial Journey
Price: $33.60
ISBN: 9781473887695
Pub Date: 2019-01-30
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
208 Pages
James Waite has been a skilled railway photographer for many years. In this book he has brought together photographs of many of the world’s steam-worked narrow gauge railways in the twenty-first century, concentrating mostly on views which show the scenery, both natural and man-made, through which they ran.
The Southwold Railway 1879–1929
The Tale of a Suffolk Byway
Price: $28.80
ISBN: 9781473867604
Pub Date: 2019-01-30
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
248 Pages
A delightful example of one of East Anglia's minor railways: A 3ft gauge railway, single track, just over 8 miles long from Halesworth (connections to London) across the heathland and marshes of East Suffolk to the seaside resort and harbor of Southwold.
Festiniog Railway
Volume 2 - From Slate Railway to Heritage Operation 1921 - 2014
Price: $42.00
ISBN: 9781473896277
Pub Date: 2017-10-30
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
352 Pages
Opened in 1836 as a horse tramway using gravity to carry slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog, by the 1920s the Festiniog Railway had left its years of technical innovation and high profits long...
The Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway
The Story of a Welsh Rural Byway
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 9781526744784
Pub Date: 2020-10-19
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
232 Pages
The Vale of Rheidol Railway
The Story of a Narrow Gauge Survivor
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 9781526718075
Pub Date: 2020-04-30
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
208 Pages
The Corris Railway
The Story of a Mid-Wales Slate Railway
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9781526717559
Pub Date: 2019-10-30
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
208 Pages
Allied Railways of the Western Front - Narrow Gauge in the Somme Sector
Before, During and After the First World War
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9781473887633
Pub Date: 2019-04-25
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
264 Pages
Rebuilding The Welsh Highland Railway
Britain’s Longest Heritage Line
Price: $36.00
ISBN: 9781473869912
Pub Date: 2018-08-30
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
288 Pages
Twenty First Century Narrow Gauge
A Pictorial Journey
Price: $33.60
ISBN: 9781473887695
Pub Date: 2019-01-30
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
208 Pages
The Southwold Railway 1879–1929
The Tale of a Suffolk Byway
Price: $28.80
ISBN: 9781473867604
Pub Date: 2019-01-30
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
248 Pages
Festiniog Railway
Volume 2 - From Slate Railway to Heritage Operation 1921 - 2014
Price: $42.00
ISBN: 9781473896277
Pub Date: 2017-10-30
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
352 Pages