Rails to Seahouses A History of the North Sunderland Railway

£14.95

The NSR was a fascinating 5 mile line connected the fishing port of Seahouses, with the East Coast Mainline at Chathill, midway between Alnwick and Berwick in Northumberland.

Built using largely local finance to expedite fish caught at Seahouses getting to dining tables around the country, and technically never absorbed by the NER/LNER/BR, it finally closed in October 1951.

The line used an eclectic selection of small tank locomotives, which it owned and an early diesel locomotive, but in its last years relied on BR motive power, notably a 'Y7' 0-4-0 tank loco. Passenger rolling stock came from the North Eastern and the Highland Railways!

As you will gather this was a remarkable little railway, sturdily independant, which did the job it was built to do well until closure in October 1951.

120 pages, numerous B&W photos, maps and plans of locomotives and rolling stoc. Paperback.