The Light Railway • a journey along the narrow & bucolic •

A superb pictorial journey supported by 216 landscape very largely full page B&W photographs showing many of the light railways of the British Isles.

The journey starts in Jersey then moves across to mainland England, then Wales, on to Scotland before crossing to Ireland, finishing on the Isle of Man. Many of the lines featured were built under the provisions of the Light Railways Act (1896) and were both narrow or standard gauge and no less that 14 were Colonel Stephens' lines.

Incuded are the Bishops Castle Railway, the Wisbech & Upwell Tramway, the Cleobury, Mortimer & Ditton Prious Light Railway, the Ravenglass & Eskdale, Derwent Valley, Welshpool & Llanfair, Glyn Valley. the Plymouth, Devonport & South Western Railway, the Bideford, Westward Ho! & Appledore, the Wantage Tramway, the Garstang & Knot End Railway, and many more. Coverage averages three photographs per railway, some have less and some have more. Hours and hours of enjoyable browsing await!

Miss this and you may regret it.