Kevin Robertson
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Wartime Southern: Special issue no. 3: Evacuation, ARP and Enemy Action (Southern Way Series) (2009) 5 exemplaren
Southern Way Special Issue No. 5: Wartime Southern Part 2 - From Dunkirk to 'D'Day (2010) 3 exemplaren
British railways in unseen colour, 1948-1962 : images from the Roy E. Vincent Archive at the Transport Treasury (2018) 2 exemplaren
Southern Way Special Issue: No. 4: Southern Colour to the West: Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall (2010) 2 exemplaren
The Southern Way Special Issue: No. 6: The Scene Behind the Scene (Southern Way Wartime Series): 3 (2011) 2 exemplaren
Impermanent Ways Special 2: From Closure to Abandonment 2: The closed railway lines of Britain (2018) 1 exemplaar
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This 1988 book focuses on the construction of the line and these initial stations. The civil engineering was quite problematic for a short line, particularly the amount of water to be dealt with, and this is well described. The stations are also described in good detail and well illustrated with both photographs and drawings of their layout and buildings.
Although always an important route, the stations never had much local traffic and so became casualties in the Beeching era. The important marshalling yard of Stoke Gifford, North of Bristol, also closed in 1971 and its site became a whole new station, the increasingly large and busy Bristol Parkway.
A good book and an enjoyable read on this important, interesting but now largely overlooked line. However its age is a limitation and so much has happened there since. Readers would also enjoy P. D. Rendall's The South Wales Direct Line: history and working, which gives a more operational description of the line in the BR and later era.… (meer)