Along Lost Lines

Paul Atterbury is a long-time expert on BBC TV's Antiques Roadshow, and has written on railways, Victorian culture and arts, as well as many other topics. He is also the author of Along Country Lines and Branch Line Britain. Paul lives in a converted railway carriage in Dorset.|Author and photographer Julian Holland spent his formative years, notebook and camera in hand, trainspotting on draughty stations and in grimy engine sheds and travelling the highways and byways of the British Railways network in search of that elusive locomotive number. In his more recent years he has written many best selling books on railways including The Lost Joy of Railways, Amazing & Extraordinary Railway Facts, and Memories of Steam.

Introduction; Britain's lost railways -; CONTENTS INCLUDE:; Timetabled journeys; Stations and other buildings; Tunnels, viaducts and bridges; Lineside - gates, fencing, mileposts; Staff and working for the railway; Railway company documents; Railway vehicles; Pullmans, boats trains, goods trains; Ports and harbours; Liveries and name plates; Familiar features, signals, turntables; Popular services; Forgotten freight - fruit, gunpowder, mail, milk, fish etc; Index.