Along Country Lines

Paul Atterbury is a life-long railway enthusiast whose memories of steam in the 1950s and 1960s are put to evocative use in his writing Paul's love of the lost age of Britain's railways is reflected in his home - he lives in a converted railway carriage! His books on railways and the life that accompanied them are very popular and sought after. His latest book, Branch Line Britain has been a tremendous critical and commercial success. Paul is a longtime presenter on TV's Antiques Roadshow and is in great demand for his talks on a wide range of subjects. He lives in Bridport, Dorset.

Introduction; Lost routes and extant routes - South West, South, East Anglia, Central, North, Scotland and Wales, Routes. Includes: Bristol; Weymouth Taunton; Barnstaple Hastings; Ashford Cheltenham; Andover Ipswich; Lowestoft Cambridge; Colchester Shrewsbury; Newport Buxton; Ashbourne Craven Arms; Swansea Ruabon to Barmouth Cumbrian Coast Carlisle; Leeds Darlington; Cockermouth Dumfries; Stranraer Glasgow; Oban Features include: holiday camps, sports specials, royal trains, funeral trains, boat trains, tunnels, viaducts, singal boxes, bridges, weather conditions and narrow gauge railways.