Description and condition:

Softcover, 8vo, 210pp, index, route maps, b/w and colour illustrations.

Very good, slight shelfwear, nice clean pages throughout.

Contents:

Volume 2 in The History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands series. A fight for a railway; the genesis of the highland; across the Grampians; the advance to the North; expansion 1884-1903; the Invergarry & Fort Augustus railway; tome schemes that failed; attack from the East; growth of train services; problems of operation; locomotives and rolling stock; the Highland railway's steamships; grouping and nationalisation; the oil years.