Description and condition:

Red boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 128pp, index, bibliography, b/w illustrations, map.

Very good with nice clean pages throughout. In very good dustcover.

Contents:

The Birmingham, Bristol & Thames Junction Railway 1836-61; first years of the extension railway 1862-68; additional connections and expanded services 1869-99; local competition and long distance enterprise 1900-14; World War I and the railways act 1914-22; working under the railway grouping 1923-39; war and the last years of independence 1939-47; the first 20 years of nationalised operation 1948-67; modernisation 1967-83.