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The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway: The Rise and Fall of a Rural Byway
Author(s): Peter Johnson (Author)
- Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
- Publication Date: April 22, 2024
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 1526776170
- ISBN-13: 9781526776174
Book Description
It was a revival of the long disused Potteries Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway, a railway that went bankrupt shortly after opening in the mid 1860s and was left derelict for forty years.
The railway reopened in 1911 to much local rejoicing, however the company was in financial difficulties by the 1920s and withdrew its passenger services in the early 1930s.
During the Second World War the army took over the railway, constructing ammunition and stores depots along its entire length.
After the war the railway continued to be operated by the army until closed in 1960, when it was handed over to the Western Region of British Railways for demolition.
The author has researched the history of this fascinating bucolic railway over many years. In this new book he presents much previously unpublished information and many fascinating insights into the railway’s complicated history.
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About the Author
His association with the Ffestiniog Railway, as editor of the Ffestiniog Railway Society’s quarterly magazine (1974-2003), as a director of the Ffestiniog Railway Society (1992-2003) and in drafting the company’s Welsh Highland Railway Transport & Works Order, and as the compiler of a narrow-gauge railway news column for one of the mainstream British railway magazines since 1995, has put him in a good position to compile this story of the Welsh Highland Railway’s history and its revival, his third title for Pen & Sword Transport.
