The Narrator: They argued till they went to sleep. The Engine: (Snorts) King's Cross! London's Euston. Do you know the place? The station's called King's Cross. Gordon Goes Foreign (Eight Famous Engines) Gordon: When I was young and green. He had six small wheels, a short stumpy funnel, a short stumpy boiler, and a short stumpy dome. Thomas was a tank engine who lived at a Big Station.Thomas and Gordon (Thomas the Tank Engine) 6 Useful Railway (Small Railway Engines).5 Mike's Whistle (Small Railway Engines).2 Gordon Goes Foreign (Eight Famous Engines).1 Thomas and Gordon (Thomas the Tank Engine).We would like to thank Pen & Sword for providing RailAdvent with a copy of the book for review. The book is available to purchase from Amazon and from Pen & Sword. The book provides a thorough overview of the line and its key role in the area’s development and will be of special value to those with an interest in the history of railway development in the area. The author provides a balanced view on the conflicting requirements between managing the railway as a facility for transporting newspapers between the UK and Ireland, and how it could be profitable to engage with the businesses and community on the Welsh coast, including the growth of tourism from the 1850s through to the 1960s before the mass defection to road. ![]() In summary, although mostly text, there are a good range of illustrations with very informative captions. Credit: RailAdventĪlthough bordered by the sea on one side and Snowdonia on the other, parts of the line cannot be considered picturesque. The page on the right leaves us in no doubt that we are in North Wales. The chapter is titled “The Railway and the People of North Wales”, and the photographs here bear that out. Credit: RailAdventĪvanti West Coast Voyagers must have been a mere pipe dream when plans for the railway were first made. Unfortunately, the quality of many of the photographs do not come up to the standards set by the text. Surely the map with its table and the Appendix of opening and closing dates could have been incorporated.Īppendix 2 is especially interesting as it lists every mile along the line that is linked to an incident mentioned or photograph shown in the book, but it also suffers from being printed in landscape format, whereas with a better choice of font it would have been ideally presented in portrait mode. The book concludes with two appendices which, like the map at the beginning, have been printed in landscape format. The book is mostly text but with a good range of well produced illustrations. MPs were finding that they had to pay more attention to their constituents who were no longer just the landed gentry, but a larger number of middle-class householders. We also find that Welsh nationalisation came into play with the LNWR’s ill-timed decision to sack employees. There is also a fascinating appendix where every mile of the line is linked to an incident or photograph from the book. The author also identifies new threats, in particular, climate change and the potential dangers the line faces from rising sea levels, given the line’s route along the North Wales coast. In between, we find that there was also an alternative proposal to use Llandudno as the departure point for Ireland, as there had been government concern about high shipping losses in the Irish Sea and the need for better harbour facilities than Holyhead could accommodate. However, the final chapter concludes that the Chester to Holyhead route was conceived more as a political choice than its practicality. The book begins by looking at a GWR proposal for a route that would link London to a port at Porth Dinllaen near Pwllheli, via Worcester, Ludlow, and Newtown. Fox and published by the Oxford Publishing Company in 1984. This book adds to the information in those books, and the author wrote it as his Doctorate in Railway Studies at York University. ![]() Dunn and published by the Oakwood Press in 1948 The Chester and Holyhead Railway by Peter Baughan and published by David and Charles in 1972, and An Historical Survey of the Chester to Holyhead Railway, track layouts and illustrations by V.R. There have been three previous books about the Chester to Holyhead railway line: The Chester and Holyhead Railway by J.M.
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