© Vernon Parry/Online Transport Archive. Standard Class 4 75016 climbing Llanbadarn bank with the evening mail train from Aberystwyth to Shrewsbury 22nd August 1966, as featured in Quiet between Trains by David Gowan.
Branchstow Books is a specialist independent bookseller of railway and industrial heritage titles with a particular emphasis on high quality books produced by small independent publishers. With this approach, we sell books that are either exclusive to us or are rarely to be found elsewhere, with a significant proportion being short print runs and limited editions. We carefully select only the finest books to the extent that each one comes with our personal recommendation.
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