£30.00 20.99
John Nicholas & George Reeve
Publication Date: 2014
Format & Edition: Hardback, Second Edition
Pagination: 416 Pages, 500 Illustrations
Condition: New
Genre: Special Offers
Status: In Stock
Lines to Torrington by John Nicholas and George reeve. This book covers the Southern Railway route between Barnstaple Junction, Bideford, Torrington and Halwill Junction.
It is now more than 39 years since publication of the First Edition in 1984, shortly after the line was closed. Fortunately, when John Nicholas first researched the line in the 1970s several of the men who worked on the line, including Harold Mock at Fremington, Owen Hatherell at Bideford, Sid Pring at Torrington, Fred Cooper at Petrockstow and Ernest Holwill of the North Devon Clay Company kindly contributed reminiscences of their work on the line which extended back to the South Western era.
Originally research was concerned with construction of a model of the line in the Edwardian period; the model has been completed but the amount of information gathered resulted in the book. In recent years George Reeve and John Nicholas have collected much more information, original documents and photographs to create a second edition.