£25.00
Freddie Huxtable
Publication Date: 2017
Format & Edition: Hardback, First Edition
Pagination: 468 Pages, Illustrated
Condition: New
Genre: Great Western Railway
Status: In Stock
The Taunton to Barnstaple Line Volume 2: A History of the Devon & Somerset Railway by Freddie Huxtable.
This second volume brings the line back to life, with a detailed descriptive journey along its 44-mile length from Taunton to Barnstaple. This written account of the railway is lavishly illustrated with a superb range of photographs, mainly taken in the 1950s and early 1960s, most of which have not been published before and that serve to emphasise the beautiful countryside through which the line passed.
Ex-GWR ‘Moguls’ abound, along with other ex-GWR locomotive types, a few BR designs and some Southern Region interlopers! There is a detailed review of the stations along the route and their development, as the journey progresses westwards over three chapters.
Included are numerous detailed track plans covering each location and there are plans too of some of the key civil engineering structures on the route. The final chapter covers the signalling of the D&SR line, its development from broad gauge days, single line working, signal box histories and signalling diagrams for each box.
This volume will certainly appeal to locals who remember the line and particularly to modellers but also to many others who may wish to delve in more detail in to the previously neglected Devon & Somerset Railway.
Description of the Line and Stations: Taunton to Wiveliscombe
Description of the Line and Stations: Wiveliscombe to South Molton
Description of the Line and Stations: South Molton to Barnstaple
Signalling
Appendix