The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway: The Rise and Fall of a Rural Byway eBook

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The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway, was one of the lines managed and operated by Colonel Holman Fred Stephens from his office in Salford Terrace in Tonbridge Kent. 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 In this new book he presents much previously unpublished information and many fascinating insights into the railway’s complicated history.

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The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway: The Rise and Fall of a Rural Byway is written by Peter Johnson and published by Pen and Sword Transport. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway are 9781526776181, 1526776189 and the print ISBNs are 9781526776174, 1526776170. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781526776204.