 | WHIPSNADE AND UMFOLOZI RAILWAY AND GREAT WHIPSNADE RAILWAY
1st Edition - 1995
by C.S. Thomas
ISBN 978-0-853614-78-4
Book A5 format with a full colour card cover. 144 Pages of Text 64 photographs reproduced on 32 pages of art paper.
Publisher: Oakwood Press
Series: Oakwood Library Of Railway History
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| | A narrow gauge steam locomotive with its train moves slowly along, passengers look out from open-sided coaches across grasslands populated by axis deer and nilgai. To one side is a water hole where several barasingha are cooling off in the summer heat, to the other side a group of blackbuck glance up before moving on their way. This must be somewhere in Asia, India perhaps? Not at all, this is the Great Whipsnade Railway at Whipsnade Wild Animal Park. Up until now the line has been virtually ignored by writers and historians, it can hardly be said to have remained undiscovered all this time, passenger figures of 100,000 a year or thereabouts testify to the popularity of this railway which offers something probably unique with its historic narrow gauge equipment and a journey shared for almost its full length with wild animals from across the world. Contents:
- Introduction:
- - Nature of the Railway
- - The Bowater`s Paper Railway
- Whipsnade Zoo:
- - The Country Home of London Zoo
- - Changing Faces of Zoo Parks
- - Conservation
- Construction Begins:
- - Initial Proposals
- - Pleasurerail
- - Experimental Line Built
- - `The Rhino Line`
- Expansion of the Line:
- - Initial Success
- - Line Extended and New Station Built
- Consolidation:
- - Line Settles Down Over Full Length
- - From Africa to Asia
- - Takeover by Whipsnade
- - Equus Ferreus Semper Vincit
- - Into 1995
- - Plans for the Future
- - Plans That Never Happened
- The Route Described:
- - Track Marker Boards
- - Whipsnade Central Station and Buildings
- - Trip Round the Line
- - Yard and Sidings (incl. Buildings
- Operating the Railway:
- - Passenger Handling
- - Working the Line
- - Working the Locomotives
- - Staffing
- - Accidents, Anecdotes & Questions
- Equipment:
- - Steam Locomotives
- - Diesel Locomotives
- - Rolling stock
- - Passenger Carriages
- - Non-Passenger Rolling Stock
- - Miscellaneous Stock
- - Past Stock
- - Permanent Way
- The Animals
- Chronology of Key Dates
- Railway Managers
- Traffic Figures
- Author`s Note
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography and References
Continent: Europe
Country: UK
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