 | MAIN LINE TO THE WEST - PART 1 - BASINGSTOKE TO SALISBURYThe Southern`s Route between Basingstoke & Exeter
1st Edition - September 2004
by John Nicholas, George Reeve
ISBN 978-1-903266-43-4
Book A4, Hardback 240 Pages 358 Illustrations
Publisher: Irwell Press
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| | First proposals for a central main railway line from London to the port of Falmouth through Salisbury and Exeter came in the 1830s, and the first section as far as Basingstoke was opened in 1840 as part of the London & Southampton Railway, which in line with its plans for expansion soon became the London &. South Western Railway. The Bishopstoke to Salisbury Milford branch opened in 1847 but the route from Landon to Salisbury was indirect, so a direct Basingstoke to Salisbury line was promoted and after delays following the Railway Mania the single track branch from Basingstoke to Andover was opened in 1854, extended to Salisbury Milford in 1857, and then to Salisbury Fisherton in 1859. The Basingstoke & Salisbury Railway is the subject of Volume One. Contents:
- CHAPTER ONE - THE LINE DESCRIBED
- CHAPTER TWO - THE BASINGSTOKE AND SALISBURY RAILWAY to 1878
- CHAPTER THREE - THE SOUTH WESTERN PERIOD 1878 -1899
- CHAPTER FOUR - THE SOUTH WESTERN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- CHAPTER FIVE - THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY 1923 -1947
- CHAPTER SIN - THE EARLY BRITISH RAILWAYS PERIOD 1948 -1964
- CHAPTER SEVEN - THE LATER BRITISH RAILWAYS PERIOD 1964 –1993
- CHAPTER EIGHT - SOUTH WEST TRAINS
- CHAPTER NINE - TRAFFIC AND SERIVCES
- CHAPTER TEN LOCOMOTIVES AND ROLLING STOCK
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