| On offer at 25% discount - limited to current stocks Based on his highly successful Rail Around Birmingham' internet website, Andrew Doherty's new Silver Link series incorporates a wealth of information and many new pictures of the area's railways in a handy, portable book format, allowing the reader to explore the extensive network, past and present, on the ground'. Covering every passenger station in the area covered, line by line, location by location, the book provides a unique record of the development, decline and rebirth of Birmingham area's railway network. Rail around Birmingham provides a contemporary photographic survey of the sites of all past and present stations and locations, as well as many previously unpublished historical photographs and items of ephemera, together with maps and location details. Andrew Doherty was born in Birmingham and, following university in Liverpool and Hull, he trained in web design technologies and created the Rail Around Birmingham' website (which features more than 8,000 images covering more than 250 locations, and is consulted by in excess of 2,000 visitors a week). He also now runs his own successful website and IT consultancy in the city. Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Route 1 Stourbridge Junction to Dunstall Park
- Route 2 The Wombourn Branch
- Route 3 Stourbridge Junction to Oldbury Town
- Route 4 Hunnington to Dudley
- Route 5 Sandwell & Dudley to Wolverhampton High Level and the Princes End Branch
- Route 6 Swan Village to Wolverhampton Low Level and Dudley
- Route 7 Dudley to Lichfield Trent Valley
- Route 8 Wylde Green to Lichfield Trent Valley
- Route 9 Tame bridge Parkway to Wednesfield Heath
- Route 10 Sutton Town to Wolverhampton High Level
- Chasewater Railway
- Index of Locations
Continent: Europe
Country: UK |
