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The Farranfore to Valencia Harbour Railway
Vol. One: Planning, Construction and an Outline of Operation
by Patrick O'Sullivan
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The railway to Valencia Harbour was opened in 1893. It was the most
Westerly point in Europe which could be reached by train. The branch (of
almost 40 miles in length) left the Tralee-Mallow main line at Farranfore
and headed west through some of Ireland¹s most spectacular scenery as it
climbed through County Kerry¹s mountainous countryside, along Dingle Bay's
Southern shore. Perhaps surprisingly the railway survived early cutbacks
of the rail network in Ireland, seeing the introduction of diesels and
just Surviving into the 1960s.
The book is to A5 format, it consists of 152 pages, with 120 Illustrations
which include architectural plans of the stations at Mountain Stage and
Cahirciveen and a full set of track plans. It is printed on art paper
throughout and has a laminated card colour cover, perfect bound with a
square-backed spine.
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OL126A |
ISBN 0
85361 604 3
ISBN 978 0 85361 604 7 |
£ 10.95 |
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The Farranfore to
Valencia Harbour RailwayVol. Two: The Life of the Line: Its Train Services, Locomotives and
Personalities
by Patrick O'Sullivan
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In this volume author Patrick O’Sullivan,
who was born and bred in Cahirciveen, uses his intimate knowledge of the
area to really bring the story of this remote and spectacular railway, and
of the people it served and those who worked on the line, to life.
Agriculture and fish were the main revenue earning sources for the Valencia
branch. The monthly cattle fairs at Cahirciveen, where the unique breed
known as ‘Kerry Cattle’ were traded, was the backbone of the local economy,
providing for the needs of the farming community and the cash to purchase
the all-important artificial fertilisers for the land. County Kerry is a
major stronghold of Gaelic football, and the story of the ‘Ghost Train’ from
Valencia Harbour is told fully, this train has become part of Kerry
footballing folklore. It is likely that the train was introduced in the
mid-1920s when Kerry were the top dogs in All-Ireland football, stretching
for a decade from 1923 to 1932, taking part in eight of the finals held. |
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A5 format, 152 pages, on art paper throughout with a laminated card colour
cover, perfect bound with a square-backed spine. |
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OL126B |
ISBN 0
85361 610 8
ISBN 978 0 85361 610 8 |
£ 10.95 |
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THE FAWLEY BRANCH The story of the Totton, Hythe & Fawley
Light Railway
by J. R. Fairman |
The Story of the Fawley branch does not follow the usual pattern of a rural
English branch line. The first plans for a railway in the area dated from
1860, it was to take more than 60 years before Fawley finally saw a train
service. In the 19th century there were elaborate plans for a railway line
to Stone Point (to the south of Fawley) to connect with a Solent tunnel to
link the mainland with the Isle of Wight. In the early years of the 20th
century it seemed that a railway-operated bus service might negate the need
for a railway at all.
It is almost impossible to imagine the enormous social and economic changes
brought about by World War I. At the beginning of the war the Fawley
district was still essentially rural in character and apart from farming and
fishing there were few industries. The construction of the oil refinery in
1920/21 by Anglo Gulf West Indies Petroleum Corporation Limited was to
change the Fawley area forever.
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Opening of the railway finally came in
1925, the Fawley branch of the Southern Railway was a light railway only in
a legal sense; it some of the heaviest locomotives and freight wagons in
Britain. It was briefly a little railway with little stations, but the
growth of the Fawler Refinery and later development of Marchwood Military
Port changed all that.
The material for this book was collected by John
Fairman of Chandler's Ford, a well known local and railway historian,
assisted by Tony Thomas JP, formar BR area manager at Totton, and Alan
Gosling of Woking. Some additional information on signalling has been
provided by George Pryer, of the Signalling Record Society.
John Fairman died in 1992; it is now felt that his work should be made
available to Southern enthusiasts and students of local and industrial
history in Hampshire.
The book is to A5 format and consists of 128 pages
with around 150 photographs and illustrations including plans of the
building at Hythe and Fawley drawn by Phillip Brown. The book is printed on
art paper throughout, and it has a full-cover laminated card cover with a
square-backed spine. |
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LP221 |
ISBN 0
85361 584 5
ISBN 978 0 85361 584 2 |
£ 9.95 |
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FERRY SERVICES OF THE LONDON, BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY
by S. Jordan |
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From a small contractor’s wharf at Shoreham Harbour
the ferry services of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (LBSCR)
grew to become the fourth largest railway-owned passenger ferry service in
the United Kingdom. Following early legal setbacks the LBSCR quickly set
up a thriving cross-channel service in partnership with the Western
Railway of France, and later, with the London & South Western Railway,
Portsmouth-Isle of Wight ferries.
In the 83 years the LBSCR was in existence it
chartered, shared or owned over 125 different vessels, ranging in size
from the largest cross-channel passenger ships to tiny pinnaces for
passing messages in Newhaven Harbour. Some, the passenger vessels, were
the height of luxury whilst a few, the non-revenue earning coal hulks,
were rotten and barely afloat.
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In its various guises the company vessels carried
over seven million passengers and 1.5 million tons of cargo on the
Newhaven-Dieppe route alone. During World War I 10 million allied troops
and 11 million tons of war stores passed through the company’s port at
Newhaven. |
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ISBN 0 85361 521 7
ISBN 978 0 85361 521 7 |
£ 8.95 |
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THE FESTINIOG
RAILWAY - Volume One - History and Route
by James I.C. Boyd |
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Undoubtedly the most important and famous narrow gauge railway in the world,
and certainly the doyen amongst narrow gauge systems, the Festiniog Railway
has been known to the Author for more than 70 years. This history, first
published in 1975, and long since out-of-print was based on his earlier
works, but enriched with a wealth of new facts, these being the fruits of
discoveries in the 1970s among hitherto unsuspected sources and backed by
intensive fieldwork.
For the first time the Railway is considered not only as a remarkable piece
of engineering in its own right, but is treated alongside its quarry
customers, so giving a unique insight into industry and transport
inseparably linked for over a century.
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The book is to A5 format and consists of 304 text pages with 40 pages of art
paper for photographs, making a total of 344 pages in all. The book is
casebound with a gold-block spine, printed endpapers and a laminated full
colour dust
jacket. |
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B1A |
ISBN 0 85361 167 X
ISBN 978 0 85361 167 7 |
£ 22.95 |
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THE FESTINIOG
RAILWAY - Volume Two: Locomotives and Rolling Stock, Quarries and
Branches: Rebirth 1954-1974
by J.I.C. Boyd |
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A welcome return
for this reprint of the concluding volume of James Boyd’s extensive
history of the Festiniog Railway, which was last published in 1975.
This book offers
a detailed survey of the railway’s historic locomotives and rolling stock
which includes numerous photographs and plans. There is a detailed section
on the railway’s operation which includes a number of signalling diagrams.
Specially drawn plans are included showing, the Rhiwbach Tramway, the
quarry complex east of Duffws, Cwm Orthin Tramway, Oakeley Quarry and the
Festiniog Granite Co. branch. The story concludes with a history of the
first 20 years of preservation.
The book is to A5
format and consists of 328 text pages with 52 pages of art paper for
photographs, making a total of 380 pages in all. The book is casebound
with a silver-blocked spine, printed endpapers and a laminated full colour
dust jacket. |
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B1B |
ISBN 0 85361 168 8
ISBN 978 0 85361 168 4 |
£ 25.00 |
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