Intended both for railway enthusiasts and for anyone who enjoys exploring the British countryside and discovering more about Britain's heritage, this is a celebration of the beauty of 13 rural branch lines. They are all that remain of a once-vast network that covered the country until most of it was swept away by the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.;Each of the 13 chapters covers a different branch line, the area in which it is located, the places it passes through, and the people who work and travel on it, and contains information boxes and a coloured route-map. The book includes colour photographs and historical archive photographs of steams trains on the lines.
- ISBN10 0752216791
- ISBN13 9780752216799
- Publish Date 29 November 1995 (first published 30 September 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Boxtree Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English