Railway Heritage
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From the north of Scotland, down the east coast into England to Kent, along the South coast to Penzance, up the north coasts of Cornwall and Devon, along the Bristol Channel, west into Wales to Fishguard, north to Aberystwyth and along the Welsh coast to Holyhead, east along the North Wales coast, round the Wirral, up to Southport, Blackpool and then north into the west of Scotland to Mallaig and to The Kyle of Lochalsh at the end. Plus the coastal termini in Northern Ireland.
As the British Rail years drew to a close and the new era of privatisation dawned, John Hillmer set out to record photographically the entire railway scene in Wales, and this remarkable and wide-ranging book is the result. Every Welsh Station that was open at the end of 1995 - the last year in which BR operated a fully nationalised and integrated system - is chronicled and pictured, and signal boxes, sidings, yards, locomotive depots, stabling and re-fuelling points are also covered, together with summaries of passenger services and freight flows, and locomotive classes and DMU types then in use.