The Cuckoo Line

Serving the Sussex countryside from Rotherfield through to Polegate, the ''Cuckoo Line'' was a fine example of a cross-country railway branch line which failed to survive into the modern era. Serving Sussex towns including Mayfield and Heathfield, a single line of rails provided a service to the local community for over 80 years before falling casualty to the axe of Dr Beeching, with the last passenger trains running in 1965. Half a century later the opportunity has come to take a new look at this railway. The course of the ''Cuckoo Line'' has now all but disappeared from the landscape - replaced by roads, housing and industrial development, but this important new book records the line, its stations and rolling stock through-out its history. Using three new sources of previously unpublished photographs and descriptive notes on train and locomotive working, The Cuckoo Line presents a vivid portrait of the line and a way of life lost in the half century since closure

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kevin Robertson, Kevin (Author) Robertson
• Verlag: Crecy Publishing
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9781909328570
• ISBN: 978-1-909328-57-0
• Seiten: 112
• Abmessung: 215 mm x 272 mm x 7 mm
• Gewicht: 490 g
• Thema: Ratgeber > Fahrzeuge, Flugzeuge, Schiffe, Raumfahrt > Schienenfahrzeuge