Modern photographs accompany those taken when the railways were open and bustling. These, together with six specially drawn maps, will help enthusiasts to locate the closed lines and railway stations that have survived from the heyday of the railway age.

CONTENTS : GWR Lines Westward and a Preserved Railway; The Metropolitan Railway; 'Lord Ebury's Line'; LNWR Cross Country Routes; Northwards to Rugby and Steam at Quainton Road; A Tramway Built for A Duke - Quainton Road to Brill; A Branch to Newport Pagnell and A Steam Railway; Lost LNWR Branches, a Robbery and a Narrow Gauge Railway; Great Northern Branches Across Two Counties; The 'Nicky Line' to Harpenden; A GER Branch to Buntingford; Lost Midland Lines from Bedford; LNWR Trains towards Cambridge.

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