The Last Days of Steam in Bristol and Somerset ~ Colin Gordon Maggs
Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing‚ 1992‚ Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
*** First Edition ***

CONDITION NOTES

Very Good+ — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Tiny nick to the foot of the upper panel‚ a decent copy otherwise.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Contains: Black & white photographs; Maps [1]; Photographic end papers & blanks;

From the cover: “Although diesel traction had been Introduced to the county of Somerset as early as 1958 it was not until 1966‚ and the closure of the Somerset and Dorset Railway‚ that steam finally disappeared from the county. Here Colin Maggs has brought together a superb collection of photographs which retell the story of those last days of steam in the area.

Depicted in this volume is the unusually wide variety of locomotive power which was to be seen throughout Bristol and Somerset during this era. Alongside the standard 6WR and BR classes‚ are th…

  • 10” x 7½”
  • pp. 152
  • ISBN: 0-750-90001-6
  • Dustwrapper over Matching Pictorial boards
  • Packed Weight: 1.20 Kg.



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