{"product_id":"the-lynton-and-barnstaple-railway-1st-edition-9780715349588","title":"The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway - 1st edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition (1964)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first edition of a study of what was perhaps the most loved of all the minor railway lines of south-west England. The narrow-gauge .lines and trains and the neatly-kept intermediate stations on Exmoor's foothills not only harmonised with nature but seemed to give her a new dimension. Post-cards of the locomotives and carriages, including some of the first railway observation cars, and of the terminus perched on a cliff-top at Lynton, were best-sellers even before the term 'railway enthusiast' was invented. Opened in 1898, the Lynton \u0026amp;amp; Barnstaple had a short and troubled life, the first bus service in Britain ever to run in connection with trains being one of many experiments that failed. By the late 1920s competing buses were carrying most of the traffic on the 20-mile journey between Barnstaple and Lynton quicker than could the trains on their winding two-foot way, and in 1935 the system was closed. Today there are not only countless railway lovers who retain affectionate memories of the line, but an entirely new generation of enthusiasts who evoke its spirit in model-making, reading, or walking the deserted track. Thus it is that the publication of this full history became possible 30 years after closure. Although intended primarily for rail-way enthusiasts, this vivid account of how local enterprise brought the steam age to one of Britain's remoter corners will also be welcomed by those more generally interested in local and social history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback with dust jacket, 136 pages, black \u0026amp; white photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good\/Very Good with past owner's sticker IFC\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David \u0026 Charles","offers":[{"title":"Secondhand (282)","offer_id":40503318151277,"sku":"9780715349588","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1910\/7111\/products\/9780715349588_RevisedEd.jpg?v=1672921284","url":"https:\/\/rail-books.co.uk\/products\/the-lynton-and-barnstaple-railway-1st-edition-9780715349588","provider":"Rail Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}