{"product_id":"the-midland-railway-north-of-leeds-1966-edition-9780715388525","title":"The Midland Railway North of Leeds (1966 edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Settle \u0026amp; Carlisle is currently the most controversial of Britain's railways. Magnificently driven by the Midland company through lonely mountain and moor south of the Border, its building was one of the most dramatic railway engineering feats of the nineteenth century. Its operation was to a standard of excellence only marred by the tragedies at Hawes Junction and Ais Gill before World War 1. Always odd man out between rival West and East Coast Routes, and perhaps only viable if railway travel had remained paramount, there has in recent years been such a decline in service and use that the line's future is balanced on a knife edge. The product of extensive original research, Peter Baughan's North of Leeds, which was first published in the mid 1960s, is perhaps the most thoroughly detailed history of any section of railway ever published. It was hailed by a Yorkshire reviewer as 'an extremely comprehensive account ... skillfully, and often, racily, woven together . . . this outstanding railway history. Long out of print, the book has become something of a classic and is a major reference source. This new edition makes the complete text available again and brings the story to the present time, with many new illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback with dust jacket, 500 pages, 52 black \u0026amp; white photographs, 5 sketch maps\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good\/Very Good with a little fading to spine of DJ\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roundhouse","offers":[{"title":"Secondhand (MH)","offer_id":55075005038975,"sku":"9780715388525","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1910\/7111\/files\/9780715388525_2.jpg?v=1774614475","url":"https:\/\/rail-books.co.uk\/products\/the-midland-railway-north-of-leeds-1966-edition-9780715388525","provider":"Rail Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}