Price range: £13.50 through £27.50
by John Earl and Steve Huson. Hardback, 212 pages illustrated with photographs and map
The book looks at eight different aspects of the Midland Railway Company including: the triangular junction at Ambergate Station, the Severn railway bridge, Samuel Johnson’s beautiful single wheel “Spinner” The Princess of Wales, the story of Midland Railway 0-6-0 No. 2717, which was requisitioned for service in France during the Great War was captured by the Germans in 1917, the history of some of the lesser known Midland Railway hotels and the Burton and Ashby Light Railway. The book contains many photographs that are being published for the first time.
