More Last Days of Steam in Oxfordshire

📖 The Scoop

"Oxfordshire saw its very first Great Western steam trains way back in 1840, when Brunel's route from Paddington to Bristol crossed the county boundary near Goring. It also saw the last official Western Region steam train working when, on 3 January 1966, engine No. 6998 Burton Agnes Hall powered the 2.18 p.m. Bournemouth-to-York service between Oxford and Banbury. Indeed, the county was always an interesting place for the steam railway enthusiast, with Oxford itself playing host to locomotives from each of the 'Big Four' companies on an almost daily basis. This fact together with the many small branch and cross-country lines that ran through the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside made the area a veritable mecca for both the spotter and railway photographer alike." "As a follow-up to The Last Days of Steam in Oxfordshire, Laurence Waters has carefully selected photographs from both his own and several other collections which specifically illustrate the extensive railway infrastructure in the county during the last ten years of steam traction."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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