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Book Condition: Used FINE.
Jacket condition: No dw/dj - as issued?
ISBN: 0715376810 / 9780715376812
Seller: R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY.

United Kingdom
About Item: UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,2nd imp.[Same year as 1st,1979.] FINE.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued(?).B/w photographic decorated,laminated bds with minimal shelf-wear to edges and bottom corners very lightly bumped.Top edge very lightly foxed/ spotted.Contents bright,tight and clean.UK,8vo HB,1st edn,2nd imp,144pp includes b/w maps,14pp b/w photographs, some b/w line illus chapter tail-pieces,appendices(2) and bibliography. The 1960's saw a great run-down of branch and cross-country lines on British Railways than ever before with Dr Beeching trimming off loss-making routes,many of which had served their localities for more than a century.Rail closures were not new,for some lines had succumbed to bus and car competition as early as the 1920's.Some of the closed routes disappeared into adjoining farmland,others vanished under new roads,but many can… Read More
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