Steam Days in Dorset
The book will take you on the journey from Bath to Bournemouth describing the stations along the route and is complemented by tales from the footplate told by Somerset & Dorset men Wallace Moon and Geoff Akers.
A celebration of the days when steam reigned supreme in Dorset.
Somerset and Dorset Swansong: Last Days of a Steam Railway
The book will take you on the journey from Bath to Bournemouth describing the stations along the route.................... and is complemented by Tales From The Footplate as told by Somerset & Dorset men.In 1966 The Somerset & Dorset ...
Steam in Dorset
Depicted in this volume is the unusually wide variety of locomotive power which was to be seen throughout Bristol and Somerset during this era.
This heavily illustrated book traces this unique and fascinating history and brings to life this singular, much missed and loved railway.
This book is in full colour; The Somerset & Dorset is one of those railways which has a following far beyond its immediate area of operation and the interest keeps going although it is now 35 years since the passenger service from Bath to ...
These latter two companies were linked bythe Somerset& Dorset Joint Railway on its route to and from Bournemouth. The lastdaysofsteam in the BR era sawthis pattern largely unchanged, with exGWR, LMS,SRand S&DJR engines still running.