The Wellington, Much Wenlock & Craven Arms Railway
By Adrian Knowles (hardback, Lightmoor Press, 308pp, £50, ISBN 9781911038993).
MANY hail today’s South Devon Railway as perfect an example as you might reasonably expect of a quintessential GWR country branch line today. This stunning volume opens a new window of what would once have been a contender for the same accolade – almost a parallel to the Severn Valley before the heritage era, but without the river! It would have been a sheer delight to have travelled on this route, the first section of which was opened in 1854,
