Cambrian Railways Gallery Pen & Sword 2019
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The book concentrates on these two photographic collections, with a short overview of the history of the routes that were part of the Cambrian Railway at its absorption by the Great Western Railway in 1922. For those seeking the full story, we commend the aforesaid volumes of R.W. Miller and Rex Christiansen published by David & Charles in 1967, and the comprehensive descriptions of the Cambrian by C.C. Green and R.W. Kidmer. C.P. Gasquoine, in a book published in 1922, and still found in many railway library collections, also covers the Cambrian Railways’ turbulent history in a style that is often graphic, amusing, ironic and at times, a little over the top! For those seeking photographic records of the Cambrian routes, books by C.C. Green (Ian Allan 1977 & 1981), Rex Kennedy (Ian Allan 1990) and Derek Lowe (Book Law Publications 2013) fulfil that aim admirably. Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith produced a book of photos of the branch lines around Wrexham (Middleton Press 2009), and Mike Lloyd covered the Tanat Valley Light Railway (Wild Swan 1990).
The Corris Railway Pen & Sword 2019
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This book is founded on the Corris Railway history contained in An Illustrated History of the Great Western Narrow Gauge (Oxford Publishing Co, 2011), which is out of print, and thus incorporates material extracted from the records of the Corris Railway Company, Aberystwyth & Welsh Coast Railway, Great Western Railway, British Railways, the Court of Chancery and the Board of Trade housed at the National Archives, Kew, Parliamentary records held in the House of Lords and Imperial Tramways’ reports made available to me by Richard Greenhough.
To this corpus has been added material extracted from digitised newspapers held in the British Newspaper Archive and the National Library of Wales’ Welsh Newspapers Online collection. Use has also been made of the Corris Railway Society’s annual reports, reports published in Railway Magazine and my own contributions to Steam Railway magazine since 1995. Bringing these sources together has enabled a more detailed history of therailway, its origins and its revival to be constructed than any previously published.
Only a small number of photographs of the Corris Railway were taken before the 1920s and previously unpublished ones are rarely found, which accounts for the use here of images with which some readers may be familiar. From the 1920s, enthusiasts were regular visitors and new collections occasionally surface to be added to the small pool of photographs that exist of this period and enabling the use of some unpublished images here. The railway’s restricted loading gauge and the nature of the terrain through which it passed, and passes, also limits the choice of locations available to photographers, resulting in some similarity in images.
The task of illustrating the book would have been made more difficult were it not for the efforts of Donald George, a Scotsman who trained in photography with the famous Dundee postcard publisher James Valentine. Marrying a Welsh woman in 1888, he settled in Upper Corris and photographed the area extensively, publishing numerous postcards of his photographs until his death in 1944. Eleven of them are used here.
Michael Bishop, Robert Darlaston, Tim Edmonds, Martin Fuller, Mike Green, John Scott Morgan, Mark Stephenson and Dave Waldren supplied photographs from their collections and I extend my grateful thanks to them. Uncredited photographs are either from my collection or of my taking.
Martin Fuller and Ed Castellan kindly commented on the text.
A few illustrations that are technically deficient have been selected for their historical merit.