The light railways of Britain and Ireland - Anthony Burton

Britains Light Railways was first published by Moorland press in 1985 and has not been available for over twenty five years. - - The book covers the overall history of the last great railway boom in Britain, the light railway boom, from 1896 to the beginning of the Great War in 1914. During this period a large number of narrow and standard gauge lines were constructed both in Britain and Ireland, in order to serve and open up areas of both countries that lacked adequate transport links. - - This book tells the story of how these lines were constructed and why in most cases they eventually failed, due to post First World War road competition. -