Description
| Product ID: | 9781909328570 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Cuckoo Line |
| Authors: | Author: Kevin Robertson |
| Page Count: | 112 |
| Subjects: | Trains and railways: general interest, Trains & railways: general interest, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Serving the Sussex countryside from Rotherfield through to Polegate, the ''Cuckoo Line'' was a fine example of a cross-country railway branch line which failed to survive into the modern era. Serving Sussex towns including Mayfield and Heathfield, a single line of rails provided a service to the local community for over 80 years before falling casualty to the axe of Dr Beeching, with the last passenger trains running in 1965. Half a century later the opportunity has come to take a new look at this railway. The course of the ''Cuckoo Line'' has now all but disappeared from the landscape - replaced by roads, housing and industrial development, but this important new book records the line, its stations and rolling stock through-out its history. Using three new sources of previously unpublished photographs and descriptive notes on train and locomotive working, The Cuckoo Line presents a vivid portrait of the line and a way of life lost in the half century since closure |
| Imprint Name: | Crecy Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Crecy Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-07-29 |
