The 55-mile rail route between Birmingham and Oxford is still an important artery for the Nation's passenger and freight traffic. This title is an informative, accessible and portable resource for the train enthusiast as well as the general reader, and a superb souvenir or gift for visitors past and present.
The 55-mile rail route between Birmingham and Oxford is still an important artery for the Nation''s passenger and freight traffic. Trains from the north of England routed through Birmingham can gain direct access southwards to Reading, and thereby to the south coast. The photographs in this book, though, recall a time up to the mid-1960s when it...
