Lost Railways of Durham & Teesside New Book

Product Description This illustrated and carefully researched book takes you back to the golden age of railways in Durham & Teesside - to a time of thriving rural railways, bustling stations and steam trains pulling liveried coaches across the countryside.Author Robin Jones uses extensive archive photography and maps to bring the story to life.Durham could be called the birthplace of the steam railway age. George Stephenson's Stockton and Darlington Railway pioneered the steam engine and from this beginning railway networks were set up all over the world. The region's large coal industry was the key to local development. Private systems sprung up across the area linking mines with main line trains and colliery ships on the Tees and the Tyne. Passenger services were almost an afterthought in the rush to exploit the demand for coal to power the emerging industries. Today, motor transport has superseded goods trains and many of the old railway track beds have been converted to long-distance footpaths and cycleways. In this carefully researched book, Robin Jones brings to life the region's railways, telling their story with photographs, maps, memories and anecdotes, from their beginning in the early 1800s to the present day. CONTENTS AbbreviationsIntroduction 1. Durham & the World's First All-steam Railway2. The Stockton & Darlington Railway3. Stainmore: the Lost Trans-Pennine Route4. The Weardale Railway, Crook & Tow Law5. Leamside: The Lost Main Line6. Sunderland to Durham & Bishop Auckland The Durham & Sunderland Railway The Deerness Valley branch7. Steel from Consett The Stanhope & Tyne Railway The Lanchester line The Derwent Valley line The great ore line to Tyne Dock8. The Clarence Railway & Its Forgotten Electrics9. Stockton to Sunderland & the Castle Eden Line 10. The Great Private Freight Systems Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Bowes Tanfield Brandling Junction South Hetton Londonderry11. Dunston Staithes12. Lost & Found: Museum Life Beamish Museum and its J21 Monkwearmouth Station MuseumIndex About the Author Robin Jones is a lifelong railway enthusiast and photographer. He is the founding editor of Heritage Railway magazine and author of Lost Railways of Essex and Suffolk in the Age of Steam.