Artikelname: Bedfordshire's Lost Railways
Artikelbeschreibung: The first phase of British railway building in the 1830s and '40s left Bedfordshire virtually untouched; it wasn't until the Midland Railway started building through the county to reach London in the 1850s that a web of branch lines began to spring up. Unusually, however, the whole of the county's network was complete as early as 1872 and, while a long period of stability followed, the inevitable decline began less than a century later. The lines that are left today really only serve the major towns, the exception being the remarkable Bedford Branch, which against all the odds remains open and, with its half-timbered stations and low platforms, in largely the condition it was in at the end of steam. This detailed history contains forty-nine period photographs, many of them featuring steam locomotives and stations long closed but well-remembered. Featured locations include Bedford St Johns, Sandy, Potton, Stanbridgeford, Luton Hoo, Luton Bute Street, Hatfield, Dunstable, Henlow, Henlow Camp, Turvey, Wootton Broadmead, Three Counties, Arlesey, Chiltern Green, Bedford Midland Road, Ampthill, Oakley, and Sharnbrook.