Bletchley
to Cambridge
Authors: Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith
Publisher: Middleton Press, Easebourne Lane, Midhurst, West Sussex GU29 9AZ Tel: 01730 813169
ISBN: 1904474942
Pages: 96
Illustrations: 165 monochrome including 32 maps and charts.
Date: February 2007
Cover: hardback
Size: 241x170 mm portrait
Price: £14.95
Index: contents page
Having been born, brought-up and schooled in Cambridge, this book was particularly interesting to the reviewer who recalls a train enthusiast older brother talking about the Cambridge - Bletchley link for travelling to the North West. The views from Hills Road Bridge brought back many happy memories of hanging over the parapet 'copping' steam locomotives as they trundled through beneath, pulled into the station or shunted in the yard. No one was interested in diesels in those days! Views of the cattle market and Spillers flower mill also come to mind.
The book follows the Middleton Press tried and tested formula of black and white photographs of different periods, to cover as much of the route as possible, large scale Ordnance Survey maps of various periods, ticket facsimiles, timetables and gradient profiles. There is the usual geographical setting and historical background, followed by the route looked at section by section. Cambridge was almost unique, for a town of its size, in being served by four railway companies before the Grouping. The route followed by the book is that of the LNWR.
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