Author Description

Beautifully done history of the London and North Western Railway's branches and the other colliery railways in and around the South Lancashire coalfields. The importance of the Bolton & Leigh Railway and Kenyon & Leigh Junction Railway at the heart of the coalfields (the Eccles-Tyldesley-Wigan and Tyldesley-Leigh-Pennington routes) finally receive their due. With maps, chronology, timetables and bibliography. 188 pages. Scarce. -Amazon