Hertfordshire's Lost Railways Author: Keith Scholey Price: £7.99

During the Railway Age of 1850 to 1950, Hertfordshire was not the faceless commuter sprawl it is today. Instead, the county was made up of farmland and rolling countryside dotted with market towns. The arrival of the London & Birmingham Railway in the 1840s changed all that and soon Hertfordshire was criss-crossed by a tight grid of branch lines which were dominant in the life of the county until the cutbacks of the 1950s and '60s and the building of the M25. Accompanied by a full history of the various lines which operated in the county, this collection of fifty-two photographs dating from the early 1900s through to the 1960s shows the many stations and locomotives which operated on these lines. The locations included are: Letchworth, Hitchin, Napsbury, Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Marston Gate, Mardock, Widford, Hadham, Standon, Braughing, West Mill, Buntingford, Watford, Croxley Green, Welwyn Garden City, Ayot, Wheathampstead, Harpenden, Roundwood, Redbourn, Beaumont's Halt, Godwin's Halt, Heath Park, Attimore, Cole Green, Hertingfordbury, Rickmansworth, Smallford, St Albans, Stapleford and Carpenter's Park.

ISBN 1 84033 231 X 48 pp

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