A latecomer to the railway map, the route was steeply graded and passed through beautiful but thinly populated scenery. Thus short trains were the norm, except in wartime when the line was of great strategic importance. Its evolution from a rural byway to a military highway is fully illustrated.
The stations along this Great Western Railway (GWR) route were;-
Didcot
Upton & Blewbury
Churn
Compton
Hampstead Norris
Hermitage
Newbury Racecourse
Newbury
Woodhay
Highclere
Litchfield
Whitchurch
Sutton Sconey
Worthy Down Platform
Kings Worthy
Winchester GW
By Vic Mitchell & Kevin Robertson
Hardback. 172x240mm. 96 pages
100 black & white photographs
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