Stenlake Publishing - Rails to Seahouses: A History of the North Sunderland Railway
Rails to Seahouses: A History of the North Sunderland Railway
Author : Alan Wright ISBN : 9780853617792 Cover : paperback Price : £14.95
First published in 1967 under the title The North Sunderland Railway the book was then brought out in an enlarged, revised edition in 1988. It has been unavailable for at least ten years. This new edition contains the same text and illustrations as before but has been redesigned and also retitled to better reflect the geographical area with which it deals. North Sunderland has nothing to do with its namesake south of Newcastle, but is a village which had a station on the former line from Chathill, Northumberland to Seahouses whose original full name had been North Sunderland Seahouses, hence the North Sunderland Railway moniker for this line. Harbour improvements at Seahouses in the 1880s were the impetus for the railway, four and a half miles of line to connect with the national rail network at Chathill. It would transport locally-won coal and lime and of course fish and bring in visitors too. Although partly successful with its original objectives, ultimately the line was an economic failure. The book tells the railway's story from inception to its winding up in 1952 with chapters on locomotives, rolling stock, signalling, the route described, operations, accidents and more.
120 pages, 94 illustrations
Rails to Seahouses: A History of the North Sunderland Railway
