BOOK – The Swanage Branch in Colour

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Only a small limited number of this book available.

Swanage Branch in Colour – The Ultimate Archive

In this book, you can travel back in time and enjoy the largest collection of Swanage branch colour photographs ever assembled – from the heyday of the Purbeck line in 1951 through to its sad and controversial end in 1972.

The ten-mile Swanage line was opened in 1885 when the world’s first car design was patented, the first skyscraper was built, the Statue of Liberty arrived by sea in New York, the first cafeteria and petrol pump came into use in the United States and the Mikado comic opera opened for the first time in London.

British Rail controversially closed the line in 1972 – the year of the last Apollo manned mission to the Moon, when British Prime

Minister Edward Heath declared a state of emergency during the miners’ strike, the Queen Elizabeth liner sank in Hong Kong harbour after being destroyed in a fire and the Watergate burglary in Washington took place which was to bring down American president Richard Nixon.

Hardback.

Full Colour.

112 Pages.

Author: Andrew P.M. Wright.

£20.00 + an additional £2.00 added to the price of the book to cover the cost of P&P as well as the £2.99 automatically added for P&P at the checkout, due to weight of book.