Author: Rob, Shorland-Ball,
Trains & railways: general interest
Published on 11 November 2021 by Pen & Sword Books Ltd (Pen & Sword Transport) in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 144 pages, 200 colour & black and white illustrations, maps & track diagrams
224 x 290 x 17 | 866g
Rob Shorland-Ball's researches for this book, and several visits, convinced him that he was putting together a jigsaw of facts. No previously published account of the area have brought together these stories of iron & steel making, limestone quarrying, coal mining, terra cotta, lead mining, and the railway systems they all needed to move their products to market.
There were narrow and standard gauge railways -80 miles of tracks in the Shotton Steel Works; industrial sites like Brymbo Iron and Steel Works; and since 2003 the Airbus factory which makes 100ft long wings for Airbus 380s that are too long to be moved by rail!A jigsaw indeed and this books puts together the pieces.