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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Map is present in back. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Despite the increased efficiency of dieselisation the modern world was catching up with many of the state’s rural branch lines. The VR’s response to dwindling tonnage was to make further cutbacks reduce maintenance and run fewer and less convenient services which continued to erode public support. By the late 1970s most remaining branch lines were in their death throes and by the 1990s the once-proud Victorian Railways network was looking decidedly threadbare – a mere shadow of its former self. Today the branch lines the trains and most of the men from this fascinating era of the Victorian Railways have vanished. Memories and photographs are all that remain. (SP)