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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Signed copy. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Botton edge of front cover has gotten wet at some point and is a little wrinkled but not that noticable. Pages not affected. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Routes have experienced in the last 50 years missing out on electrification and grade- separated junctions with the exception of Heathrow Airport Junction. Instead the Western had seen incremental resignalling schemes and the retention of diesel traction as its primary form of traction during those 50 years. The Western Region enacted a work stream of eradicating mechanical signal boxes from the 1960s with a stop-go approach dependent on funding. Bristol Temple Meads. Reading and Oxford however had not seen large-scale remodelling schemes for many years and several lifetimes ago. The 1980s were a low point when after the Beaching cuts of the 1960s. Western lines were singled or de-quadrupled as rail was no longer fashionable; almost lost in the 1980s was the Bath to Westbury line which was going to be singled with a passing loop at Trowbridge: happily it is now a busy double-tracked mixed-traffic route. (LL)