Keswick to Penrith Railway Re-opening

The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway by Robert Western Published by Oakwood Press in 2001, has been extensively revised. A review in the R&CHS Journal states that it is about as definitive a history as one is likely to get. 200pp, A5, photos, maps and drawings, ISBN 978 0 85361 5644 Unfortunately, Oakwood Press books are not currently available from us. Selected bookshops stock the full range as available. "Rails through Lakeland" by Harold Bowtell. Originally published as a single volume hardback, then reprinted in two voulmes as softbacks. Neither version seems to be currently in print, but may be available through bookshops. Hardback single volume: Hardcover: 200 pages Publisher: Silver Link Publishing Ltd (1989) ISBN-10: 0947971262 ISBN-13: 978-0947971267 Two volume softback version Rails Through Lakeland: Volume 1: The line described    Harold D. Bowtell Paperback November 1996 Silver Link Publishing Ltd ISBN 13: 9781857940664 ISBN 10: 1857940660 Rails Through Lakeland: Volume 2: Traffic and Operation. Silver Link Publishing Ltd, Paperback. ISBN 10:  1857941284.  160 printed pages with black and white photographs. A detailed study of the company's locomotive and rolling-stock operations, also looks at the stations and bridges, signalling etc.

Other books which include some description of the Keswick to Penrith route: "Along Lost Lines" by Paul Atterbury, Hardback, 256pp, illus, David & Charles, 2007, ISBN 9780715325681. "A walk along the Tracks" by Hunter Davies, Paperback, 196pp, b&w illus, Dent, 1993, ISBN 0460860992 JOURNEY THROUGH BRITAIN - By David St John Thomas  PUBLISHER: FRANCES LINCOLN LTD PUBLISHED: 2004 SIZE: 240MM X 160MM PAGES: 700 HARDBACK ISBN: 0711223696

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