Waverley: Portrait of a Famous Route. This item is unavailable.Waverley: Portrait of a Famous Route

With renewed interest in this wonderful railway line crossing from England into Scotland and revival plans for parts of it actively underway, now is a good time to republish this superb photographic tribute to the Waverley route. As author Roger Siviter states in the Introduction : The Waverley route, together with the Somerset & Dorset, is perhaps the most sadly missed of all the lines that were closed in the Beeching Era of the 1960s. Many of the photographs are quite outstanding and capture the essence of the Waverley better than any other book published on the route. The historical background of the line is traced and then the book splits the route into three sections: Carlisle to Riccarton Junction; Riccarton Junction to Galashiels; and Galashiels to Edinburgh with accompanying specially-drawn maps. 190 black and white photos and illustrations

An illustrated history of the Waverley Route, which recalls the heyday of the line that ran through the Borders between Edinburgh Waverley station and Carlisle, with descriptions of the route's notoriously tight curves and steep gradients.