THE WHIPSNADE & UMFOLOZI RAILWAY AND THE GREAT WHIPSNADE RAILWAY

THOMAS C S

ISBN 10: 0853614784 / ISBN 13: 9780853614784

Published by OAKWOOD PRESS, 1995

About this Item

OL 93. detailed account of the narrow gauge tourist railways at Whipsnade Zoo. 140pp, well illustrated. VG copy in card covers, sligth wear to edges.

Seller Inventory # 005647

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE WHIPSNADE & UMFOLOZI RAILWAY AND THE GREAT WHIPSNADE RAILWAY
• Publisher: OAKWOOD PRESS
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853614784
• ISBN 13: 9780853614784
• Binding: Card
• Edition: 1st
• Condition: VG
• Seller catalogs:
  • Railways - Miniature
  • Publisher - Oakwood Press

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Synopsis

Oakwood Press gloss pictorial card covered book with square bound spine. OL93 in the Oakwood library of railway history. 1995 1st edition. The detailed history of the railways at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire. 140pp of text, numerous B&W photographs and detail maps. Approximately A5 size. Sent 1st class from Hertfordshire

Synopsis

A narrow gauge steam locomotive with its train moves slowly along, passengers look out from open-sided coaches across grasslands populated by axis deer and nilgai. This must be somewhere in Asia, India perhaps? Not at all, this is the Great Whipsnade Railway. Up until now the line has been virtually ignored by writers and historians; it can hardly be said to have remained undiscovered all this time, passenger figures of 100,000 a year or thereabouts testify to the popularity of this railway. Presented in an A5 format, this book contains 144 pages. There are plans of the locomotives Chevallier, Excelsior, Conqueror and Superior. It also includes 64 photographs, which are reproduced on 32 pages of art paper, with a full-colour card cover.