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Other important railway junctions are Sleaford, Boston, Spalding and Lincoln.On the coast are the seaside towns of Skegness, Mablethorpe, Sutton and Cleethorpes, which in the tourist season would see the arrival by train of thousands of holidaymakers. Further north is Grimsby, which provided numerous fish trains. So important was this traffic that the Great Central had a class of engine commonly used on these trains known as ‘Fish Engines’. Next comes the important port of Immingham, Britain’s busiest, which sees some 240 train movements per week. On the north Lincolnshire coast is New Holland, from where the railway-owned ferry used to cross to Hull. Further west is the steel-making town of Scunthorpe, which has its own railway system and is another important customer of the railway. There were other railways too: the Immingham Electric Railway, the Alford steam tram, and the potato railways – one system of which extended to more than twenty miles. RAF Cranwell had its own branch line. There are three tourist railways, one standard gauge and two narrow gauge.Using a wealth of rare and previously unseen photographs, Patrick Bennett documents Lincolnshire’s railways.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297986097525,"sku":"9781398105485","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781398105485_bacffa65-53c3-4af6-9e6e-6b5f726e9173.jpg?v=1786018458"},{"product_id":"9781398114777","title":"Railways of Sussex","description":"The first railway to penetrate Sussex was the Brighton Line of the LBSCR. From this beginning, lines spread out along the coast. Over the succeeding years further lines stretched across out the rest of the county, all built by the ‘Brighton’, which was by far the dominant railway company in the area and established a major works at Brighton. The company, however, didn’t have it all its own way. In the south-west corner the LSWR penetrated as far as Midhurst, and in the east the SECR had the fastest route to Hastings. Branching off this line at Robertsbridge was the Kent \u0026amp; East Sussex. There were also two of Colonel Stephens’ rather idiosyncratic railways in the county: The Rye \u0026amp; Camber Tramway, and The West Sussex Railway.The story of the growth and development of the railways of Sussex, and in some cases their demise, is told here.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56298101571957,"sku":"9781398114777","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781398114777_822e7cf4-8ca3-499c-bf84-f0585ca6f8b8.jpg?v=1786017976"},{"product_id":"9781398119352","title":"Joint Railways: Eastern and Southern England","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe pre-Grouping Companies were fiercely competitive and would defend any incursion by another company penetrating what they considered to be their ‘territories’. Nevertheless, at times they would cooperate. This cooperation resulted in a large number of joint lines. These joint lines ranged from fully independent operations, complete with their own staffs, locomotives and rolling stock, to short lengths of railway used by the joint companies, the cost of maintenance of which was shared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere were more than seventy of these joint lines, and all feature in this series by popular railway author Patrick Bennett. 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In 1980 there was a unified, monochrome railway. Freight traffic was still abundant, with marshalling yards active and many branch lines still operating. There were hundreds of collieries. In the early 1980s, Sectorisation arrived. The freight division was separated from the passenger side and further sub-divided into different freight sectors. New locomotives were introduced, and the older types started to disappear. As the eighties progressed, the freight sector was constantly changing. The mixed freight train became a thing of the past but new traffic flows developed, particularly in containers and aggregates. The coal sector steadily declined and branch lines became disused. In the early nineties three new freight companies were created in anticipation of privatisation and then finally privatisation itself arrived, with all freight traffic being taken over by an American company.It was a period of enormous change and adaptation, and the story is told here through the images of two photographers who were keen observers of the railway scene throughout the whole of this fascinating period.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56298356441461,"sku":"9781398102934","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781398102934_b4cef8a6-14a1-47a1-a63c-e39b97697e15.jpg?v=1786018376"},{"product_id":"9781398109186","title":"Railways of Cumbria","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo fewer than sixteen pre-grouping companies were represented within Cumbria’s borders, seven of these in Carlisle alone. 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