Main Line To The West: The Southern Railway Route Between Basingstoke & Exeter -Part #1 Salisbury

Move your mouse over image or click to enlarge

Main Line to the West: The Southern Railway Route between Basingstoke & Exeter -Part #01 'Basingstoke to Salisbury' (IR432)

$80.85 AUD

Product No.: IR432
Title: Main Line to the West: The Southern Railway Route between Basingstoke & Exeter -Part #01 'Basingstoke to Salisbury'
Author(s): Nicholas, John & Reeve, George
Illustrator(s): N/A
Publisher: Irwell Press
ISBN: 1903266432
Condition: New
Binding: Laminated Pictorial Boards
Dust Jacket: None
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Year: 2004

Features: 244 Pages with Black/White Photos.

First proposals for a central main railway line from London to the port of Falmouth through Salisbury and Exeter came in the 1830s, and the first section as far as Basingstoke was opened in 1840 as part of the London & Southampton Railway, which in line with its plans for expansion soon became the London & South Western Railway.

The Bishopstoke to Salisbury Milford branch opened in 1847 but the route from London to Salisbury was indirect, so a direct Basingstoke to Salisbury line was promoted and after delays following the Railway Mania the single track branch from Basingstoke to Andover was opened in 1854, extended to Salisbury Milford in 1857, and then to Salisbury Fisherton in 1859. The Basingstoke & Salisbury Railway is the subject of Part One.