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Railways of Leicestershire in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
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Railways of Leicestershire in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
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A quick look at today's map of the county of Leicestershire and
it's easy to see that its county town, Leicester, sits at an
important railway crossroads. With London to the south and the East
Midlands cities of Derby and Nottingham to the north, the line
linking St Pancras and Sheffield is crossed in Leicester by one of
England's most important east-west link lines. This link provides
passenger rail journey opportunities to and from Birmingham to the
west and the cities of Peterborough and Cambridge to the east. In
addition, it is playing an increasingly important role as a freight
route to and from East Anglia, including connecting the UK's
largest container port at Felixstowe with a number of terminals
across the country. The line between Leicester and Burton on Trent
may have lost its passenger service, but it remains an important
access route to the quarries in the area around Coalville. The
county's railways may have been drastically pruned by the Beeching
Axe, but they still have a wide variety of traffic on offer. In
this book John Jackson looks at the variety of traffic at work on
the county's main lines. The story is completed by a glance at
today's roll of Brush's workshops in Loughborough and loco
servicing and stabling facility now occupying the former depot at
Leicester itself.
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