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South Yorkshire Railway Stations - Adwick-le-Street to Wortley (Paperback, UK ed.)
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South Yorkshire Railway Stations - Adwick-le-Street to Wortley (Paperback, UK ed.)
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Well known South Yorkshire writer Peter Tuffrey has always wanted
to live in a railway station - with the tracks still intact so that
he could leisurely watch trains pass in the comfort on his own
unique home. That in part, along with a conversation with pop
artist Peter Blake who once lived in a railway station himself, has
inspired Peter to amass a mine of information and a unique
collection of pictures illustrating the many aspects of South
Yorkshire railway station history. We not only see the unique grand
architecture that stations once displayed, like those at Sheffield
Victoria and Rotherham Masborough, but the armies of staff they
once employed. Many staff are seen posing proudly with the
stationmaster, on platforms or the rail tracks themselves. Other
pictures show evacuees on the platform of Sheffield Victoria
station, floods at Sheffield Midland, and the horrific pile up of
carriages at the Hexthorpe platform. Being an illustrated A-Z book,
it is one where the reader can pick it up at leisure and learn on
each occasion some interesting facts or marvel at something in the
illustrations. Sadly we see a number of stations being demolished,
abandoned or lost in overgrowth. Nevertheless this adds to our
understanding of local history - the railways that once
criss-crossed over South Yorkshire were quickly superseded by the
advent of motorised transport.
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