The West Highland Railway By John Thomas

The West Highland Railway.

The

West Highland

Railway

The West Highland was a railway within a railway. It existed as a separate company for only nineteen years, including the five years it took to build. Yet the West Highland is still the West Highland. There is nothing else quite like it in Britain.

John Thomas is a real Scottish enthusiast with a gift for writing, an ability to communicate his enthusiasm and to mirror every aspect of the West Highland's place in the area through which it ran. It is an enthralling account of the 165 miles of line that comprised the original West Highland Railway and Mallaig Extension and the Invergarry & Fort Augustus Railway.

"This is a model of what railway history ought,to be, the technical, human, topographical and business details all fitting in together with not a join in sight.'

The Times Literary Supplement

'For the railway enthusiast this book is a "must"

Weekly Scotsman

'Solid history and rich anecdote combine.'

Railway Magazine

A vivid picture is given of the thrills and anxieties of everyday working on the line from the days of the West Highland bogie to the coming of the diesel.'

Stirling Journal

"Can be thoroughly recommended?

Model Railway News

"There is an epic quality about The West Highland

Railway.

Glasgow Evening Citizen