Backwaters and byways London and the Home Counties

Railway preservation is not just about ‘Premier League’ outfits like the North Yorkshire Moors, West Somerset and Severn Valley railways, or indeed, heritage lines at all.

Far beyond the major players in the movement, all sorts of backwaters and byways have arisen or appeared over the years to capture the flavour of a bygone age, even on a very small scale or transient basis.

There are the mothballed lines yet to receive loving care and attention from their would-be restorers, railways laid on private land, or industrial lines when a very