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Great Central Railway – Sheffield Main Line Services (From The MS&LR Period To British Railways)

By Bob Pixton

BOB Pixton has produced a substantial volume of photographs, maps, charts and timetables that vividly illustrate the huge variety of activity on the railways in the Sheffield area between roughly the Edwardian period and the steam era of British Railways.

This valuable illustrated history interprets the title quite broadly to extend out from Sheffield as far as Godley and Mottram in the west and Retford in the east. Major themes are the huge

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