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The Melbourne Military Railway And the Derby to Ashby branch - Part Two: 1939 to Closure
Mike Christensen
Lightmoor Press, Unit 144B, Lydney Trading Estate, Harbour Road, Lydney, Gloucestershire GL15 4E J.
Tel: 01993 773927. Web: www.lightmoor.co.uk
Description: Hardback, 285mm x 225mm, 212pp
ISBN: 978 1911 038443
Price £35.00
A few scattered and derelict buildings next to a cycle path in a remote part of South Derbyshire are the only remaining clues to the existence of a major complex that once trained soldiers to maintain railways in the battlefields of the Second World War.
It was a well-kept secret that Chellaston Quarry was the home of the Melbourne Military Railway second only to Longmoor in magnitude as a training centre for the Royal Engineers.
The story of the War Department’s occupation of six-miles of the little-used Midland
