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The Making of MacBraynes - A Scottish Monopoly Spanning Three Centuries
By Andrew Clark, Stenlake Publishing Ltd, 2022, 503 pp, 297 × 210mm, £75.00..
What, you may ask, is a book about a shipping company doing being reviewed in a railway journal? Well, as you will discover if you read the above title, there was a lot in common between the steamship company MacBrayne’s activities in providing a public transport service to widely scattered small communities in the Western Isles of Scotland and the railways’ attempts to do the same in a
