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Quiet between Trains Lampeter, the Teifi Valley and the Aberayron Branch in the Final Years of Steam – 1963 to 1965.

Photographs by Vernon Parry, edited by David Gowan and published by Aspect Design and the Lampeter History Society. Softback, 44 pages, £8.00. ISBN 978-1-912078-38-7

This is a delightful little book, local railway history at its very best. It sheds

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