Locomotives of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway: A Definitive Survey, 1854-1966

A pictorial history of the 19th and 20th century British rail line.

Although closed to traffic in 1966, with most of its infrastructure swiftly destroyed by British Railways, this unique railway line still lives in the minds of many, some too young to remember it in its heyday. For more than a hundred years it courted disaster and could on a number of occasions have succumbed to overpowering financial pressures, but it survived with the help of partnerships with larger, more secure companies...