The Knotty
The Knotty
An Illustrated Survey of the North Staffordshire Railway
Basil Jeuda
128 pages. 275x215mm. Printed on gloss art paper, perfect bound with card covers.
ISBN13 : 9781899889013
£14.95
An Illustrated Survey of the North Staffordshire Railway
Basil Jeuda
128 pages. 275x215mm. Printed on gloss art paper, perfect bound with card covers.
ISBN13 : 9781899889013
£14.95
A comprehensive photographic album of the North Staffordshire Railway with many previously unseen images and captions compiled by one of the recognised experts on the company. Sections on the locomotives, rolling stock, stations, canals, collieries, staff, signal boxes and other structures, provide a good overall picture of the NSR system.
The Knotty - Sample Images
like Radstock had also been provided with a footbridge (Bridge No. 86). Interestingly, however, the structure seen here was a recent replacement, the first footbridge (shown on the 1902 25 inch OS) having been positioned between the box and the waiting shelter with the steps facing the other way. Numerous sources, including the normally reliable Quick Chronology, state that the station had Charlton Road added to its name in 1883, some even pinning it down to October of that year. An online trawl of the Shepton Mallet Journal for that period produced no mention of this despite both the GWR and S&DJR time tables being printed in each issue. However, the name does appear in an 1888 Bradshaw’s Guide, albeit rather confusingly in brackets after Masbury but that appears to be due to space preventing it from being slotted in after Shepton Mallet. The same publication refers to the GWR station as Shepton Mallet Town Street and also the Midland