Paul Atterbury's Lost Railway Journeys : Rediscover Britain's Forgotten Railway Routes

Since the 1960s thousands of miles of track and hundreds of stations have been closed across Britain. Bestselling author and antiques expert Paul Atterbury traces 36 routes that it has long since ceased to be possible to travel by train but are nevertheless still rich in railway culture. Paul Atterbury encounters crumbling bridges and viaducts, old buildings and railwayana and, complementing the contemporary photographs, he illustrates the journeys with pictures and ephemera of the railways he encounters in their heydey. Packed with archive photographs of trains and life on the old railways "Lost Railway Journeys" is a romantic, nostalgic, elegiac journey across all parts of Britain that invites the reader to dream of days and trains that once were.

Paul Atterbury is a long-time expert on BBC TV's Antiques Roadshow, and has written on railways, Victorian culture and arts, as well as many other topics. He is also the author of Along Country Lines, Branch Line Britain and Along Lost Lines. Paul lives in Dorset.