Early Railways of Scotland

Early Railways of Scotland

Forgotten Generals

Forgotten Generals

Euston to Birmingham

1837 to Rail Blue

Publication Date15th August 2025

Book FormatPaperback

pages96

Illustrations160

Height234

Width165

The history of the railway route from Euston to Birmingham from its nineteenth century beginnings to the Rail Blue era of British Rail.
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ISBN
9781398123953

The London & Birmingham Railway was the first intercity line in Britain to travel from London. Superbly engineered by Robert Stephenson, this pioneering early achievement of the railway age in Britain linked England’s second city Birmingham to the capital at Euston station and became part of what later came to be known as the West Coast Main Line. En route, the line travelled through Rugby and Coventry and terminated at Curzon Street station in Birmingham but by 1854 passenger services stopped at Birmingham New Street instead. The route soon became part of the London & North Western Railway, later absorbed into the London, Midland & Scottish Railway at the Grouping in 1923, before becoming part of British Railways in Nationalisation in 1948. In this book author, modeller and railway historian Robert Hendry draws on his extensive collection of historical images to present a photographic portrait of the Euston to Birmingham route through the years up to the Rail Blue era of British Rail which ended in the 1980s.

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