Rail Freight in Devon and Cornwall

The way it was. This book looks at the Devon and Cornwall freight industry from a historical perspective. It covers: traffic connected to an agriculture based economy, including a look at broccoli traffic; milk traffic, giving a brief history of some individual dairies from 1960s through to the end in 1981; and clay traffic, including China clay and Ball clay. Other cargo included in this book is grain and fertiliser, oil and coal, cement and timber traffic, to name but a few. This book even covers the MOD with a short section on how they dealt with the traffic to local bases such as the nuclear traffic moved from Devonport Dockyard from 1970s onwards. This hardback publication has over 150 colour and black & white images to accompany this 128 page historical look back at railway freight in Devon and Cornwall.