Cheltenham and the Cotswold Lines

The Honeybourne Line. This mammoth volume takes us on a meandering tour of all of the lines which once served the Cotswolds area of Gloucestershire and neighbouring counties, including the one main line which still remains and which over the last three decades has been slowly regaining its importance – the old Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton route, which we travel in stages from Oxford to Evesham. Lose yourself in images of long lost country stations, of the viaducts at Hook Norton, the extensive junctions at Kingham and Honeybourne, and the rural charm of the branch to Shipston, in sharp contrast to the processions of summer Saturday holiday expresses passing Toddington and Bishops Cleeve, plus the rare capture of a DMU on a driver training run on the MSWJ at Withington. These are sights, sounds and smells now lost to history but all brought back to life here in glorious colour!