Rails to Seahouses: A History of the North Sunderland Railway

First published in 1967 under the title The North Sunderland Railway and then as an enlarged, revised edition in 1988. This new edition contains the same text and illustrations as before but has been redesigned and also retitled to better reflect the geographical area with which it deals. North Sunderland is a village which had a station on the former line from Chathill, Northumberland to Seahouses whose original full name had been North Sunderland Seahouses, hence the North Sunderland Railway moniker for this line. Harbour improvements at Seahouses in the 1880s were the impetus for the railway, four and a half miles of line to connect with the national rail network at Chathill. It would transport locally-won coal and lime and of course fish and bring in visitors too. Although partly successful with its original objectives, ultimately the line was an economic failure. The book has chapters on locomotives, rolling stock, signalling, the route described, operations, accidents and more.