Montrose & Bervie Railway: A Study of Transport in South East Kincardineshire 1770 1966

This new, detailed and fully researched study, using original documents and contemporary newspapers, charts the history of the line against the backdrop of the progress of the South-East Kincardineshire economy and the landed interests which controlled it. The development of Royal Mail services, and the coach and carrier services using the new turnpike road (controlled by the same landowners and unusual in being highly profitable) in the early nineteenth century are described, and the rise in the bus services in the 1920s is chronicled, so that the history of the line is set in its true context. Eleven appendices give full details of the stations, structures, operations, signalling and many other aspects of the railway, as well as data on the preceding turnpike road system and the bus services which followed. The text is profusely illustrated by over 170 illustrations, many in colour, and a number of statistical tables.