The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway: The Rise and Fall of a Rural Byway

by Peter Johnson

The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway, was one of the lines managed and operated by Colonel Holman Fred Stephens from his office in Salford Terrace in Tonbridge Kent.

It was a revival of the long disused Potteries Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway, a railway that went bankrupt shortly after opening in the mid 1860s and was left derelict for forty years.

The railway reopened in 1911 to much local rejoicing, however the company...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526776170
• ISBN13: 9781526776174
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
• Length: 240 Pages