Railways of the North Pennines: The rise and fall of the railways serving the north Pennine orefields

摘要

A respected railway writer once told me that the essence of good historical writing is not knowing what to put in but what to leave out. Unfortunately this book is the antithesis of that dictum. It is an erudite and immensely detailed but quirky work, widely researched, as no fewer than 839 annotated references demonstrate.