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Route and Branch in Sussex: English Railway Photographers

Category: Transport

In this delightful album, a follow-up to Offshore on the Southern, Anthony Burges helps us recapture the atmosphere of several of the rural branch lines of Sussex in the mid-1950s. As well as photographing the trains, the author’s interest extended to the station exteriors and other infrastructure details that are so useful to modellers today. Lines covered include East Grinstead-Lewis (part of which is now the preserved Bluebell Railway), Crowhurst-Bexhill West, Chichester-Midhurst, Pulborough-Midhurst and Petersfield-Midhurst, as well as a look at Schools class 4-4-0s and other steam classes on the Tunbridge Wells-Hastings main line.

The Author

After an initial period as a ‘mourner’ in the fifties at branch line funerals in the UK and Ireland, Tony pursued studies at Southampton University followed by graduate school at Northwestern University, Chicago. His subsequent career in the Canadian government as Transport Policy Advisor in the Department of Finance, Director General, Grain Transportation & Handling, and subsequently Deputy Executive Director, Australian Railway Research & Development Organization earned him the sobriquet of ‘Mr Branchline’ among his colleagues. Retiring recently from a Washington DC based firm of transportation consultants he is now devoting his time to writing railway books in Ottawa. He is also the author of Offshore on the Southern - The Isle of Wight railways in the 1950s and 1960s published by Colourpoint Books.

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