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 The Wye Valley Railway and the Coleford Branch
ISBN/Code:  0853615306 The Wye Valley Railway and the Coleford Branch picture
By:  B.M. Handley and R. Dingwall
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The Wye Valley Railway and the Coleford Branch  

B.M. Handley and R. Dingwall

The Wye Valley Railway was opened on the 1st November 1876 from Wye Valley Junction (near Chepstow, south-east Wales) to Monmouth Troy (east Wales) for a total distance of 14 3/4 miles. Trains stopped at Tidenham, Tintern, Bigsweir, Redbrook, and terminated at Monmouth Troy. Here passengers could change for Ross-on-Wye (a few miles further north), Pontypool (15 miles to the south-west), and, from 1883, Coleford, in Forest of Dean. Ultimately it lost large sums of money and closed to passengers in 1959. This excellent book chronicles the story of what one of the most picturesque railways in Btitain


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