The County Donegal Railway Companion

The latest addition to Midland's Irish railway list is a celebration of the country's most renowned narrow gauge railway system, the County Donegal Railway. Though the CDR closed in 1959, the memory of its red steam locomotives and red and cream railcars and carriages is still held in great affection by railway enthusiasts. The many CDR artifacts which have been preserved and the work of several societies to restore parts of the system have introduced the railway to many too young to have experienced it for themselves and railway modellers have produced a number of splendid layouts based on the CDR, which are often seen at model railway exhibitions. The CDR Companion is a wonderful miscellany of history, photographs, drawings and memories of the railway and the remote and beautiful county it served. The book recounts the history of the system and then looks at some of the CDR's rolling stock in detail using photographs and scale drawings of locomotives, railcars, wagons and carriages. There are views of the stations and even a guide to what remains of the system for today's visitors to County Donegal. This is a book which will appeal to a wide audience from dedicated narrow gauge modellers and those who love narrow gauge railways in general through to the large number of people interested in Ireland's railways and visitors to County Donegal. The book's author, Roger Crombleholme, is himself a distinguished modeller and model kit manufacturer, whose affection for and knowledge of the narrow gauge in general and the CDR in particular, comes out strongly from the pages of his book.

ISBN 1857802055   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781857802054 (What's this?)   Pages 96 Publisher Ian Allan Ltd   Published in Leicester Imprint Midland Publishing   Height (mm) 282 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 213 Publication date 31 Oct 2005   Academic level General DEWEY 385.50941693

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