This book takes a predominantly ‘then and now’ approach through two to a page photographs. ‘Then’ are predictably in black and white and the ‘now’ views in colour. Nine pages are dedicated to a short history of the line. For me this was sufficient as my interest was a more visual approach to the line. As one would expect, much has changed since closure over 40 years ago and much of the former line has been built over or is heavily overgrown, which of course is expected.
This is a nice little read but I have two reservations that normally would have given it five stars; the first is that I would have liked to have seen more ‘then’ photographs with a train somewhere in the scene, and printed on glossy paper, rather than matte would have given all photographs a ‘lift’. That said, the photographs are all of an acceptable quality.