No 33 Worcestershire (British Railways Past and Present)

In this eagerly awaited latest volume in an ever-popular series. Roger Siviter takes us on a ‘past and present’ tour of the railways of Worcestershire, one of England’s most attractive counties. He includes in his survey the towns of Dudley, Oldbury, Stourbridge and Halesowen that were historically part of the county but that are now part of the West Midlands. Worcestershire was mainly the home of the old Great Western Railway and the Midland Railway, and featured trunk routes that carried crack expresses, suburban lines into Birmingham and branch lines threading their way through the countryside. The noted railway writer and photographer Roger Siviter has trawled the archives to find a wealth of period railway scenes, and paired each with a shot of the same location today. His helpful captions supply details about the locomotives and rolling stock, people and landscapes, and towns and villages. The comparisons will intrigue and fascinate railway enthusiasts and locals alike. * Dudley * Oldbury * Stourbridge * Halesowen * Bromsgrove * Bewdley * Kidderminster * Worcester * The Malverns * Upton-on-Severn * Barnt Green * Redditch * Droitwich Droitwich * Pershore * Evesham * The famously steep 2-mile Lickey Incline near Bromsgrove