Come for a nostalgic journey along the scenic Cotswold route between Stratford-upon-Avon and Gloucester. This was a late addition to the GWR network and was important for freight flows to docks as well as holidaymakers to southwest beaches.

Explore the Stratford-upon-Avon to Gloucester line station-by-station as the history, heritage and social background of the railway and its passengers is brought to life using archive photography, some of it never before published.

Books in the series:

• Birmingham to Oxford
• Ryde to Cowes
• Cheddar Valley Line
• Shrewsbury to Chester

Roger Norfolk’s interest in railways dates from the mid-1950s where the playground talk on a Monday was of the weekend of train spotting by the local main line. Ha later became a keen photographer, an interest maintained to this day. For many years he contributed to the SVR house magazine and has written articles for other magazines following his role as the driver of the Flying Scotsman on the BBC 4 TV documentary, Flying Scotsman From the Footplate.

The foreword and introduction describe succinctly and knowledgeably the history of each line, mentioning other lines it connected with. The route is then illustrated by carefully selected quality captioned photographs displaying much variety. Every photograph has a steam train in it and along with describing the location the author explains the features that caused that particular class of locomotive to be used. The device of bleeding the photographs to the edge of the page with no white borders is dramatic. Although he does not say so, these books are a celebration of the work of enthusiastic post-World War II railway photographers. [...] Good value for money for a wide audience.'Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society