First published in 1985 by Moorland Press, The Light Railways of Britain & Ireland has remained unavailable for more than twenty-five years, until now. Re-relea

The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. But its perfor

Holman Fred Stephens (1868-1931) set himself up in the 1890s as an engineer and manager of the complete light railway as evolved by Victorian theorists to serve