Narrow Gauge Railways - Wales and the Western Front

[rogerfarnworth]

After reading Humphrey Household's book about the Railways of Gloucestershire in the Twenties, I decided to look out for other books he had written. In "Narrow Gauge Railways - Wales and the Western Front", Humphrey Household focusses on Narrow Gauge lines in Wales (centred on a family holiday taken in August 1925 and then follows this with a chapter about the 60 cm light railways which served the trenches in the First World War and providing a final chapter about the Ashover Light Railway which sourced much of its stock through the MOD after the War and chose its gauge specifically to match that source of rolling stock, locomotives and materials.

 

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/10/29/narrow-gauge-railways-humphrey-household/

 

Many narrow gauge lines in the 1920s made use of surplus stock bought from the War Surplus Disposals Board and Household decided that the preponderance of ex-military stock on the narrow gauge lines of the UK was enough justification for including a potted history of the use of 60cm lines serving the trenches in the Great War.