The Wansbeck Railway – Morpeth to Reedsmouth and on to Bellingham and Rothbury

With twenty-one chapters, four appendices, and hundreds of illustrations, this is a very comprehensive account of the ‘Wannie’ line located in the northern English county of Northumberland. The chapters include the early years, plans, the building of the line, the route described, ‘Wannie’ line poetry (!), passenger services, goods train services, Royal trains, special trains, special military trains, accidents, signalling, ‘Wannie’ line diary, narrow gauge feeders and tramways, locomotives and engine sheds, ‘Wannie’ line weather, closure, and to bring the story right up to date the line today. By necessity, the book also deals with the route on to Bellingham and the Rothbury Branch.