The Holmfirth (Summer Wine) Branch Line by Dr. Alan Earnshaw Paperback Book

Description: The Holmfirth (Summer Wine) Branch Line by Dr. Alan Earnshaw Really popular as the setting for the 35-year long BBC comedy television programme, "Last of The Summer Wine", Holmfirth also had a fascinating little railway, which was also used as a location in the embryonic British motion picture industry. This book tells its 115 year history. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Holmfirth was, in its genesis, little more than a northern industrial textile town, despite the fact that it nestled in some stunningly beautiful countryside. By the mid-1960s many of the mills had gone out of business and the short branch railway had closed in May 1965. For years the station buildings and many of the mills stood derelict, gaunt decaying reminders of Victorian enterprise that the modern world had sadly passed by. Then in 1971 something rather unusual happened that would change Holmfirth forever, the writer Roy Clarke was commissioned to write a short play about three old men for the BBCs "Comedy Playhouse Series". In June 1972 a BBC film crew arrived in Holmfirth, and on 4th January 1973 the first-ever "Last of the Summer Wine" programme hit the TV screens. Author Biography Alan Earnshaw is a professor of modern history (transport) and a respected author/lecturer/broadcaster on the subject. On leaving school began a commercial apprenticeship and trained as an engineer with the David Brown Group, working on all kinds of transport projects, from high speed trains, commercial vehicles, helicopters, naval and merchant ship-building, racing cars and tractors. He has also had a life-long interest in railways, even working as a Chief Executive for a local authority-owned railway company in the rail privatisation era. He has also acted as an advisor to the UK government, to local authorities, preserved railways and film and television companies. Table of Contents Introduction Politics & Plans Inaugural Services Brockholes Station & Junction Thongsbridge Station Holmfirth Station Passenger Traffic Freight Traffic Memories Of The Great War And After A Postcript Details ISBN1903016630 Pages 72 Publisher Crecy Publishing Series Rural Railways S. Year 2005 ISBN-10 1903016630 ISBN-13 9781903016633 Format Paperback Publication Date 2005-09-01 UK Release Date 2005-09-01 Imprint Trans-Pennine Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Kendal Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2005-09-01 NZ Release Date 2005-09-01 Author Dr. Alan Earnshaw DEWEY 385.09427 Illustrations 3 colour and 101 black and white photographs Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:90086695;

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