Few can resist the sight of steam-engines pulling liveried railway carriages across open country. Using first hand accounts, author David Staines recalls the county's golden era of steam railways - the people, the lines, the stations, the passengers and the freight. From the beginning, Kent's railway network was driven through by the need to link London with the channel ports and later the county's towns and communities. This well illustrated book covers everything from the 'Golden Arrow' to trucks carrying horse manure from the capital's streets to Kent's hop fields.
B5 (softcover) 126 pages