LONDON MIDLAND STEAM ON THE EX-L & Y. by Greenwood, R.S. Photographs by W.H. Ashcroft, J.G. Blears, A.J. Cocker, J.A. Cox, D. Greenwood, R.S. Greenwood, Barry Hilton, Brian Hilton, I.G. Holt, P. Hutchinson, G.W. Morrison, K. Roberts, Eric Treacy

D. Bradford Barton, Truro, Cornwall, 1975. 96 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 08511532314 Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. "The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway spread itself for some 600 miles across the two counties of the Red and White Rose. Much of this w ay it ran through industrial areas where the typical backdrop was angular cotton mills, stone quarries and colliery spoilheaps, although in the Pennines hill scenery alternates with industrial towns....The book is broadly divided into the f o l l o w i n g subjects: Main line services; Yorkshire locals; Manchester and the Residentials; Liverpool; Horwich; Freight power; L & Y locomotives; Pugs; Todmorden; Summit Tunnel; the Oldham branch; Rochdale; Bury; Bolton; Southport; Blackburn; Ac cr in gt on ; th e S cotswood - Red Bank ECS; and excursions." Previous owner's small stamp small business label on front pastedown, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, two small bumps to top edge of rear board. Dust jacket is price clipped , h as min or edg e wea r, l ight wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds and two small bumps at top edge of rear panel, minor browning at edges. Very Good/Very Good.