David Spaven has spent his working life in and around the rail industry. His first book, the award-winning
Mapping the Railways, was published by Times Books/HarperCollins in 2011.
Highland Survivor: The Story of the Far North Line, published by Kessock Books in 2016, was also an award-winner. He is the author of the best-selling
Railway Atlas of Scotland (Birlinn, 2015).
The infamous 'Beeching Axe' swept away virtually every Scottish branch line in the 1960s. Conventional wisdom viewed these losses as regrettable yet inevitable in an era of growing affluence and rising car ownership.This ground-breaking study of Dr Beeching's approach to closures...
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