While the Oxford - Worcester section of the OWW - covered in Part One of this work - is essentially rural in nature, the Worcester to Wolverhampton route passes through Droitwich, with its long-established salt industry, the carpet manufacturing town of Kidderminster, and the heavily industrialised 'Black Country' with its steelworks and coal mines. The line also had connections to other routes, giving access to Birmingham and railways such as the LNWR for traffic going further north.

Informative captions enhance the pictures of all this activity, covering not just the trains and varied motive power in steam days, but also all the stations, plus signal boxes, freight yards etc, giving a good account of the line's fortunes over the years.

Softback, 215 x 273 mm, 96 pages, over 150 black and white photos and illustrations.
 

Price £14.99