Railways of Ayrshire

by Gordon Thomson

In the early 1800s, Ayrshire was already established as a prosperous, mainly rural agricultural county. The realization that there was abundant coal and (to a lesser extent) iron ore deposits to be exploited, together with the coming of the Industrial Revolution, rendered the area wide open to the 'railway mania' that swept Britain in the mid to late 1800s. The proximity of the county north to Glasgow and south to Carlisle (and thence south) made...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785001477
• ISBN13: 9781785001475
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.6"