Newbury railway station features in new book

Derek Phillips penned Paddington to Weymouth: The Route in the 1950s to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support and St Margaret’s Hospice in Yeovil, Somerset, who look after his wife, Pam, who has breast cancer.
Newbury railway station features heavily in Mr Phillips’ book,which is published by Irwell Press Limited and has more than 300 photographs and ordnance survey maps of the old Great Western Line’s principal stations.
The 71-year-old said: “The book is full of nostalgia for people who love steam locomotives and travelled on the line in the 1950s and 60s.
“The book depicts steam locomotives at work between Paddington and Weymouth as it used to be in the age of steam before the advent of mass closures of branch lines and stations.
“Those were the days of proper railway carriages, with compartments and corridors, and windows that you could open with long leather straps and lean out, that is until a piece of coal dust or smut flying back from the steam locomotive.”
For more information, or to buy a copy of Paddington to Weymouth: The Route in the 1950s, visit www.irwellpress.com
Photograph - Irwell Press