Books about Weymouth to Portland and Easton branch line

[Wilts Wanderer]

I'm wanting to find a good book about the history of the above branch lines. Can anyone recommend a publication please? Something fairly comprehensive ideally.

 

[Western Sunset]

The late Brian L Jackson wrote three volumes on the Isle of Portland Railways. Published by Oakwood Press - still available on various online selling sites. Volume 2 is probably the one that'll interest you the most.

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

Thank you, that’s exactly what I was looking for. +1

 

[Taunton]

Those are the best. You still find new ones in several bookshops in Weymouth - hence the duplicates in my loft from Christmas presents from family there! There's a further one in the series about the buses there - originally railway-owned of course.

 

[Western Sunset]

Yes, Brian wrote extensively about the Dorset area. Met him a few times - nice chap.

 

[Gloster]

If you are interested in how the track layouts developed, you need R.A.Cooke’s Track Layout Diagrams. I have Section 17, Weymouth Line (Second Edition), from 1983, but I don’t know if there has been a later edition, possibly under a slight variation of the title. There is also the ‘G.W.R Lines in Dorset’, which is Volume 1 of George Pryer’s Signal Box Diagrams of the Great Western & Southern Railways: this appears to be available from the Signalling Record Society’s The Bookstall. This last is just signal box diagrams.

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

If you are interested in how the track layouts developed, you need R.A.Cooke’s Track Layout Diagrams. I have Section 17, Weymouth Line (Second Edition), from 1983, but I don’t know if there has been a later edition, possibly under a slight variation of the title. There is also the ‘G.W.R Lines in Dorset’, which is Volume 1 of George Pryer’s Signal Box Diagrams of the Great Western & Southern Railways: this appears to be available from the Signalling Record Society’s The Bookstall. This last is just signal box diagrams.

Thanks!

 

[Gloster]

Thanks!

Having dug out my copy of the Portland book, it looks as though the signalling diagrams in it are the same as in George Pryer’s book. However, I have not been able to check the acknowledgements.