Rails to Rosslare : the GWR mail route to Ireland / Mike Hitches
2010, First Edition. Stroud : Amberley Publishing. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #444624
ISBN: 9781848687011
Physical description; 127 pages. Contents; "The latest title ... charting the history of the mail route to Ireland via Fishguard as GWR celebrates its 175th year. While the port at Fishguard was not as successful as that at Holyhead, it did attract Cunard ocean liners, like the Mauretania and ill-fated Lusitania, as they returned from New York before the outbreak of the First World War." Subjects; Great Western Railway (Great Britain) History ; Pictorial works. Great Western Railway (Great Britain). Great Western Railway (Great Britain) History. Railway mail service Great Britain History. Railroads Ireland Rosslare History. Railroads Wales Fishguard History. Postal service Wales History. Railroads Wales History. Trains & railways: general interest. TRANSPORTATION Railroads General. Fishguard (Wales) History.
Price: €14.95