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In the days when coal was King plans were laid for an East to West cross country railway to connect the Manchester Ship Canal at Warrington, to a new dock to be built near the east coast village of Sutton On Sea. Entitled The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway, as history was to show only the Chesterfield to Pyewipe Junction section and a branch from Langwith to Beighton would ever be completed. Taken over by the G.C.R. in 1907, although primarily a coal carrying railway it had a passenger service that lasted in parts until 1955. Discover the former LD&ECR, the self-styled Dukeries Route and its connections through the lenses of photographers from a period of over 100 years. From the main line between Chesterfield and Lincoln, the Beighton Branch, the Sheffield District Railway, plus the connecting Mansfield Railway and the Mid Nott's Joint Railway, to the motive power depots at Chesterfield, Tuxford and Langwith Junction. This is a photographic journey bringing you the story of the railway from the early days to today, and the last coal train to use the route.

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Chris Booth has been hooked on railways since the early 1960s and would commence work as a signalman in 1975. He had his first photograph published in a magazine in 1992 and has since become a regular Author and contributor to magazines. In 2013 he published his first book entitled 40 Years of Sheffield PSB via the on-line publisher Blurb. Fascinated in the Lancashire Derbyshire & East Coast Railway since reading the Oakwood Press book about the line he decided to publish his own books, these being a potted history of the railway and its connections, in words and pictures.

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