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Railways in Retrospect
Highland In LMS Days by David Jenkinson
 The Highland Railway was
almost universally popular amongst enthusiasts, no matter what their other allegiances may have been. This book looks at the 25-year period of its history between 1923 and 1947 when it moved from being a rather
modest part of the broader Scottish railway scene to its rather more significant role as the northernmost outpost of the mighty London Midland & Scottish Railway.
Despite repeated talk of closing down much of it from late HR and early LMS days until well into the 1960s, the main network has somehow managed to stay more or less intact into
the 21st century. That situation, despite its marginal economic viability, is in large part a result of the attention it was given during the 1923-47 years of the LMS.
In his last book (published not long before his untimely death) David Jenkinson considers the LMSR's inheritance from the Highland, its
geography and infrastructure, the working of the Highland main line and branches, and the locomotives and rolling stock used on the Highland system, all supported by a generous selection of historic photographs.
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