This excelent book uses many black and white images from steam days through to the present day preserved steam and diesel scene to illustrate the various routes across the Pennines. The book also includes route diagrams, track diagrams for some of the stations, gradient profiles, and a written history on each of the routes covered, which are:
The Newcastle - Carlisle line and Alston route
The Little North Western
The Settle - Carlisle line
Coast - Coast, the CKP and Stainmore routes
The two Lancashire and Yorkshire routes
The Pennine heartlands Leeds - Manchester
The Southern Crossing Sheffield - Manchester(Woodhead and Hope lines)
