Fifty years ago it was still possible to travel to some of the former Southern Railway holiday destinations in Dorset Somerset Devon and Cornwall by rail. Since then the ravages of economics and the rise of the motor car have resulted in many of these locations no longer being accessible by train and of those few that do survive certainly not behind steam. Beginning in Dorset with a brief look at the Somerset ampamp Dorset the book then covers the area from Somerset to Devon with a wonderful po