Academic books needn’t be reserved for PhD students with a knack for deciphering dense text.
Drummond’s style is highly accessible, yet informative.
Delving into archives, he unveils the story of north west Scotland in the 1890s, explaining why a railway to Ullapool never came to fruition.
It is a niche topic, but even a transport history novice can dive into this without much difficulty.
A Quite Impossible Proposal: How Not To Build A Railway, by Andrew Drummond, published by Birlinn, ÂŁ20.
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