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Tramways & Urban Transit, Light Rail Transit Association - December 2022

"The book is well illustrated throughout with maps and photographs (the majority in colour) and comes highly recommended. If you want to know not just how Docklands’ railways came to be built but why they follow the routes they do, then this is the book for you."

Backtrack Magazine

This book will appeal to fans of urban transit systems and London’s transport network in general. Written by a former planning engineer involved with the development of the Docklands Light Railway, Jubilee Line extension and Crossrail/Elizabeth Line, each project is discussed at length, in terms of planning and construction. There’s also plenty of historical background regarding existing infrastructure and the machinations involved in regenerating London’s docklands. A foreword by former Secretary of State Lord Heseltine lends the book extra credibility.

Model Rail Magazine

"Well produced, the book is a personal and well written general overview of the planning and the bureaucracy behind the new railways of East London’s Docklands."

Railway and Canal Historical Society Journal - March 2023 issue

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Rail Express

For anyone with an interest in railways in London's Docklands, including light railways, this is a must-have book. It is a comprehensive record of the complex systems over nearly two centuries to the present-day Isle of Dogs and beyond, which has developed beyond all imaginings in the past half-century. An attractive production and a worthy addition to any transport bookshelf.

Tramway Review, no. 272 (December 2022)

"This is a highly readable account of the most significant British urban railway development of the last forty years. A recommended book."

Journal of the Friends of the National Railway Museum

This book is of great interest and one I can thoroughly recommend.

Tramway and Light Railway Society - Tramfare

"The book combines years of painstaking research with a fund of inside knowledge and can be warmly recommended."

The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society - The Railway Observer, September 2022, Volume 92, Number 1123

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Railways Illustrated

Any railway enthusiasts who are interested in the planning and building of the early railways of London's Docklands and then leading up to the development of the Docklands Light Railway and its extensions will find this book of upmost interest.
Jonathan Willis looks at the creation of the various original railways in the docks which were developed in the middle of the 19th century and gives a brief history. As a former Head of Strategy and Planning for London Transport and later Transport for London, Jonathan Willis is well able to pass on a comprehensive record of the development of the Docklands Light Railway and its extensions.

This most interesting book comes highly recommended.

Peter A. Harding - Branch Line & Light railway Publications.