NEW JANUARY 2018. The Act for the building of the Mistley, Thorpe and Walton Railway was passed in 1863. It was to branch off the GER's Manningtree to Harwich line at Mistley, to serve Thorpe-le-Soken and Walton-on-Naze. The first sod was cut with great ceremony.  Construction work started. Faced with competition from the Tendring Hundred Railway at Colchester, which completed its extension through to Walton-on-Naze in 1867, and delayed by things such as a pitch battle between the contractor and their labourers, the line was never completed.

In 1946 Thomas Peacock privately published his essay on the Walton, Thorpe and Mistley Railway - that rare thing, a history of a railway that never actually happened! That is what this file contains. It is a modest 24-page card-covered booklet which includes ten full-page photographs. He describes the story of the line and the remains which were still visible in 1946. Inserts which are also reproduced in the file are a correction slip and a list of other works published by Thomas Peacock.

The file is word-searchable. It will be available to download as soon as payment has been made. You go to your account and click on ‘Downloads’. New customers create an account as they place their order.