This photographic companion to the Netflix original documentary series takes you on a journey across the globe's different biological realms to present visuals of nature's most intriguing animals in action, and environmental change on a scale that must be seen to be believed
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The first phase of British railway building in the 1830s and '40s left Bedfordshire virtually untouched and it wasn't until the Midland Railway started building line to reach London in the 1850s that a comprehensive web of branch lines sprang up throughout the county. The speed of development can be gauged by the fact that the whole of the county s rail network was complete by 1872. A long period of stability followed but the inevitable decline began almost a century later. The lines that are left today only mainly serve major towns, the exception being the remarkable Bedford Branch, which against all the odds remains open and, with its half-timbered stations and low platforms, in largely the condition it was in at the end of steam. This detailed history contains forty-nine period photographs, many of them of steam locomotives and stations long closed but well-remembered. Featured locations include Bedford St Johns, Sandy, Potton, Stanbridgeford, Luton Hoo, Luton Bute Street, Hatfield, Dunstable, Henlow, Henlow Camp, Turvey, Wootton Broadmead, Three Counties, Arlesey, Chiltern Green, Bedford Midland Road, Ampthill, Oakley, and Sharnbrook.
Before the golden age of railways between of 1850 and 1950, Hertfordshire was not subject to commuter sprawl as it is today. Back then, the county was made up of farmland and rolling countryside dotted with market towns. The arrival of the London & Birmingham Railway in the 1840s began the process of change and soon Hertfordshire was criss-crossed by a tight grid of branch lines which were to dominate life in the county until the cutbacks of the 1950s and '60s and the building of the M25. Accompanied by a historic account full of fascinating detail, this collection of fifty-two photographs showcases the many stations and locomotives operating in the county from the early 1900s through to the 1960s. The locations included are: Letchworth, Hitchin, Napsbury, Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Marston Gate, Mardock, Widford, Hadham, Standon, Braughing, West Mill, Buntingford, Watford, Croxley Green, Welwyn Garden City, Ayot, Wheathampstead, Harpenden, Roundwood, Redbourn, Beaumont's Halt, Godwin's Halt, Heath Park, Attimore, Cole Green, Hertingfordbury, Rickmansworth, Smallford, St Albans, Stapleford and Carpenter's Park.