ATLANTIC COAST LEGACY - A TRIBUTE TO THE WITHERED ARM ROUTE 

Churchill decided to continue the construction of Britains standard steam engines in 1952-56 for secondary and branch lines which he envisaged as providing a social function of employment and social services, stations shops gardens etc, even if lines like the withered arm,northern scotland railways carried nothing. They also provided part of a coastal defence sercice and line envisaged in WW!.