Rob Shorland-Ball's researches for this book, and several visits,
convinced him that he was putting together a jigsaw of facts. No
previously published account of the area have brought together these
stories of iron & steel making, limestone quarrying, coal mining, terra
cotta, lead mining, and the railway systems they all needed to move
their products to market.
There were narrow and standard gauge railways - 80 miles of tracks in
the Shotton Steel Works; industrial sites like Brymbo Iron and Steel
Works; and since 2003 the Airbus factory which makes 100ft long wings
for Airbus 380s that are too long to be moved by rail!
A jigsaw indeed and this books puts together the pieces.