Rex Conway's Midland Steam Journey: Volume One by Rex Conway

Rex Conway's Midland Steam Journey: Volume One by Rex Conway

Join Rex Conway on a remarkable steam-hauled journey on the Midland region during the golden age of steam, with many diversions along the way. There are really three journeys in this book. Travelling first from Bristol Temple Meads we take in scenes as diverse as Gloucester, the Lickey Bank, Birmingham New Street and Water Orton, before heading into the heartland of the Midland region - Derby. We then venture through the Derbyshire Dales on to Buxton, Clay Cross, Chesterfield and Sheffield, before commencing the second journey from St Pancras. We head northwards again through the outskirts of London to Bedford, Kettering, Leicester, Toton and Leeds, before joining the Settle-Carlisle line. Back in the south again, we start the final journey from Euston and take in Camden, Willesden, Kings Langley, Rugby, Lichfield and Crewe before steaming on to North Wales and Manchester. Through this selection of over 250 outstanding photographs we see a plethora of engines - including 'Duchesses', 'Jubilees', 'Royal Scots' and 'Patriots' - a multitude of stations, engine sheds, tunnels and halts. This is a must-read for all railway enthusiasts, and gives us another tantalising glimpse of the previously unseen images from Rex's 65,000-strong archive.

Rex Conway started work in 1952 with the Bristol Evening Post as a trainee photographer. After three years as an RAF photographer with Coastal Command he rejoined the Post, remaining with the paper until the 1980s when he became a freelance photographer. From the 50s to the 80s Rex took approximately 25,000 railway photographs; since then he has added other collections - so his archive now numbers over 65,000 images, with the earliest dating from 1900.

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ISBN 13	9780750951173
ISBN 10	0750951176
Titel	Rex Conway's Midland Steam Journey: Volume One
Autor	Rex Conway
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	The History Press Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2008-11-01
Seitenanzahl	256
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.