Great Western Branch Line Gallery by Kevin Mccormack

Great Western Branch Line Gallery by Kevin Mccormack

This book is a gallery of more than two hundred photographs, including a colour section, featuring a selection of Great Western Railway/British Railways (Western) branch lines and similar services taken between 1900 and 1965\. The emphasis is pictorial rather than factual with the aim of using photographs provided by two transport charities as well as the author, all of which are unlikely to have appeared previously in print or on the Internet. Generally, images depict working trains surrounded by recognisable infrastructure, often with station nameboards visible. Such pictures should be of particular interest to railway modellers as well as invoking nostalgia for the older generation who were pursuing their hobby around the time the pictures were taken. Most of the branch lines covered were victims of the 1960s "Beeching Axe", with closure to passengers or complete closure coming even earlier in some cases. Most of the services depicted are steam operated although a few GWR and BR diesel railcars/multiple units are included. All the scenes seem to reflect a more leisurely way of life than exists today.

Kevin McCormack is a life-long transport enthusiast and preservationist, owning two vintage cars and a Victorian railway carriage for some 55 years. Kevin served for several years on the Board of the Great Western Society, now based at Didcot in Oxfordshire, and is currently a trustee of the Online Transport Archive charity and a weekly volunteer steward at the London Bus Museum, Brooklands, Surrey. Since 1992, he has written over forty transport books.

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ISBN 13	9781399098717
ISBN 10	1399098713
Title	Great Western Branch Line Gallery
Author	Kevin Mccormack
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Year published	2023-05-24
Number of pages	128
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.