Great Western Branch Line Album
- Great Western Branch Line Album
- Tin in Cornwall, coal in South Wales, holidaymakers in Devon and North Wales; the Great Western had its roots in many areas of prosperity. In the late 50s and early 60s a traumatic change has strangled many of the old branch lines which were once an integral, taken for granted, part of the railway scene.
- The Cornish industries have met an inevitable death, South Wales has disappeared as a mining area, and the holiday makers head for sunnier, overseas locations rather than St.Ives. Many photographs were duly taken as the lines disappeared. Most are subjectively nostalgic, but some have managed to portray the geography and geology alongside the engines.
- Few, if any, early railway photographers grasped the potential that was offered, but since the war some excellent work has been produced of a much more pictorial nature. It is this work which figures largely in great Western Branch Line Album, but at the same time the historical side is not ignored.
- 112 pages, 1974, 5th Impression, Case bound, 7¼" x 9½"
- Ian Allan Publishing
- ISBN-10 0711000697
- ISBN-13 9780711000698
- Pre-Owned, dust jacket and book are in excellent condition, with a slight fade to the spine
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