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Although regular steam workings
survived on Gloucestershire's railways until 1966, many of the
county's best-loved lines and services had already disappeared from
the timetables. Fortunately, the excellent scenery found on lines in
the county meant that railway photographers were keen to record
steam trains here before they passed into history.
Some parts were quite extensively
photographed - around Chipping Campden on the Worcester to Oxford
line; the auto-train workings in the Stroud Valley; around the
Gloucester stations; the ex-Midland Railway Bristol - Birmingham
main line, while lines with sparse services, such as in the Forest
of Dean, were less well recorded in colour, but this book does
manage to include rarely photographed locations. |
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A good number of contributors
have ensured that there is a very worthwhile selection of evocative
pictures of the final years of steam in Gloucestershire.
The author lives in Cheltenham
and wrote about the steam era in his well received book, Steam
Routes Around Cheltenham.
Softback, 210 x 200 mm, 72 pages,
82 full colour photos |
