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A historical reference, supported with much fascinating illustrative material recording the changing shape of the railways in the Midlands from 1970 - 1980. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The pictures are very evocative of an era that has gone and will not return. Today the railway stations are de-humanised. One buys a ticket from a machine or on-line. Everything is focused on efficiency and processing passenger numbers as quickly as possible.
Robert has not only produced a book full of lovely pictures of railway stations, signal boxes, railway bridges, and railway hotels, but has provided informative commentary about the history of the stations and railway companies pictured. He has also used his family experience of using rail transport to highlight the changes that have happened and how reduced the influence of the railway is today.
This is a wonderful book and I have had many hours of enjoyment from browsing through the pages and reading the annotations beside the images. One of the incidental pleasures I felt when looking at the pictures was seeing the old cars from the 70s. That really took me back.
I am not a railway enthusiast, but I still find this book fascinating and I would have been very happy if it had appeared in my Christmas stocking. ( )