THE author is a well known photographer who here gets to showcase some of his work featuring modern traction from the early 1960s through to the latter years of British Rail in the 1990s.
It is displayed in the standard Amberley format of two pictures per page, adding up to a photographic survey of the changing scene over the years, mostly of the BR Blue era but also covering Sectorisation.
The captions are detailed and provide information on the train in the picture but also in many cases the history of the locomotive featured.The area covered ranges from northern Derbyshire and Cheshire, throughYorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria, and up to the Scottish border.