{"title":"Books by Kevin McCormack","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781399098717","title":"Great Western Branch Line Gallery","description":"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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56298716037493,"sku":"9781399098717","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781399098717_57c8632a-088b-4bc4-94e9-0e7e83a29478.jpg?v=1786020026"},{"product_id":"9781800352827","title":"Railways Remembered -the Western Region 1962-1972","description":"Blake Paterson was both a career railwayman and a railway enthusiast who worked for the Western Region, based at Paddington and Reading. He was also a passionate and very accomplished photographer. Aware of the great changes to the railway network which were underway, even before the publication of Dr Beeching's notorious report, he resolved to record as much of the changing railway scene, as was possible.To do this, he set himself demanding schedules and would often travel great distances, sometimes using overnight trains, to reach the more remote corners of the network. During this intense period of photographic activity he took thousands of images, normally only taking a photo when the sun was shining and aiming to capture the trains in picturesque settings. He sought innovative angles and unlike many railway photographers of the era, he made a particular point of including people, particularly railway employees, in his photographs. It is believed that none of the images in this volume have been previously published.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307028328821,"sku":"9781800352827","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781800352827_4c860a64-a850-4bb5-a79e-851256c4237d.jpg?v=1786026595"},{"product_id":"9781800353497","title":"Railways Remembered: Southern England 1962-1972","description":"This is the second book in Crecy's new Railways Remembered series to draw on the work of Blake Paterson who was a career railwayman, a railway enthusiast and an accomplished photographer. At the time these photos were taken, he was working for the Western Region and aware of the great changes to the railway network which were underway. Even before the publication of Dr Beeching's notorious report, he resolved to record in colour as much of the changing railway scene as was possible. He sought innovative angles, and unlike many railway photographers of the era made a particular point of including people, particularly railway employees, in his photos.This photographic journey starts in Kent in the east of the region and travels westwards. The photos have been broadly organised according to the territories of the pre-grouping constituents of the Southern Railway, and latterly BR's Southern Region, starting with the South Eastern \u0026amp; Chatham Railway (SECR), then the London, Brighton \u0026amp; South Coast Railway (LBSCR), and finally the London South Western Railway (LSWR). Interspersed with these companies is coverage of the Isle of Wight railways, whose services were being operated by several small railway companies prior to absorption by the SR.To our knowledge, few if any of these photos have been previously published and they will take those reading this book back to an era which, while well within living memory, depicts a railway environment that has radically changed in subsequent decades.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368163225973,"sku":"9781800353497","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781800353497_8f760ccb-0f6a-4f36-af5d-ce7658608013.jpg?v=1786026647"},{"product_id":"railways-remembered-britain-s-railways-in-unseen-colour-1956-1963-photographs-from-the-phil-tatt-collection","title":"Railways Remembered: Britain’s Railways in Unseen Colour 1956-1963","description":"The latest title in our 'Railways Remembered' series draws upon the work of the distinguished photographer, Phil Tatt, who, for decades, together with his wife Eileen, travelled widely across the British Isles recording all forms of transport especially railways. After starting in the late 1940s with black and white film, Phil progressed to colour in the mid-1950s. He was fascinated by both mainline and branch line steam. He also covered miniature and industrial railways as well as early preservation schemes especially in North Wales, a favourite line being the Welshpool \u0026amp; Llanfair, which he covered in its final days of BR operation and early preservation. While an active transport photographer long before the publication of Beeching's notorious report on the future of the rail network, Phil resolved to record as much of the passing railway scene as possible. He visited locomotive works, loco sheds, goods sidings and remote stations and made detailed photographic studies of many lines listed for closure, recording both their passenger and goods operations. He also had a keen eye for the unusual and for detail, many of the aspects of the railway scene he recorded will be of interest to today's railway modellers.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507649782133,"sku":"9781800353657","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781800353657.jpg?v=1787042659"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-kevin-mccormack.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}