British Rail Northern Scene : A 1970s Railway Album

by Sparks, Andy

• ISBN13: 9780750942584
• ISBN10: 0750942584
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-24
• Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd

Summary

In the 1970s, Andy Sparks was an avid train-spotter and keen photographer. As he travelled around England, primarily the northwest, he realised that vestiges of the steam age remained all over the network, even though it was now well and truly over. His camera captured day-to- day life on the railways. Virtually all of these photographs have never been published before: only recently have the films been rediscovered and printed. These eye-catching images of a changing railway will enthral any enthusiast, who lived through this period, and show how thoroughly stations, track, motive power and working practices have been modernised in the last thirty years.

Author Biography

Andy Sparks is a lifetime railway enthusiast. After leaving school at the age of 16 he spent over twenty years in heavy engineering, but retrained recently as a chartered surveyor. He has had a number of articles published in the railway press, but this is his first book. Andy lives in Manchester.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. v
Station to Station	p. 1
Loco-hauled	p. 33
Units	p. 61
On Shed	p. 85
Freight	p. 101
Safety First	p. 121
The Enthusiast	p. 141
Buffer Stop	p. 154
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