Brand New Book
From the front inside fly leaf: Now in his eighties, from a boy Maurice Dart has travelled throughout much of Southern Britain armed with a camera, taking photographs of all things railway. His collection, now numbering thousands of images, has been the source of many publications and has been used in countless magazines and journals.
In this book the author includes the earlier types of diesel locos which worked on BR many of which have been withdrawn, leaving survivors in departmental use and in preservation. Others, including class 20s, still operate for companies such as DRS. With the popularity and interest which has developed for certain types of diesels this is a collection of selected classes from the author’s own colour slides and prints taken as he travelled around the country from the early 1970s.
This first volume includes intermediate and earlier main line types along with a few of the Woodhead electrics. In some cases, especially at stations, the book includes 'infrastructure' in the photos which adds interest. Detail shown of some locos may be useful to modellers. This book recalls an era when the types included were a familiar sight and sound on the system.