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Published by Amberley Publishing www.amberley-books.com
96 pages, B&W/colour, softback. £15.99
Capturing 50 years of railway history pictorially would be a big challenge in almost any part of the UK, but to attempt to cover the whole network around the nation’s capital is certainly ambitious. Inevitably there are compromises, as not every type of working representative of an era/location can be included in less than 100 pages, even with a uniform format of two pictures per page and, unsurprisingly, passenger traffic predominates. However, reproduction quality is good, and the decision to
divide the book into geographic zones, running anticlockwise around central London, starting with the Great Eastern lines, plus separate chapters on orbital routes and the London Underground, is a sensible one. The most contemporary images are a potent reminder of the many types of rolling stock (many of them electric multiple units – see Comment in the September issue) that served the capital, often for lengthy periods, but have now vanished for good.