The Railway Vanishes. An Appreciation of a Lost Era

Great Britain: Silver Link Publishing Ltd. Fine/Near Fine. 1993. Reprint. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto 0947971955 Hardcover Hardcover. The Railway Vanishes. Price clipped to D/J. Today's railways may be clean, fast and efficient, but what of the unique character and aura, the pride, the craftsmanship, the inherited skills of the steam railway and the thousands of men and women who kept the wheels turning? Happily they live on through the photographs of H. G. Forsythe, who, between 1955 and 1965, was lucky and privileged enough to be able to record on film many of the chores and practises that were then an everyday part of a steam railwayman's life but were soon to pass into history. For this booki he has selected 225 photographs that provide a fascinating behind-the-scenes portrait of that lost era - locos being prepared for the road; the life and lore of the shed; riding ion the footplate; trains by night; water troughs; signals and signalmen. All in all it is a feast of Steam Age images, once commonlace but now all but vanished. Illustrated. 128 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .