'Stations and Lineside Views in and Around London' features
photographs taken by retired British Medical Council
researcher/author Dr B. W. L. Brooksbank and captions by railway
author Peter Tuffrey. The photographs span the last years of steam
traction c. 1946 to c.1962 and the book uses the M25 motorway as a
parameter to define the London area. All the capital's main line
railway stations belonging to the four former constituent railway
companies are featured. Over 3,000 negatives were scanned while
only approximately 250 photographs have been selected for inclusion
to maintain a very high standard and give a real indication of this
last gasp of steam. It is remarkable that when good photographic
materials were painfully scarce after the Second World Wat that Ben
Brooksbank was able to achieve some exceptional results from
limited resources. Some of his images from the late 1940s are not
only pin sharp but exude an almost palpable atmosphere of Britain's
run-down post-war railways. He has captured freight trains,
expresses and local trains along with staff carrying out their
mundane duties or blatantly hanging off a locomotive cab eager to
be caught on camera forever.Ben has photographed many of the
railway stations in a dilapidated condition before massive
renovation work.
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