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Stewaet Brown Kevin McCormack
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Kevin's latest full colour photo album for us covers the period
from 1960 to 1999. Looking at the London bus in its environment,
the book includes over 150 good quality photographs from various
archives with informative captions. All but a handful are
previously unpublished.
The original Great Western Railway was the longest-lived mainline
railway company in Great Britain and has attracted generations of
admirers over its 112 years of existence. The reasons are manifold
- for example, the unparalleled civil engineering feats of Brunel,
the handsome locomotives with their copper-capped chimneys and
brass safety valve bonnets and nameplates coupled with their
superior efficiency and performance designed some 25 years in
advance of rival companies and its attractive holiday/leisure
destinations such as London, Bath, the Thames Valley, Cotswolds,
Cambrian Coast and West Country. It was a much-loved railway
company with its own individuality, determined to be different from
the others. The result was a unique style which this book aims to
portray.
In the same format as our Sixties and Seventies albums, this new
paperback by Kevin McCormack covers Country Buses in Lincoln green
in those two decades. Over 100 photos show the different types then
in service with London Transport and London Country.
This book is a gallery of more than two hundred photographs,
including a colour section, featuring a selection of Great Western
Railway/British Railways (Western) branch lines and similar
services taken between 1900 and 1965\. The emphasis is pictorial
rather than factual with the aim of using photographs provided by
two transport charities as well as the author, all of which are
unlikely to have appeared previously in print or on the Internet.
Generally, images depict working trains surrounded by recognisable
infrastructure, often with station nameboards visible. Such
pictures should be of particular interest to railway modellers as
well as invoking nostalgia for the older generation who were
pursuing their hobby around the time the pictures were taken. Most
of the branch lines covered were victims of the 1960s "Beeching
Axe", with closure to passengers or complete closure coming even
earlier in some cases. Most of the services depicted are steam
operated although a few GWR and BR diesel railcars/multiple units
are included. All the scenes seem to reflect a more leisurely way
of life than exists today.
This is a colour album of London Buses concentrating mainly on the
1970s which was the first decade since London Transport's inception
in 1933 to feature a large number of buses on London streets which
were not painted in the mainly all-red (or in a few cases,
all-green) livery with which people are familiar. Vehicles in the
traditional London liveries have not been ignored but many of the
pictures depict this remarkably colourful era and often against the
backdrop of famous or historically interesting landmarks which the
author has been able to describe. As far as is known, none of the
photographs has been published before, and the vast majority were
taken by one photographer, sadly now deceased, who had the
foresight to compose his picture well. The author is a well-known
London Bus enthusiast and this is his 34th transport book and
second for Pen & Sword.
The picture below of a Castle class locomotive, since preserved,
illustrates Kevin McCormack's first love: the Great Western Railway
and the Western Region of British Railways. Living almost all his
childhood on the Western in Ealing, it was perhaps inevitable that
this was his favourite region, and he came to admire the
copper-capped chimneys, brass safety value covers and brass
nameplates and cabside number plates of its larger locomotives as
well as the tall chimneys and large domes of its characteristic
smaller engines. He had a particular liking for the diminutive 14XX
0-4-2 tanks that used to work the Ealing Broadway-Greenford push
and pull services and when a fund was set up to preserve one, Kevin
was quick to add his support, joining what became the Great Western
Society and becoming its secretary in the late 1960s/early 1970s.
In 1973, Kevin cemented his interest in the GWR by acquiring a
Victorian family saloon railway carriage, which had been converted
into a Thameside bungalow. Remarkably, the coach was largely
original inside and the exterior well preserved as it was virtually
encased within the house.Restoration has therefore been a
comparatively easy task and the vehicle is displayed at the Great
Western Society's base at the Didcot Railway Centre.
London Transport was formed in 1933 to bring together all the
public transport operations (except national railways) that served
the capital, the suburbs and the surrounding countryside.
Previously, these had been in the hands of a myriad of operators,
some more dependable than others. Containing some 120 colour
photographs, including rare images from the postwar period, and
detailed captions, this album shows the transition from prewar
standards, which initially continued after the Second World War, to
the modernisation that was essential to encourage continued use of
London's transport systems by the public in the face of increasing
car ownership. Rekindling memories of the postwar period, this
nostalgic colour portrait looks at London Transport's buses,
trolleybuses, trams and underground trains (both surface and tube
stock) operating between 1949 and 1974.
In the 1950s and 1960s the railway system in Ireland became a
magnet for enthusiasts from Great Britain who realised that, as on
the mainland, a way of life was fast disappearing as diesel
traction replaced steam and the size of the rail network across
Ireland was shrinking. Much of the interest stemmed from the
similarity with the railways in Great Britain. Also, the existence
of several narrow gauge systems, two railway-owned tramways and
some cross-border operators added to the fascination. This album
covers those main line and narrow gauge railways in Northern
Ireland and the Republic of Ireland during the 1950s and 1960s,
which were photographed in colour and the images used are believed
never to have appeared in print before. Although most of the
pictures depict individual locomotives or ones hauling trains, the
opportunity has been taken to show some of the railway
infrastructure of the period as well, since this is of particular
interest to railway modellers. There has been a very active
preservation movement in Ireland over the years, with many
wonderful steam-hauled rail tours being operated that continue to
this day, however this book will focus on the normal every day
operations.
A compilation of articles and cases studies covering 15 years of
research and application of the business process orientation and
maturity theory.
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