Nearly sixty years have passed since the Beeching Axe began to fall on thousands of miles of track in the United Kingdom’s railway network. Heritage railways emerged from this, and in this book Simon Elson explores those in the Midlands. Here, the author rides the lines in the carriages and on footplates, catalogues the engines and rolling stock and goes into the history of specific engines of significant interest. He studies and photographs the history and architecture of the stations and engine sheds that have been preserved or rebuilt in period, and personal stories are shared by the people who bring the past to life for us all to enjoy.

Marius Glauer focuses his attention on the borderline between photography and sculpture. With his sculptural-based photography, he traverses the entire material and discursive range of what can be considered photography today. Glauer's camera takes an intimate and revealing look at his protagonists: glittering surfaces, objets trouves and flowers become hyperreal actors or monumental facades. As expansive, three-dimensional assemblages, his works simultaneously question the translatability of the world into the two-dimensional medium of photography. This monograph is the first to provide detailed insights into the artist's experimental oeuvre and presents the groups of works he produced over the course of the last decade. Concise texts accompany and position his oeuvre in the social and art-historical discourse. Texts by Clara Brender, Simon Elson, Christian Ganzenberg, Lydia Korndoerfer, Josephine Pryde, Gernot Seeliger, Stephen A. Worsley, Diandra Donecker, Marius Glauer