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London Local Trains in the 1950s and 1960s by Kevin McCormack (Hardcover, 2016)
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Author Biography Kevin McCormack is a life-long transport enthusiast whose interest began with collecting numbers of steam engines, London buses and civil aircraft. Kevin's is a regular steward at the London Bus Museum at Brooklands and a director of the Online Transport Archive, a repository for transport films and photographs donated or bequeathed to it.
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The Castle class locomotive 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. AUTHOR: Kevin McCormack is a life-long transport enthusiast whose interest began with collecting numbers of steam engines, London buses and civil aircraft. Always more interested in the old rather than the new, Kevin was also an enthusiastic photographer at a young age and then gravitated into the world of preservation, starting with an Austin Seven car purchased for GBP5 in 1965 which he still drives today. Kevin's is a regular steward at the London Bus Museum at Brooklands and a director of the Online Transport Archive, a repository for transport films and photographs donated or bequeathed to it. In 1992, Kevin produced his first book containing colour photographs from his collection, never expecting to become a prolific author this will be his 33rd book 200 colour illustrationsProduct Identifiers
PublisherPen & Sword Books LTD
ISBN-139781473827219
eBay Product ID (ePID)223815956
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Book TitleLondon Local Trains in the 1950s and 1960s
AuthorKevin Mccormack
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicLocal History, Railway
Publication Year2016
Number of Pages168 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height189mm
Item Width246mm
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Title_AuthorKevin Mccormack
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 22 Oct, 2023
A compact book with some great colour photos.
A great book with some fantastic snapshots of London's suburban railway history of the 1950s and early 1960s all in full colour. I have always been a fan of the photography work and collections of the late Marcus Eavis.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 24 Nov, 2021
Rail Book
Very informative book and a fair price . No problems .Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
