Seventy years of railway photography
Subtitle: seven decades behind the lens
By: Colin Boocock
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781526700124
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Photography of railroads; Railroads; Locomotives; Pictorial works
Other titles: 70 years of railway photography
Work titles: Photographs
Description: "Colin Boococks' railway photographs are already familiar as they have been featured in a variety of railway books and magazines. This book shows around 300 of his favourite images that illustrate the many different aspects of railway photography. The key seven chapters in this book each cover one decade from the 1940s up to the present day. Not only do they display the early improvement in his photography as he gained experience, they also bring into focus how much railways have changed over the last seventy years"--
Table of contents: title: The 1940s: beginnings; title: The 1950s: steam's post-war heyday; title: The 1960s: diesel's rise and steam's decline; title: The 1970s: faster trains, industrial steam, and tourist railways; title: The 1980s: BR progress, UK and continental railway preservation; title: The 1990s: towards privatisation, the wider search for working steam; title: The 2000s: modern trains and working steam the world over; title: The 2010s: UK railways at their busiest.