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Indlæser... London Midland Then and Nowaf Gavin Morrison
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With its remarkable photographic coverage London Midland Then & Now provides the reader with a fascinating portrait of the railways in an age of change. No library descriptions found. |
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Many pictures come from the north of England, close to the author's home in south Yorkshire; and many of those pictures show the greatest impact of the changes to British industry and society. "Then" pictures mainly cover a span from the 1930s to the 1960s, but a couple of them are later - into the 1970s or even 1980s - where the changes were noticeable in a short time. In a few instances, the landscape "now" shows no sign that there had ever been a railway in that location, or indeed anywhere within a couple of miles radius!
Of more concern is the standard of proofreading; and worse, a number of unchecked factual inaccuracies which leapt out at me, as some of the stations that survived into the 1970s came under the unrelenting gaze of my own camera. So I could say that what the author identified as a footbridge at Sheffield Midland was almost certainly a dedicated bridge for parcels barrows; and I have to remark that I find it hard to believe that the station building at Maryport in Cumbria, which incorporated the offices of the Maryport & Carlisle Railway Company, were demolished in 1960, as stated, when I managed to photograph them sometime between 1972 and 1978! I don't recollect coming into possession of a time machine back then, and if I did I must have forgotten where I put it...
Still, these points aside, the book is still of great interest. It would be worth finding a copy on the second-hand market as its coverage is fairly broad; and the reproduction is worthy of the material.