Modelling Reference, Operations

Nick Jardine    [Publisher:  Ian Allan  2002]    Softback    80 pages

A really interesting collection of all colour views of railway stations, taken in the pre 1970s modernisation era on BR. The whole of England and Scotland are well covered and the selection is biased towards locations on secondary and branch lines, especially those which have since been demolished. The images are very well chosen, depicting many locations and scenes which one rarely sees in print, and the North of England and Scotland are particularly well covered. The S&D has its own little section and I liked the sequence of views on the Great Central taken during the ghostly post closure DMU partial service. Curiously none of the photos are credited to photographers but come from the author's collection, perhaps he took them all himself? If he did, then his memory is playing tricks on him, "Dockyard Halt west of Plymouth" is clearly Mill Lane halt in Box, Wiltshire - oops!