Mixed Gauges - Hardcover

Snell, John Bernard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0954713168 ISBN 13: 9780954713164

Publisher: Camden Miniature Steam Services, 2007

Synopsis

John Snell was with Tom Rolt and David Curwen when they opened the doors of Pendre Shed at Towyn in April 1951, starting the worldwide preservation movement, and he retired in 1999 after 28 years as General Manager of the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway. Between times he has always been actively involved with railways on many fronts, including writing or contributing to numerous books on railways; his only novel, published in 1958, must be the only family saga set against the background of a Welsh narrow gauge railway - see Jennie. John has travelled widely, always with camera to hand. What is surprising is that very few examples of his photography have been published before and, as is very evident here, he is fully the equal of the well known photographers from the 1950s on - Derek Cross, W. V. Anderson, Eric Treacy, Marc Dahlstom, Felix Fenino et al., although he was perhaps a more enthusiastic, and earlier, user of colour than most. If you were into railways, home and 'abroad', from the 1950s to the mid 1970s in particular, this is incredibly nostalgic and will bring the memories flooding back. If you are too young, just see what you missed! Not that this book stops in the 70s - it continues much later in South America, and South Africa in particular.

About this edition

• Publisher: Camden Miniature Steam Services
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0954713168
• ISBN 13: 9780954713164
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256