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Western Region Rail Scene: 1970s–1980s

Garry Stroud
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History of Engineering & Technology
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Railways
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781398125216
  • Weight: 309g
  • Dimensions: 165 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Oct 2025
  • Publisher: Amberley Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

The Western Region of today is not without its modern followers, but four to five decades ago it was a very different story. Passenger services were locomotive-hauled, hydraulic traction was beginning to be phased out and freight traffic was in abundance. In addition, the first new generation of HSTs was beginning to appear on front-line services. The 1970s and 1980s really were two decades of variety.

Garry Stroud presents a fascinating selection of images covering the whole region, from Paddington to Penzance, West and South Wales and north to Worcester and Hereford. These images offer a nostalgic look back to a past era when semaphore signals controlled the line and hydraulic power was giving way to diesel electric traction, first-generation DMUs were the order of the day on branch-line services and diesel depots had a variety of locomotive action.
About Garry Stroud
Garry Stroud has been involved in railway photography for over fifty years. He has had numerous images and magazine articles printed in the railway press during this time and taken over 10,000 images from the north of Scotland to Cornwall and is still capturing the modern railway scene today.

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