Buy this book on-line NOCK**, O. S - Edited by: : GREAT WESTERN: Pre-Grouping Railway Scene No1UK.SURREY.IAN ALLAN,1975. ISBN 0711005869.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj.
Colour pictorial upper wrap and b/w photographic rear wrap.No nicks or tears and minimal shelf-wear to dw/dj edges.
Contents bright,tight and clean.Grey paper-covered boards with gilt letters to spine/backstrip,plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,96pp includes profuse b/w photographs.
The Rixon Bucknall collection is probably
the most comprehensive single library in existence of photographs of British railways in the colourful days before 1923,when over 100 individual railways were grouped into the big 'Big Four' - LMS, LNER, GWR and SR.Until recently the collection has been private.It is now being opened up for this new series of books,which will eventually provide the most detailed and wide-ranging panorama yet published of British locomotives and trains in what many regard as their
'golden age'.Fittingly this first book in the series is devoted to the Great Western,since of all the old railways it still excites the deepest feelings of nostalgia.The period of the book covers the fascinating transition from Brunel's broad gauge to the standard 4'8.50" gauge.
The photographs have been selected from the Rixon Bucknall collection by the noted
railway author and historian O.S.Nock,who
has also filled in the background of general great Western operation over the years spanned by the book in a series of vivid essays.
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