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Title:Railways in Profile series (17 books) Review image
Author:G Gamble / R Touret and others
Publisher:Cheona Publications
Format:Book
Subject:Wagons
Category:Photos
Spec:60-64 pages, 9in x 7in, card covers, some colour photos
Publication date:1996-2009
Summary:This series uses large, good-quality photographs with informative captions to cover a wide range of railway subjects.
Review:17 books were published in this series up to 2009, the majority of them relating to wagons. Although on the slim side at 60 pages each, the larger format (230mm x 175mm) with generally two photos per page allows a lot of detail to be visible. Photos are mainly black & white with a few colour spreads in later titles. The range of subjects and the quality of the photographs and reproduction are all excellent, while the extended captions give a lot of detail.
Reviewed:20/05/2013 by Thomas Young (Comments made by others can appear in the notes section towards the bottom of this page)
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Page image The first book I encountered was volume 10, published in 2000 and covering a variety of private owner types
Page image Most pages have 2 (or 3) monochrome photos with detailed captions
Page image Number 7 in the series covered Engineers wagons and was published in 1998
Page image Some rare types are featured, such as this Pilchard.
Page image Appearing in 1999, book number 9 was the first to cover private owner wagons
Page image Most books in the series featured a few pages of colour photos
Page image Private owner tank wagons were the subject of book number 14 in 2001
Page image Several of the books cover a wide time period, as seen by these two tank wagons
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