Title: | Railways in Profile series (17 books) |
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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) |
Sample pages: | (Click on any image to view full-sized in a new window)
The first book I encountered was volume 10, published in 2000 and covering a variety of private owner types
Most pages have 2 (or 3) monochrome photos with detailed captions
Number 7 in the series covered Engineers wagons and was published in 1998
Some rare types are featured, such as this Pilchard.
Appearing in 1999, book number 9 was the first to cover private owner wagons
Most books in the series featured a few pages of colour photos
Private owner tank wagons were the subject of book number 14 in 2001
Several of the books cover a wide time period, as seen by these two tank wagons |
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