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LMS Carriages Album, Volume 1
Images from G Kichenside
Price range: £12.50 through £13.50
In the Fifties and Sixties when most railway photographers were focussing their cameras on locomotives, Geoffrey Kichenside was one of that small group who also turned their lenses to the coaching stock. It was a time of great variety. The war had meant that many carriages remained in service long past their use-by date. The backlog of repair and replacement had started slowly, with many being built to the existing company designs. Then the new BR standard coaches (later known as Mark 1) started appearing in great numbers. However, much pre-grouping and pre-nationalisation hauled passenger stock survived in service until the end of the 1960s.
Geoffrey Kichenside’s coach photographs can now be found in the photographic archive at Transport Treasury. Hugh Longworth has been delving into these archives to produce a number of albums that bring to light some of the vast variety of coaching stock. This first one covers the LMS stock in BR service. Each photograph is accompanied by a diagram showing the layout of the carriage, highlighting the wide variety of designs to be found.
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Additional information
| Weight | 540 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 24 × 18.5 cm |
| Pages | 80 |
| Cover Choice | Hardback, ebook |
| Illustrations | 77 |
| Format | Landscape |
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In the Fifties and Sixties when most railway photographers were focussing their cameras on locomotives, Geoffrey Kichenside was one of that small group who also turned their lenses to the coaching stock. It was a time of great variety. The war had meant that many carriages remained in service long past their use-by date. The backlog of repair and replacement had started slowly, with many being built to the existing company designs. Then the new BR standard coaches (later known as Mark 1) started appearing in great numbers. However, much pre-grouping and pre-nationalisation hauled passenger stock survived in service until the end of the 1960s.
Geoffrey Kichenside’s coach photographs can now be found in the photographic archive at Transport Treasury. Hugh Longworth has been delving into these archives to produce a number of albums that bring to light some of the vast variety of coaching stock. This first one covers the LMS stock in BR service. Each photograph is accompanied by a diagram showing the layout of the carriage, highlighting the wide variety of designs to be found.
1 review for LMS Carriages Album, Volume 1
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I saw the release of this book mentioned in a posting on RMweb and it sounded right up my street. Order duly placed.
This is a nicely produced hardback book of 80 very well reproduced monochrome images. Most pages feature a single coach with line drawings (elevation and plan) and a caption. The drawings are small, but they are sharp and some might benefit from a magnifying glass to read all the detail.
The captions are informative with regard to the vehicle history and include the date the photograph was taken. The location is not always noted, which is a shame because it adds context. Perhaps Geoff Kitchenside did not always record it?
The book is an exercise in nostalgia for me, as I grew up in Hemel Hempstead during the sixties, and I well remember seeing many of these coaches in service.
I shall certainly be buying all the future volumes of this series. We should be very grateful that these priceless images are now in the care of the Transport Treasury and have been made available in this form by Hugh Longworth.
I should mention that I think the price of the book is extremely reasonable given the high production standards.
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Additional information
| Weight | 540 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 24 × 18.5 cm |
| Pages | 80 |
| Cover Choice | Hardback, ebook |
| Illustrations | 77 |
| Format | Landscape |
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nick-morris –
I saw the release of this book mentioned in a posting on RMweb and it sounded right up my street. Order duly placed.
This is a nicely produced hardback book of 80 very well reproduced monochrome images. Most pages feature a single coach with line drawings (elevation and plan) and a caption. The drawings are small, but they are sharp and some might benefit from a magnifying glass to read all the detail.
The captions are informative with regard to the vehicle history and include the date the photograph was taken. The location is not always noted, which is a shame because it adds context. Perhaps Geoff Kitchenside did not always record it?
The book is an exercise in nostalgia for me, as I grew up in Hemel Hempstead during the sixties, and I well remember seeing many of these coaches in service.
I shall certainly be buying all the future volumes of this series. We should be very grateful that these priceless images are now in the care of the Transport Treasury and have been made available in this form by Hugh Longworth.
I should mention that I think the price of the book is extremely reasonable given the high production standards.