Ron Buckley's evocative photographs reveal the story of steam in the East Midlands & East Anglia.
These included the work of such well known designers as Wilson Wordsell and Vincent Raven of the North Eastern railway, John Aspinall of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway and Samuel Johnson and Henry Fowler of the Midland Railway.
At the nationalisation of Britian’s railways in 1948, the railways in the north-east of England had been placed within the North Eastern Region of British Railways, and had been given a distinctive orange corporate colour.
Stunning photographs reveal the progression of early diesel power
Fortunately many of these intrepid souls carried cameras to record the locos and together with their Scottish counterparts were, by the early 1960s, witnessing rows of these veterans at sheds and dumps across Scotland awaiting the scrapyard.
Showcasing this stunning collection of photographs taken on visits to Scotland nearly every year between 1948 and 1966
Showcasing the changing scene of locomotive power across the former LNER territories from Newcastle to North London
Colour photographs from three skilled photographers present the final years of steam