Steam in South Wales
Click on the image to enlargeA beautiful colour pictorial record portraying steam operation in South Wales from the late 1950s through to the mid-1960s. Of all the parts of the United Kingdom, South Wales was perhaps the most fiercely competitive area for the railway industry as national companies, the Great Western, the Midland and the London & North Western, and local concerns, including the Neath & Brecon and the Taff Vale, all sought to try and gain a share of the vast traffic generated annually by the coal mines of the valleys. The result of the competition was that a complex network of competing lines was constructed, often running parallel on opposite sides of the great valleys.
Packed with over 90 beautiful colour photographs by notable photographer Alan Jarvis this colourful new volume is a must-have read for all those who wish to recapture the beauty of these long lost lines and reflect on this important era in Welsh railway history.
"Beautifully designed with pictures set out two to a spread...The photographs are well composed and one gets that important sense of place when looking at them and there are plenty of useful references for modellers of the railway scene in South Wales when there was still steam-a-plenty." British Railway Modelling
