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Railways Remembered: BR Traction Green to Blue 19591984 Photographs from the Derek Cross Collection

Judging by the growing numbers attending modern traction themed events at heritage railways across the country, whilst the appeal of steam still endures and probably will never diminish, for many railway enthusiasts, that first generation of modern traction on British Railways, is clearly the focus of their interest. This is the first volume in our ''Railways Remembered'' colour series to concentrate on diesel and electric traction and there was no better photographer in whose company to do this than the late Derek Cross. He was using colour photography from the 1950s onwards and recognised rather than ignored the new types of motive power coming into service. That combined with his technical and compositional expertise produced the many stunning images in these pages. He also lived in sev

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