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Southern Electrics Palmer, Roger

Southern Electrics By Palmer, Roger

Southern Electrics by Palmer, Roger


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in some 196 previously unpublished colour photographs, this is the history of Southern Electric types.

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Southern Electrics: The Second Generation by Palmer, Roger

The Southern Electric system was a self contained, roughly triangular area of lines with its apex in London and its base running along the south coast from Kent to Weymouth. It also made a couple of forays into Middlesex. Here, in some 196 previously unpublished colour photographs, is shown not only the variety of unit types that were around during the first twenty years since railway privatisation, but also the fact that on some services, Southern Electric types have penetrated the Home Counties whilst others have migrated to join their ranks.

About Palmer, Roger

Roger Palmer has no idea of what stimulated his interest in railways. His earliest recollections are of seeing blue Duchesses flashing past a gap in the houses at the end of the street where he lived and of the first two engines he "officially spotted" when he started collecting train numbers and duly underlining his sightings in his Ian Allan ABC. His parents gave him a Brownie Cresta camera when he was 14 and two years later, when he had started full time work he bought a 35mm Agfa Silette which itself was replaced by an SLR Pentax some ten years later. From the 1970s he travelled extensively over the British rail system accumulating photographs all the while and for a brief period from the mid-1990s he wrote book reviews for the magazine British Railway Modelling. In 2006 his first book Southern Electric Slam Door Stock - The Final Years was published. His photographic activities continue, and whilst highly sceptical about rail privatisation, believes that the post-Nationalised railway will be a golden era for railway historians of the future as train operating company's franchises come and go and the units themselves are in a constant state of flux due to changes in liveries and various upgrades and refurbishments.

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GOR013347863
9781526711946
152671194X
Southern Electrics: The Second Generation by Palmer, Roger
Used - Like New
Hardback
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
2019-02-13
180
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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