London Midland Steam: The Railway Photographs of R.J. (Ron) Buckley - Softcover

Beginning in 1936, just two years after Ron Buckley started what was to be almost half a decade working for the railways, London Midland Steam shows the changes in locomotive power taking place throughout the London Midland and Scottish Railway and its successor, the London Midland Region of British Railways. The photographs show the design work of Samuel Johnson, Henry Fowler, John Aspinall, George Hughes and William Stanier, featuring celebrated locomotives such as Fowler's three-cylinder `Royal Scot' class and Stanier's impressive `Princess Royal' and `Princess Coronation' classes, as well as the `Black Five' and `Jubilee' classes. With previously unpublished images from Buckley's archive and expert captions from Brian Dickson, London Midland Steam is a unique look at the glory days of steam.

Brian Dickson worked in printing and publishing for thirty-five years before retiring in 2000. Since retiring he has become a railway author and volunteer fireman and driver at a heritage railway. Born in 1917, Ron Buckley has been photographing railways since the age of 15. He joined the LM&SR as a wages clerk in 1934 and retired in 1977 after over forty-two years' service with the railways. London Midland Steam is their sixth book in a series documenting the much-missed steam railways of Great Britain.