This combines two things I love. Trains and microhistories. This is exactly that - a collection of pictures of locomotives from Great Britain from the late 30s to the 50s or so. It's a personal collection, and by being personal we generally get a context for the pictures and a bit of story around it. Some pictures are special because of that - pictures taken in a special context, and a nice story about a picture taken with two celebrities (I personally didn't hear about them, but I'll take the author's word for it).

The best thing are the pictures - and there's a lot of them. I was reading the book in the Netgalley PDF reading application, and the images are a bit blurry. Some pictures are a bit blurry „by design”, but I would expect that. The materials are fascinating, and there are a few interesting stories attached, including the making of blueprints in the late 30s.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Pen & Sword who offered an ARC of this book for an honest review.