Looking for another book I have stumbled on some books that are mostly GWR related. As in that store there are no excerpts or comments, I would like to know your thoughts on them.
Focus for me is on branch lines, small layouts, track diagrams, scenery, timeframe 1930ish
GWR related
Author | title |
Alan Bennet | Great Western Lines and Landscapes |
Alan Bennet | Great Western Railway in West Cornwall |
Alan Bennet | Great Western Railway in Mid-Cornwall |
Eric Ilett | Great Western Railway and London, Midland and Scottish Railway Buildings and Structures |
Eric Ilett | Great Western Railway Buildings and Structures |
C. R. Potts | Historical Survey of Selected Great Western Stations |
Adrian. Vaughan | Great Western Signalling |
Adrian Vaughan | Great Western Railway Junction Stations |
G. Gamble | Great Western Stations |
W.A. Tuplin | Great Western Steam |
Keith Beck | West Midland Lines of the Great Western Railway |
Tony Atkins | Great Western Docks & Marine |
B.K. Cooper | Great Western Railway Handbook |
Chris Ellis | Modelling the Great Western Railway |
Chris Leigh | Great Western Railway Country Stations |
Chris Leigh | Great Western Railway Country Stations:2 |
Stephen Williams | Great Western Branch Line Modelling |
Bob Pixton | Great Western Steam in Shakespeare Country |
Colin L. Williams | Great Western Branch Line Steam |
Trevor Booth | Modellers' Guide to the Great Western Railway |
Trevor Booth | Simple Model Railway Layouts |
C.J. Gammell | Great Western Railway Around the Branch Lines |
R.H. Clark | An Historical Survey of Selected Great Western Stations (vol. 1) |
Geoffrey F. Bannister | Great Western Steam off the Beaten Track |
R A COOKE | Track Layout Diagrams of the Great Western Railway and BR (WR) Section 59 |
Does somebody know one of these general books and could comment them?
Author | title |
Dave Frary | How to Build Realistic Model Railroad Scenery |
Matt Coleman | The Model Railroader's Guide to Logging Railroads |
John A. Armstrong | Model Railroad Track Plan Book |
thanks in advance
Hi Alexander
Most of these on your list will be factually based, on the information that they have acquired. Look for objectivity in everything.
History is unfortunately littered with historians who have an angle they prefer. I rarely notice that in the references I use because I try to look at many different references for the same thing.
The GWR is often quite consistent in quality.
I am subscribed to SEMG (southern email group) which has members who can be quite vitriolic in the feelings that one historian has over another, over what is in real terms the most trivial or disagreements.
At the end of the day its only southern green for gods sake. I do get upset about pedantry.
Take care and buy all the references you want! and expect then to differ a little.
Best
Bob
I have seen the scenery book by Dave Frary. He was a bit of a hero to me in the late seventies. In fact my Beal and Castle Eden layout almost started life as an American prototype, influenced by his work.
I would recommend it, even though it is old.
Many of the books you list are generalised historical or pictorial records that aren't much help for modelling.
This is probably as good a list of GWR modelling reference books as you'll find: http://www.gwr.org.uk/nolitt.html (http://www.gwr.org.uk/nolitt.html)