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Little London Transport: Network SouthEast 30th Anniversary Special Edition: Volume 1
£9.50
A collaborative photographic history in model form with a little type and model history added too. This originally started as a project to create a photo book of my model Bus and Railway collection. I then started to seek help from some other model photographers on the photo sharing website Flickr. Before I knew it we had more people on board and an extensive collection was starting to build including some rare types and starting to detail the history of these vehicles types in model form. This is the first book in the series, soon to follow are further editions detailing London’s Buses, Trains, Trams, Trolleybuses and Tubes. As Network SouthEast has always been one of my favourite railway operators I thought I would release a special NSE edition first to celebrate 30 years since it’s inception. NSE was created when I was a small child and the trains were noticeably much more brighter than the grey and blue units that came before and became an obvious choice when I started a model railway a few years ago (to be detailed further in a later book). NSE really was something very different from what had gone before with bright colours of its trains, red all over it’s stations and a real effort to improve its trains and services thanks to the idea created and implemented by Chris Green. This book contains over 90 colour photos with a description displaying Network SouthEast models in a realistic scene with a little history info too. Release history Version 1.0 – 11th October 2016 Version 1.1 – 13th October 2016 Small amendment to details of Dapol and Heljan Class 86 Version 1.2 – 17th October 2016 A further photo of 47401 with a rake of NSE coaches added Version 1.3 – 21st November 2016 13 photos added by Andy Carter and a further 5 photos added by Jonathan Francis
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Additional information
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (6 Oct. 2016) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 98 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1539384861 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1539384861 |
| Dimensions | 21.59 x 0.61 x 27.94 cm |
by jeffery baldwin
What a smashing book for only £9.99. Good size too A4 not the usual small pocket A5 size.
Lots of very interesting NSE model shots, some quite atmospheric.
A true bargain for anybody interested in NSE and/or model railways.
Well Done.
by Alec Ludlow
I can’t remember ever having bought a book of any type that I was so disappointed with.
The idea is to give an outline of the history of the NSE by captioning photographs of the scale models of the various contributors.
There are 21 sections of various locomotives that ran under Network SouthEast livery. The book is only 100 pages long and no few than sixteen are dedicated to 1 model, the class 47. Amazingly 5 of the pages are completely blank with a note to the effect that permission for using photos of models they didn’t jointly own could not be obtained from the manufacturers.
With a couple of notable exceptions the quality of the photographs is mediocre at best. Most lack the definition required to be able to study them meaningfully, being either too dark or lacking sharpness.
I’m very sorry to say that in my view this is an extremely poor value for money publication.
by Steve Thomas
I purchased this book a good few years ago as reference. It is certainly a good nod to Network SouthEast.
It is somewhat lacking in some areas but a good effort by the author.