Paul Atterbury Books

"Paul Atterbury's Railway Collection" is a delightfully nostalgic selection of photographs, postcards and printed ephemera from the author's private library--living records that bring the golden age of train travel back to life.Taking a trip down memory lane, Paul Atterbury charts his lifelong fascination with railways and recalls his favourite journeys, stations and trains.This personal miscellany explores the length and breadth of Britain from the 1950s to the present day, highlighting aspects of railway life that particularly interested, excited, or amused the author.In this fresh and fascinating collection of railway nostalgia--hundreds of images never published before--Paul Atterbury shares his enjoyment of the wonderful visual legacy of Britain's railway past.

Featuring a mix of railway and social history, this work features tiny rural stations and halts as well as those that serve bustling market towns and big cities. A variety of feature spreads include: stations and animals, great disasters, station clocks, and more.

Takes a nostalgic look at the world of British railways. Focusing on the human experience of the railways - the drivers, firemen, guards, station staff, signalmen, engineers, caterers and, of course, passengers - this book features photographs of steam trains, other locomotives, memorabilia and evocative railway ephemera.

Featuring a mix of railway and social history, this work features tiny rural stations and halts as well as those that serve bustling market towns and big cities. A variety of feature spreads stations and animals, great disasters, station clocks, and more.

The first in a series of highly illustrated books that take a nostalgic look at life in 20th-century Britain through amateur photographs, ephemera, and postcards, 'On Holiday' visually explores where people stayed, what they wore, where they went, how they got there, and what they did. Using predominantly amateur photographs from family albums alongside postcards, publicity material, and a range of ephemera from the Edwardian era to the 1970s, this feast of nostalgia offers a delightfully evocative snapshot of holiday life in 20th-century Britain.NB: Despite the dust wrapper and cover of the book stating 'On Holiday', the title page reads 'The Way We Were On Holiday' and that is how it is catalogued.

In this book Paul Atterbury sets out in search of old steam lines and investigates their history and vanishing heritage. The book contains detailed route maps and railway routes of yesteryear.

The most intriguing and least known of Britain's railways are the minor lines: rural routes and branch lines - some still active if little-used, others long since lost, industrial and docks lines, narrow gauge and miniature lines. This title focuses on these minor railways, once vital to the commercial and social life of Britain but now abandoned.

Two Thames experts follow the course of the river the 215 miles from Thames Head near Cirencester to the open sea photographing and recording the river in all its moods and seasons.

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