Steam in Scotland

Kevin McCormack has written a large number of transport books mainly using previously unpublished material, much of it sourced from the Online Transport Archive. This, his latest colour album, covers the railways of Scotland in steam days and concentrates as much as possible on depicting older types of locomotives. Consequently, this volume contains a large amount of rare 1950s colour images, often depicting areas of the Scottish railway system that were later closed or cut back during the Beeching era. The pictures in this book, were taken by enthusiasts who had the good fortune to be able to afford colour film, at a time when such luxuries, were very expensive, to the average enthusiast. All the photographers concerned, travelled far and wide in Scotland with their cameras, at a time, just before most of the lines closed, between 1953-1967\. The result of all this effort, is a fine collection of very rare images, depicting a lost period of railway operation, in a beautiful and picturesque part of Britain.

About the Author: Kevin McCormack is a life-long transport enthusiast whose interest began with collecting numbers of steam engines, London buses and civil aircraft. Always more interested in the old rather than the new, Kevin was also an enthusiastic photographer at a young age and then gravitated into the world of preservation, starting with an Austin Seven car purchased for £5 in 1965, which he still drives today. Kevin’s is a regular steward at the London Bus Museum at Brooklands and a director of the Online Transport Archive, a repository for transport films and photographs donated or bequeathed to it. In 1992, Kevin produced his first book containing colour photographs from his collection, never expecting to become a prolific author.