Description

Each issue included a colour frontispiece of the railway’s crest, a full page colour print of one of the company’s passenger carriages, and a stunning double page spread of a locomotive. In this case McIntosh’s 4-6-0  “Cardean” in the beautiful Caledonian blue livery. All three colour plates in this issue are of Caledonian subjects It seems that having committed to 12 issues, some of the smaller railways had to be combined into one issue.  Apart from this one, the Great Central and Lancashire and Yorkshire shared an issue, as did the North British, the Highland and the Great North of Scotland.  “Our Home Railways” was also published as a two volume set, but these, and two modern single volume reprints were less than satisfactory, in that for production reasons, the colour plates had to be “grouped” together, divorced from the text relating to their railways. One of the modern reprints even produced the colour plates in black & white… The original part work issues are worth having for the equality of  colour plates alone!

All the other issues of “Our Home Railways” will be available soon. Check in SEARCH PRODUCTS box.