THIS publicationwouldhavemade an ideal Christmas present, for it’s an absolute cracker, writes Geoff Courtney.
Within its pages are 180 superb and imaginative images of the 1950s and early 1960s by a master photographer, admirably supported by informative captions that are stories in their own right and not merely just an adjunct to each illustration.
The author of the captions is Leslie Price, who was born into a railway family in Shrewsbury in 1945 and spent his early days in a house that backed onto the main line to Crewe. “I went to sleep listening to the sound of a Princess Coronation Pacific pounding up the 1-in-124 climb to Harlescott crossing with the heavy overnight‘York Mail’,”he said.
His father was an LMS goods guard and in the 1950s a passenger guard at Shrewsbury, in which role he was
