Amberley Publishing Diesel Books.

[valleymodeller]

I wonder if anyone could help with comments on these two books by Amberley Publishing. I've seen them advertised but only know limited information about them.

 

Britain's Railways in Transitions 1965-1975 by John Evans  &

BR Blue one The 1970s and 1980s by Andrew Cole.

 

Are the photos contained within them in colour? I understand they are paperback publications and also wondered what the quality is like.

 

Unfortunately I've not been able to see them 'live' so could do with a bit of advice before I may purchase.

 

Any help appreciated.

 

Tony

[caradoc]

I have the John Evans book and it is colour throughout; Quality of photos is OK for a small-size paperback, and some are a bit small (where 3 to a page) but the subject matter (for me anyway) is superb and well worth the £14.99 price. 

[valleymodeller]

I have the John Evans book and it is colour throughout; Quality of photos is OK for a small-size paperback, and some are a bit small (where 3 to a page) but the subject matter (for me anyway) is superb and well worth the £14.99 price. 

 

Thanks for letting me know. I think they are now being sold on eBay for about £10.

Edited March 7, 2018 by valleymodeller

[tractionman]

I've looked at these books and they didn't tempt me because of the picture quality, 'ok' sums them up well, not a patch though on some other similar albums such as Roger Siviter's book "Classic Diesels", which has good production values and photographs taken by a renowned photographer. A browse of Amazon will show up examples for around a tenner plus other books like it, including the many Ian Allan colour albums of yesteryear.

 

All the best,

 

Keith

[peterfgf]

This what I said on Amazon about "Cromford and High Peak" by John Evans, published by Amberley:

 

I'm very interested in the subject matter and have collected books and photographs about the C&HPR for a long time, so I bought this book automatically. The positive part of this review is that most of the photographs have not appeared in public before and are an interesting selection. The negative point is that their reproduction is poor. The colours are saturated, have poor contrast, are generally "muddy" and lack definition - about on a par with those from a very poor quality ink jet printer. I would gladly have paid more for a better produced book. This is typical of Amberley Publishing who seem to have mis-judged the market for this sort of publication. This is great shame when other specialist transport publishers manage to produce books to a much higher standard.
Conclusion: a poor purchase unless you are really interested in the C&HPR.

 

Peterfgf