British Rail Through The 1980s

This book, a companion to British Rail in the 1980s and 1990s: Diesel Locomotives and DMUs, exhibits a selection of some of his finest photographs from this period.

Kenny Barclay documents the diesel locomotives and DMUs in the closing decades of the British Rail era.

Explore a fascinating journey in superb photographs through the railway scene in Britain in the 1980s.

A terrific photographic tribute to freight traffic in the final period of the British Rail era of 1980-1995.

Kenny Barclay documents the diesel locomotives and DMUs in the closing decades of the British Rail era.

For British Rail, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when bad jokes about sandwiches and pork pies often belied real achievements, like increasing computerisation and the arrival of the high-speed Inter-City 125s. But while television advertisements told of an 'Age of the Train', Monday morning misery continued for many, the commuter experience steadily worsening as rolling stock aged and grew ever more uncomfortable. Even when BR launched new electrification schemes and new suburban trains in the 1980s, focus still fell on the problems that beset the Advanced Passenger Train, whose ignominious end came under full media glare. In British Railways in the 1970s and '80s, Greg Morse guides us through a world of Traveller's Fare, concrete concourses and peak-capped porters, a difficult period that began with the aftershock of Beeching but ended with BR becoming the first nationalised passenger network in the world to make a profit.

Explore this wonderful selection of photographs celebrating the British Rail's traction in the 1980s.

A nostalgic look back at a time of great change on Britain's railways in the north of England and Scotland.