Diesels in the Hills

Back in the days of steam, there was a visual display when engines worked hard among the hills. Undaunted by the more discreet progress of modern traction, many photographers found new ways of capturing the same emotions by using the landscape to make equally absorbing images. Britain’s terrain offers the keen photographer huge scope for capturing diesel locomotives and units working through hilly scenery. In this book you will find trains tackling everything from classic hills, like Shap and the Settle-Carlisle Line, to more rarefied locations on the Welsh border, hidden haunts in the Peak District and Pennines and the lovely Calder Valley in Lancashire and Yorkshire.

John Evans shares his fascinating collection of high-quality photographs of diesel locomotives (and a few electrics) in all weather among the disparate hills of northern England, the South West, Wales and Scotland, encompassing a period of more than fifty years.