BR Diesel depots

These days I'm primarily a steam fan but am for some reason getting a little nostalgic about the late 70s/80s period when I used to travel around the country mainly in search of diesel locos. During that period I must have visited around 20-25 depots, some of them several times - those were the days when you could either get round a shed unnoticed or a polite enquiry often resulted in permission to look round. Unfortunately while I collected heaps of numbers I took very few photos and now I discover that many of the sheds I visited are no more - I could never have imagined life without Cardiff Canton, Stratford, March or Finsbury Park and I now see that Old Oak Common is doomed as well.

Are there any decent books out there covering diesel depots of the 70s/80s? There seem to be a lot of publications on steam sheds but not on diesel sheds and it seems a shame that some of these places should fade into obscurity undocumented.

 

OPC did a series in the 80's called Diesel & Electrics on shed - one book for each region. Most pics were late 70s/early 80's

 

I have a series of books covering all 5 regions looking at sheds and stabling points.Im not sure if they cover every location but a quick look this morning seems to show most places I remember visiting in the 70s.
The books are titled Diesels and Electrics on Shed by Rex Kennedy Vols 1 to 5.Published by Oxford Publishing Company.The Southern Region one(Volume 5) isbn number is ISBN 0-86093-044-0.
I got them back in the 80s when they came out.You might get them at preseerved railways,e-bay or secondhand book shops.

 

That sounds like the sort of thing....I'll keep a lookout for those.

Thanks for your help

 

You could also try abebooks - http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Searc ... cs+on+Shed - they have a number for sale - especially volume 1 for some reason!

 

...at about 10 times the price you'll find them anywhere else.

 

'Modern' shed memories? How about 'Deltics far pit' still daubed on the entrance to Leeds Holbeck fuelling point right up the mid/late eighties - if not later! I very much doubt a Deltic visited Holbeck after autumn 1981.

 

I sold all five on ebay for £25 about a year ago as a result of a partner-enforced clearout.

Keep an eye on ebay, because someone else might be subject to the "all those books just gathering dust" rant as we speak...

 

I have resisted that so far!!! I moved from a 3-bedroom house in the Midlands to a bungalow in Yetminster, Dorset so you can imagine space was at a premium.I have all my books in 2 creaking bookcases as I used to buy as many books as I could afford so now have a decent collection.
Good luck with your search for the books.

 

Yes I'm probably not going to be too popular if I start accumulating books right now! I'm not sure what is bigger, my railway collection or my wife's array of cookery books. "At least the cookery books are useful" she says!

 

If its photo's from the 70's/early 80's on shed try this as example

http://pics-by-john.photoblog.org.uk/p55915451.html

and if this is the sort of thing you want try

http://pics-by-john.photoblog.org.uk/c1382168.html