Vernon Parry first photographed the railways around Lampeter in August 1963, when passenger and goods trains were still operating as they had done since Great Western days. In later visits he travelled on the footplate of locomotives and took pictures at small stations and in the countryside in the Teifi valley and on the Aberayron branch. In early April 1965, he photographed and travelled on the final train to leave Aberayron and the last steam working to the milk depot at Pont Llanio (near Tregaron). The pictures show railwaymen and passengers, and depict the role that the railways played in rural Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire. Vernon Parry had an intuitive ability to capture an aspect of life that was about to disappear. The photographs are previously unpublished. The book features Great Western and 1950s locomotives, and will appeal to railway enthusiasts and to those interested in local history and landscape.
