The beautifully illustrated guide includes some of the most influential, famous and beautifully designed trains from around the world since 1950. Together with over 500 stunning photographs, there are detailed specification boxes on each locomotive, including date, class, dimensions and speed.
Colin Garratt was a railway photographer. He died in November 2018 (Heritage Railway magazine).
Note, that he had the habit publishing photographic albums in which he selected and wrote captions of photographs of other photographers, listing himself as the first author and putting his own name on the spine rather than the photographer who arguably had more of a right to be listed as first author.