{"id":50707,"date":"2024-05-22T14:37:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T04:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=50707"},"modified":"2024-05-22T14:37:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T04:37:54","slug":"cedric-greenwood-85-years-and-still-on-track-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=50707","title":{"rendered":"Cedric Greenwood: 85 years and still on track"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet Cedric Greenwood, the author of\u00a0Echoes of Steam and Vintage Voltage<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Merseyside: The Indian Summer<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>series. In his own words, Cedric shares exclusive insights into his writing process and inspirations behind his books.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The beginning<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBuses were my first interest, from age four, stemming from the open-staircase Tilling ST buses of Brighton and Hove with I was brought up with. I was disappointed to find later that this was an obsolete design. At age eight I was fond of Oxford\u2019s rattling pre-war buses seconded to the long country routes; their rich red and dark brown paintwork was the most beautiful blend of all bus colour schemes. Eventually, I owned, restored and drove a 1951 Wallasey Leyland double-decker for 30 years before I left it in the Birkenhead transport museum.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom age 11, I was hooked on the Great Western\u2019s north mainline and its fine stations at Birmingham Snow Hill, Shrewsbury and Birkenhead Woodside. At 14 I focussed on vintage (pre-war) Southern Electric m.u.s and at 28 I was riding footplate on LMS Black Fives and 8Fs and BR 9Fs over the north-western fells and tape-recording the familiar sounds of the steam age. These recordings were issued by bygone-transport.co.uk in a series of c.d.s that included my interviews with signalmen on the high reaches of the Settle Carlisle line about winter snowdrifts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Behind the lens<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMy texts on transport provide a broader background to my photographs, taken purely on aesthetic, not technical, interest stemming from a boyish fascination for the subjects on peripatetic moves around Britain with my dad\u2019s job and mine. I naturally compose transport pictures in architectural, industrial or rural settings rather than boring close-up portraits of the vehicles and vessels. I abhor telephoto views for distorting reality and design. My favourite elements of transport was the Mersey steam ferries and the trams of Leicester, Liverpool, the Manx Electric and Glasgow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shop books by Cedric Greenwood here:\u00a0www.mortonsbooks.co.uk\/silverlink<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet Cedric Greenwood, the author of\u00a0Echoes of Steam and Vintage Voltage\u00a0and\u00a0Merseyside: The Indian Summer\u00a0series. In his own words, Cedric shares exclusive insights into his writing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":50472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,387,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-railways","category-scotlands-railway","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t