London Transport Country Buses Part 2: North

This 184-page book, which contains 326 monochrome photographs all on top quality paper taken by Peter Mitchell between 1949 and 1975, covers the northern part of the London Transport Country Bus network. Every class of vehicle during that period is illustrated; there are red and green STLs, buses with reduced depth blinds, single and double deck vehicles, rail replacement buses, Green Line coaches and those operating on the former Eastern National routes in the Grays area. The author is Laurie Akehurst who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Country Bus network and this manifests itself in the informative captions. The publisher’s house style of using half or full-page images is continued and brings out the details that would otherwise be missed. Laurie has done an excellent job selecting what are the very best photographs from Peter Mitchell’s London Country bus area photographs with the view on the last page of STL 2684 on route 323 being a very appropriate finale.