Description
Phil Braithwaite’s book takes the reader back to those more gentle times through his experiences and passions of the railways, personal stories and his early attempts at photography and processing, backed up by photographs, tables, logs and diagrams.
He explains the intricacies of the many different parts of the railways such as signal boxes, turntables, track work, points and signals etc. Described are the service depots, coaling plants, water columns and troughs. Lovingly portrayed are the men and women who operated them in their everyday life, the station staff, engine drivers and firemen, the guards and porters and of course the passengers.
Phil describes the demise of the steam engines, its effects on the workforce and the public during those last days of steam on the railways in August 1968. This era, although sad bringing a tear to his eye, was in many ways an undeniably more romantic period in the history and memories of a great railway.
It is How ‘he’ remembers it.
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