Steam Nostalgia in The North of England

Name: Steam Nostalgia in The North of England
Brand: Amberley Publishing

Amberley Publishing

Steam Nostalgia in The North of EnglandAuthor(s): Paul Hurley, Philip Braithwaite\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Amberley Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781445662008, 978-1445662008\nSynopsis\nSteam Nostalgia in the North of England is a pictorial story of British railways in the north of England, in those heady days when steam ruled the rails.\n\nIn the 1950s it was decided to phase out steam on British railways and to modernise the system. At the time train spotting was very popular, mostly among schoolboys, who spent the majority of their free time engrossed in their hobby, bunking into railway sheds and avoiding the shedmaster to gain the excitement of climbing aboard one of these huge locomotives, as they sat cold or simmering in the bleak and dirty engine shed. They would also wait patiently by the side of the permanent way, hoping to cop the few engines that had yet to be underlined in their Ian Allan ABC of British Railway Locomotives: the.