Decline and Return to Mainline Steam- Railtours in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s

In this book Laurie Golden recaptures these exciting years of railtours on Britain’s railways where so much was changing so fast, steam disappearing, lines closing and the old infrastructure being swept away, including mechanical signalling. With approximately half of the photographs representing the rundown of steam operation in the period 1963 to 1968, and the rest of the photographs capturing the era of the return to steam on the national network for railtours in the 1970s and 1980s, this book is a portrait of an era that is now part of the history of our railways.