Steam Nostalgia in North -West England

British Steam Nostalgia in North-West England is a pictorial story of British railways in the north-west of England, in those heady days when steam ruled the rails. In 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 2s 6d local edition or, if they could afford it, the Combined Volume at 10s. This book takes the reader on a fondly remembered trip through the north-west railways of the 1950-70s.