COUNTRY RAILWAYMEN : Notebook of Engine Drivers' Tales

This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in brown faux calf covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, and the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Much acclaimed at the time of its first publication, and reprinted by popular demand, COUNTRY RAILWAYMEN is a collection of railway stories of the South Midland countryside in the days of steam. Sam Grigg's notebook recalls tales and anecdotes, humorous and tragic, from that very special community of rural railwaymen going back to the turn of the century, a few earlier though most from the more recent memory. Emphasising that this is not the normal run of railway book, there are over a hundred nostalgic drawings by Alan P. Walker of the days when country life revolved round the railway and its buidings and equipment. Ref A4 2.…