Steam : Tales from the Footplate

A fascinating record of the realities of running a railway during the great days of steam, these recollections of locomotive crews from the West Country of England offer a memorable insight into the lives of a generation of foot-platemen on the ex-LMS lines from the Midlands down to Bath and over the well-loved Somerset and Dorset line to Bournemouth -- illustrated with revealing and rare photographs showing every aspect of this now-remote but not forgotten era of transport history.