Railway Memories
7 primary works
Book 3
Book 5
Illustrated with 200 photographs, this work covers the 1950s and 1960s York railway scene. It includes maps, track layouts, operating notes and personal recollections.
Book 6
A survey of railways in an area which once boasted everything from prestige main lines to colliery tracks, where a constant procession of lumbering coal trains weaved its way between glamorous expresses pulled by the most famous locomotives in the land, and where there were numerous freight yards and up to five locomotive depots. The book includes maps, track layouts, personal recollections and operating information.
Book 8
Book 10
An illustrated review of Doncaster's railway metropolis during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. It covers the East Coast main line through the Doncaster area including the station, Decoy yards and Carr motive power depot; the GC line from Warmsworth to Stainforth; the West Riding and Grimsby lines as far west as Fitzwilliam; other outlying railway stations; and the famous Plant locomotive works. The final chapter is devoted to more recent railways scenes. The book includes personal recollections by people who knew and worked on Doncaster's railways, maps, track layouts, observations, operating notes and instructions and short memories columns.
Book 13
Book 22
Offers a look at the ever changing Leeds railway scene over a span of 50 years from the late 1940s to the 1990s. In 217 top quality photographs, this book features not only many steam trains of the past but diesels, electrics, stations, locomotive depots and goods yards. It also includes introductory text, track plans and other information.