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Further along the tracks - More reflections of a London Locospotter (Paperback)
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Further along the tracks - More reflections of a London Locospotter (Paperback)
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List price R534
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Discovery Miles 4 420
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The author came to London from Lancashire as a nine-year old having
developed an interest in his local buses and Blackpool trams at a
very early age. He remained in south-west London living in the
Wandsworth and Wimbledon areas for the next 45 years. As a young
teenager he took up locospotting joining a small group of fellow
enthusiasts who met regularly by the lineside just west of Clapham
Junction and for roughly ten years avidly followed his hobby. For
the first half of that decade, his hobby was centred largely close
to London because of age and money restrictions except for rare
trips often family visits - further afield. In this second book, he
describes his experiences from about 1960: visiting stations;
lineside observations; and more official trips to depots and works,
often with the RCTS. He gives us a spotters-eye view of the changes
to British Railways at the time: the final steam locomotives
arriving; the increasing impact of the Modernisation Plan; seeing
elderly locomotives at work or at the end of their service life on
scrap lines. After 1958, when he acquired his first camera it was
used regularly to build up a library of photographs as finances
allowed. Some of these, taken at a later date, have been used to
illustrate his travels and exploits in the earlier years of his
hobby and later, colour views are used to cover the preservation
era.
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