'Like so many other boys of my generation, I wanted to be an engine
driver; my dreams, however, were dashed in 1956 when I went for a
medical at Derby. So much depended upon having perfect eyesight
...' So wrote the author in his introduction in Last Days of Steam
on the LMS & BR, published in 2009. Now featuring all new
colour photographs, From Clark to Contoller is an account of
Roderick H. Fowkes' service on the railway, from 1966 until his
retirement in 1996. Reflecting on the demise of steam in the 1960s,
and revisiting the author's experiences in Trent in 1957, the
compelling story continues with 'some of the best times of a
thirty-nine year career with BR', including Fowkes' years working
in Control and the fulfilment of his lifetime ambition of moving to
the West Country. Filled with personal and memorable anecdotes,
this book continues the extraordinary tale of the thirty-nine year
British Railways career of a man deemed unsuitable for the
footplate grade in 1957.
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