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Railways and train spotters Jim, but not as we know them. An antidote to bucolic railway rambles, sacred cows served up as mince 'n' tatties. From the railway sublime to the railway as a whole sewer full of snouts - Gricing is not a rose tinted tale written by an old engineman.Poets, vicars, villains, folk songs about runaway trains and railway heroes, the 6.05 special, railway children, smoke at £1000 a puff, the Maginot line, and Chattanooga Choo-choo, room for them all, and more, in this personal view of the railway and its influence on, culture, language, and modern life.Connections, which ones we make and the ones we don't, trains of thought trundling across the last 200 years of railway landscape, culture, and society - and over 100 lovely photos of engines great and small on the main lines and branch lines of our railway network and heritage railways.

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Born in Leeds, in 1947, C.David Wilson was educated at Leeds Central High School and, as a mature student, at the University of Leeds, graduating in 1989 with a BA (Hons) in Philosophy & The History of Science. Practical railway experience was gained during 7 years as a footplateman, (fireman), at a number of major steam depots including 70A Nine Elms, (London), Belle Vue, (Wakefield), and Holbeck, (Leeds). C David Wilson's other works include; How Steam Locomotives Work, (Argus 1993), Racing Trains, (Sutton, A. 1995), Forward! The Revolution in the Lives of the Footplatemn 1962 - 1996, (Sutton, A. 1996) and Wilson's Preserved Steam Railway Timetable, (1989,1990,1991, self and 1992 Argus) Additionally C.David Wilson, writing as Dave Wilson, has had articles in many of the leading railway periodicals; Steam World, Steam Days, Heritage Railway, and the now defunct Steam Classic and the newspaper, Steam Railway News.

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