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"This beautifully written, meticulously detailed, highly engaging book is a rare treat. It evokes a vanished world of railways that achieved extraordinary things logistically while using what is by modern standards distinctly old-fashioned technology. Lifelong railwayman Terry Collins takes the reader on a journey into the heart of what working on the railways between 1962 and 1996 was like, from the days of steam, to the dawn of the modern railway age. The book is also a real eye-opener about many of the behind-the-scenes incidents the public never hears about. 'Never a Dull Moment' is an absolutely unforgettable book As Terry himself says: 'I really enjoyed working on the railways. We had our tragedies, sadly, but we also dealt with many other challenging incidents, including some bizarre ones, and when we won, against the odds, and got the trains and people moving again, it was a great feeling! I say ""we"" because this book is also very much about the many people in the signal boxes, Traffic Control, stations, yards and on the track, that I worked with, some of them ""larger than life"" characters, but almost without exception, determined to win. And we did!'"

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Author:   Terry Collins
Publisher:   The Conrad Press
Imprint:   The Conrad Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 19.80cm
ISBN:  

9781913567224

ISBN 10:   1913567222
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   29 June 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Peter Hancox Introduction Chapter One - How it all began - and nearly ended! Chapter Two - A Box Boy's life in Tonbridge Signal Box Chapter Three - Becoming a signalman Chapter Four - Orpington Train Supervision Sub Section Chapter Five - Life in Orpington Control Chapter Six - Waterloo Regional Control Chapter Seven - Area Three - hands-on at last. Chapter Eight - More mishaps and misadventures on Area Three Chapter Nine - The General Purpose Relief (GPR) Controller Grade C Chapter Ten - Rest Day Relief Grade 'E' and MS2 on the Central Division Chapter Eleven - Duty Line Manager,(D.L.M.), MS3, South Central Division Chapter Twelve - Purley Chapter Thirteen - Life goes on at Waterloo Chapter Fourteen - 'The South Eastern Division - a Model of Complexity' Chapter Fifteen - Farewell Waterloo - Hello Croydon Chapter Sixteen - Meanwhile, back in the Control Chapter Seventeen - Emergency Exercise Hawfinch 31st October 1993 Chapter Eighteen - Cowden Chapter Nineteen - The Final Divide and accountability Chapter Twenty - Liaison with Emergency Services Chapter Twenty-One - Horsham and Streatham Hill Chapter Twenty-Two - Time to say goodbye Acknowledgements=

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Terry Collins comes from a railway family. His father Arthur was a railwayman for forty-one years and met Terry's mother Esther while she was also working for the railways. Having retired from the railways in 1996, Terry is nowadays an Anglican chaplain at a Kent hospital and a Licensed Reader at an Anglican church. As well as this, he loves writing.

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