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Yesterday’s Railways – Peter Herring’s nostalgic look back at Britain’s age of steam, from the great express trains and grand stations to the trainspotters, holiday crowds and country branch lines. A large-format David & Charles paperback, generously illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A good copy with spine creasing and shelf wear.
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Yesterday’s Railways: Recollections of an Age of Steam by Peter Herring was first published by David & Charles in 2002, with this paperback edition first appearing in 2004. This copy is a later reprint of the paperback, printed in Singapore for David & Charles of Newton Abbot, Devon.
Yesterday’s Railways is a large-format, heavily illustrated celebration of the railway in Britain when steam still ruled. Its black-and-white photographs and text recall famous named expresses such as The South Wales Pullman, busy terminus stations with their dining rooms and bookstalls, viaducts and cuttings, holiday specials packed with waving children, and the everyday working life of the railway.
Peter Herring writes about the railway as people knew and remembered it, not only the locomotives but the passengers, staff and enthusiasts who gave the age of steam its character. Yesterday’s Railways is as much social history as railway history.
Yesterday’s Railways makes a good gift for anyone who remembers steam, and will suit railway enthusiasts, modellers looking for period atmosphere, and readers of British nostalgia and social history.
Condition – Good
Large-format paperback with creasing to the spine, rubbing and slight chipping at the spine ends and corners, and general shelf wear to the covers. There are a few faint marks and some light spotting to the first blank page. The binding holds firm and the pages and photographs are clean.
