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Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20-Century Hero

The sight of Britannia 70004 roaring through Burton-on-Trent one summer afternoon in the mid-sixties would have provided a suitable baptism for any youngster on his first trainspotting jaunt. For Nicholas Whittaker it was the beginning of a thirty-year love affair with the railways. Platform Souls is his personal odyssey through the changing world of this most English of pursuits. 'An elegy: for the steam trains already vanishing when Whittaker's hobby began in 1964; for the short-lived diesel age which followed; for an era of near innocence ... This theme is neatly handled, as is the appeal to the sheer romance of railways, the poetry of trains' TLS

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 256
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780575400115
  • Genres
  • transport
  • Release date
  • 1997