Railways

Illustrations from colour and b&w photographs and paintings, line-drawings, index, 192 pp, red boards in d/w, very good condition, Aurum Press 2002

25.8 x 18.6 cm, 890g, ISBN 1 85410 862 X

"Though many books can tell you about steam locomotives’ wheel configurations, serial numbers and boiler pressures, they never talk to the people who actually worked on the railways during the golden age, practising strange and highly skilled crafts.”  See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.