Working with London, Midland and Scottish Railway Steam - Tapa blanda

WORKING WITH LMS STEAM

Trade Paperback. Condición: Fery Good Plus. First Edition. This copy is in very good plus, unmarked condition, bright, white, tight and square, in illustrated linen finish card covers as issued. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. The author comes from a family steeped in L.N.W.R. railway history. His grandfather started work at Crewe in 1866, and took part in the Anglo-Scottish races of 1895 as a toplink driver, retiring in 1922 as a footplate inspector for the Crewe-Calisle line. His father was the shedmaster at Stafford from 1919 and later at the ex-L.N.W.R. shed at Swansea where the author himself started as an apprentice fitter in 1932 -after failing the railway clerical examination, much to the disgust of his parents! His story is well told, sounding a clear ring of authenticity as he describes the many problems confronting steam engine fitters who were saddled with maintaining the L.N.W. type locomotives ar Swansea. Later he went to Bescot and afterwards, as relief fitter in the Salop district, performed holiday relief duties at sheds in Abergavenny and Tredegar. In 1941 he transferred to the es L. & Y. shed at Bolton, and went to Leighton Buzzard as fitter-in- charge before moving back to Swansea shed in 1946 as mechanical foreman. He later returned to L. & Y. territory once more, as Chief Mechanical Foreman at newton heath, where he became Locomotive Shedmaster in 1960. Ref RR2. Nº de ref. del artículo: 020453

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