Railway Bylines: Special 'Industrial Railways in Colour' -Scotland- (IR467A)

Product No.: IR467A
Title: Railway Bylines: Special 'Industrial Railways in Colour' -Scotland-
Author(s): Booth, Adrian
Illustrator(s): N/A
Publisher: Irwell Press
ISBN: 9781906919467
Condition: New
Binding: Laminated Pictorial Boards
Dust Jacket: None
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Year: 2012

Features: 64 Pages with Colour Photos.

For this book (fourth in his Industrial Railways in Colour series) attention is turned to Scotland, the country that (in the form of Ayrshire) witnessed early personal memories of BR steam, plus events that were significant in his then-youthful developing interest in industrial railways. 

From his home in Yorkshire, he had regularly gone north of the border for holidays since his early teens and, as he was preparing this book, many personal memories came back to mind. Things such as his first-ever visit to Scotland (as a fourteen year old) when train-spotting interests led to his family eating a sandwich lunch beside the Stranraer to Ayr line, where he witnessed the thrilling spectacle of double-headed 'Black 5s' on a northbound passenger train.

By the time he was sixteen, he was organising his own tours and recall that the BR Scottish Region was very friendly towards railway enthusiasts and would issue shed permits by the handful to private individuals such as himself, particularly if the week's tour involved purchasing an all-line 'Railrover' ticket. He visited Ayr several times, because he loved watching 'Crabs' working on the local coal trains.