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Platform Souls: The Train Spotter as Twentieth-century Hero Book
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' TLSRead More
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- 0575400110
- 9780575400115
- Nicholas Whittaker
- 26 September 1996
- Phoenix
- Paperback (Book)
- 256
- New edition
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