A celebration, in words and pictures, of the great days of the steam railway, from the beginning of the 19th Century to less than a decade ago (note: book first published 1975). In addition to the author's own sources, many of the pictures reproduced here come from the remarkable and largely unpublished collection of British Rail, one of whose leading specialists has been in charge of the picture research.
This stunning book captures all the flavour of the bygone age of Steam - locomotives, carriages, stations, all the feasts of engineering - recorded here in all its variety and splendour.