False starts, near misses and dangerous goods : railwaymen's stories about the challenges of running a railway
Body, Geoffrey, 1929-2017
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To the casual onlooker or the regular user, the railway business usually appears organized and relatively uneventful, but it is a very different story for those whose job it is to make it happen. The operation of heavy equipment at speed, 24 hours a day, across the full length of the country and using highly technical signalling, track and mechanical engineering has always produced a constant stream of challenges. Fortunately the highly professional railway staff have always seen such dramas as derailments, strikes, storms and floods, infestation, shooting firms on site and even transporting lion cubs as all just part of a day's work, and here ex-railwayman Geoff Body and his son Ian, also a railwayman, have collected 60 entertaining stories that reveal how very unexpected daily life working on the railways could be!
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Author:
Body, Geoffrey, 1929-, compilerBody, Ian G., compiler
Imprint:
Stroud : The History Press, 2017.
Collation:
160 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780750970273 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2505413
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