Firing the Flying Scotsman and other great locomotives : life on the footplate in the last years of steam
Issit, Ken2012
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Fast train fireman Ken Issitt worked on the footplate from the late 1940s to 1960, experiencing firing some of the greatest locomotives from the Flying Scotsman to Coltimore and Blink Bonney. Through a number of short accounts the past comes vivdly to life, via stories about crashes, pea-soup fogs, and fires going out.
Main title:
Firing the Flying Scotsman and other great locomotives : life on the footplate in the last years of steam / Ken Issit ; illustrated by Chris Bates.
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Imprint:
Stroud : History, 2012.
Collation:
143 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780752480435 (pbk)
Dewey class:
625.2'61'092625.261092625.261092
Language:
English
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BRN:
1614154
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