STEAMING INTO THE NORTH WEST

ISBN: 9781913166052 Géneros: Sinópsis: Originally published as a collection of ten short stories Steaming into the North West has been developed to include a further ten tales from the railsNow taking us back to the very early days of steam in the 1800s these stories about life on the great Premier Line provide an entertaining and often thoughtprovoking insight into the tough physical work that being an engineman entailedWith early engines having no cab to speak of life on the rails was open to all the elements Danger came readily from signalmen not paying attention to travelling through long polluted tunnelsNevertheless work on the railways was something to be proud of and as with all the books in Michael Clutterbuck39s Steaming Into series this is clearly portrayed through the cast of characters attention to detail and more than a little humour