Platform Souls: The Train Spotter as Twentieth-century Hero

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' TLS

Title - Platform Souls: The Train Spotter as Twentieth-century Hero

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Author - Nicholas Whittaker

ISBN 13 - 9780575400115

Imprint - Orion mass market paperback

Publisher - Orion Publishing Co

Date Published - 26/09/1996

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 197 x 20mm

Weight - 250 g

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