Roderick H Fowkes

Gebundenes Buch

Steam in the East Midlands and Lincolnshire

A Pictorial Journey in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s

Beschreibung

The photographs in this volume of Steam in the East Midlands and Lincolnshire cover an area beginning at Derby - headquarters of the Midland Railway, following the Midland line to Nottingham and its environs, pausing at locations en-route. Trent, sited in the south-east corner of Derbyshire was a station without a town, its position and importance

Autor

Born in 1941 at Breaston, Roderick always wanted to be an engine driver. His dreams were dashed in 1956 when a medical at Derby revealed he had not attained the required colour vision level and was therefore unsuitable for the footplate grade. However, in 1957 he began a thirty-nine year career in trent as a junior porter, and later moved to Trent station as a Telegraph Clerk. After six years, he moved to Leicester and then Nottingham, where he was 'in Control for five years'. In 1978 Roderick moved to Plymouth as Movements Supervisor at Laira T&RSD, where it proved an interesting final eighteen years in the South West.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 223mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 977g
• ISBN-13: 9781473896291
• ISBN-10: 1473896290
• Artikelnr.: 49092884