An Indian Summer of Steam' is the second volume of David Maidment's
'railway' autobiography, following his first book 'A Privileged
Journey.' David was a railway enthusiast who made the hobby his
career. After management training on the Western Region, between 1961
and 1964, he became a stationmaster in a Welsh Valley, an Area Manager
on the Cardiff Swansea main line and radiating valleys, the South
Wales Train Planning Officer, the Head of Productivity Services for
the Western Region and subsequently the British Railways Board, before
four years from 1982 as Chief Operating Manager of the London Midland
Region, the BRB's first Quality & Reliability Manager in 1986, and
finally British Rail's Head of Safety Policy after the Clapham
Junction train accident, until privatisation. This experience led to a
number of years as an international railway safety consultant, and, as
a result of an encounter on an Indian railway station during a
business trip abroad, to found the 'Railway Children' charity to
support street children living on the rail and bus stations of India,
East Africa and the UK, described in 2012 by an officer of the United
Nations Human Rights Commission as the largest charity in the world
working exclusively for street children. All this is the background to
the descriptions the author gives of the last years of steam and his
many journeys and experiences during his training in South Wales and
the South West, his travels all over BR from 1962 until the end of
steam in 1968, his search for steam in France, East and West Germany
and China and the steam specials in Britain, France, Germany and China
after the demise of regular steam working. The book includes over 100
black and white and 100 colour photos, most taken by the author during
his travels, and nearly forty pages of logs of locomotive performance
in Britain and the continent. All royalties from the book are being
donated by the author to the charity he founded, a brief description
of which is included in the last chapter of the book.
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ISBN
9781473869271
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
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Pen & Sword Transport
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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