Dimensions
129 x 197 x 20mm
The Trainspotter as 20th 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. Exploring almost every item on the railway maniac's agenda, from station architecture through to the legacy of Dr Beeching, privatisation and the current malaise surrounding the railways, 'Platform Souls' is a personal odyssey through the changing world of this most English of pursuits.
