Railway Character Lines
and over 900,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| |||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Visit the Amazon.co.uk Trade-In Store for more details. |
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
Come meet the railway characters of old, the "originals, mavericks, eccentrics, defectives, or plain straightforward barmpots" introduced to us by the author who for many years worked as a British Rail Civil Engineer based in Yorkshire. The book is bursting with hilarious anecdotes, tales of mishaps and unforeseen incidents laced with the dour humour of the locals in their broad Yorkshire brogue. Take the time when the railwaymen unblock a sewer in the station yard and flood Huddersfield town centre with a rush of effluent! There is plenty of interest for the pure rail enthusiast too. Explore the real darkness of a railway tunnel when a steam train goes by with its thumping pistons and unstoppable wheels only a yard from your face. Now the days of steam have disappeared together with the old railway buildings and the old way of working, are there any "characters" left? 'Appen not. Mike Collins is a retired Civil Engineer working all his time in Yorkshire. He has been a keen observer of the characters he has met and their humour. Within these pages are memories of his early working years, in the 1960s.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A wonderful collection of stories and characters!,
By
This review is from: Railway Character Lines (Paperback)
A lovely and very real account of the inner workings of the railways and the characters that made the railways work.Mike Collins has a superbly selective eye for wonderfully insignificant events that somehow connect and weave an essential and poignant social history of railway engineering. Yorkshire humour pervades the whole with a realism and humour so good it hurts.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
