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"Backtrack" publications are dedicated to telling the full story of railway history in a truly comprehensive form. This book contains 26 extensive articles on all aspects of British railway history: early British Pullmans, Britannia locomotives, a colour survey of the Irish railways in 1957, Great Western's 2-6-0 tanks, pictures from the Corringham Light Railway, a biographical essay on railway architect Charles Trubshaw, a discussion of the Tottenham and Hampstead line in the 1950s, etc. Illustrated throughout with black and white and colour photos. 144 pages.