Book Review: The Great Western Steam Retreat by Keith Widdowson
This book recalls the authors' locospotting adventures at the end of steam, backed up by notes made at the time which were of variable detail.
Author: Roger Smith
I have had a life-long interest in railways, growing up just a few yards from the complex of sidings at Gloucester docks. My interest continued when I left school and joined the signal department of British Railways.
I am a published author and a a proof-reader for the Railway Correspondence and Travel Society's society’s monthly magazine, the Railway Observer.
I am also a keen photographer, and have had a number of railway photographs published in monthly magazines and books.
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