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5%OFFKen Issitt - Firing the Flying Scotsman and Other Great Locomotives: Life on the Footplate in the Last Years of Steam - 9780752480435 - V9780752480435
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Firing the Flying Scotsman and Other Great Locomotives: Life on the Footplate in the Last Years of Steam

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Description for Firing the Flying Scotsman and Other Great Locomotives: Life on the Footplate in the Last Years of Steam Paperback. The author, fast train fireman worked on the footplate from the late 1940s to 1960, experiencing firing some of the greatest locomotives from the Flying Scotsman to Coltimore and Blink Bonney. This title describes what life on the footplate was like across the last years of steam. Illustrator(s): Bates, Chris. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; KNGT; TRF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.

Remembering the romance of a bygone era, with all the dirt, grime and risks the job entailed! Fast train fireman Ken Issitt worked on the footplate from the late 1940s to 1960, experiencing firing some of the greatest locomotives from the Flying Scotsman to Coltimore and Blink Bonney. The work was hard and conditions were tough but little did Ken know at the time that he was experiencing the last years of steam; he would never have imagined the romantic associations the period evokes today. Through a number of short accounts the past comes vividly to life, via short stories ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
The History Press
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752480435
SKU
V9780752480435
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Ref
99-10

About Ken Issitt
KEN ISSITT started working for the LNER in 1947 at the age of just sixteen, employed as an engine cleaner. Twelve years later when he left to work as an engineer he was firing fast trains, including the Flying Scotsman. Now retired, he and his friend (and illustrator) CHRIS BATES regularly give talks about their experiences on the footplate under ... Read more

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