Blue Diesels and British Railways Sandwiches

Blue Diesels and British Railways Sandwiches

This is the story of my childhood during the late 1950s and 60s, when as a young train spotter I witnessed the gradual modernisation of British Railways. I stopped train spotting in 1968.Following ten years away from the railway I returned and was shocked to see how much of the modern railway that I new as a boy had disappeared. I decided to start train spotting again (1979) and to record as much as possible of the remaining railway before it had all gone.

This book documents a 7 day rail journey I did in April 1981, during which I travelled on 45 different scheduled trains and I completed 2640.75 rail miles.
I logged 752 locomotives and their locations (most are long since gone) and I saw 27 of the 30 classes operating on British Rail at the time.
During April 1981, British Rail was still in its �blue period� and continued to serve its infamous British Rail sandwiches on its Buffet Cars. This was an important part of the trip as I was on trains for long periods of time. (Graham Teeson)

Hardcover, 176 pages, 238 previously unpublished colour illustrations.