Southern Way Special 19 Eastleigh Enginemen Av Keith Dawe

Southern Way Special 19 Eastleigh Enginemen Av Keith Dawe

The 2022 Southern Way Special Edition is the story of author Keith Dawe''s railway career which began in 1964 in the last years of Southern Region steam. Unlike many who joined the ranks of footplate crew, there was no railway tradition in his family. Keith was an academically bright student who gave up his schoolin......
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The 2022 Southern Way Special Edition is the story of author Keith Dawe''s railway career which began in 1964 in the last years of Southern Region steam. Unlike many who joined the ranks of footplate crew, there was no railway tradition in his family. Keith was an academically bright student who gave up his schooling to follow the interest he always had in railways and the steam locomotive in particular. He joined the railway as a cleaner at Eastleigh shed when he was only 15, too young even to become a fireman.This memoir of those final years of steam at Eastleigh shed is packed with interesting and informative insights on those last years of SR steam, it is also an affectionate and well written recollection of a long gone era. Chapters deal with diverse topics, such as working both pick up goods trains and longer distance freight diagrams including the nightly services destined for Feltham yard in London. On the passenger side, among the topics covered are the workings through to Bou
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The 2022 Southern Way Special Edition is the story of author Keith Dawe''s railway career which began in 1964 in the last years of Southern Region steam. Unlike many who joined the ranks of footplate crew, there was no railway tradition in his family. Keith was an academically bright student who gave up his schooling to follow the interest he always had in railways and the steam locomotive in particular. He joined the railway as a cleaner at Eastleigh shed when he was only 15, too young even to become a fireman.This memoir of those final years of steam at Eastleigh shed is packed with interesting and informative insights on those last years of SR steam, it is also an affectionate and well written recollection of a long gone era. Chapters deal with diverse topics, such as working both pick up goods trains and longer distance freight diagrams including the nightly services destined for Feltham yard in London. On the passenger side, among the topics covered are the workings through to Bournemouth and the boat trains which served Southampton Docks. The author also provides his personal assessment of the capabilities of many of the different steam classes on which he worked.Keith''s railway career was short lived as the steam railway he loved disappeared in 1967. He felt there was no future for him on the railway so in 1970 he left and returned to his studies. However, this memoir of his time at Eastleigh in those last years of steam is vivid and fascinating to read. All who are interested in SR steam and in that era of transition from steam to diesel and electric traction will thoroughly enjoy this latest Southern Way Special.

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Oppdag "Southern Way Special 19: Eastleigh Enginemen" av Keith Dawe

Er du fascinert av jernbanens historie, spesielt de spennende årene med dampmaskiner? Da vil "Southern Way Special 19: Eastleigh Enginemen" av Keith Dawe være en uunngåelig tilføying til din samling. Med denne boken får du et unikt innblikk i en tid som snart er glemt, da damplokomotivene fortsatt satte standarden for transport på Sørlandet.

En personlig reise gjennom dampens tid

Keith Dawe tar oss med på en reise tilbake til 1964, da han begynte sin jernbaanekarriere som 15-åring. Uten noen jernbanetradisjoner i familien, stilte han desto sterkere spørsmål: Hva førte ham til å forlate skolen for å jobbe med dampmaskiner? Denne minnerike boken gir ikke bare et blikk på hans karriere, men også på et samfunn som var i endring.

Hva du kan forvente fra boken:

  • Dypdykk i jernbanehistorien: Les om de siste årene med dampdrift i Eastleigh og oppdag de fascinerende historiene fra en tid der jernbane var en livsnerve.
  • Innsikt fra innsiden: Boken inneholder personlige betraktninger fra Dawe om ulike dampklasser, deres kapasiteter og hvordan disse maskinene navigerte fra Eastleigh til Bournemouth og Southampton.
  • Et vell av detaljer: Hvert kapittel tar deg med på et nytt eventyr, fra godstog til passasjertjenester, og gir deg en dybde av forståelse som få andre bøker kan.

Perfekt for jernbaneentusiaster

Enten du er en veteran innen jernbanens verden eller en nykommer som ønsker å lære mer, vil "Southern Way Special 19: Eastleigh Enginemen" av Keith Dawe være et must-have. Den kombinerer faktapreget detaljer med en nostalgisk fortelling, noe som gjør den til en sjelden perle både som lesestoff og som informasjonskilde.

Så hvorfor vente? Opplev reisen til en svunnen tid med "Southern Way Special 19" – det er mer enn bare en bok; det er en inngangsport til en epoke som formet jernbanen slik vi kjenner den i dag.

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