Firing the Flying Scotsman and Other Great Locomotives : Life on the Footplate in the Last Years of Steam

Firing the Flying Scotsman and Other Great Locomotives : Life on the Footplate in the Last Years of Steam

Ken Issitt

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FörlagThe History Press
ISBN9780752490472

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 h