Britain is a country in love with its railway past. Nowhere else do the
workhorses of the age of steam exert such a pull; in no other country is
the nostalgia for the days when the railways extended to every corner of
the kingdom so strong. However, the history of station buildings and
signal boxes, steam and diesel engines, goods and postal services, main
lines and branch lines is only part of the story told here.
As a cherished part of Britain's heritage, it is the impact of the
railways on a human level that has truly captured our imagination. In
more than 50 photographs, many of which are previously unpublished, Paul
Atterbury reveals the people who ran, maintained and used them - the
people for whom the railways were a way of life.