Scottish Steam's Final Fling

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KEITH WIDDOWSON is a retired BR employee who made it his mission to capture the last days of steam on the railways around Britain. His mother got him his job at BR because she'd noted his 'obsession with timetables'. He has previously written The Great Steam Chase: Journeys on the Southern Region and Riding Yorkshire's Final Steam Trains for The History Press. He lives in Kent.

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Looks at the last days of Scotland's steam engines and railways, before steam was dispensed with in May 1967, marking 50 years of the post-steam era. Full of anecdotes and illustrations.

Résumé
Extracts from a teenage traveller's notebook recall the last days of Scottish steam