A Life on the Lines A Railwayman's Album

by Hardy, R.H.N.

• ISBN13: 9781844861736
• ISBN10: 1844861732
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-13
• Publisher: Conway

Summary

From about 1944 until the early 1960s, Richard Hardy--author of The Railwayman's Pocket-Book--photographed life on the English and French railways with his Brownie 620 box camera. These unique, largely unpublished images constitute a fascinating and hugely evocative portrayal of the two national railroads and the men who worked on them. Many of the pictures capture the British railways in wartime, providing a valuable social record of England at war.

Author Biography

R. H. N. Hardy worked on Britain's railways for over 40 years, serving his apprenticeship at Doncaster Locomotive Works and Running Shed between 1941-44, before becoming a shed master, locomotive engineer, and divisional manager at King's Cross and Liverpool stations, and an Engineering and Research development adviser. He retired in 1982 with more than 60,000 miles of footplate experience on all classes of LNER, GC, and GN engines. Richard is the author of four books and numerous articles, originally writing under the pseudonym of Balmore. He completed two autobiographical works, Steam in the Blood (1971) and Railways in the Blood (1985), as well as two biographies, Beeching: Champion of the Railway? (1989) and Bert Hooker, Legendary Railwayman (1994).