Life on the Footplate in the Last Years of Steam
by
Ken Issitt, Chris Bates
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
An ex-railwayman’s recollections of working the footplate on fast express steam trains in the late 1940s and through the ’50sFast 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...