Wild Swan Books
Off Northampton Shed
The Reminiscences of an LMS FiremanDerek Mutton
Hardback - 186 pages - £29.95
Contents- The Beginning
- Fitter's Apprentice - Still
- Bar Boy and Cleaner
- Double Trip Oxford
- Cleaner and More
- Lodging Again
- Passed Cleaner
- Regular Firing
- Passenger and Freight
- Double Trip Again
- More of the Same
- Passenger Links Again
- Nationalisation
- Cock Allen
- Special Link Still
- Another Change of Driver
- The Beginning of the End
- The Freight Links
- Towards the End
The author became a cleaner at Northampton shed in September 1943 following his fifteenth birthday. He remained there throughout his footplate career which took him on adventures over the former LNWR lines in the area, in the final stages of the Second World War and throughout the lean years of rationing which followed.
Wonderfully observed, often humorous and extremely well written, this captivating account evokes much of the atmosphere of the run-down railway in post-war Britain.
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