The Signalman''s Daughter

About Stephen Done

Stephen Done August 3rd 1968 and it was my eighth birthday. Whilst dressed in my new Batman cape with best friend Sean in a bright yellow Robin cape dark thunder clouds gathered behind our house on the outskirts of Scarborough as I declared I wanted to become the driver of a steam engine. Only to be told that the last steam engines were departing the next day... Perhaps that is why I took up writing about steam trains instead. I never knew the Great Central Railway whilst operational but spent teenage years in Brackley and watched the great viaduct being demolished so I have tried to breathe life back into the large sections of the line that are now silent and overgrown by taking readers back to time when steam still ruled the rails and am a member of the Friends of the Great Central Railway. A museum curator by profession and official historian and curator of the Liverpool Football Club Museum at Anfield since 1997 and recently been freelancing with the BBC as a storytelling consultant in their Academy. I also like painting (as seen on recent covers of Inspector Vignoles) bird watching gardening and walking plus railway modellingand a good real ale!