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Firing the Flying Scotsman and Other Great Locomotives: Life on the Footplate in the Last Years of Steam

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By (author): Ken Issitt

Illustrated by: Chris Bates

Remembering the romance of a bygone era, with all the dirt, grime and risks the job entailed! Fast 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 and Blink Bonney. The work was hard and conditions were tough but little did Ken know at the time that he was experiencing the last years of steam; he would never have imagined the romantic associations the period evokes today. Through a number of short accounts the past comes vividly to life, via short stories about train crashes, pea-soup fogs, and fires going out. From the beginning of a shift, donning overalls and making up a packing, and from shunting in the marshalling yard to flying along with an express train at 80mph, Ken Issitt describes what life on the footplate was like across the final years of steam, his tales beautifully brought to life by Chris Batess charming pen and ink illustrations.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780752480435

About Ken Issitt

KEN ISSITT started working for the LNER in 1947 at the age of just sixteen employed as an engine cleaner. Twelve years later when he left to work as an engineer he was firing fast trains including the Flying Scotsman. Now retired he and his friend (and illustrator) CHRIS BATES regularly give talks about their experiences on the footplate under the guise of 'Chris and Ken the Railwaymen'. He has compiled his memories after an invitation from York Railway Museum. Ken lives in Leicestershire.

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