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Author(s): Ian Carter
ISBN(s): 9780719065675, 0719065674
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 3.01 MB
Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0719065674

ISBN 13: 9780719065675 

Author:  Ian Carter 

Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. Far from a trivial topic, the post-war train spotting craze swept most boys and some girls into a passion for railways, and for many, ignited a lifetime’s interest.

British railway enthusiasm traces this post-war cohort, and those which followed, as they invigorated different sectors in the world of railway enthusiasm – train spotting, railway modelling, collecting railway relics – and then, in response to the demise of main line steam traction, Britain’s now-huge preserved railway industry. Today this industry finds itself riven by tensions between preserving a loved past which ever fewer people can remember and earning money from tourist visitors.

The widespread and enduring significance of railway enthusiasm will ensure that this groundbreaking text remains a key work in transport studies, and will appeal to enthusiasts as much as to students and scholars of transport and cultural history.

Table of contents:

  1. Cover

  2. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Epigraph

  3. Contents

  4. List of Table, Maps and Figures

  5. General Editor’s Foreword

  6. Introduction: The Railway Enthusiast’s Life-World

  7. The Railway Book (and Magazine) Mania

  8. Associated Life

  9. Train Spotter: The Last Pariah

  10. Preserved Lines: Playing Trains or Running a Business?

  11. Blood on the Tracks

  12. Modelling and Engineering

  13. The Rise and Fall of the Toy Train Empire

  14. Standards, Schism and Skill: Exclusive Brethren

  15. A Dying Fall?

  16. Bibliography

  17. Index

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