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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. -- .
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- Pages:332 pages, 2 Maps
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:03/10/2017
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- ISBN:9781526129741
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:332 pages, 2 Maps
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:03/10/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781526129741
