Swindon Engineman

by Gordon Shurmer & Mike Fenton

This book sets out to record Gordon Shurmer's footplate experiences, the turns he worked in each link and the running of Swindon shed. It is a collaborative effort, which has taken a number of years with Mike Fenton transcribing many hours of taped conversations and interrogation to provide an invaluable record of railway work. Gordon represents the last of a tough breed of men who began careers on the old Great Western before the Second World War and whose working life straddled the years of great change. The book also contains a brief history of Swindon engine sheds.

256 pages. Casebound

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