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100 1  Maidment, David|4aut 
245 10 An Indian Summer of Steam|h[Elektronisk resurs] /|cDavid 
       Maidment 
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520    An Indian Summer of Steam' is the second volume of David 
       Maidment's 'railway' autobiography, following his first 
       book 'A Privileged Journey', published  in xxxx. David was
       a railway enthusiast who made the hobby his career. After 
       management training on the Western Region, between 1961 
       and 1964, he became a stationmaster in a Welsh Valley, an 
       Area Manager on the Cardiff – Swansea main line and 
       radiating valleys, the South Wales Train Planning Officer,
       the Head of Productivity Services for the Western Region 
       and subsequently the British Railways Board, before four 
       years from 1982 as Chief Operating Manager of the London 
       Midland Region, the BRB's first Quality & Reliability 
       Manager in 1986, and finally British Rail's Head of Safety
       Policy after the Clapham Junction train accident, until 
       privatisation.rn     This experience led to a number of 
       years as an international railway safety consultant, and, 
       as a result of an encounter on an Indian railway station 
       during a business trip abroad, to found the 'Railway 
       Children' charity to support street children living on the
       rail and bus stations of India, East Africa and the UK, 
       described in 2012 by  an officer of the United Nations 
       Human Rights Commission as the largest charity in the 
       world working exclusively for street children. All this is
       the background to the descriptions the author gives of the
       last years of steam and his many journeys and experiences 
       during his training in South Wales and the South West, his
       travels all over BR from 1962 until the end of steam in 
       1968, his search for steam in France, East and West 
       Germany and China and the steam specials in Britain, 
       France, Germany and China after the demise of regular 
       steam working. The book includes over 100 black and white 
       and 100 colour photos, most taken by the author during his
       travels, and nearly forty pages of logs of locomotive 
       performance in Britain and the continent. rn     All 
       royalties from the book are being donated by the author to
       the charity he founded, a brief description of which is 
       included in the last chapter of the book. [Elib] 
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