Last Call for Steam: Chasing Locos in the 1960s

Many years ago, while the author was admiring an ex-works Bulleid Pacific in the local goods yard, a thoroughly bored female school friend asked him, ‘Nigel, why do you enjoy watching steam engines more than going out with girls?’It was a query he was unable to answer then, and would still find difficult even now, but during the final years of British steam his entire life revolved around seeking ...