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This beautifully written, meticulously detailed, highly engaging book is a rare treat. It evokes a vanished world of railways that achieved extraordinary things logistically while using what is by modern standards distinctly old-fashioned technology. Lifelong railwayman Terry Collins takes the reader on a journey into the heart of what working on the railways between 1962 and 1996 was like, from the days of steam, to the dawn of the modern railway age. The book is also a real eye-opener about many of the behind-the-scenes incidents the public never hears about. 'Never a Dull Moment' is an absolutely unforgettable book
As Terry himself says: 'I really enjoyed working on the railways. We had our tragedies, sadly, but we also dealt with many other challenging incidents, including some bizarre ones, and when we won, against the odds, and got the trains and people moving again, it was a great feeling! I say "we" because this book is also very much about the many people in the signal boxes, Traffic Control, stations, yards and on the track, that I worked with, some of them "larger than life" characters, but almost without exception, determined to win. And we did!'
Contents
Foreword by Peter Hancox
Introduction
Chapter One - How it all began - and nearly ended!
Chapter Two - A Box Boy's life in Tonbridge Signal Box Chapter Three - Becoming a signalman Chapter Four - Orpington Train Supervision Sub Section Chapter Five - Life in Orpington Control Chapter Six - Waterloo Regional Control Chapter Seven - Area Three - hands-on at last.
Chapter Eight - More mishaps and misadventures on Area Three Chapter Nine - The General Purpose Relief (GPR) Controller Grade C Chapter Ten - Rest Day Relief Grade 'E' and MS2 on the Central Division Chapter Eleven - Duty Line Manager,(D.L.M.), MS3, South Central Division Chapter Twelve - Purley Chapter Thirteen - Life goes on at Waterloo Chapter Fourteen - 'The South Eastern Division - a Model of Complexity'
Chapter Fifteen - Farewell Waterloo - Hello Croydon Chapter Sixteen - Meanwhile, back in the Control Chapter Seventeen - Emergency Exercise Hawfinch 31st October 1993 Chapter Eighteen - Cowden Chapter Nineteen - The Final Divide and accountability Chapter Twenty - Liaison with Emergency Services Chapter Twenty-One - Horsham and Streatham Hill Chapter Twenty-Two - Time to say goodbye Acknowledgements=
