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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Table of contents
- BRITISH RAILWAY ENTHUSIASM
- Half Title Page
- Series Pages
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of table, maps and figures
- General editor’s foreword
- CHAPTER 1: Introduction: the railway enthusiast’s life-world
- CHAPTER 2: The railway book (and magazine) mania
- CHAPTER 3: Associated life
- CHAPTER 4: Train spotter: the last pariah
- CHAPTER 5: Preserved lines: playing trains or running a business?
- CHAPTER 6: Blood on the tracks
- CHAPTER 7: Modelling and engineering
- CHAPTER 8: The rise and fall of the toy train empire
- CHAPTER 9: Standards, schism and skill: exclusive brethren
- CHAPTER 10: A dying fall?
- Bibliography
- Index
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