EARL (L.A), Driver.: Speeding North with the 'Royal Scot'. A Day in the Life of a Locomotive Man (in collaboration with H.N. Greenleaf) , Oxford University Press, [1939]

8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 27 plates on 14 and 16pp of diagrammatic route guide, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down, some light and occasional spotting; original pictorial red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, red top, neatly recased, a very good, firm copy. Recalling the heady days of LMS immediately before WWII, Laurie Earl's minute-by-minute account of a day on the footplate on the London-Carlisle run has long been recognised as a railway classic. Ottley 4196, 6835. (Book ref. 18501 )  £ 86.00

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