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BRITISH RAILWAY ENTHUSIASM
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| By: |
Ian Carter |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£60.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0719065666 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780719065668 |
| Publisher: |
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 March, 2008 |
| Series: |
Studies in Popular Culture |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Description: |
The first book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. The postwar train spotting craze swept most boys (and some girls, despite railways being coded as a male business) into a passion for railways. These people invigorated different sectors in railway enthusiasm's life world - from railway modelling to Britain's huge preserved railway industry. -- . |
| Synopsis: |
This is the first academic book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. Far from a trivial topic, the postwar 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 postwar 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 ground-breaking text becomes a key work in transport studies, and will appeal to enthusiasts as much as to students and scholars of transport and cultural history. -- . |
| Illustrations: |
2 Maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Manchester University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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