UK - The Lost Days of Steam

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UK - The Lost Days of Steam

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A programme about various aspects of the railway industry featuring stories from railway workers and songs from folk singers who have an interest in railways past and present

A Job for Life - Start at 14 and finish at 65.

Stories of railway life - Life as a fireman on the footplate and how to handle runaway trains.

An accident at Parbold station in Lancashire as told by an eye witness porter and two signalmen.

'The Romantic View' and 'The Rundown to Privatisation' - Stories and songs about trains such as Altcar Bob and how the Beeching Axe affected workers in the railway industry.
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