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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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The railway enthusiast’s life-world
2. The railway book (and magazine) mania
3. Associated life
4. Train spotter: the last pariah
5. Preserved lines: playing trains or running a business?
6. Blood on the tracks
7. Modelling and engineering
8. The rise and fall of the toy train empire
9. Standards, schism and skill: exclusive brethren
10. A dying fall?
Bibliography
Index

British Railway Enthusiasm Studies in Popular

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 7/31/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719065675, 978-0719065675
      ISBN10: 0719065674
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction: The railway enthusiast’s life-world
      2. The railway book (and magazine) mania
      3. Associated life
      4. Train spotter: the last pariah
      5. Preserved lines: playing trains or running a business?
      6. Blood on the tracks
      7. Modelling and engineering
      8. The rise and fall of the toy train empire
      9. Standards, schism and skill: exclusive brethren
      10. A dying fall?
      Bibliography
      Index

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