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It’s Still a Lot of Fun! 60 Years of Railway Preservation: Ravenglasss & Eskdale Railway Preservation Society 2000-2020
Softback, Ravengalss & Eskdale Railway Preservation Society, https:// rerps.co.uk/sales/ 240pp, £15 including p&p within UK.
IT is 20 years since the society published a book title It’s Been a Lot of Fun to mark its 40th anniversary. Here is an update covering the first two decades of La’al Ratty in the 21st century, the most dramatic high point being the importation of the 1929-built Krauss Pacific‘Train from Spain’and its 2018 entry into traffic as Whillan Beck, opening a new chapter in the line’s proud heritage era history.
A series of superbly-illustrated chapters compiled by a five-strong editorial team brings to life the people who have worked on this perennially popular Lakeland landmark during this period along with every aspect of its day-to-day life in modern times.
The book, as reported in News, pages 10 and 11, is
