Class 50s From Heydays to Maydays
Published by The Fifty Fund
www.fiftyfund-alliance.co.uk
Price: £29.95
THE first of two planned Class 50 books by the co-founder of the Fifty Fund, Dave Keogh, was published last year, titled Fifty Memories. After buying a copy I eagerly read it from cover to cover and, while it was essentially a photographic book, the captions were far more than simple photo captions, being used to tell a wider story in a highly entertaining tone. It’s a book I’ve found myself returning to several times since.
Well, the second book has now been published and has certainly been worth the wait, and is sub-titled ‘A basher’s account of how a fleet of modern locos were sidelined by British Rail as it prepared for Privatisation’. And he has a point, for many of the Class 50s barely managed two decades of operation before being withdrawn.
