Author: REWYNOLDS, MICHAEL.
Title: Engine-Driving Life. Or, Stirring Adventures and Incidents in the Lives of Locomotive Engine-Drivers.
Description: London: Crosby Lockwood and Co, 1881. 1st edition. "The practice of locomotive driving is a field teeming with facts and incidents, cause and effect leading up by natural and consistent steps towards perfection through long winter nights in wind and rain, in lightning and thunder; at all times surrounded by hidden dangers, and ending at times in a dreadful, sudden death.." Includes a report on the railway servants' orphanage. 18.5cms x 12.5cms x 1.5cms. Pp.viii/190/10 (publisher's catalogue), engraved frontispiece, owner's notation to front endpapers, a few marginal finger marks. Illustrated dark grey/green cloth, wear to top and tail of spine and bumps to corner tips. G+.** Michael Reynolds was Locomotive Superintendent of the London and Brighton Railway in the 1870s and 1880s. This meant he was responsible for both engines and drivers. Reynolds was worried about the dangers of driving and campaigned for better training.

Keywords: Reynolds Engine Driving Adventures Incidents Lives Locomotive Drivers Footplate Education Dog Punishment Runaway Trains Royal Train Death Nathan Gordon Tay Bridge Accident Railway Orphanage 52731 Railways


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