The Railway Years
The Further Reminiscences of a Truck Driver
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Book Details
About the Book
The Railway Years is Laurie Driver's second book, his first being This Truckin' Life. This second book is about the life and times when Laurie worked for British Rail, as a road vehicle driver, for the London Midland Region and then National Carriers Limited, Railfreight and then onto Freightliner and later as a conductor for North West Trains The book is an anecdotal work with numerous humorous anecdotes interspersed with informative and useful information concerning the railways. There is hilarity set alongside touching and sometimes shocking revelations.
About the Author
Laurie Driver is the pseudonym of Dennis Burnier-Smith who spent most of his working life in the transport industry in the UK. He became a truck driver at age 18. He is Manchester born and still lives in that city. He has been marrried for 43 years and has 2 daughters. Dennis retired at 60 years of age after the effects of an industrial accident and that was when he toook up writing.