Great Australian Railway Stories

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: ABC Books
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 273 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Where explorers and settlers went in Australia, the railways followed. Small towns were linked like beads on a string by the railway: it was the way these communities stayed alive. The railways had their own mystery and their own language, and of course their own stories and yarns.But before all the old stories and the humour vanish in a cloud of steam, Bill Swampy Marsh, whose mother was a gangers daughter, has brought together another enthralling collection of first hand accounts, of tales from the tracks and the railway sidings, from the engines and the guard boxes, the pubs and the carriages.So vivid is this collection that you ll feel as though you are riding along with Swampy and his larrikin spirited railroad pioneers, feeling the rhythm of a train, smelling the coal and blinking a cinder or three from your eye as you travel deeper into Australias wonderful and extraordinary past.Poignant, inspiring, tragic and often downright hilarious, your travelling companions in Great Australian Railway Stories range from train drivers, gangers, fettlers, guards, firemen, publicans, a mysterious traveller called Brer Rabbit, the one legged corpse, the old driver who cooks his breakfast in the firebox ...Just as he did in Great Flying Doctors Stories, Great Australian Shearing Stories and Great Australian Droving Stories, Bill Swampy Marsh helps us remember who and what we were as a nation on this journey youll never forget!

ISBN: 9780733317392