Publisher's Synopsis
The author's holidays as a child with his parents in the 1950s and 1960s were as much, if not more, about railways than about 'normal' holiday pursuits - especially with the decline of British steam by the mid-1960s. From 1965 until 1969, family summer holidays became two weeks in either Spain or Portugal: Sitges, about 25 miles to the south of Barcelona in 1965; Benidorm, about 30 miles to the north of Alicante in 1966; Ofir, about 30 miles to the north of Oporto in northern Portugal in 1967 and 1968; and Tarragona, about 60 miles to the south of Barcelona in 1969. This is a nostalgic and captivating time capsule of Iberian railways from over fifty years ago created out of the private collection of a renowned authority on steam locomotives.
