Books are, I find, very personal things.  As an avid reader for as long as I can remember I am inclined to agree with the late, great, physicist, Carl Sagan, that "A book is window into someone else's mind, some where, some when".

I have some 250 plus railway books, the vast majority of which have some bearing on Grub Water & Relief or it's constituents.  Many of them I have had for decades and all of them keep on proving themselves useful.

Einstein was once berated by a colleague for not knowing his own telephone number.  His reply was interesting:  "Why should I remember something I can look up in a book?"  I can think of no better reason to amass and catalogue books and works of reference to provide the bank of knowledge necessary to be a modeler who seeks to produce the best he or she is capable of.   For that one needs abundant resources of information.

I model a period that was over long before I was born - circa 1900 - and so books and photographs are critically important if I am to achieve anything like any degree of accuracy, time and .

If there is something you would like to know about the GWR, please feel free to contact me and ask questions by using the Your Comments page.  I will do my best to answer from the array of material at my disposal.

The following books have been reviewed:

Operation Torbay Summer Weekday & Saturday Passenger Services: 1957 Newton Abbot - Torquay - Paignton - Goodrington - Kingswear

The Railways of Great Britain - A Historical Atlas

Brunel - An Engineering Biography

50 Years Along the Line The Guild's revered and historic past.

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