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 the 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 modeller 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. If there is something
you would like to know about the GWR, please feel free to contact me and ask
questions by using the
Contact page. I will do my best to answer from the array of material at
my disposal. The following books have been reviewed: