With the LNER in the 1920s

This evocative book looks back to the author’s four-and-a-half years of training on the London & North Eastern Railway. From childhood, railway employment had been his goal and he achieved it in 1925 when he entered the very effective training scheme generally accepted as the best of any British railway company.

At that time the railway station was a lively part of village life with its regular passengers, long distance travellers, locals off for a day's shopping, day trippers, school children and farmers with their carts and cattle. It was also a microcosm of railway life and, as such, the favourite training ground for new entrants to the service. During their training they were moved around these wayside stations at regular intervals.

Armed with his camera Humphrey Household was thus equipped to record the everyday scene on the railways of the north-east in a unique way. From Durham to York, Ripon and Harrogate, from Pocklington to Cambridgeshire by way of Hull Docks and the 1926 General Strike, he captured the locomotives, the coaches, the stations and the rolling-stock during the Golden Age.