Following our invitation to readers to write a guest editorial for occasional use on this page, we welcome STEPHEN BERRY this month who reflects on how railway periodicals and books stimulated an interest in learning more about railways and their actvities than simply locomotive spotting. We may hope that future writers will cite Backtrack as their inspiration for delving further into the wider railway scene!
My interest in railways arose – because of a car! Born in 1949, that year my father bought a car. As a small child I remember evening runs out
