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‘TRAIN DRIVER’ is a Railway Career Memoir of Roger Taylor, born in Essex, in 1953 and emigrated with his parents to Adelaide in South Australia at the age of six.

This book traces the author’s unique railway career from cleaner to driver, working for two different railway systems that were quite literally worlds apat; the now defunct broad gauge railways of South Australia and the West Anglian Railways of Great Britain. It spans the twilight years of steam working, cleaning these locomotives at Mile End in Australia in 1969, to working with diesels at Britain’s largest depot at Stratford in East London, to the modern-day driving of the electric Stansted Express airport service.

Roger Taylor gives a critical appraisal regarding the changes in working practices with the introduction of Driver Only Operation, sentiments that were shared by many who experienced the drastic changes that were made to accommodate the privatisation of British Rail.