I bought this book as someone who is fascinated by post-war British history rather than as someone with a love of railways (and British Rail(ways) certainly impacted on the former) so I was concerned the book could come across as dry and technical; I need not have had any worries.
Well-written in a way any layman can understand, it is a fascinating journey through an organisation that clearly means many things to many people, both past and present. There is a strong tendency towards a belief that state-ownership is better than private ownership but that is, of course, the authors’ privilege - others, including me, may disagree on the basis there is good and bad in both. And in fairness the writer is critical of certain aspects of state administration.
If there is one criticism to be made it is that the author’s political beliefs do show themselves at times. It may surprise some out there but people who voted for Brexit did not do so because they were influenced by ‘tales of straight bananas and [the] banning of double-decker buses’ but alas such lazy thinking does appear in the introduction.
But it would be churlish to see that as reasons to mark this book as anything other than five stars out of five. An all-together interesting and informative book and one I would recommend.
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