A nostalgic look back at a year in the life of a teenage steam chaser at the end of British steam: steam-chasing adventures in 1966
Keith Widdowson Book order






- 2024
- 2022
One man's personal travelogue of his journeys throughout BR's Western Region, Wales and the Welsh Marches during the final months of steam
- 2020
The Last One's Gone: Lost Railway Locations of the 1960s
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
A collection of nostalgic images, many previously unpublished, documenting railway locations that are now sadly gone.
- 2019
Chasing steam across its final years on BR's London Midland region
- 2017
Scottish Steam's Final Fling
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Extracts from a teenage traveller's notebook recall the last days of Scottish steam
- 2015
Riding Yorkshire's Final Steam Trains
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
indeed any passenger service with a steam locomotive at its front From the many disappointments of thwarted possibilities to the euphoric joy of unexpected catches, together with over 130 contemporary images, Riding Yorkshire's Final Steam Trains is a compelling snapshot of the race against time at the end of the golden age of steam.