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The Railway Years is Laurie Driver's second book, his first being This Truckin' Life. This second book is about the life and times when Laurie worked for British Rail, as a road vehicle driver, for the London Midland Region and then National Carriers Limited, Railfreight and then onto Freightliner and later as a conductor for North West Trains The book is an anecdotal work with numerous humorous anecdotes interspersed with informative and useful information concerning the railways. There is hilarity set alongside touching and sometimes shocking revelations.

The book is a set of reflections and recollections of a driver's 40 plus years in the hard and unforgiving world of the haulage and transport industry. It delves into the methods resorted to, in order to survive and make ends meet for him and his family, in a world where the driver is considered the lowest of the low. There is both humour and pathos and some love and some violence. There are tales of underhand dealings, fiddles and thievery. It tells of times when truck driving was a man's world. Hard relentless toil, long, unsocial hours when there was no power steering and all gearboxes...