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.