Covers main line expresses, local and branch line services plus special workings. Includes Steam, Diesel and Electric locomotives from over six decades. Contains views from the length and breadth of the North of England. Sixty-five years of passenger trains, many remembered and many forgotten.

John Matthews was born at Preston Royal Infirmary in September 1951 and grew up in a terraced street devoid of a single car! He left school at sixteen with the modest achievement of two GCE 'O' levels in English and Mathematics. A job in a bank and a short spell as a bus driver followed. He is now a widower after the sad loss of his wife Sharon four years ago. He has two sons and two grandsons of whom he is very proud. He has adopted a snow leopard and other interests include watercolour painting and cricket.