Our latest book of the week is a follow up to Kelly’s memoir published in 2008 and digs even deeper into the day-to-day details of an unexperienced 15 year old thrown into the uncompromising world of working men.
The daughter of the man who saved the record-breaking Flying Scotsman from being cut up for scrap is to make a pilgrimage to the UK from her home in Portugal, to ride behind the world’s most famous steam locomotive.
In June 2017, descendants of GWR engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his locomotive genius Daniel Gooch joined the late Queen Elizabeth II on a special trip to mark the 175th anniversary of the first Royal Train.
