Mountain Engines

A long time ago, before a TV series bought them into the big time (a TV series i could never warm to if i am to be honest), i read and loved the Railway Series of books by the Reverend W. Awdry, Thomas the Tank Engine et al. 

I had all of the original series books, as well as some audio book versions which were recorded by Johnny Morris. The books might be in my parents' attic somewhere but i decided to buy a couple of the original series anyway to have a bit of a nostalgic hit...

The first one i got was Mountain Engines, set on a rack railway that climbs the mountain Culdee Fell. As i read it the memories came flooding back, lovely stories to grasp a childhood imagination and i was reminded of how beautiful the original artwork was by Gunvor and Peter Edwards.