{"product_id":"british-railway-enthusiasm","title":"British Railway Enthusiasm","description":"The first book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. The postwar train spotting craze swept most boys (and some girls, despite railways being coded as a male business) into a passion for railways. These people invigorated different sectors in railway enthusiasm’s life world - from railway modelling to Britain’s huge preserved railway industry.\r\nThis is the first academic book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. Far from a trivial topic, the postwar train spotting craze swept most boys and some girls into a passion for railways, and for many, ignited a lifetime’s interest.\r\nBritish railway enthusiasm traces this postwar cohort, and those which followed, as they invigorated different sectors in the world of railway enthusiasm – train spotting, railway modelling, collecting railway relics – and then, in response to the demise of main line steam traction, Britain’s now-huge preserved railway industry. Today this industry finds itself riven by tensions between preserving a loved past which ever fewer people can remember and earning money from tourist visitors.\r\nThe widespread and enduring significance of railway enthusiasm will ensure that this ground-breaking text becomes a key work in transport studies, and will appeal to enthusiasts as much as to students and scholars of transport and cultural history.","brand":"Boekhandel Bloks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051639095640,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/6859\/3841\/products\/FQMHIoY.jpg?v=1689959106","url":"https:\/\/boekhandelbloks.cfd\/en\/products\/british-railway-enthusiasm","provider":"Boekhandel Bloks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}