{"product_id":"books-platform-souls-by-nicholas-whittaker","title":"Platform Souls","description":"The sight of Britannia 70004 roaring through Burton-on-Trent one summer afternoon in the mid-sixties would have provided a suitable baptism for any youngster on his first trainspotting jaunt. For Nicholas Whittaker it was the beginning of a thirty-year love affair with the railways. Platform Souls is his personal odyssey through the changing world of this most English of pursuits. 'An elegy: for the steam trains already vanishing when Whittaker's hobby began in 1964; for the short-lived diesel age which followed; for an era of near innocence ...This theme is neatly handled, as is the appeal to the sheer romance of railways, the poetry of trains' TLS","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674614259985,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780575400115.jpg?v=1781534561","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-platform-souls-by-nicholas-whittaker","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}