Download or read book Railway Romance and Other Essays (Classic Reprint) written by James Scott and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Railway Romance and Other Essays Parts of these essays have appeared as articles in various magazines, e.g. in The Railway and Travel Monthly, to the Editor of which I must own indebtedness for liberty to republish. I owe far more than I can repay to my lifelong friend, Mr. John MacLean, M.A., for reading the proofs and helping me with suggestions. I know no other friend who could so enter into the spirit of the part of the book on "Railway Romance." At the back of my mind, in writing of railway matters, is the desire that railwaymen may be better understood and sympathised with by a public which is usually too busy to heed. In most of the other essays I have only "thought aloud" in trying to educate myself. To some I am sure this may be an infliction; but to others it may be some palliative that here and there they may find themselves thinking along the same lines as I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.