'Railway Reading' was written by Alan Walbank for our Autumn 1960 issue. In it he looks at the challenges to collectors of these yellow-backed Railway novels, the bright ancestors of the Pan, Penguin and Pelican series of the late 20th century.

It is read by James Fleming.

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