Publisher’s Synopsis
Dr. Allen was born at Epsom. His childhood home overlooked the line of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, which was about to become a constituent of the Southern Railway. He started photographing trains at the age of twelve and has been doing so ever since. He was educated at Westminster where a life-long friendship with Hamilton Ellis first started, in spite of the latter’s belief that the South Western was a better line than the Brighton. One half-term holiday he was invited by a kindly driver on to the footplate of the Metropolitan Railway 4-4-OT No. 23 for a journey from Quainton Road to Brill. This driver began talking about his duodenal ulcer and by the time No. 23 had returned to Quainton Road , Ian Allen had decided to take up the medical profession. During his forty years as a doctor since qualifying at St. Thomas’ Hospital, he spent most of his war service at sea as an army medical officer on troopships, and is now a country doctor in East Anglia
 
OPC; 1982. Hardcover with unclipped dust cover. Black and white photographs. Foreword by Ian C. Allen. Pre-owned. ISBN: 086093182X