Chris Booth is a retired railwayman of 43 years standing, has had an interest in railways since an early age, and continues to do so to this day. A prolific author of articles for the railway press, he has seen many of his photographs published. By the 1990s he had become a regular photographer of coal trains, collieries, and power stations. He has co-written a book 40 Years of Sheffield PSB, three books about the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway, and co-authored one entitled 'Tinsley and the Modernisation of Sheffield's Railways'.
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Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Worksop in the 1980s and 1990s: The Decades of Change; 2 Declining UK Coal Production; 3 Nottinghamshire Area Collieries; 4 Derbyshire Area Collieries; 5 Yorkshire Area Collieries; 6 Leicestershire and Staffordshire Area Collieries; 7 Power Stations; 8 Three Days at Worksop; Bibliography.