An Indian Summer of Steam is the second volume of David Maidments railway autobiography, following his first book A Privileged Journey, published in xxxx. David was a railway enthusiast who made the hobby his career. After management training on the Western Region, between 1961 and 1964, he became a stationmaster in a Welsh Valley, an Area Manager on the Cardiff Swansea main line and radiating valleys, the South Wales Train Planning Officer, the Head of Productivity Services for the Western Region and subsequently the British Railways Board, before four years from 1982 as Chief Operating Manager of the London Midland Region, the BRBs first Quality & Reliability Manager in 1986, and finally British Rails Head of Safety Policy after the Clapham Junction train accident, until privatisation. - This experience led to a number of years as an international railway safety consultant, and, as a result of an encounter on an Indian railway station during a business trip abroad, to found the Rail