I Tried to Run a Railway

"BR rebel chairman resigns.' —The Guardian
"Rebel rail chief in row." —Daily Mail
"I don't take it back says sacked rail chief." —Daily Express

This is the notorious book that got Gerard Fiennes sacked from British Railways while he was Chairman and General Manager of the Eastern Region in 1968. Fiennes became a railwayman by accident, joining the L.N.E.R as a Traffic Apprentice in 1928. Over the next four decades he worked himself up to the top of the manag…