Peter’s Railway and the Moonlight Express - Book 2
The story continues with Peter and his Grandpa building more track and equipment for their steam railway across the farm. As usual, Grandpa tells stories from the old railways.
The main projects are the building of a turntable at Gerald's Cross station and a loop of track at the far end of the line to turn the trains. Many technical ideas are simply explained as they go along and more parts of the steam engine are railway are explored.
For Peter the great excitement of this book is learning to drive the engine, Fiery Fox. It is what he has been waiting for since they started to build the railway. Apart from one disastrous escapade, everything works as they intended. The story finishes with the railway running at night, taking Grandma to a surprise birthday dinner.
Hardback, 96 pages with 30 watercolour pictures. There are 14 pages of simple technical drawings to explain, add interest and answer questions.