Mr. Ian Dean

Containing 45 monochrome pictures between its full colour covers, this 32 page album has been written by Ian Dean, Managing Director of the Mid Hants Railway plc since 1989 but more importantly the Director of the Amberley Chalk Pits Museum in Sussex during the decade before.This experience, combined with a boyhood love of the gravel, brick and cement works railways of his native Eastbourne give him both a unique grasp of the industrial narrow gauge scene and a style of writing which is enthusiastic yet entertainingly concise.

The gauge of early railways, Mr Dean relates, was fixed at about four feet as this was a comfortable space for a horse to walk in and as most of these lines were canal "feeders" unconnected to each other they escaped the controversy between Brunel and the Stephensons over the "standard" gauge for a national network.

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Ian Dean was appointed founder Director of the Amberley Working Museum, Sussex in 1979.Developing this new open-air museum involved the incorporation of a major collection of narrow-gauge equipment.In 1989 he became Managing Director of the Mid Hants Railway, later a freelance consultant.He is now retired.