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Growing up in Edinburgh during the 1920s, Eric Lomax became obsessed by the great steam engines he saw shunting wagons in the city’s Portobello Goods Yard.
As a lonely teenager he would cycle miles to remote branch lines for the satisfaction of spotting some obscure engine parked in the sidings. When war broke out he joined the Royal Signals and in 1942 he was sent to Malaya just as the Japanese invasion began. After the British surrender of Singapore, he was sent to work on the construction of the notorious Burma–Siam Railway, where he was interrogated and horribly tortured. Returning home he was possessed by hatred of the Japanese interpreter who was present at his interrogation. Only after many years was he able to find freedom from the corrosive hatred that had been ruining his life in a moving act of reconciliation.
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