Quarto rose printed cloth spine with vignette signal mast, pictorial front board (tips & edges rubbed, lower front corner badly damaged, small piece missing from wheel of train) 2 inches thick and unpaginated, prize label to front free endpaper dated 1936 from Methodist Sunday School. Titlepage with blank area scuffed where pencil inscription was erased. Two text illustrations partially child-coloured, some text highlighted. Printed on thick paper, but some pages have edges worn.