Michael H C Baker has been travelling in and out of Paddington all of his life. For 31 years, he edited the Echo, the magazine of the Great Western Society, and today he edits North Star, the magazine of STEAM, the museum set in the old GWR works at Swindon. He has had over 50 books published on all sorts of subjects, mostly transport, on people and places, hundreds of articles, for the National Trust, the Times Educational Supplement and many other publications.