Book detailing plans to build a railway in Burma found in the personal library of Eric Lomax is being auctioned . Mr Lomax was the Second World War army officer who became known as The Railway Man . The 1888 book is an account of a survey carried out to assess the feasibility of laying tracks from China to Rangoon . Mr Lomax worked on the line under duress as a Japanese prisoner of war along with thousands of others . Hundreds of photographs of a railway being built on Africa 's west coast are also up for sale .
Book detailing plans to build a railway in Burma found in the personal library of Eric Lomax is being auctioned . Mr Lomax was the Scots Second World War army officer who became known as The Railway Man . The 1888 book is an account of a survey carried out to assess the feasibility of laying tracks from China to Rangoon . Mr Lomax worked on the line under duress as a Japanese prisoner of war along with thousands of others . Hundreds of photographs of a railway being built on Africa 's west coast are also up for sale .