Colonel Stephens Railmotors
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Colonel Stephens Railmotors
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Author : Stephen R. Garrett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Colonel Stephens Railmotors written by Stephen R. Garrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Locomotives categories.
Colonel Stephens And His Railmotors
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Author : BRIAN. JANES
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Colonel Stephens And His Railmotors written by BRIAN. JANES and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
The Colonel Stephens Railways
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
The Colonel Stephens Railways written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Railroads, Local and light categories.
The Colonel Stephens Railways
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Author : John Scott-Morgan
language : en
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
Release Date : 1978-01-01
The Colonel Stephens Railways written by John Scott-Morgan and has been published by David & Charles Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978-01-01 with Railroads, Local and light categories.
The Colonel Stephens Railways
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Author : John Scott-Morgan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-11
The Colonel Stephens Railways written by John Scott-Morgan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11 with Railroads categories.
The Colonel Stephens Railways
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Author : John Scott-Morgan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
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Colonel Stephens Light Railway Locomotives
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Author : Brian Janes
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Release Date : 2023-10-30
Colonel Stephens Light Railway Locomotives written by Brian Janes and has been published by Pen and Sword Transport this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-30 with Transportation categories.
Holman Fred Stephens (1868-1931) set himself up in the 1890s as an engineer and manager of the complete light railway as evolved by Victorian theorists to serve rural districts as yet bereft of the benefit of cheaper transport. To them, a light railway was not an assemblage of second-hand mainline equipment of dubious merit but of fit for purpose, new material. This ideal theory did not survive the near universal inability to raise sufficient capital to build and equip a light railway that would give a reasonable profit. Recourse was therefore made to the second-hand market. Stephens became a master at the art of building and running railways with the minimum of capital. The history of the mechanical performance of his railways was also nearly always handicapped with inadequate engineering facilities. This left staff struggling, often surprisingly successfully, with a menagerie of locomotive types. Limited standardisation was practised but most often expediency ruled. This gave rise to a glorious kaleidoscope of locomotives the history of each of which is outlined This variety was further colored by Stephens generally regarding a locomotive name as far more important than its number.
The Light Railway Handbooks The Colonel Stephens Railways 3d Ed Rev 1948
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Author : Roger Wakely Kidner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
The Light Railway Handbooks The Colonel Stephens Railways 3d Ed Rev 1948 written by Roger Wakely Kidner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Locomotives categories.
The Shropshire Montgomeryshire Light Railway
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Author : Peter Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Release Date : 2024-04-30
The Shropshire Montgomeryshire Light Railway written by Peter Johnson and has been published by Pen and Sword Transport this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-30 with Transportation categories.
The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway, was one of the lines managed and operated by Colonel Holman Fred Stephens from his office in Salford Terrace in Tonbridge Kent. It was a revival of the long disused Potteries Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway, a railway that went bankrupt shortly after opening in the mid 1860s and was left derelict for forty years. The railway reopened in 1911 to much local rejoicing, however the company was in financial difficulties by the 1920s and withdrew its passenger services in the early 1930s. During the Second World War the army took over the railway, constructing ammunition and stores depots along its entire length. After the war the railway continued to be operated by the army until closed in 1960, when it was handed over to the Western Region of British Railways for demolition. The author has researched the history of this fascinating bucolic railway over many years. In this new book he presents much previously unpublished information and many fascinating insights into the railway’s complicated history.
The Steam Rail Motors Of The Great Western Railway
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Author : Ken Gibbs
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2015-06-01
The Steam Rail Motors Of The Great Western Railway written by Ken Gibbs and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Self-propelled carriages were a major innovation at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the GWR was quick to develop a large number of steam motor cars to link farms and scattered villages across the South West to the new branch lines. Their steam motor cars ran from 1903 to 1935, stopping during the war, and were so effective at making rural areas accessible they became victims of their own success. Wagons brought in to meet the high demand proved too heavy for the carriages and they struggled on hills. Soon the steam rail motor services were in decline. After its cancellation all ninety-nine steam carriages were eventually scrapped. Engineer Ken Gibbs reveals the unique GWR carriages, a window into early twentieth-century transport, and the modern replica he helped build, now the only way of viewing these charming historic vehicles.