The Last Years Of South West Steam
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The Last Years Of South West Steam
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Author : Peter Tuffrey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-10-19
The Last Years Of South West Steam written by Peter Tuffrey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-19 with categories.
Southern Steam Recollections
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Author : Don Benn
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2019-11-30
Southern Steam Recollections written by Don Benn and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-30 with Photography categories.
This collection of historic photographs showcases the steam trains of England’s Southern Railway from Devon and Cornwall to Wimbledon and beyond. Train enthusiast Don Benn photographed steam locomotives along England’s Southern Railway from 1960 until steam engines were retired in 1967. In his most prolific years, between 1961 and 1963, Benn captured the last of the classic ex Southern Railway designs, such as the King Arthurs, Lord Nelson and Schools classes. Beloved trains such as the Bournemouth Belle and Lymington Pier boat trains are shown to good effect. The 150 black and white photos presented in this volume, many published here for the first time, span the Southern Region from the east to the ‘withered arm’ in Devon and Cornwall. Special focus is paid to the areas just south and south west of London, including such historic locations as the footpaths at South Croydon and Wimbledon.
Steam Soot And Rust
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Author : Colin Garratt
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2015-11-30
Steam Soot And Rust written by Colin Garratt and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-30 with Transportation categories.
The disappearance of the steam locomotive in the land of its birth touched the hearts of millions, but when the government announced the Modernisation Plan for Britain's railways in 1955, under which steam was to be phased out in favour of diesel and electric traction, few people took it seriously. Steam locomotives were an integral part of our daily lives and had been for almost one and a half centuries. Furthermore, they were still being built in large numbers. It was popularly believed that they would see the century out and probably well beyond that. But the reality was that by 1968 a mere thirteen years after the Modernisation Plan steam traction had disappeared from Britain's main line railways. It was harrowing to witness the breaking up of engines, which were the icons of their day, capable of working long-distance inter-city expresses weighing 400 tons on schedules faster than a mile a minute. Top speeds of 100mph were not unknown.This book chronicles the last few years as scrap yards all over Britain went into overtime, cutting up thousands of locomotives and releasing a bounty of more than a million tons of scrap whilst the engines, which remained in service, were a shadow of their former selves; filthy, wheezing and clanking their way to an ignominious end. The pictures in this book are augmented by essays written by Colin Garratt at the time. Although steam disappeared from the main line network it survives in everdwindling numbers on industrial systems such as collieries, ironstone mines, power stations, shipyards, sugar factories, paper mills and docks. In such environments steam traction eked out a further decade and during this time many of the industrial locations closed rendering the locomotives redundant. The British steam locomotive was born amid the coalfields and was destined to die there one and three quarter centuries later.
British Steam Sunset
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Author : Jim Blake
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2018-08-30
British Steam Sunset written by Jim Blake and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-30 with Transportation categories.
In this new album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a selection of pictures he took around the country in British steam's final years.British Railways withdrew their last steam engines with almost indecent haste in the mid- to late–1960s, many having seen only a few years' service before consignment to the scrapheap. Jim's pictures graphically show how not only the locomotives themselves were neglected in their final years, but also their working environment. Their motive power depots were also badly run down, particularly when slated for closure upon steam's demise.Most of Jim's pictures of steam locomotives, taken fifty years ago, are previously unpublished. In BR steam's last two years, they were based in two distinctly different areas on the London & South Western main line, and in the industrial north. However, their decline was just as sad and depressing in both areas once proud depots such as London's Nine Elms, with broken windows and roof open to the sky, not repaired after wartime, piles of ash and clinker everywhere, were just as derelict as those in such places as Wigan or Sunderland. Many scenes herein invoke the sad, eerie atmosphere of steam's last months.Ironically, it was London Transport who operated the last publicly-owned standard gauge steam locomotives in 1971, some three years after BR's had gone. These are included within these pages too.
An Indian Summer Of Steam
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Author : David Maidment
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2016-01-30
An Indian Summer Of Steam written by David Maidment and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-30 with Transportation categories.
An Indian Summer of Steam' is the second volume of David Maidment's 'railway' autobiography, following his first book 'A Privileged Journey', published in xxxx. David was a railway enthusiast who made the hobby his career. After management training on the Western Region, between 1961 and 1964, he became a stationmaster in a Welsh Valley, an Area Manager on the Cardiff _ Swansea main line and radiating valleys, the South Wales Train Planning Officer, the Head of Productivity Services for the Western Region and subsequently the British Railways Board, before four years from 1982 as Chief Operating Manager of the London Midland Region, the BRB's first Quality & Reliability Manager in 1986, and finally British Rail's Head of Safety Policy after the Clapham Junction train accident, until privatisation.rn This experience led to a number of years as an international railway safety consultant, and, as a result of an encounter on an Indian railway station during a business trip abroad, to found the 'Railway Children' charity to support street children living on the rail and bus stations of India, East Africa and the UK, described in 2012 by an officer of the United Nations Human Rights Commission as the largest charity in the world working exclusively for street children. All this is the background to the descriptions the author gives of the last years of steam and his many journeys and experiences during his training in South Wales and the South West, his travels all over BR from 1962 until the end of steam in 1968, his search for steam in France, East and West Germany and China and the steam specials in Britain, France, Germany and China after the demise of regular steam working. The book includes over 100 black and white and 100 colour photos, most taken by the author during his travels, and nearly forty pages of logs of locomotive performance in Britain and the continent. rn All royalties from the book are being donated by the author to the charity he founded, a brief description of which is included in the last chapter of the book.
Last Days Of Steam Western And Southern
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Author : Tony Butcher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-09-22
Last Days Of Steam Western And Southern written by Tony Butcher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-22 with Steam locomotives categories.
In 1955, the Modernisation Plan had just been issued which showed that steam traction's future was doomed. In the Southern Region many old classes had kept working due to the Second World War and the subsequent austerity period. No the SR 4-4-0 classes gradually disappeared, hastened by the 1961 electrification of the Kent lines. The Western Region had a more balanced engine set of 4-6-0s and tank engines, but was to see steam finish earlier. In this book, Tony Butcher's black and white images portray the poetry and the power of these living machines.
Last Days Of North West Steam
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Author : PETER. TUFFREY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Last Days Of North West Steam written by PETER. TUFFREY and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
The World S Last Steam Locomotives In Industry The 20th Century
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Author : Gordon Edgar
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2022-01-15
The World S Last Steam Locomotives In Industry The 20th Century written by Gordon Edgar and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-15 with Transportation categories.
A stunning collection of rare photographs documenting the last years of industrial steam around the world. This first volume focuses on scenes captured in the twentieth century.
Steam In The East Midlands And Lincolnshire
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Author : Roderick H. Fowkes
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2018-03-30
Steam In The East Midlands And Lincolnshire written by Roderick H. Fowkes and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-30 with Transportation categories.
The photographs in this volume of Steam in the East Midlands and Lincolnshire cover an area beginning at Derby Headquarters of the Midland following the Midland line to Nottingham and its environs, pausing at locations en-route.Trent, in the southeast corner of Derbyshire, was a station without a town, its position and importance as an interchange junction for five main railway routes, through the plethora of junctions, served London, Birmingham, Derby, Chesterfield and Nottingham. Remarkably enough, trains could depart from opposite platforms, in opposite directions but to the same destination. There was also the constant procession of coal trains off the Erewash Valley line from the nearby Toton marashaling yard.Also featured is the Derby Friargate to Nottingham Victoria, the Great Northern Railway line, and the former Great Central route, along with scenes at Saxby where the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, mainly single track line diverged, running via Bourne to East Coast resorts. Finally, there are scenes at Grantham, where changing engines in 1954 was the order of the day. Locomotives are photographed at work, at rest and awaiting a call for scrap.
The Last Days Of Steam On The Southern
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Author : Alan Postlethwaite
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Last Days Of Steam On The Southern written by Alan Postlethwaite and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Railroads categories.
