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Author: Mark Jamieson Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445697734 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 187
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A pictorial record of over 100 quality colour images, many never seen before, and with detailed captions, explores this iconic period of rail history.
Author: Mark Jamieson Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445697734 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 187
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A pictorial record of over 100 quality colour images, many never seen before, and with detailed captions, explores this iconic period of rail history.
Author: Martyn Hilbert Publisher: Fonthill Media ISBN: Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 181
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The British Rail corporate image and its Rail Blue livery was one of the longest-lived colour schemes carried by the trains of Britain in the forty-eight-year life of the nationalised railway network. Launched in 1965, after Beeching, the then new corporate image was an attempt by the BR design panel to raise the profile of the railway system countrywide and to sweep away the dull steam-era image as the swinging sixties got underway. By the mid-1970s, virtually all BR locomotives and multiple units were carrying Rail Blue livery, while most of the passenger coaches were in matching blue/grey. As the British Rail network was sectorised from the late 1980s in preparation for eventual privatisation, new bold, bright livery schemes for the fleet swept away the familiar, but by then somewhat jaded BR image. The BR blue era is now looked upon with affection as a golden age when the system was operated by an immense variety of locomotives and rolling stock, all now part of history in the same way that the steam era was viewed when the BR blue era ruled on Britain’s railways.
Author: David Hayes Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445685582 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 180
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A nostalgic overview of the rail scene in the 1970s. The photographs in this book try to capture a flavour of the railways during this fascinating transition period.
Author: Zhenhua Chen Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1784419842 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 288
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This book reflects on experiences in other countries and makes recommendations for improving the capability and capacity of institutions and organizations, in order to achieve sustainable development of the Chinese high-speed railway (HSR) system.
Author: Russell Saxton Publisher: ISBN: 9781913295912 Category : Languages : en Pages : 96
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A fascinating era for modern traction is the changeover from the old British Railways green and maroon to Rail Blue of the new British Rail. This book aims to portray the varied livery styles of the times worn by the BR locos. It illustrates every major change of the green to blue period, including many little known and surprising combinations.
Author: Simon Bradley Publisher: Profile Books ISBN: 1847653529 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 607
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Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2015 Currently filming for BBC programme Full Steam Ahead Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism. As a self-contained world governed by distinctive rules and traditions, the network also exerts a fascination all its own. From the classical grandeur of Newcastle station to the ceaseless traffic of Clapham Junction, from the mysteries of Brunel's atmospheric railway to the lost routines of the great marshalling yards, Simon Bradley explores the world of Britain's railways, the evolution of the trains, and the changing experiences of passengers and workers. The Victorians' private compartments, railway rugs and footwarmers have made way for air-conditioned carriages with airline-type seating, but the railways remain a giant and diverse anthology of structures from every period, and parts of the system are the oldest in the world. Using fresh research, keen observation and a wealth of cultural references, Bradley weaves from this network a remarkable story of technological achievement, of architecture and engineering, of shifting social classes and gender relations, of safety and crime, of tourism and the changing world of work. The Railways shows us that to travel through Britain by train is to journey through time as well as space.
Author: David Reed Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1398109967 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 180
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Previously unpublished images documenting the early post-steam years of Britain's railways in the Southern Region and the early preservation years.
Author: Tom Zoellner Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698151399 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 420
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An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.
Author: Jim Blake Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1526703181 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 313
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An extensively illustrated history of the transition from steam to diesel and electric traction, and the last few decades before privatization. Jim Blake took a huge number of pictures capturing both the dramatic changes and decline of the railways pre-1997, both in the London area where he lived and around the country. This book provides a photographic history of the period, covering all aspects of the railway and its operations. It portrays the process of coming to terms with the post-Beeching, post-steam era, before a change of political will brought more rail investment. The volume looks not only at locomotives and trains, but also the overall railway scene during a tumultuous era.
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