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Author: Hugh Longworth Publisher: ISBN: 9780860936602 Category : Steam locomotives Languages : en Pages : 360
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An exhaustive and monumental listing of every steam locomotive operated by British Railways from Nationalisation until the end of steam in 1968, now brought completely up to date in a second edition.
Author: Hugh Longworth Publisher: ISBN: 9780860936602 Category : Steam locomotives Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
An exhaustive and monumental listing of every steam locomotive operated by British Railways from Nationalisation until the end of steam in 1968, now brought completely up to date in a second edition.
Author: David Mather Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport ISBN: 1526770202 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 210
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The first steam locomotives used on any British railway, worked in industry. The use of new and second hand former main line locomotives, was once a widespread aspect of the railways of Britain. This volume covers many of the once numerous manufacturers who constructed steam locomotives for industry and contractors from the 19th to the mid 20th centuries. David Mather has spent many years researching and collecting photographs across Britain, of most of the different locomotive types that once worked in industry. This book is designed to be both a record of these various manufacturers and a useful guide to those researching and modelling industrial steam.
Author: Peter Herring Publisher: Southwater Publishing ISBN: 9781780191638 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 0
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Britain was the pioneering force behind the birth of the steam locomotive. This authoritative visual reference spans over 150 years of railway history, featuring 85 class profiles, a comprehensive glossary and over 200 photographs.
Author: Keith Langston Publisher: Casemate Publishers ISBN: 1845631463 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 321
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After WWII the existing railway companies were all put into the control of the newly formed British Transport Commission and that government organization spawned British Railways, which came into being on 1st January 1948. The railway infrastructure had suffered badly during the war years and most of the steam locomotives were 'tired' and badly maintained and or life expired. Although the management of British Railways was already planning to replace steam power with diesel and electric engines/units they still took a decision to build more steam locomotives (as a stop gap). Some 999 (yes just 1 short) Standard locomotives were built in 12 classes ranging from super powerful express and freight engine to suburban tank locomotives. The locomotives were mainly in good order when the order came in 1968 to end steam, some only 8 years old.There still exists a fleet of 46 preserved Standards of which 75% are in working order in and around the UKs preserved railways, furthermore 3 new build standard locomotives are proposed. Steam fans who were around in the 1960s all remember the 'Standards'.
Author: John Walford Publisher: ISBN: 9780901115959 Category : Locomotives Languages : en Pages : 0
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John Walford and Paul Harrison present the complete story of the powerful and successful Class 9Fs. Enthusiasts will find this book a delight as the engines were allocated to more than 60 depots and worked nationwide. Full details of each engine's construction, allocation and use, modification and disposal and a chapter on the 9 preserved engines is included .
Author: Malcolm Clegg Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport ISBN: 9781526778604 Category : Languages : en Pages : 168
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L M S & L N E R Steam Locomotives, is the result of over two decades of photographing steam locomotives in action in many parts of Britain covered by the former LMS and LNER Railway Companies. They were the two largest of the 'Big Four' Railway Companies which operated in Britain between 1923 and 1948. The majority of the photographs were taken during the British Railways era between 1948 and 1968. Although the author Malcolm Clegg has a sizeable collection of steam locomotive photographs taken during this period, the photographs which appear in this book are from the private collection of his lifelong friend and family relative, Mr Peter Cookson (a retired school-master), himself a railway historian, author and amateur photographer, who has kindly provided the photographs for publication in this book. Many of the photographs selected are rare and unusual for a variety of reasons which should appeal to railway historians and steam enthusiasts alike.
Author: Colin G. Maggs MBE Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK ISBN: 9781844256501 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book, covering the final years of steam on Britain’s railways, presents a wonderful array of over 200 color photographs, many of them previously unpublished. All the imagery is reproduced from original transparencies that have remained carefully preserved away from daylight since the day they were taken, so the original vividness of color remains – a rare quality. This book will delight today’s railway enthusiasts who are looking for new material.
Author: Brian Stephenson Publisher: ISBN: 9780711012455 Category : Locomotives Languages : en Pages : 128
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The Standard steam locomotives were designed by R.A. Riddles and his team. There were 12 classes in all - totalling 999 locomotives - built between January 1951, when the first, No 70000 Britannia, emerged from the BR workshops at Crewe, and March 1960 - the date that No 92220 Evening Star, the last of the Standards left Swindon.
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