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Author : David Christie
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445668079
David Christie documents the final days of steam on Britain's rail network in full colour.
Author : David Christie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445668068
David Christie documents the final days of steam on Britain's rail network in full colour.
Author : Tony Butcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0857042734
In the 1950s a magnificent array of steam locomotives still operated on the lines that criss-crossed the North and East of Britain. However, in 1955 the Modernisation Plan was issued that showed that steam traction was doomed. By 1960/61 the Beeching Report was starting to have a major effect on the steam fleet and some major and well-liked classes disappeared entirely. All the Princess Royals were withdrawn by the end of 1962 and the Duchesses were eliminated south of Crewe by 1963. All of the 440s were gone by the end of 1962 and many well before that date.
Author : Kevin Derrick
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445660622
Sixties Spotting Days 1968 The Last Year of Steam is a photographic album in full colour
Author : Colin Garratt
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781473844131
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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024867041
Author : Malcolm Clegg
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781526760432
A treasury of photos capturing the end of an era in transportation history—the final decade of steam locomotives in Britain. Malcolm Clegg has been taking railway pictures since the early 1960s, and also enjoys access to collections taken by friends who were recording the steam railway scene during this period. In this book, he covers a wide variety of classes of locomotives that were withdrawn during the last decade of steam traction, examples of some of which are now preserved. This book is a record of his and other peoples’ journeys during the last decade of steam in the 1960s, with photographs and informative captions looking at steam traction in a wide variety of geographical locations around the British Railways network.
Author : David Maidment
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781783831081
A Privileged Journey, Volume 1 1940-1962 is a personal and individual account of the author' youthful enthusiasm for trains and the travels he undertook in Great Britain and on the European continent as a student and management trainee of British Railways. It is illustrated by over 140 black and white photos, mostly taken by the author himself as a boy and student. The chapters cover the emergence of the young boy's interest in steam locomotives in particular, through his 'trainspotting' days to his numerous journeys in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with many accounts of locomotive performance supported by an extensive appendix of train 'logs'. Some of the chapters are much extended narratives from articles serialised in the UK enthusiast magazine, 'Steam World' over the last decade and are also based on ten hours of verbal interviews recorded by the UK National Railway Museum at York as part of their 'Oral History' archives supported by a UK National Lottery Grant.??The second volume, to be published at a later date, covering the period from 1962 to the current time, will describe his continuing interest and records while pursuing his career as stationmaster, area manager, train planner, Regional operating manager and finally Head of Safety before his retirement in 1996 and subsequent career as an international railway safety consultant.
Author : Robert Adley
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0860934926
4th August 1968 is a significant date in the annals of railway history as it witnessed the end of steam traction on British Rail. This book is a tribute to the men and machines of the much lamented steam era and is a diarized, month-by-month account from 1962 until 1968.
Author : David Mather
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781526770226
Extensively illustrated with photos, a history of the many locomotives that became part of this British Railways region. This book investigates the vast number of locomotives that came to the London Midland Region in 1948 upon the nationalization of the four largest railway companies in the UK. It is a class-by-class survey with over two hundred illustrations, covering all the top link and freight classes and also looking at the smaller types of locomotive, operating on branch lines and doing more humble tasks. The author explores what happened to them, and also looks at those that eventually made their way into preservation.
Author : Andrew Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445666405
Andrew Cole looks at the first generation of DMUs.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015065069117
Author : Jim Blake
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781473857117
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.
Author : Kenn Pearce
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780750959995
In the 1950s and 1960s south Lancashire and Cheshire was criss-crossed by a web of railway lines, servicing the various needs of local industries. The region was a haven for railway enthusiasts who pursued the hundreds of steam workhorses based at British Railways depots in 'chemical towns' such as Warrington, Widnes, Wigan and Sutton Oak, besides Southport and Northwich. While these facilities appeared less glamorous than larger counterparts in Liverpool or Manchester, the stories of the engines, trains and the men who were based at the depots in these towns was no less fascinating. Shed Side in South Lancashire and Cheshireprovides a fascinating portrait of the daily operations of the freight and passenger trains of the region during the final decade of Britain's steam era. It evokes a period of grimy, metal-clattering, smoke-filled industry, and of an era forever etched in our industrial heritage.
Author : Barrie C. Woods
Publisher : Barrie C. Woods
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780956482037
A fascinating tale of a young school boy's exploits in his quest to spot every steam locomotive in the UK during the 1950s & 1960s, until steam finished on British Railways on 4th August 1968. at the time I lived in North Hertfordshire, so my trainspotting days began mainly at Hitchin on the ECML. I later moved to Guildford and carried on from there. I was fortunate in that I recorded virtually all my activities and furthermore have retained those records to this day. In those days before computers and mobile phones Trainspotting was one of the most popular hobbies in the country. My travels covered virtually the whole of the UK over a 10 year period. During that time along with my friends we had lots of interesting and sometimes amusing incidents; such as the Castleford 'Snow' occurrence; contretemps with a herd of Bullocks; run-ins with the law and shed foremen; sleeping rough on many occasions; a scary walk over Crumlin viaduct; our coach catching fire on the M1; plus many more. we visited locomotive sheds over 600 times during which I recorded in excess of 21,000 engines! We travelled by any means available; coach; bus; mini-bus; bicycle; car; motorbike; train; ferry; and a lot of hitchhiking! The latter including one such ride on a 9F which took me right into the shed I was about to bunk! We would take every opportunity to be by our beloved steam engines, daily on the way to & from school, then again in the evenings and every 2-3 weeks off an a tour somewhere in the UK some of these lasted 4 -5 days, often with rather dubious overnight accommodation! these tours were to all parts of the UK, from South Wales to Aberdeen, the Northwest, Northeast, Midlands, North Wales, south to Brighton, Southampton, Isle of Wight, West country and dozens of other locations The book has full colour card covers, is A4 portrait style of 185 pages and over 100 B & W photos. At the end of the text are two appendices, the first lists every shed visited and the relevant dates, the second lists in chronological order every locomotive seen, its shed and date. Barrie