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Author : Oswald Stevens Nock
Publisher : Newton Abbot [Eng.] ; North Pomfret, Vt. : David & Charles
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015040288659
Author : Malcolm Clegg
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 In this book, he covers a wide variety of classes of locomotives that were withdrawn during the last decade of steam traction, examples of some of which are now preserved.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 : Colin G. Maggs MBE
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1844256502
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years of steam on Britain’s railways, presents a wonderful array of over 200 color photographs, many of them previously unpublished.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 : Philip Horton
Publisher : Silver Link Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 1857945778
Author : Patrick Ransome-Wallis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 1854224743
Author : David Mather
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781526770189
A pictorial history of the many producers of industrial steam locomotives in Great Britain, from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. 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 nineteenth to the mid-twentieth 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. Praise for British Industrial Steam Locomotives “A good introduction, hopefully it will encourage some of those who have only been involved during the preservation period to take a wider interest in the historical aspects of the subject.” —Industrial Locomotive Society
Author : Paul Hurley,Phil Braithwaite
Publisher : History Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0750996560
Commemorating the anniversary of the end of steam railway traction in Britain
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848872615
Now in paperback, Fire and Steam tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history. The opening of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railways' vital role in changing the face of Britain. Fire and Steam celebrates the vision and determination of the ambitious Victorian pioneers who developed this revolutionary transport system and the navvies who cut through the land to enable a country-wide network to emerge. The rise of the steam train allowed goods and people to circulate around Britain as never before, stimulating the growth of towns and industry, as well many of the facets of modern life, from fish and chips to professional football. From the early days of steam to electrification, via the railways' magnificent contribution in two world wars, the checkered history of British Rail, and the buoyant future of the train, Fire and Steam examines the social and economical importance of the railway and how it helped to form the Britain of today.
Author : Howard Routledge
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781526773593
Mention the name Carlisle to any steam enthusiast of a certain age and they will probably conjure up an image of bygone days when Stanier and Gresley pacifics rubbed shoulders alongside each other within Citadel station whilst waiting to relieve incoming titled trains such as the Royal Scot and the Waverley. Such scenes, in addition to steam locomotives threading their way across a network of goods lines, and the city’s three surviving motive power depots, were all subjects captured on film by a number of young enthusiasts who lived in Carlisle during the final years of steam. It is the work of those cameramen, aided by others who visited the area, that will offer the reader an insight as to the variety that still prevailed at Carlisle during that time. Looking slightly further afield, images are also included which feature locomotives working hard on those steeply graded lines that radiated from the city towards summits with names to capture the enthusiast’s imagination, such as Shap, Beattock, Whitrope, and Ais Gill. This book, which illustrates in depth one of the country’s major steam centres, contains more than two-hundred photographs, presented in both color and black and white, the majority of which have not been published previously.
Author : Gavin Morrison
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0857332775
This attractive, large-format book shows steam locomotives at work throughout the country, in all weathers and in a year-by-year presentation, accompanied by the author’s knowledgeable commentary. Good-quality colour photographs of the last days of the steam age are rare. Many of those that do exist have been published repeatedly, but the 250 colour photographs featured in this book, taken between 1958 and 1968, are an exception. It is believed that the photographer and author, 76-year-old Gavin Morrison, has Britain’s largest personal collection of color slides still in the hands of the original photographer.
Author : P R. Ransome Wallis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1353637402
Author : Hugh Longworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Steam locomotives
ISBN : 0860936600
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 : Colin Garratt
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Geoff Plumb
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781473869820
An evocative collection of photographs covering the Western Region during a decade of great change. After the Second World War, Britain’s railways were rundown and worn out, requiring massive investment and modernization. The “Big Four” railway companies were nationalized from 1948, and the newly formed British Railways embarked on a program of building new “Standard” steam locomotives to replace older types. These started to come on stream from 1951. This program was superseded by the 1955 scheme to dieselize and electrify many lines, and so the last loco of the “Standard” types was built in 1960—and the steam locomotives had been swept entirely from the BR network by 1968. This series of books is a photographic account of those last few years of the steam locomotives, their decline and replacement during the transition years. This volume covers much of the Western Region, as photographed by the author in his youth, often with limited time or disposable income but always with a passion for his project. While not a complete history, it offers a vivid illustration of how things were in the relatively recent past and imparts information through comprehensive captions, which give a sense of occasion—often a “last run” of a locomotive type or over a stretch of line about to be closed down. In simple terms, it’s a look at a period not so long ago but now gone forever. Praise for the series “Profusely illustrated . . . impressively informative.” —Midwest Book Review “An evocative collection of views of the twilight of BR steam.” —Railway Modeller
Author : Nigel William Kendall
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1494758415
'Steam Leviathans' is a book of the author's photographs depicting the last years of mainline steam in the UK. All images are captured between 1961 and 1968. Although the images are mostly in monochrome, colour photographs are also included.