Author: David ChristiePublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445668076
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
David Christie documents the final days of steam on Britain's rail network in full colour.
The Last Days of BR Steam 1962-1968
Author: David ChristiePublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445668076
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
David Christie documents the final days of steam on Britain's rail network in full colour.
The Last Days of Steam on the British Railways, 1962-1968
Author: David ChristiePublisher:
ISBN: 9781445668062
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
David Christie documents the final days of steam on Britain's rail network in full colour.
Sixties Spotting Days 1968 The Last Year of Steam
Author: Kevin DerrickPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445660628
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Sixties Spotting Days 1968 The Last Year of Steam is a photographic album in full colour
Steam, Soot and Rust
Author: Colin GarrattPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473844134
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
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.
Last Days of Steam Northern and Eastern
Author: Tony ButcherPublisher:
ISBN: 9780857042736
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
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.
The Last Days of British Steam
Author: Malcolm CleggPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1526760436
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
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.
Ottley's Bibliography of British Railway History. Second Supplement 12957-19605
Author: A Privileged Journey
Author: David MaidmentPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783831081
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
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.
1968: Those Were the Days
Author: Brian WilliamsPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750986190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
1968 was the year when humans first glimpsed the far side of the Moon, but also the year the world was shocked by assassination, by the crushing of hope for reform and by wars that showed no sign of ever ending. To the old there seemed too much change, too quickly, with youth in revolt, though against what no one was entirely sure ... 'Hey Jude', sang the Beatles, with a refrain that lingered long into the summer night, 'Don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better'...
Countdown to 1968
Author: Robert AdleyPublisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780860934929
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
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.