Author: David St. John Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780715362082
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The West Country
A Regional history of the railways of Great Britain
Author: David St. John Thomas
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN: 9780946537129
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN: 9780946537129
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain
Author: David St. John Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780946537594
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780946537594
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: South and West Yorkshire, the industrial West Riding, by D. Joy
Author: David St. John Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Regional History of the Railways of Britain.
Author: John Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780946537037
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780946537037
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain
Author: K. Hoole
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780715364390
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780715364390
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain
Author: David St. John Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The Lake Counties. 2nd ed
Author: David St. John Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
British Railways in the 1960s
Author: Geoff Plumb
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 147386979X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
A “profusely illustrated” and “impressively informative” look at the end of the steam locomotive era on one of UK’s Big Four railway lines (Midwest Book Review). After the Second 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, The Geoff Plumb Collection, is a photographic account of those last few years of the steam locomotives, their decline and replacement during the transition years. Each book covers one of the former Big Four, the Southern Railway, London Midland & Scottish Railway, Great Western Railway and London & North Eastern Railway, including some pictures of the Scottish lines of the LMS and LNER. Though not a complete history of the railways, the books bring a sense of occasion to the last run of a locomotive type or a stretch of line about to be closed down. Pictures are of the highest quality that could be produced with the equipment then available, but they do reflect real life and real times. In simple terms, a look at a period not so long ago but now gone forever. “An evocative collection of views of the twilight of BR steam.” —Railway Modeller
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 147386979X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
A “profusely illustrated” and “impressively informative” look at the end of the steam locomotive era on one of UK’s Big Four railway lines (Midwest Book Review). After the Second 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, The Geoff Plumb Collection, is a photographic account of those last few years of the steam locomotives, their decline and replacement during the transition years. Each book covers one of the former Big Four, the Southern Railway, London Midland & Scottish Railway, Great Western Railway and London & North Eastern Railway, including some pictures of the Scottish lines of the LMS and LNER. Though not a complete history of the railways, the books bring a sense of occasion to the last run of a locomotive type or a stretch of line about to be closed down. Pictures are of the highest quality that could be produced with the equipment then available, but they do reflect real life and real times. In simple terms, a look at a period not so long ago but now gone forever. “An evocative collection of views of the twilight of BR steam.” —Railway Modeller