LAST YEARS OF WEST MIDLANDS STEAM.
Author: PETER. TUFFREY
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Published: 2021
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ISBN-13: 9781914227011
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Author: PETER. TUFFREY
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Published: 2021
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ISBN-13: 9781914227011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Clemens
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Published: 2017-06-08
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781781556146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlan Maund lived in Worcestershire all his life and had an enthusiasm for steam. He traveled extensively in Britain and built up a large railway photographic archive from the late 1950s onwards. This book is made up entirely of Alan's collection of photographs from across the Midlands. It will appeal to railway enthusiasts, modelers, and those with an interest in local history. Alan started using color film in 1959 and color slides make up the majority of the photographs. Many enthusiasts in this era had a policy of filming steam only and ignoring the new diesel interlopers, but not Alan; they do make appearances, even including some early electric classes. A particular passion of Alan's was small industrial steam locomotives, and he restored a Kerr Stuart 'Wren' class 0-4-0 to working order between 1959 and 1961. So in addition to larger British Railways locomotives, their smaller relations are also seen across the Midlands. Alan passed on in 1982 and his widow, Wendy, gave Alan's collection of railway photographs to filmmaker and author Michael Clemens, whose late father was a friend of Alan's. Alan's collection lives on today at film shows around the country and now in this book.
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Published: 2015
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ISBN-13: 9781854143921
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Published: 2023-10-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781914227547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Colin Garratt
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2015-11-30
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1473844134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Roger Malone
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Published: 2010-03-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781841149929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnyone with an interest in railway history will be fascinated by this pictorial memoir. Over 150 photographs appear in the book including photographs taken at the famous Barry scrapyard where so many locomotives ended their days.
Author: David Mather
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 2020-09-30
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1526770202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: J. B. Bucknall
Publisher: Specialist Marketing International
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780711022508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Mather
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 2020-07-30
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 1526770229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtensively 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: Roderick H. Fowkes
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2018-03-30
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1473896312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe photographs in this volume of Steam in the East Midlands and Lincolnshire cover an area beginning at Derby Headquarters of the Midland following the Midland line to Nottingham and its environs, pausing at locations en-route.Trent, in the southeast corner of Derbyshire, was a station without a town, its position and importance as an interchange junction for five main railway routes, through the plethora of junctions, served London, Birmingham, Derby, Chesterfield and Nottingham. Remarkably enough, trains could depart from opposite platforms, in opposite directions but to the same destination. There was also the constant procession of coal trains off the Erewash Valley line from the nearby Toton marashaling yard.Also featured is the Derby Friargate to Nottingham Victoria, the Great Northern Railway line, and the former Great Central route, along with scenes at Saxby where the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, mainly single track line diverged, running via Bourne to East Coast resorts. Finally, there are scenes at Grantham, where changing engines in 1954 was the order of the day. Locomotives are photographed at work, at rest and awaiting a call for scrap.