Worcester Locomotive Shed
Worcester Locomotive Shed

Author: Steve Bartlett

Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport

Published: 2020-08-31

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1526750627

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WORCESTER LOCOMOTIVE SHED is the third in a series of in depth studies of Western Region motive power depots. This provincial city was a busy and fascinating rail centre with main line passenger and freight services passing through alongside local passenger and freight tripping duties that together provided an endless panorama of railway activity. The Great Western Railway had a major locomotive depot here and this book takes a detailed look at the shed, how it functioned, its locomotives and its operational duties during the latter days of steam. As well as official records valuable detail and reminiscences have been gathered from former footplate and shed staff ensuring that local custom and practice is well recorded in the story. The depot’s sub-sheds at Evesham, Honeybourne, Kingham and Ledbury are also all covered in detail as well as Worcester Locomotive Works. Worcester was also home to the fondly remembered ex-GWR diesel railcars and it was their last operational base at time of final withdrawal in 1962. Their role in the area is well covered in photographs and words. Taken together the book is both a valuable historical record and a fascinating and readable story of a large motive power depot in the latter days of steam.

The Last Days of Steam in Gloucestershire
The Last Days of Steam in Gloucestershire

Author: Ben Ashworth

Publisher:

Published: 1995-06-29

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 9780750909532

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This is a photographic record of the railways of Gloucestershire during a revolutionary period, between 1959 and 1966. This book contains a wide geographical spread of photographs throughout the county, on both the former Great Western and the LMS lines.

Minchinhampton Memories
Minchinhampton Memories

Author: Maureen Reader

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2010-04-15

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1445629550

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Maureen Reader and the children from Minchinhampton School have discovered a wealth of history in the stories told by a wide range of people in Minchinhampton.

The Last Days of Glory
The Last Days of Glory

Author: Tony Rennell

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1466874813

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Queen Victoria's death in January 1901 shook Britain to its core, and reverberated not just throughout the Commonwealth, but around the world. She was a woman in her eighties, and yet it seems no one could contemplate the end of a reign that had lasted so long. Most could not remember a time when she was not Queen, and the very stability of everyday life seemed to depend on her regency. The anxiety of the government and the royal family about the prospect of the Queen's death was such that the news of her illness was deliberately concealed from the public for more than a week. When it came, people from England to Jamaica wept in the streets, and this grief was surpassed only by fear for the future. "God help us" was the standard reaction from all strata of society. The Last Days of Glory is the definitive account of those last 23 days in January 1901, when Victoria traveled to Osborne House to die. The momentous reaction to the Queen's passing attached to it more significance and a greater sense of change than the turn of the century had carried just a year earlier. Through the prism of those last days Tony Rennell presents us with a series of resonant and absorbing snapshots of a fading Empire at the end of the Victorian Age, and captures a nation coping with change, balancing comfortable nostalgia with the arrival of a new order.