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Author: Hugh Longworth
Publisher: Strange Chemistry
Published: 2013-06-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780860936503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive, number-by-number record of each type of Mark 1 and Mark 2 coach operated by British Railways from 1951 onwards.
Author: O. S. Nock
Publisher: Bounty Books
Published: 2013-12-04
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780753726341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anthony P. Sayer
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 2021-05-30
Total Pages: 777
ISBN-13: 1526762013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis informative, illustrated guide to the British Railways locomotive series covers its full production lifespan, from 1962–1965. In the early 1960s, the Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotive known as The Clayton was conceived as the new standard for British Railways, superseding other Type 1 classes. While the early classes suffered from poor driver visibility, the Claytons were highly successful and popular with operating crews. However, the largely untested high-speed, flat Paxman engines proved to be highly problematic. As a result, the Claytons were eventually withdrawn from BR service by December 1971. Anthony Sayer draws on considerable amounts of archive material to tell the full story of these ‘Standard Type 1’ locomotives and the issues surrounding their rise and fall. Further sources provide insights into the effort and money expended on the Claytons in a desperate attempt to improve their reliability. Supported by over 280 photographs and diagrams, dramatic new insights into this troubled class have been assembled for both historians and modelers alike.
Author: Andrew Walker
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-08-15
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1445680106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA terrific pictorial tribute to the type 4 locomotives that hauled trains and served the British railways.
Author: John Dedman
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-02-15
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 144567095X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Dedman examines the coaching stock found on Britain's railways through an intriguing collection.
Author: John Walford
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780901115959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Walford and Paul Harrison present the complete story of the powerful and successful Class 9Fs. Enthusiasts will find this book a delight as the engines were allocated to more than 60 depots and worked nationwide. Full details of each engine's construction, allocation and use, modification and disposal and a chapter on the 9 preserved engines is included .
Author: Kenny Barclay
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1445670224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, a companion to British Rail in the 1980s and 1990s: Diesel Locomotives and DMUs, exhibits a selection of some of his finest photographs from this period.
Author: K. Parkin
Publisher:
Published: 1999-09-01
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ISBN-13: 9781899816071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pip Dunn
Publisher: Crowood
Published: 2013-11-30
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 1847976425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish Rail Main Line Locomotives Specification Guide identifies the major detail differences and livery variations that have appeared on all British Rail, ex-British Rail and privatized railway diesel and electric main line classes from 14 to 92. The book provides a record of the main specifications of each class of locomotive, and details of variations, including: numbers, liveries, headcodes, headlights, wheel arrangements and bogies, brakes, names and - where appropriate - details of refurbishment programmes.Diesel locomotives are a relative newcomer to the railway enthusiast and modelling scenes, and this book brings together information on detail changes in a coherent reference form for the first time, illustrated with photographs of major changes. A useful resource for modellers and those with an interest in the differences that have occurred to the British Rail fleet. Superbly illustrated with around 300 colour photographs.
Author: Richard Marks
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 2024-07-04
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1399066390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1970, British Railways Board established a new subsidiary company to take over the design, manufacture and maintenance of its rolling stock. British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) was born. The company drove a new era of rail technology and this new company history tells the dazzling story of BREL from its humble beginnings up until its sale in 1992 during the controversial privatisation of Britain’s railways. The company’s work in designing the iconic new trains that would take Britain’s railways into a new era is examined alongside its relationship with subcontractors and private manufacturers, as well as its tumultuous relationship with British Railways Board. BREL’s struggles to deal with the legacy of the outdated and obsolete stock and infrastructure it inherited are examined in the light of new research. BREL’s little known success as an international exporter of British designed and manufactured trains is explored fully. The company’s heyday as a leading-edge technology manufacturer and its relationship with British Railways Research Division left not only a history of iconic trains but a legacy which is still with us on today’s modern railway.
