Download or read book LAST DAYS OF NORTH WEST STEAM written by PETER. TUFFREY and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The End of Midland Steam in the North West written by George Woods and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Wood's terrific collection of photographs of the final years of steam locomotives and trains in north-west England.
Download or read book The Last Days of Scottish Steam written by Peter Tuffrey and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted railway photographer Bill Reed shows his pin-sharp colour pictures of the last days of Scottish steam in this book. The pictures illustrate steam locomotives trundling along many of the branch lines now long gone; waiting in sleepy stations, long abandoned; as well as pausing on shed or dumped on scrap lines, awaiting their ultimate fate.
Download or read book Steam Soot and Rust written by Colin Garratt and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Last Days of Steam in North East England written by George Woods and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative collection of photographs documenting the final days of steam on the railways of North East England.
Download or read book The Last of Steam written by Joe G. Collias and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of pictures contains 300 photographs and a minimum of text. The sights, smells and sounds of steam come alive in this book as the waning years of steam railroading throughout the United States is presented. Many roads are included such as the AT&SF, B&O, CN, CP, C&O, CB&Q, Milw., C&NW, RI, Rio Grande, NYC, Pennsy and many more.
Download or read book Steaming Into History written by Michael Clutterbuck and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories tell the tale of some of the North West's footplatemen following the Second World War, as the railways undergo a series of dramatic changes due to nationalisation, the introduction of diesel engines, and the slow but steady demise of the Age of Steam.
Download or read book British Industrial Steam Locomotives written by David Mather and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Download or read book The Last Days of British Steam written by Malcolm Clegg and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Outside Is Inside written by Joe Moorwood and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Days of BR Steam 1962 1968 written by David Christie and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Christie documents the final days of steam on Britain's rail network in full colour.
Download or read book Southern Steam Days Remembered written by Kevin Derrick and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic look back at the days of Steam in the Southern Region.
Download or read book The Railways of North west England in the Latter Days of Steam written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World s Last Steam Locomotives in Industry The 20th Century written by Gordon Edgar and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning collection of rare photographs documenting the last years of industrial steam around the world. This first volume focuses on scenes captured in the twentieth century.
Download or read book Northern Exposures written by Malcolm Holdsworth and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The End of Steam in the North West of England written by Stephen Heginbotham and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning previously unpublished photographs of steam in the area. Offers a richly rewarding and nostalgic tribute to the final years of steam.
Download or read book Britain s Railways in Colour written by Colin G. Maggs MBE and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, covering the final years of steam on Britain’s railways, presents a wonderful array of over 200 color photographs, many of them previously unpublished. All the imagery is reproduced from original transparencies that have remained carefully preserved away from daylight since the day they were taken, so the original vividness of color remains – a rare quality. This book will delight today’s railway enthusiasts who are looking for new material.
