Download or read book Locomotives of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway written by Tim Hillier-Graves and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although closed to traffic in 1966, with most of its infrastructure swiftly destroyed by British Railways, this unique railway line still lives in the minds of many, some too young to remember it in its heyday. For more then a hundred years it courted disaster and could on a number of occasions have succumbed to overpowering financial pressures, but it survived with the help of partnerships with larger, more secure companies, namely the Midland Railway and the London & South Western Railway. Later on, after the grouping in 1923, the line came under the control of the L M S and the Southern Railway. It was unfortunate that the line suffered in later years, from inter regional rivalry between the Western and Southern Regions of British Railways, which led to its eventual closure. The variety of companies involved in its running meant that during its lifetime the small pool of locomotives needed to service the line was supplemented by the best each partner could offer. So from the beginning to the end there were a myriad number of types of locomotive running over the Mendips providing a lively variety of motive power. This heavily illustrated book traces this unique and fascinating history and brings to life this singular, much missed and loved railway.
Download or read book Locomotives of the Somerset Dorset Joint Railway written by Tim Hillier-Graves and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although closed to traffic in 1966, with most of its infrastructure swiftly destroyed by British Railways, this unique railway line still lives in the minds of many, some too young to remember it in its heyday. For more then a hundred years it courted disaster and could on a number of occasions have succumbed to overpowering financial pressures, but it survived with the help of partnerships with larger, more secure companies, namely the Midland Railway and the London & South Western Railway. Later on, after the grouping in 1923, the line came under the control of the L M S and the Southern Railway. It was unfortunate that the line suffered in later years, from inter regional rivalry between the Western and Southern Regions of British Railways, which led to its eventual closure. The variety of companies involved in its running meant that during its lifetime the small pool of locomotives needed to service the line was supplemented by the best each partner could offer. So from the beginning to the end there were a myriad number of types of locomotive running over the Mendips providing a lively variety of motive power. This heavily illustrated book traces this unique and fascinating history and brings to life this singular, much missed and loved railway.
Download or read book Midland Railway and L M S 4 4 0 Locomotives written by David Maidment and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Maidment has unravelled the complex history of the Johnson, Deeley and Fowler 4-4-0 locomotives of the Midland Railway and its LMS successor, covering their design, construction, operation and performance in this book with over 400 black and white photographs. It recounts their working on the Midland main lines from St Pancras to Derby, Manchester, Leeds and Carlisle, the latter via the celebrated Settle & Carlisle line, and the later work of the Fowler LMS engines on the West Coast main line. The book also describes the history of the Midland 4-4-0s built for the Somerset & Dorset and Midland & Great Northern Railways. The book covers the period from the first Midland 4-4-0 built in 1876 to the last LMS 2P withdrawn in 1962 and includes performance logs, weight diagrams and dimensions and statistical details of each locomotive.
Download or read book The East Somerset and Cheddar Valley Railways written by Richard Harman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sabotaged and Defeated written by Jeffery Grayer and published by Noodle Books. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume captures the demise of the much loved Somerset and Dorset railway line. It's not just filled with train views, but scenes of the railway in the months just prior to and then subsequent to its closure in 1966.
Download or read book Track Layout Diagrams of the Great Western Railway and B R WR written by R. A. Cooke and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Midland Great Northern Joint Railway Through Time written by Steph Gillett and published by Through Time. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steph Gillett documents the history of this fascinating line, marking the sixtieth anniversary since its closure.
Download or read book Railwaywomen written by Helena Wojtczak and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1840s crossing gatekeepers to 21st century train drivers: a unique book about women working on Britain's railways.
Download or read book The LMS Handbook written by David Wragg and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The London Midland & Scottish Railway was the largest of the Big Four railway companies to emerge from the 1923 grouping. It was the only one to operate in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as having two short stretches of line in the Irish Republic. It was also the world's largest railway shipping operator and owned the greatest number of railway hotels. Mainly a freight railway, it still boasted the best carriages, and the work of chief engineer Sir William Stanier influenced the first locomotive and carriage designs for the nationalised British railways. Packed with facts and figures as well as historical narrative, this extensively illustrated book is a superb reference source that will be of interest to all railway enthusiasts.
Download or read book The Locomotive News and Railway Contractor written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trains Now Departed written by Michael Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to...well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment? These are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed. They are the railway lines, and services that ran on them that have disappeared and gone forever. Our lost legacy includes lines prematurely axed, often with a gripping and colourful tale of their own, as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard, and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball. Then there are the lost delights of train travel, such as haute cuisine in the dining car, the grand expresses with their evocative names, and continental boat trains to romantic far-off places. The Trains Now Departed tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain, vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age. In his personal odyssey around Britain Michael Williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks, the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them. It is a journey into the soul of our railways, summoning up a magic which, although mired in time, is fortunately not lost for ever. THIS EDITION REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE MAPS.
Download or read book Locomotive Railway Carriage and Wagon Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kelly s Directory of Somersetshire written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway to Merhead written by Pete Briddon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete Briddon is a railway locomotive specialist by trade, working for a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce Motors and eventually working independently on industrial locomotive repair in the UK. During his railway career, he has seen and been part of many fledgling preservation outfits and their coming into being, and with that, many a story you had to "be there to believe." With that, he decided to pen this story of the fictional Merhead line, a seaside town somewhere on the south coast in around 1963.
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam Around Basingstoke and Salisbury written by Charlie Verrall and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Verrall explores the fascinating history of steam around Basingstoke, Eastleigh and Salisbury.
