Download or read book Swindon Works written by Rosa Matheson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age of steam is past, the heyday of Swindon Works is long gone – but the legend lives on. What made the Great Western Railway’s Swindon Works iconic? Was it its worldwide reputation; perhaps its profound impact in shaping the new town of Swindon; or that it melded those who worked there into one big family? In a new and exciting format, this book, by popular railway historian Rosa Matheson, helps explain why the never-ending love story endures. With big facts and fascinating stories, it is a must read not only for ex-Works employees and their families, nor just for GWR fans and railway enthusiasts, but also for any newcomer seeking to find a good way into railway history.

Download or read book Swindon Works Through Time written by Andy Binks and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Swindon Works have changed and developed since the 1940s.

Download or read book Swindon Works 1930 1960 written by Peter Timms and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1841, when the Great Western Railway began building its works at Swindon, to 1986, when the works were closed, Swindon was a railway town

Download or read book In and Around Swindon Works written by Peter Timms and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new study looking at the Swindon works in the transition period between the GWR and BR (Western) ownership.

Download or read book The Great Western at Swindon Works written by Alan S. Peck and published by Oxford Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book North British Type 2 B B Diesel Hydraulic Locomotives B R Class 22 Volume 2 Detailed Insights written by Anthony P Sayer and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Railways ‘Pilot Scheme’ orders of 1955 included six North British Type 2 diesel-hydraulic locomotives, these being introduced during 1959 for use on the Western Region. Without operational experience, a further fifty-two locomotives were delivered between 1959 and 1962. The fleet survived intact until 1968, when half of the class was withdrawn due to declining traffic levels across the UK, with successive National Traction Plans progressively selecting the less successful, non-standard and ‘numerically-challenged’ classes for removal from traffic. All fifty-eight locomotives were withdrawn by New Years Day, 1972. This book, the second of two, builds on the overview of the class provided in Volume 1, and makes extensive use of available archive material and the personal observations of numerous enthusiasts. Previously unpublished information, covering the performance issues of these locomotives, form a central focus, together with details of fire incidents and accidents. Liveries and detail differences are given in-depth treatment to illustrate that there really were reasons and a logical progression behind the complicated series of design modifications applied to the Class. Volume 2 concludes with sections on storage, withdrawal and final disposal.

Download or read book Tracing Your Railway Ancestors written by Di Drummond and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Di Drummond's concise and informative guide to Britain's railways will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about the history of the industry and for family history researchers who want to find out about the careers of their railway ancestors. In a clear and accessible way she guides readers through the social, technical and economic aspects of the story. She describes in vivid detail the rapid growth, maturity and long decline of the railways from the earliest days in the late-eighteenth century to privatization in the 1990s. In the process she covers the themes and issues that family historians, local historians and railway enthusiasts will need to understand in order to pursue their research. A sequence of short, fact-filled chapters gives an all-round view of the development of the railwaysIn addition to tracing the birth and growth of the original railway companies, she portrays the types of work that railwaymen did and pays particular attention to the railway world in which they spent their working lives. The tasks they undertook, the special skills they had to learn, the conditions they worked in, the organization and hierarchy of the railway companies, and the make-up of railway unions - all these elements in the history of the railways are covered. She also introduces the reader to the variety of records that are available for genealogical research - staff records and registers, publications, census returns, biographies and autobiographies, and the rest of the extensive literature devoted to the railway industry.

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Download or read book Railway Workshops of Britain 1823 1986 written by Edgar J. Larkin and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of Britain's railway workshops, covering the period from 1823 to 1986, this book deals with the history of the main railway workshops of Britain, a subject of wide-ranging mechanical and electrical engineering interest.