Download or read book The Last Years of BR Steam in Wessex written by Philip Horton and published by Silver Link Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Last Years of BR Steam in Wessex written by Philip Horton and published by Silver Link Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Railways Recollections written by Philip Horton and published by Recollections. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book BR Steam in the North of England written by John Whiteley and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful photographic survey of the last years of steam on British Railways in the North of England.

Download or read book Steam Into Wessex written by Mike Esau and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book BR Steam written by Andrew Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Beeching Legacy written by Phil Horton and published by Silver Link. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this popular volume has been out of print for several years and has become much sought after. Produced in black and white, the first edition was the first volume in the series, taking a detailed regional look at the Beeching Report, its proposals for closures and modifications of the UK railway network. The report has become legendary and the interest and debate it generated is no less today than it has ever been since first published. Indeed, with railways now rejuvenated and passenger numbers growing ever larger, the reflection on what Beeching got right and what perhaps in hindsight got very badly wrong makes for fascinating reading. This new, expanded second edition has been completely reworked and is now published with color illustrations both new and replacing the original black and white images where possible. The text has been expanded and updated as appropriate and there are 32 extra pages, bringing the new edition to 192 pages.

Download or read book Last Years of British Steam written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Waterloo to Weymouth written by Mike Esau and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a large format landscape photographic album showcasing atmospheric and unpublished steam scenes along the route from London into Wessex from the camera of leading railway photographer, Mike Esau.

Download or read book Diesels in Wessex written by Kevin Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern region of British Railways was the last to make the transition from steam to diesel power, only withdrawing their last steam locomotive in 1967. Today, diesel-powered locomotives are still to be found on the routes to Weymouth and Exeter, despite being as much part of history as their steam ancestors.

Download or read book The Last Years of British Steam written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Last Days of Steam in Bristol and Somerset written by Colin Maggs and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of photographs of the last steam locomotives to run on Bristol and Somerset's railways.

Download or read book The Last Days of British Steam Railways written by Colin Dennis Garratt and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 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 British Steam Sunset written by Jim Blake and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a selection of pictures he took around the country in British steam's final years.British Railways withdrew their last steam engines with almost indecent haste in the mid- to late–1960s, many having seen only a few years' service before consignment to the scrapheap. Jim's pictures graphically show how not only the locomotives themselves were neglected in their final years, but also their working environment. Their motive power depots were also badly run down, particularly when slated for closure upon steam's demise.Most of Jim's pictures of steam locomotives, taken fifty years ago, are previously unpublished. In BR steam's last two years, they were based in two distinctly different areas on the London & South Western main line, and in the industrial north. However, their decline was just as sad and depressing in both areas once proud depots such as London's Nine Elms, with broken windows and roof open to the sky, not repaired after wartime, piles of ash and clinker everywhere, were just as derelict as those in such places as Wigan or Sunderland. Many scenes herein invoke the sad, eerie atmosphere of steam's last months.Ironically, it was London Transport who operated the last publicly-owned standard gauge steam locomotives in 1971, some three years after BR's had gone. These are included within these pages too.