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Author : Philip Horton
Publisher : Silver Link Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781857945775
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (457 download)
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:
Author : Kevin Derrick
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445669781
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
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.
Author : David Christie
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445668076
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
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.
Author : Gordon Edgar
Publisher : Artist's and Photographers' Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904332800
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (328 download)
Download or read book China written by Gordon Edgar and published by Artist's and Photographers' Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China was the last country in the world to build steam locomotives. The final main line engines emerged from Datong workshops in December 1988 and production of steam locomotives for industrial use continued until 1999. The final few steam locomotives were withdrawn from service in 2003, making China the last country to use steam on its main lines. Total eradication of China's steam programme is set to coincide with the Olympic games in 2008. When this happens, it will be the end of the last mecca for fans of real steam. This is a photo essay detailing the end of this era.
Author : Colin Boocock
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526780895
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Seventy Years of the South Western written by Colin Boocock and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Western main line is one of the most important railways in the south of England. Colin Boocock spent a significant part of his life living on and researching the history of this centre of railway operations in the South and South West of England. This book looks at the network over the last seventy years, from Nationalisation through to the present day. The system provides a vital link between the South and South West of Britain and London, operating a mixture of commuter services and important main line passenger trains. Throughout the seventy years covered in this book, the South Western network also had significant flows of heavy freight between the capital and Southampton Docks and the West Country. Today there are still frequent, well-loaded container trains from Southampton to the Midlands and the North via Basingstoke and Reading. This volume also covers the transitions from steam traction to diesel and electric in stages from the 1950s through to the late 1980s
Author : Joe G. Collias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780911581324
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (813 download)
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.
Author : Gordon Edgar
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445649217
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Industrial Locomotives & Railways of the South and West of England written by Gordon Edgar and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon Edgar explores the industrial and minor railways of Southern England.
Author : Kenn Pearce
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750959991
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Shed Side in South Lancashire and Cheshire written by Kenn Pearce and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s and 1960s south Lancashire and Cheshire was criss-crossed by a web of railway lines, servicing the various needs of local industries. The region was a haven for railway enthusiasts who pursued the hundreds of steam workhorses based at British Railways depots in 'chemical towns' such as Warrington, Widnes, Wigan and Sutton Oak, besides Southport and Northwich. While these facilities appeared less glamorous than larger counterparts in Liverpool or Manchester, the stories of the engines, trains and the men who were based at the depots in these towns was no less fascinating. Shed Side in South Lancashire and Cheshireprovides a fascinating portrait of the daily operations of the freight and passenger trains of the region during the final decade of Britain's steam era. It evokes a period of grimy, metal-clattering, smoke-filled industry, and of an era forever etched in our industrial heritage.
Author : Kevin Derrick
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445660849
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Sixties Spotting Days Around the Southern Region written by Kevin Derrick and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Derrick looks back at locomotive-spotting days in the southern region of England in the 1960s.
Author : David Cross
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526754932
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Derek Cross Collection written by David Cross and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Cross was one of a group of outstanding railway photographers, who mostly took pictures during the steam and early modern traction era, 1950s and 1960s. David Cross his son, has inherited his extensive collection of black & white and color material, which has many unpublished images. This book covers the Southern from the last days of the Southern Railway through to British Railways days in the mid 1960s, when steam was on the way out. This is the first book that covers the Derek Cross Southern photographs, which date from the late 1940s through to the end of Southern Region steam and as such, features some very rare locations, unusual liveries and long extinct classes of locomotive. The author has carefully selected some rare and unusual pictures for this volume, which will be of interest and use to both railway historians and modellers.
Author : D. Frank Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780715353820
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways written by D. Frank Holland and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Parker Lamb
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253342195
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive written by J. Parker Lamb and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive documents the role played by mechanical engineers in the development of locomotive design. The steam engine and the mechanical engineering profession both grew directly out of the Industrial Revolution's need for sources of power beyond that of men and animals. Invented in England when coal mining was being developed, the practical steam engine eventually found numerous applications in transportation, especially in railroad technology. J. Parker Lamb traces the evolution of the steam engine from the early 1700s through the early 1800s, when the first locomotives were sent to the United States from England. Lamb then shifts the scene to the development of the American steam locomotive, first by numerous small builders, and later, by the early 20th century, by only three major enterprises and a handful of railroad company shops. Lamb reviews the steady progress of steam locomotive technology through its pinnacle during the 1930s, then discusses the reasons for its subsequent decline.
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 0760345864
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The Twilight of Steam written by Brian Solomon and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA beautiful retrospective of American steam locomotives in their final years, featuring photography and recollections of the men who documented the end of the steam age. /div
Author : Charles Phillips
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526720590
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Great Eastern Railway in South Essex written by Charles Phillips and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of three British railway lines,“nicely illustrated [and] impressively informative” (Midwest Book Review). This is the history of the Great Eastern Railway’s lines from Shenfield to Southend, Wickford to Southminster, and Woodham Ferrers to Maldon, including their ancestor. It is the only comprehensive history of all three lines and was researched using both previously published and unpublished material. The history covers not only the history of the lines in question but also a sample of services from the opening of them to the present day, the motive power that was and is used on them, and a topographical description of them. The book is ideal not only for railway enthusiasts but for those interested in the local history of the area served by the Great Eastern Railway.
Author : John Woodhams
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399071998
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book William Adams: His Life and Locomotives written by John Woodhams and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Adams (1823 – 1904) is probably best known from his locomotive designs for the London & South Western Railway. The years at Nine Elms were the culmination of career which began formally in marine engineering, including a period at sea with the Royal Sardinian Navy, encompassed civil engineering and surveying before joining the North London Railway as locomotive, carriage and wagon superintendent. He has been described as the father of the suburban train, an inventive engineer, who pioneered the use of continuous train brakes, developed well designed, free-steaming locomotive boilers for services requiring rapid acceleration and frequent stops, and his invention of a bogie with controlled side-play revolutionized future locomotive design. His next move was to the Great Eastern Railway where his designs met with mixed success, before moving south of the Thames to Nine Elms. Here, over five hundred locomotives were built to his designs, with his later express classes regarded by many as his greatest achievement. Adams also proved himself a very capable designer in developing locomotive and carriage works at all three railways, improving efficiency and reducing costs. This book tells the story of a genial man with a love of music, who was undoubtedly one of the finest late Victorian locomotive engineers.
Author : Barrie C. Woods
Publisher : Barrie C. Woods
ISBN 13 : 0956482031
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (564 download)
Download or read book Those WERE the Days written by Barrie C. Woods and published by Barrie C. Woods. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating tale of a young school boy's exploits in his quest to spot every steam locomotive in the UK during the 1950s & 1960s, until steam finished on British Railways on 4th August 1968. at the time I lived in North Hertfordshire, so my trainspotting days began mainly at Hitchin on the ECML. I later moved to Guildford and carried on from there. I was fortunate in that I recorded virtually all my activities and furthermore have retained those records to this day. In those days before computers and mobile phones Trainspotting was one of the most popular hobbies in the country. My travels covered virtually the whole of the UK over a 10 year period. During that time along with my friends we had lots of interesting and sometimes amusing incidents; such as the Castleford 'Snow' occurrence; contretemps with a herd of Bullocks; run-ins with the law and shed foremen; sleeping rough on many occasions; a scary walk over Crumlin viaduct; our coach catching fire on the M1; plus many more. we visited locomotive sheds over 600 times during which I recorded in excess of 21,000 engines! We travelled by any means available; coach; bus; mini-bus; bicycle; car; motorbike; train; ferry; and a lot of hitchhiking! The latter including one such ride on a 9F which took me right into the shed I was about to bunk! We would take every opportunity to be by our beloved steam engines, daily on the way to & from school, then again in the evenings and every 2-3 weeks off an a tour somewhere in the UK some of these lasted 4 -5 days, often with rather dubious overnight accommodation! these tours were to all parts of the UK, from South Wales to Aberdeen, the Northwest, Northeast, Midlands, North Wales, south to Brighton, Southampton, Isle of Wight, West country and dozens of other locations The book has full colour card covers, is A4 portrait style of 185 pages and over 100 B & W photos. At the end of the text are two appendices, the first lists every shed visited and the relevant dates, the second lists in chronological order every locomotive seen, its shed and date. Barrie
Author : E. H. Sawford
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Days of Steam on the Eastern Region written by E. H. Sawford and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Eric Sawford uses a selection of photographs to tell the story of the last days of steam power on the Eastern Region. His pictures show that, while steam locomotives were not withdrawn from the Eastern Region until the mid 1960s, the 1950s was their swan song. The author's photographs document the range of motive power that could be seen on the track in that era. Locomotives are depicted in action and at rest, on the express routes, shunting or being repaired. Also recorded are neglected locomotives during their declining years, when they were used on secondary duties or were laid up before being scrapped.
