Book Description
Highly illustrated look at Class 90 locomotives, they were designed to be able to work with a Mk 3 DVT.
Author : Andrew Cole
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445666979
Highly illustrated look at Class 90 locomotives, they were designed to be able to work with a Mk 3 DVT.
Author : Andrew Cole
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445666936
Andrew Cole documents Class 87 locomotives. Thirty-six members of Class 87 were built at Crewe Works from 1973 onwards and were an instant success.
Author : Kenny Barclay
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,96 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445670224
This book, a companion to British Rail in the 1980s and 1990s: Diesel Locomotives and DMUs, exhibits a selection of some of his finest photographs from this period.
Author : Anthony P. Sayer
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1526762013
This informative, illustrated guide to the British Railways locomotive series covers its full production lifespan, from 1962–1965. In the early 1960s, the Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotive known as The Clayton was conceived as the new standard for British Railways, superseding other Type 1 classes. While the early classes suffered from poor driver visibility, the Claytons were highly successful and popular with operating crews. However, the largely untested high-speed, flat Paxman engines proved to be highly problematic. As a result, the Claytons were eventually withdrawn from BR service by December 1971. Anthony Sayer draws on considerable amounts of archive material to tell the full story of these ‘Standard Type 1’ locomotives and the issues surrounding their rise and fall. Further sources provide insights into the effort and money expended on the Claytons in a desperate attempt to improve their reliability. Supported by over 280 photographs and diagrams, dramatic new insights into this troubled class have been assembled for both historians and modelers alike.
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
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Category : Electric locomotives
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Author : Andrew Cole
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445681382
Previously unpublished photographs documenting Class 91 locomotives in a variety of locations and on a variety of different workings.
Author : Jeremy Clements
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9781906578268
The Great Southern Railways of Ireland was the largest of the major Irish railways and was created in 1924 by the amalgamation all the railways which were completely within the Irish Free State, as it was called at that time. This book includes all locomotives inherited by the GSR in 1924, broad and narrow guage.
Author : George Woods
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1398102024
Previously unpublished images covering a range of different electric-powered traffic on Britain's railways.
Author : Colin J. Marsden
Publisher : Oxford Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2007-09-27
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780860936145
Little is available on Britain's successful AC routes and the stock built for them and with the demise of older types of rolling stock and even the preservation of some samples, this is an appropriate time for a retrospective such as this book.
Author : David Maidment
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1526739860
An in-depth look at the British railway company’s celebrated class of steam locomotives, with more than three hundred photos. Built by Collett in 1927 after pressure to restore the Great Western Railway’s pre-eminence in motive power and cope with increasing postwar traffic to Devon and Cornwall holiday resorts, the thirty Kings were the final development of the Churchward Stars and the 1923 Castles and remained on top-link main line duty until their final replacement by the ‘Western’ class 52 diesel hydraulics in 1962. This book includes an insight into the thinking of some of Collett’s senior staff at the end of the 1930s and the eventual transformation in the latter years with redraughting and double chimneys. As well as describing their design and construction, the book comprehensively covers their operation and performance, backed up by many recorded logs on all main GW/WR routes over which they were permitted. The author had close experience of the class when working at Old Oak Common between 1957 and 1962, and includes a chapter of his experiences with them, including many footplate trips (as a management trainee, he was greeted with glee by firemen who would hand him the shovel). The book also includes over 300 photographs, one hundred of them in color.