The Last Steam Locomotives of British Railways
Author : Patrick Ransome-Wallis
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Page : 191 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Locomotives
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Author : Patrick Ransome-Wallis
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Locomotives
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Author : David Mather
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1526770202
The first steam locomotives used on any British railway, worked in industry. The use of new and second hand former main line locomotives, was once a widespread aspect of the railways of Britain. This volume covers many of the once numerous manufacturers who constructed steam locomotives for industry and contractors from the 19th to the mid 20th centuries. David Mather has spent many years researching and collecting photographs across Britain, of most of the different locomotive types that once worked in industry. This book is designed to be both a record of these various manufacturers and a useful guide to those researching and modelling industrial steam.
Author : Hugh Longworth
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Steam locomotives
ISBN : 9780860936602
An exhaustive and monumental listing of every steam locomotive operated by British Railways from Nationalisation until the end of steam in 1968, now brought completely up to date in a second edition.
Author : P R. Ransome Wallis
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : Keith Langston
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1845631463
After WWII the existing railway companies were all put into the control of the newly formed British Transport Commission and that government organization spawned British Railways, which came into being on 1st January 1948. The railway infrastructure had suffered badly during the war years and most of the steam locomotives were 'tired' and badly maintained and or life expired. Although the management of British Railways was already planning to replace steam power with diesel and electric engines/units they still took a decision to build more steam locomotives (as a stop gap). Some 999 (yes just 1 short) Standard locomotives were built in 12 classes ranging from super powerful express and freight engine to suburban tank locomotives. The locomotives were mainly in good order when the order came in 1968 to end steam, some only 8 years old.There still exists a fleet of 46 preserved Standards of which 75% are in working order in and around the UKs preserved railways, furthermore 3 new build standard locomotives are proposed. Steam fans who were around in the 1960s all remember the 'Standards'.
Author : Malcolm Clegg
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781526760425
This volume covers the final decade of British steam, looking at steam traction in a wide variety of geographical locations around the British Railways network.The book covers a wide variety of classes of locomotives, that were withdrawn during the last decade of steam traction, some of which examples are now preserved.Malcolm Clegg, has been taking railway pictures since the early 1960s and has access to collections taken by friends who were recording the steam railway scene during this period.This book is a record of his and other peoples journeys during the last decade of steam in the 1960s.
Author : Mirco De Cet
Publisher : Lorenz Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780754831334
An overview of the different locomotives from British Heritage lines across the country.
Author : Colin Garratt
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1473844134
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.
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Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : Paul Hurley
Publisher : History Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2021-04
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ISBN : 9780750996563
Commemorating the anniversary of the end of steam railway traction in Britain