Author : John Walford
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9780901115959
John Walford and Paul Harrison present the complete story of the powerful and successful Class 9Fs. Enthusiasts will find this book a delight as the engines were allocated to more than 60 depots and worked nationwide. Full details of each engine's construction, allocation and use, modification and disposal and a chapter on the 9 preserved engines is included .
Author : Hugh Longworth
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,75 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 : E. Talbot
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9780860931584
Author : Anthony P. Sayer
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 47,90 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 As a result, the Claytons were eventually withdrawn from BR service by December 1971.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.
Author : Geoff Plumb
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1473869781
After the Second War, Britains railways were rundown and worn out, requiring massive investment and modernisation. The Big Four railway companies were nationalized from 1948, and the newly formed British Railways embarked on a programme of building new Standard steam locomotives to replace older types. These started to come on stream from 1951.
Author : David Mather
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 23,22 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 : Keith Langston
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1526759837
This British Railways history explores the long-held tradition of naming steam locomotives in honor of the military. The naming of steam locomotives was a beloved British tradition since the first railway locomotives appeared in 1804. Many of the names were chosen in honor of military personnel, regiments, squadrons, naval vessels, aircraft, battles and associated historic events. This volume looks specifically at the steam locomotives with military-inspired names that were built by the London & North Eastern Railway, which joined the British Railways stock in 1948. A large number of the company’s Jubilee class locomotives were given names with a military connection, as were a small number of Black Five class engines. Famously the majority of the much-admired Royal Scot class of engines carried names associated with the military in general and regimental names in particular. Many of the nameplates were adorned with ornate crests and badges. Long after the demise of mainline steam, rescued nameplates have become prized collectors’ items. This generously illustrated publication highlights the relevant steam locomotives and explains the origins and social history surrounding their military names.
Author : Ernest Stewart Cox
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Locomotives
ISBN :
Author : Peter Herring
Publisher : Southwater Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2013-03-16
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781780191638
Britain was the pioneering force behind the birth of the steam locomotive. This authoritative visual reference spans over 150 years of railway history, featuring 85 class profiles, a comprehensive glossary and over 200 photographs.
Author : Keith Langston
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1783408014
A history of post second world war steam locomotive design and construction in Great Britain, the perfect gift for railroad history buffs. 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 January 1st 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, they still decided to build more steam locomotives as a stop gap. Some 999 Standard locomotives were built in twelve classes ranging from super powerful express and freight engines to suburban tank locomotives. The locomotives were mainly in good order when the directive came in 1968 to end steam, some trains were only eight years old. There still exists a fleet of forty-six preserved Standards of which 75% are in working order in and around the UKs preserved railways, furthermore three new build standard locomotives are proposed. Steam fans who were around in the 1960s all remember the “Standards.”
