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Charlie Verrall explores the fascinating history of steam around Basingstoke, Eastleigh and Salisbury.
Author : Charlie Verrall
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445663937
Charlie Verrall explores the fascinating history of steam around Basingstoke, Eastleigh and Salisbury.
Author : George Bradshaw
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Page : 1592 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : Charlie Verrall
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445685361
Lavishly illustrated throughout, a fascinating record of the final years of steam on Britain's railways.
Author : Keith Widdowson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0750999772
In mid-1964, Keith Widdowson got wind that the Western Region was hell-bent on being the first to eliminate the steam locomotive on its tracks by December 1965. The 17-year-old hurriedly homed in on train services still in the hands of GWR steam power, aiming to catch runs with the last examples before their premature annihilation. The Great Western Steam Retreat recalls Widdowson's teenage exploits, soundtracked by hits from the Beatles, the Kinks and the Rolling Stones, throughout the Western Region and former Great Western Railway lines. He documents the extreme disorder that resulted from that decision, paying tribute to the train crews who managed to meet demanding timings in the face of declining cleanliness, the poor quality of coal and the major problem of recruiting both footplate and shed staff. This book completes the author's Steam Chase series and provides a snapshot into the comradery that characterised the final years of steam alongside the long-gone journeys that can never be recreated.
Author : Charlie Verrall
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445685205
A nostalgic look back on the heyday of steam, lavishly illustrated with rare and previously unpublished photographs.
Author : Don Benn
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1473863082
This book is first and foremost the story of the enginemen and their steeds which brought the steam era to an end on the Southern. It is therefore primarily about locomotive performance but enlivened by stories about how that was achieved and also about the band of young men who followed the exploits of men and machines, day and night over those last two years. It includes a substantial contribution from an ex-Nine Elms fireman and many anecdotes about the enginemen. The book contains about eighty train running logs plus records of lineside observations, detailed descriptions of the work covered by the locomotives and crews from the various steam motive power depots, copies of the actual duty rosters posted at Nine Elms, together with a unique collection of about 150 black and white and color images taken in the 1965 to 1967 period covered by this book. It is the most comprehensive story of those last few years yet produced, and it is truly The Untold Story, a fine tribute to the enginemen who performed near miracles with their doomed and run-down fleet of locomotives, in the very different world of the mid–1960's railway, unequaled anywhere else in Britain.
Author : David Maidment
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1526769840
Dugald Drummond had a long career in locomotive and railway engineering, staring in Scotland, Drummond worked and also held high office on the Highland, London Brighton & South Coast Railway, North British and Caledonian Railways, before arriving on the London & South Western Railway in the mid 1890s. He was quite unlike William Adams his predecessor, who was a mild mannered gentleman, well liked by the staff of the L & S W R, Drummond was a martinet and rough by comparison, who was at times hard to reason with. As a result of his stubborn nature, he died early after an accident that scalded his feet, having refused to have proper treatment. His locomotives were a mixed proposition of good bad and indifferent, his 4-4-0 tender and 0-4-4 tank classes being very good, however his 4-6-0 tender locomotives were another proposition, proving to be a disappointment except the T14 class which lasted in service until 1951. Many of his 4-4-0 tender and 0-4-4 tank locomotives, the T9 and M7 classes, lasted until the early 1960s on British Railways and examples are preserved in the National Collection and on the Swanage Railway.
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Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Railroads
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Page : 896 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Gardening
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Page : 616 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 1854
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