Author : Hugh Longworth
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 23,5 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 : Gordon Edgar
Publisher : Artist's and Photographers' Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781904332800
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 The final few steam locomotives were withdrawn from service in 2003, making China the last country to use steam on its main lines.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 : David Mather
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 13,15 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 : Mirco De Cet
Publisher : Lorenz Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780754831334
An overview of the different locomotives from British Heritage lines across the country.
Author : Ken Gibbs
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445624257
Ken Gibbs tells the history of the engineering triumph that is a steam locomotive from the 1800s to the 1960s showing how each development changed the course of history.
Author : Keith Langston
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 14,46 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 : 37,77 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 : Malcolm Clegg
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2021-08-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781526778604
L M S & L N E R Steam Locomotives, is the result of over two decades of photographing steam locomotives in action in many parts of Britain covered by the former LMS and LNER Railway Companies. They were the two largest of the 'Big Four' Railway Companies which operated in Britain between 1923 and 1948. The majority of the photographs were taken during the British Railways era between 1948 and 1968. Although the author Malcolm Clegg has a sizeable collection of steam locomotive photographs taken during this period, the photographs which appear in this book are from the private collection of his lifelong friend and family relative, Mr Peter Cookson (a retired school-master), himself a railway historian, author and amateur photographer, who has kindly provided the photographs for publication in this book. Many of the photographs selected are rare and unusual for a variety of reasons which should appeal to railway historians and steam enthusiasts alike.
Author : Paul Hurley
Publisher : History Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2021-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780750996563
Commemorating the anniversary of the end of steam railway traction in Britain
Author : John Walford
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,68 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 .
