Author: John S. Maclean
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-03-15
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1445637936
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A contemporary account of the NER's locomotives covering the company's formative years from 1841 up to the re-grouping of 1923. Originally published over 90 years ago this new edition isfully illustrated with line drawings and photographs.
Author: Oswald Stevens Nock
Publisher: Allan
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Maidment
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 2024-11-30
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1399036831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This first volume on the LNER 4-4-0 locomotives describes the design, construction, history, operation and performance of the Great Northern, Great Central and Great Eastern examples, classified by the LNER at the Grouping as classes, D1 - D4, D5 - D12 and D13 - D16 respectively. It covers from their emergence in the late nineteenth century to their demise in the mid or late 1950s and their performance at their peak operation times, mainly in the inter-war years of LNER ownership. It also includes the former Midland & Great Northern Railway engines that were later absorbed by the LNER as classes D52 - D54.
Author: Stanford University. Libraries
Publisher:
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: P. Ransome-Wallis
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-04-10
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 0486142760
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Authoritative international survey reviews everything from standard steam engines, diesels and gas turbines to subways and electric motor coaches. Includes details of construction, problems of operation, and building methods. More than 300 illustrations, photographs.
Author: Rob Langham
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: 2017-01-24
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The North Eastern Railway underwent extreme change after the outbreak of war in August 1914. Within months, the company raised its own battalion of men and was the only railway company to do so. The NER also set to work adapting to the changes and requirements the war would bring. Not only would there be a drop in regular passenger traffic levels and increase in freight, transporting both war material and troops, but the workshops formerly used to build locomotives were turned over to making weapons of war. In December 1914, the railway came under attack from the Imperial German Navy, causing damage to the NER's infrastructure and killing several of its men. As the war went on, locomotives and rolling stock were sent to France to help with the enormous logistics required for operations on the Western Front. The planned opening of an electrified railway line for freight went ahead with a brand new fleet of powerful electric locomotives, adding to the company's portfolio of electrification with the electrified Tyneside passenger line and Newcastle Quayside. NER land was used to build an enormous munitions factory at Darlington and the unprecedented use of women in the work place meant traditionally male-only roles were increasingly seeing women take over and freeing men for military service.Overseas, men of the NER that joined the forces served with honour, but many were not to come home. The North Eastern Railway in the First World War tells the story of one railway's war, of how it continued to operate and adapt, and the men and women who served with the company or left to fight for the country's freedom.