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Author: W. J. Verden Anderson
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780711029927
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →W.J. Verden Anderson recorded British Railways' change over from steam to diesel throughout the 1960s and 1970s in a series of highly respected colour and monotone photographs. This volume presents a range of images from Verden-Anderson's archive. Sadly the photographer died relatively young but his images endure.
Author: Peter Tuffrey
Publisher:
Published: 2013-06
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780957295179
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Noted railway photographer Bill Reed shows his pin-sharp colour pictures of the last days of Scottish steam in this book. The pictures illustrate steam locomotives trundling along many of the branch lines now long gone; waiting in sleepy stations, long abandoned; as well as pausing on shed or dumped on scrap lines, awaiting their ultimate fate.
Author: William John V. Anderson
Publisher:
Published: 1972-01-01
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780711003866
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joe Moorwood
Publisher:
Published: 2021-09
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781914227141
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Keith Langston
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1845631463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Keith Langston
Publisher: Wharncliffe
Published: 2014-08-13
Total Pages: 714
ISBN-13: 147383872X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scotland is renowned worldwide for its engineering prowess, which of course included locomotive building. This lavishly illustrated and detailed publication celebrates standard gauge steam locomotive building North of the Border. Focussing not only on the achievements of the major companies, North British Locomotive Co Ltd, Neilson & Co Ltd, Neilson Reid & Co Ltd, William Bearmore Ltd, Sharp Stewart & Co Ltd,and Andrew Barclay, Sons & Co Ltd it also highlights the contribution made by several of the smaller, but nevertheless significant locomotive builders. Details of the output of the several railway company locomotive building works are also included. All of the Scottish built locomotive classes which came into British Railway's ownership are featured ,and a large majority of the carefully selected images are published for the first time. Scottish Steam celebrates the significant contribution made by Scottish railway engineering workshops to steam locomotive development.
Author: W. J. V. Anderson
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780900627002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kevin McCormack
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2018-07-30
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1526702193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kevin McCormack has written a large number of transport books mainly using previously unpublished material, much of it sourced from the Online Transport Archive. This, his latest colour album, covers the railways of Scotland in steam days and concentrates as much as possible on depicting older types of locomotives. Consequently, this volume contains a large amount of rare 1950s colour images, often depicting areas of the Scottish railway system that were later closed or cut back during the Beeching era. The pictures in this book, were taken by enthusiasts who had the good fortune to be able to afford colour film, at a time when such luxuries, were very expensive, to the average enthusiast. All the photographers concerned, travelled far and wide in Scotland with their cameras, at a time, just before most of the lines closed, between 1953–1967. The result of all this effort, is a fine collection of very rare images, depicting a lost period of railway operation, in a beautiful and picturesque part of Britain.
Author: William Rosen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0226726347
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution." -- Back cover.
Author: John Hunt
Publisher: Silver Link Publishing
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781857945362
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