The Last Years of BR Steam in Wessex
Author: Philip Horton
Publisher: Silver Link Publishing
Published: 2010-11-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781857945775
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Philip Horton
Publisher: Silver Link Publishing
Published: 2010-11-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781857945775
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Malcolm Clegg
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 2020-11-06
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1526760436
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A treasury of photos capturing the end of an era in transportation history—the final decade of steam locomotives in Britain. Malcolm Clegg has been taking railway pictures since the early 1960s, and also enjoys access to collections taken by friends who were recording the steam railway scene during this period. In this book, he covers a wide variety of classes of locomotives that were withdrawn during the last decade of steam traction, examples of some of which are now preserved. This book is a record of his and other peoples’ journeys during the last decade of steam in the 1960s, with photographs and informative captions looking at steam traction in a wide variety of geographical locations around the British Railways network.
Author: Kevin Derrick
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2017-02-15
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1445669781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A nostalgic look back at the days of Steam in the Southern Region.
Author: Gordon Edgar
Publisher: Artist's and Photographers' Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781904332800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 The final few steam locomotives were withdrawn from service in 2003, making China the last country to use steam on its main lines.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: Joe G. Collias
Publisher:
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780911581324
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of pictures contains 300 photographs and a minimum of text. The sights, smells and sounds of steam come alive in this book as the waning years of steam railroading throughout the United States is presented. Many roads are included such as the AT&SF, B&O, CN, CP, C&O, CB&Q, Milw., C&NW, RI, Rio Grande, NYC, Pennsy and many more.
Author: Alan Postlethwaite
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780750908269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Colin Garratt
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2015-11-30
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1473844134
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The disappearance of the steam locomotive in the land of its birth touched the hearts of millions, but when the government announced the Modernisation Plan for Britain's railways in 1955, under which steam was to be phased out in favour of diesel and electric traction, few people took it seriously. Steam locomotives were an integral part of our daily lives and had been for almost one and a half centuries. Furthermore, they were still being built in large numbers. It was popularly believed that they would see the century out and probably well beyond that. But the reality was that by 1968 a mere thirteen years after the Modernisation Plan steam traction had disappeared from Britain's main line railways. It was harrowing to witness the breaking up of engines, which were the icons of their day, capable of working long-distance inter-city expresses weighing 400 tons on schedules faster than a mile a minute. Top speeds of 100mph were not unknown.This book chronicles the last few years as scrap yards all over Britain went into overtime, cutting up thousands of locomotives and releasing a bounty of more than a million tons of scrap whilst the engines, which remained in service, were a shadow of their former selves; filthy, wheezing and clanking their way to an ignominious end. The pictures in this book are augmented by essays written by Colin Garratt at the time. Although steam disappeared from the main line network it survives in everdwindling numbers on industrial systems such as collieries, ironstone mines, power stations, shipyards, sugar factories, paper mills and docks. In such environments steam traction eked out a further decade and during this time many of the industrial locations closed rendering the locomotives redundant. The British steam locomotive was born amid the coalfields and was destined to die there one and three quarter centuries later.
Author: J. Parker Lamb
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2003-07-08
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780253342195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive documents the role played by mechanical engineers in the development of locomotive design. The steam engine and the mechanical engineering profession both grew directly out of the Industrial Revolution's need for sources of power beyond that of men and animals. Invented in England when coal mining was being developed, the practical steam engine eventually found numerous applications in transportation, especially in railroad technology. J. Parker Lamb traces the evolution of the steam engine from the early 1700s through the early 1800s, when the first locomotives were sent to the United States from England. Lamb then shifts the scene to the development of the American steam locomotive, first by numerous small builders, and later, by the early 20th century, by only three major enterprises and a handful of railroad company shops. Lamb reviews the steady progress of steam locomotive technology through its pinnacle during the 1930s, then discusses the reasons for its subsequent decline.
Author: Tony Butcher
Publisher:
Published: 2014-09-22
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780857042262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1955, the Modernisation Plan had just been issued which showed that steam traction's future was doomed. In the Southern Region many old classes had kept working due to the Second World War and the subsequent austerity period. No the SR 4-4-0 classes gradually disappeared, hastened by the 1961 electrification of the Kent lines. The Western Region had a more balanced engine set of 4-6-0s and tank engines, but was to see steam finish earlier. In this book, Tony Butcher's black and white images portray the poetry and the power of these living machines.
Author: Colin Maggs
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2009-10-15
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1445625873
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating collection of photographs of the last steam locomotives to run on Bristol and Somerset's railways.