Scotlands Last Days Of Colliery Steam

Author : Tom Heavyside
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ISBN 13 : 9781840332308
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scotland's Last Days of Colliery Steam written by Tom Heavyside and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long after steam engines disappeared from passenger rail lines, they were used extensively around Scotland's coal mines until as late as 1981. In this collection of 58 superb photographs, taken by the author during the mid- to late 1970s, these engines are shown hard at work at collieries in Ayrshire, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire, Lanarkshire and the Lothians. Enhanced by informative captions detailing the history of the use of steam locomotives - affectionately known as 'Pugs' - in Scottish mining, the collieries included are Barony, Bedlay, Cairnhill, Comrie, Dunaskin, Frances, Kinneil, Manor Powis, Mauchline, Minnevey, Niddrie, Pennyvennie and Polkemmet.

Author : Tom Heavyside
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ISBN 13 : 9781840333305
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yorkshire's Last Days of Colliery Steam written by Tom Heavyside and published by . This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up to Scotland's Last Days of Colliery Steam Tom Heavyside moves south of the border to reflect on the Yorkshire mining industry in its heyday, before strikes and its eventual destruction. From interviews and archives he is able to recall aspects of the industry all but forgotten today. The book features 59 immaculate photographs, provides a detailed history of steam in the county's mining industry, and includes solid technical information that will inform and delight all steam enthusiasts.

Author : Phillips Jim Phillips
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474452345
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century written by Phillips Jim Phillips and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation through the experiences of the Scottish coal minerThroughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book argues that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland's economic, social and political history, and highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement demands for political-constitutional reforms that eventually resulted in the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The book also uses the struggle of the mineworkers to explore working class wellbeing more broadly during the prolonged and politicised period of deindustrialisation that saw jobs, workplaces and communities devastated. Key featuresExamines deindustrialisation as long-running, phased and politicised processUses generational analysis to explain economic and political changeRelates Scottish Home Rule to long-running debates about economic security and working class welfareAnalyses the longer history of Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership, production techniques and workplace safetyRelates this economic and industrial history to changes in mining communities and gender relations

Author : Colin Garratt
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473844126
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steam, Soot and Rust written by Colin Garratt and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Ð a mere thirteen years after the Modernisation Plan Ð 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 everÐdwindling 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.

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Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colliery Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Railway Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Tuffrey
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ISBN 13 : 9780957295179
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Scottish Steam written by Peter Tuffrey and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mines and Minerals written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 366 pages
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Download or read book Colliery Guardian, and Journal of the Coal and Iron Trades written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 846 pages
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