The Last Days Of Scottish Steam

Author : Peter Tuffrey
Publisher :
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.

Author : Keith Widdowson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750983116
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Steam's Final Fling written by Keith Widdowson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1967, Scotland became the third of the six British Railways regions to dispense with the steam locomotive, bringing an iconic era of Britain's transport heritage closer to its demise. Residing over 300 miles away, then teenaged Keith Widdowson's pilgrimages north of the border were marathon undertakings. Abysmal overnight time keeping, missed connections, trains allegedly booked as steam but turning up as diesel – each journey could have been a disaster, but those setbacks were easily forgotten after many successes, such as in catching runs with LNER A2s, A4s, V2s and B1s, as well as BR Clans. Accompanied with brief historical data of routes and stations – many no longer extant – visited, alongside photographs from the author's archives, this book is a collection of reminiscences from the final two years of steam that anyone with a penchant for railways will enjoy.

Author : David Fereday Glenn
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780862998097
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Steam in the Scottish Highlands written by David Fereday Glenn and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin Garratt
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473844134
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( 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 375 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 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 : Tom Heavyside
Publisher :
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 : W. J. Verden Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780711029927
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Steam written by W. J. Verden Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railway Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909625983
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Years of Scottish Steam in Colour written by David Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Malcolm Clegg
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526760436
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of British Steam written by Malcolm Clegg and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Colin Maggs
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445625873
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Steam in Bristol and Somerset written by Colin Maggs and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of photographs of the last steam locomotives to run on Bristol and Somerset's railways.