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ISBN 13 : 9780711004825
Total Pages : 103 pages
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Download or read book The Majesty of British Steam written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Langston
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783408014
Total Pages : 394 pages
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Download or read book British Steam: BR Standard Locomotives written by Keith Langston and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of post second world war steam locomotive design and construction in Great Britain, the perfect gift for railroad history buffs. 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 January 1st 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, they still decided to build more steam locomotives as a stop gap. Some 999 Standard locomotives were built in twelve classes ranging from super powerful express and freight engines to suburban tank locomotives. The locomotives were mainly in good order when the directive came in 1968 to end steam, some trains were only eight years old. There still exists a fleet of forty-six preserved Standards of which 75% are in working order in and around the UKs preserved railways, furthermore three new build standard locomotives are proposed. Steam fans who were around in the 1960s all remember the “Standards.”
Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office
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Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book Exchange of Notes Between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Greek Government written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
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Download or read book Commercial Reports Received at the Foreign Office from Her Majesty's Consuls written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain Government
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Total Pages : 1566 pages
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Download or read book Report by Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the General Assembly of the United Nations on Togoland under United Kingdom administration written by Great Britain Government and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1068 pages
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Download or read book Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Tanganyika Territory written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1454 pages
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Download or read book British and Foreign State Papers written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office
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Total Pages : 714 pages
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Download or read book Reports from Her Majesty's Consuls on the Manufactures, Commerce, &c. of Their Consular Districts written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 714 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)
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.
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Total Pages : 346 pages
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Download or read book Case Presented on the Part of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty to the Tribunal of Arbitration--Appendix ... written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
