Author: Kevin RedwoodPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445689189
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This book contains a stunning collection of images from across the West of England during the 1980s.
Author: Patrick Bennett
Author: Patrick Bennett
Author: Kevin RedwoodRailways of the Western Region in the 1970s and 1980s
Author: Kevin RedwoodPublisher:
ISBN: 9781445684314
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
During the 1970s and 1980s, the Western Region was undergoing change in both trains and equipment. On passenger services High Speed Trains worked alongside loco-hauled passenger trains and first generation DMUs, while in the world of freight the last of the traditional vacuum-braked wagon load trains lingered into the 1980s to be replaced by the newly introduced Speedlink services. Semaphore signals were being replaced in Devon by new colour light signals. There was also a contrast between the three divisions, with each having its own character. The London Division was busy with express and commuter traffic to and from Paddington and inter-regional freight traffic. The South Wales Division witnessed a procession of freight trains through Cardiff and Newport while DMUs and coal trains headed up and down the Valleys. The West of England Division experienced heavy aggregate trains from the Mendip quarries, sleepy West Country branch lines and the intensive timetable of summer Saturday trains full of holidaymakers. With a wealth of rare and previously unpublished images, Kevin Redwood documents this fascinating period in Britain's railway history.
Author: Colin Alexander
Author: John Carlson
Author: Patrick Bennett
Author: Patrick BennettBritish Railways in the 1970s and ’80s
Author: Greg MorsePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747814090
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
For British Rail, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when bad jokes about sandwiches and pork pies often belied real achievements, like increasing computerisation and the arrival of the high-speed Inter-City 125s. But while television advertisements told of an 'Age of the Train', Monday morning misery continued for many, the commuter experience steadily worsening as rolling stock aged and grew ever more uncomfortable. Even when BR launched new electrification schemes and new suburban trains in the 1980s, focus still fell on the problems that beset the Advanced Passenger Train, whose ignominious end came under full media glare. In British Railways in the 1970s and '80s, Greg Morse guides us through a world of Traveller's Fare, concrete concourses and peak-capped porters, a difficult period that began with the aftershock of Beeching but ended with BR becoming the first nationalised passenger network in the world to make a profit.
