Author: John JacksonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144567601X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
John Jackson takes a highly illustrated look at passenger and freight trains on the Midland Main Line.
Midland Railway and L M S 4-4-0 Locomotives
Author: David MaidmentPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1526772515
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
David Maidment has unravelled the complex history of the Johnson, Deeley and Fowler 4-4-0 locomotives of the Midland Railway and its LMS successor, covering their design, construction, operation and performance in this book with over 400 black and white photographs. It recounts their working on the Midland main lines from St Pancras to Derby, Manchester, Leeds and Carlisle, the latter via the celebrated Settle & Carlisle line, and the later work of the Fowler LMS engines on the West Coast main line. The book also describes the history of the Midland 4-4-0s built for the Somerset & Dorset and Midland & Great Northern Railways. The book covers the period from the first Midland 4-4-0 built in 1876 to the last LMS 2P withdrawn in 1962 and includes performance logs, weight diagrams and dimensions and statistical details of each locomotive.
Midland Main Lines to St Pancras and Cross Country
Author: John PalmerPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473885590
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The history of British Railways in the late 1950s/early 1960s is characterized by change; massive change, as its management attempted to meet statutory obligations against a background of social, economic and political influences. The Modernisation Plan of 1955 paved the way for the electrification of the route from Manchester to London Euston, with a consequential effect of the Midland route services via Derby needing to be enhanced and improved. That eventually resulted in the arrival of class 7 steam motive power and later also benefitted the cross country Midland route. This book details, year by year, the changes that took place and provides an insight into the reasons why decisions were taken, and how the railway management was faced with a vast range of technological, natural, socioeconomic challenges to be overcome, whilst also trying to meet the day-to-day needs of the operational railway.In addition to tracing the history of the routes, the book includes performance logs of typical journeys along difficult sections, recollections of railway men working in various departments and for enthusiasts a list of rare and unusual locomotive workings. The book is profusely illustrated with black and white, as well as color, photographs and also includes a comprehensive range of maps.
Author: Michael A. VannsAlpine Thunder
Author: Jonathan ShingletonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780995138506
Category : Steam locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The story of the KB class is more than just that of the locomotives, but the struggle for appropriate motive power on the Midland Line once the Otira tunnel opened. Their evolution came as a result of immense pressure placed upon the Railways Department to find a suitable class of locomotive to succeed against the difficult terrain and ever increasing traffic"--Page 7.
Author: Colin BoocockThe InterCity Story 1964-2012
Author: Chris GreenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780860936527
Category : InterCity 125 (Diesel locomotives)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The revealing inside story of InterCity from its origins through to Privatisation and beyond, compiled by those who were, and still are intimately involved in British railway management.
Lost Railways of the World
Author: Nigel WelbournPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399096206
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Many readers will be familiar with Nigel Welbourn’s long running series of books, covering lost railways in Britain and Ireland. This new book Lost Railways of the World is the latest by this author on the subject of disused railways. The material for this volume has been collected and researched over a period of almost fifty years of world travel by the author. Informative text records the fortunes of the world’s lost railways and every country with significant disused railways is included. Lost railways are a unifying theme, being found throughout the world, from the hottest African desert to the coldest steppes of Russia. The book has a surprisingly British flavor as historically many railways throughout the world used British equipment and operating practices. On his first trip in the 1970s the author discovered British signaling equipment in Europe. In 2020 he discovered the same firms’ equipment in South America. The world’s top ten lost lines are listed, from the seven-mile-long sea bridge on a line that ran through the Florida Keys, to the rugged mountain splendor of the Khyber Pass Railway. Some of the oldest, largest, longest, most northerly, southerly, expensive, crookedest, steepest, highest, lowest and most notorious lost railways are included. Quirky and other unique tales from lost railways are included, such as the disappearing phantom bridge, a line destroyed by molten lava, to one that sank under the sea, another that conveyed giant turtles, to a memorial to a brave railway elephant. The author also visited remote areas of Argentina and provides more information on the mysterious disappearance of the ex-Lynton & Barnstaple Railway locomotive Lew. A large number of the 300 color illustrations have not been published before, maps and stories from around the world will delight not only the railway enthusiast, but appeal to a wider cadre of readers with an interest in nostalgia, history, geography and travel. To some the book will be an informative source of information, to others it is written in a way that highlights the most amazing lost railways in the world, but either way it is a fascinating and unique book.
Author: John EvansDecline and Return to Mainline Steam
Author: Laurie GoldenPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398119105
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
A pictorial survey of steam railtours in the 1960s in the years before the demise of steam, and the return to main line steam for railtours around Britain in the 1970s and 1980s.
