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Category : Rail tours
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Itinerary of the Sussex Downsman Rail Tour
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Category : Rail tours
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rail tours
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Itinerary of the Wessex Downsman Rail Tour
Author: A. P. J. Goff
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Category : Rail tours
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category : Rail tours
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Itinerary of the Surrey Downsman Rail Tour
Author: C. F. Firminger
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Category : Rail tours
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category : Rail tours
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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The Railway Magazine
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Category : Railroad companies
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Category : Railroad companies
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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British Railways in the 1960s
Author: Geoff Plumb
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473869765
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
After the Second War, Britains railways were rundown and worn out, requiring massive investment and modernisation. The Big Four railway companies were nationalised from 1948, and the newly formed British Railways embarked on a programme of building new Standard steam locomotives to replace older types. These started to come on stream from 1951.This programme was superseded by the 1955 scheme to dieselise and electrify many lines and so the last loco of the Standard types was built in 1960 and the steam locomotives had been swept entirely from the BR network by 1968.This series of books, 'The Geoff Plumb Collection', is a photographic account of those last few years of the steam locomotives, their decline and replacement during the transition years. Each book covers one of the former Big Four, the Southern Railway, London Midland & Scottish Railway, Great Western Railway and London & North Eastern Railway, including some pictures of the Scottish lines of the LMS and LNER.The books are not intended to convey a complete history of the railways but to illustrate how things were, to a certain extent, in the relatively recent past and impart some information through comprehensive captions, which give a sense of occasion often a last run of a locomotive type or over a stretch of line about to be closed down.The photos cover large parts of the country, though it was impossible to get everywhere given the overall timetable of just a few years mainly when the author was still a schoolboy with limited time and disposable income to get around.Pictures are of the highest quality that could be produced with the equipment then available, but they do reflect real life and real times. In simple terms, a look at a period not so long ago but now gone forever.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473869765
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
After the Second War, Britains railways were rundown and worn out, requiring massive investment and modernisation. The Big Four railway companies were nationalised from 1948, and the newly formed British Railways embarked on a programme of building new Standard steam locomotives to replace older types. These started to come on stream from 1951.This programme was superseded by the 1955 scheme to dieselise and electrify many lines and so the last loco of the Standard types was built in 1960 and the steam locomotives had been swept entirely from the BR network by 1968.This series of books, 'The Geoff Plumb Collection', is a photographic account of those last few years of the steam locomotives, their decline and replacement during the transition years. Each book covers one of the former Big Four, the Southern Railway, London Midland & Scottish Railway, Great Western Railway and London & North Eastern Railway, including some pictures of the Scottish lines of the LMS and LNER.The books are not intended to convey a complete history of the railways but to illustrate how things were, to a certain extent, in the relatively recent past and impart some information through comprehensive captions, which give a sense of occasion often a last run of a locomotive type or over a stretch of line about to be closed down.The photos cover large parts of the country, though it was impossible to get everywhere given the overall timetable of just a few years mainly when the author was still a schoolboy with limited time and disposable income to get around.Pictures are of the highest quality that could be produced with the equipment then available, but they do reflect real life and real times. In simple terms, a look at a period not so long ago but now gone forever.
Itinerary the Sussex Coast Limited Rail Tour
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Category : Rail tour
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Category : Rail tour
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Capital
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Capital
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Social Diseases and Worse Remedies
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher:
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Category : Social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Publisher:
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Category : Social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Crawley
Author: Roger Bastable
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780850336139
Category : Crawley (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780850336139
Category : Crawley (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Let's Go: the Budget Guide to Britain and Ireland
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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