Midland Main Lines to St Pancras and Cross Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Midland Main Lines to St Pancras and Cross Country write by John Palmer. This book was released on 2017-02-28. Midland Main Lines to St Pancras and Cross Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Trains on the Midland Main Line
Trains on the Midland Main Line - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trains on the Midland Main Line write by John Jackson. This book was released on 2019-09-15. Trains on the Midland Main Line available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Jackson takes a highly illustrated look at passenger and freight trains on the Midland Main Line.
Seventy Years of the South Western
Seventy Years of the South Western - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seventy Years of the South Western write by Colin Boocock. This book was released on 2022-07-28. Seventy Years of the South Western available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The South Western main line is one of the most important railways in the south of England. Colin Boocock spent a significant part of his life living on and researching the history of this centre of railway operations in the South and South West of England. This book looks at the network over the last seventy years, from Nationalisation through to the present day. The system provides a vital link between the South and South West of Britain and London, operating a mixture of commuter services and important main line passenger trains. Throughout the seventy years covered in this book, the South Western network also had significant flows of heavy freight between the capital and Southampton Docks and the West Country. Today there are still frequent, well-loaded container trains from Southampton to the Midlands and the North via Basingstoke and Reading. This volume also covers the transitions from steam traction to diesel and electric in stages from the 1950s through to the late 1980s
The Great Central Railway
The Great Central Railway - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Central Railway write by John Palmer. This book was released on 2021-01-30. The Great Central Railway available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Sets out to address what really happened . . . through its LNER days and into British Railways custodianship . . . A well-researched and presented tome.” —Key Model World For generations of railway enthusiasts and more lately for social historians, the life and times of the former Great Central Railway and in particular its extension towards London in the 1890s and closure seventy years later, have generated considerable interest and controversy. Although many books have been written about the Railway, the majority in recent times have concentrated upon providing a photographic record and a nostalgic look in retrospect to what was generally perceived as happier times for the route. None of the books have presented the outcome from thorough research into the business aspects of the Railway and its successive private (LNER) and public (BR) ownerships through war and peace, and times of industrial, social and political change, that influenced and shaped the demand for a railway service. While retaining a strong railway theme throughout, the book identifies the role played by successive governments, the electricity and coal industries and the effect of social change that, together resulted in a case for closure. The content of the book replaces much supposition with fact and places on record what really happened. The final part of the book acknowledges the fine work over half a century of volunteers dedicated to saving a section of the line in Leicestershire. “A valuable addition to the social and political history of railways.” —The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society
Fifty Years Since the End of Steam
Fifty Years Since the End of Steam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fifty Years Since the End of Steam write by Mark Lee Inman. This book was released on 2018-06-15. Fifty Years Since the End of Steam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mark Lee Inman examines the rapid progress made on Britain's railways over the last fifty years, from the end of steam right up to Crossrail, Class 88s and beyond.
