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The Last Years of Steam Around the East Midlands

2017-10-26 Steam locomotives
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Release : 2017-10-26
Genre : Steam locomotives
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Book Synopsis The Last Years of Steam Around the East Midlands by : Michael Clemens

Download or read book The Last Years of Steam Around the East Midlands written by Michael Clemens. This book was released on 2017-10-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Years of Steam Around the East Midlands covers most of the railways across the county and the locomotives that worked over them. In the main, the time period covers the ten years or so from the late 1950s up to the end of steam working in the East Midlands. In addition to steam locomotives, their diesel replacements will also be shown. A number of industrial locations will also be visited, and in particular, the book explores the now-closed Ironstone Railways of the East Midlands. The photographs, a mixture of color and black and white, come mostly from those taken by the author and his late father, with the balance coming from his father's old friends. Most of the photographs have never been published, with all images accompanied by an extensive and informative commentary.

The Last Years of Steam Around the Midlands

2017-06-08
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Release : 2017-06-08
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Book Synopsis The Last Years of Steam Around the Midlands by : Michael Clemens

Download or read book The Last Years of Steam Around the Midlands written by Michael Clemens. This book was released on 2017-06-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Maund lived in Worcestershire all his life and had an enthusiasm for steam. He traveled extensively in Britain and built up a large railway photographic archive from the late 1950s onwards. This book is made up entirely of Alan's collection of photographs from across the Midlands. It will appeal to railway enthusiasts, modelers, and those with an interest in local history. Alan started using color film in 1959 and color slides make up the majority of the photographs. Many enthusiasts in this era had a policy of filming steam only and ignoring the new diesel interlopers, but not Alan; they do make appearances, even including some early electric classes. A particular passion of Alan's was small industrial steam locomotives, and he restored a Kerr Stuart 'Wren' class 0-4-0 to working order between 1959 and 1961. So in addition to larger British Railways locomotives, their smaller relations are also seen across the Midlands. Alan passed on in 1982 and his widow, Wendy, gave Alan's collection of railway photographs to filmmaker and author Michael Clemens, whose late father was a friend of Alan's. Alan's collection lives on today at film shows around the country and now in this book.

Steam in the East Midlands and Lincolnshire

2018-03-30 Transportation
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Release : 2018-03-30
Genre : Transportation
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Book Synopsis Steam in the East Midlands and Lincolnshire by : Roderick H. Fowkes

Download or read book Steam in the East Midlands and Lincolnshire written by Roderick H. Fowkes. This book was released on 2018-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photographs in this volume of Steam in the East Midlands and Lincolnshire cover an area beginning at Derby Headquarters of the Midland following the Midland line to Nottingham and its environs, pausing at locations en-route.Trent, in the southeast corner of Derbyshire, was a station without a town, its position and importance as an interchange junction for five main railway routes, through the plethora of junctions, served London, Birmingham, Derby, Chesterfield and Nottingham. Remarkably enough, trains could depart from opposite platforms, in opposite directions but to the same destination. There was also the constant procession of coal trains off the Erewash Valley line from the nearby Toton marashaling yard.Also featured is the Derby Friargate to Nottingham Victoria, the Great Northern Railway line, and the former Great Central route, along with scenes at Saxby where the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, mainly single track line diverged, running via Bourne to East Coast resorts. Finally, there are scenes at Grantham, where changing engines in 1954 was the order of the day. Locomotives are photographed at work, at rest and awaiting a call for scrap.

Steam Around the East Midlands in The 1960s

2024-07-15 History
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Release : 2024-07-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Steam Around the East Midlands in The 1960s by : Keith W. Platt

Download or read book Steam Around the East Midlands in The 1960s written by Keith W. Platt. This book was released on 2024-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s saw the final hurrah of steam on the railways - the final period of steam-powered locomotives dominating the main line. This meant that a colourful array of traffic could be found across the length and breadth of Great Britain, and an army of enthusiasts both young and old dutifully recorded the nation's rail scene. Here, in the first of a new series of book celebrating the steam of 1960s Britain, Keith W. Platt looks back at the wide range of traffic that could be found all around the railways of the East Midlands.Packed with previously unpublished images, this is a book that will delight anybody with memories of steam around the East Midlands or an enthusiasm for the area's railways or history.

EAST MIDLANDS STEAM 1950 - 1966

2021
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Release : 2021
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Book Synopsis EAST MIDLANDS STEAM 1950 - 1966 by : PETER. TUFFREY

Download or read book EAST MIDLANDS STEAM 1950 - 1966 written by PETER. TUFFREY. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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