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Author : Mark Lee Inman
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445676753
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.
Author : Tom Morrison
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1476627932
Between 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered a colossal industry. They were deceptively simple machines, yet, the more their technology was studied, the more obscure it became. Despite immense and sustained engineering efforts, steam locomotives remained grossly inefficient in their use of increasingly costly fuel and labor. In the end, they baffled their masters and, as soon as diesel-electric technology provided an alternative, steam locomotives disappeared from American railroads. Drawing on the work of eminent engineers and railroad managers of the day, this lavishly illustrated history chronicles the challenges, triumphs and failures of American steam locomotive development and operation.
Author : Mark Lee Inman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445676746
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.
Author : Walter Besant
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Fifty Years Ago" by Walter Besant. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Jonathan Glancey
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1782395660
The thrilling story of the last, and greatest, generation of steam railway locomotives in regular main line service: a story of invention, skill and passion, Giants of Steam reveals how the true advocates of steam's glory days pushed its design and performance to remarkable limits, taking these powerful and beautifully designed machines to new heights against a backdrop of the political upheavals and military conflicts of the mid twentieth century. Glancey tells the stories of the greatest of the 'steam men', the charismatic engineers who designed these machines and put them to use. Giants of Steam also reveals how steam design has continued to progress against the odds in recent decades, while enthusiasm for the steam locomotive itself is far from burning out.
Author : Paul Hurley
Publisher : History Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2021-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780750996563
Commemorating the anniversary of the end of steam railway traction in Britain
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
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ISBN : 3368723804
Author : Thomas Crump
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2007-10-26
Category : History
ISBN :
In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the fortunes of nations. Passionately written and insightful, A Brief History of the Age of Steam reveals not just the lives of the great inventors such as Watts, Stephenson and Brunel but also tells a narrative that reaches from the US to the expansion of China, India, and South America and shows how the steam engine changed the world.
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Page : 880 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 1854
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Author : Jim Blake
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1473857112
In this new album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a selection of pictures he took around the country in British steam's final years.British Railways withdrew their last steam engines with almost indecent haste in the mid- to late–1960s, many having seen only a few years' service before consignment to the scrapheap. Jim's pictures graphically show how not only the locomotives themselves were neglected in their final years, but also their working environment. Their motive power depots were also badly run down, particularly when slated for closure upon steam's demise.Most of Jim's pictures of steam locomotives, taken fifty years ago, are previously unpublished. In BR steam's last two years, they were based in two distinctly different areas on the London & South Western main line, and in the industrial north. However, their decline was just as sad and depressing in both areas once proud depots such as London's Nine Elms, with broken windows and roof open to the sky, not repaired after wartime, piles of ash and clinker everywhere, were just as derelict as those in such places as Wigan or Sunderland. Many scenes herein invoke the sad, eerie atmosphere of steam's last months.Ironically, it was London Transport who operated the last publicly-owned standard gauge steam locomotives in 1971, some three years after BR's had gone. These are included within these pages too.