[PDF] Railways Of The East Midlands eBook

Author : John Evans
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445698919

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With previously unpublished images, explore the history of the heyday of British railways in the East Midlands.

Author : Alfred Henshaw
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2003
Category : East Midlands (England)
ISBN : 9780901115928

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The GN built the Nottingham-Grantham line primarily to carry coal from its Midlands origins to the main markets in the South. With minerals accounting for 60% of business, discovery of iron ore in the area of the line brought major expansion, not only of local branches but also the north-south Newark-Melton and Leicester routes. This book gives a fascinating insight into the lines as they were originally built, the effect of the major expansion and traffic volumes, wartime traffics, and also covers the decline and closure of much of the system in the 50s and 60s. Modernisation and current operation of the Nottingham-Grantham line is also covered, with a review of the closed lines remaining features that today's visitors can find. The authors background is in signalling and traffic operation, both feature in this absorbing new book. This book completes the series of four by author Alf Henshaw.

Author : Roderick H. Fowkes
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1473896312

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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.

Author : John Jackson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445690179

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Exploring the area covered by the East Midlands ranger ticket. The area is also one of the busiest for observing the country’s freight train movements.