Britains Diesel Shunters

Author : Greg Morse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784421804
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Diesel Locomotives of the 1950s and ‘60s written by Greg Morse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Second World War, the drive for the modernisation of Britain's railways ushered in a new breed of locomotive: the Diesel. Diesel-powered trains had been around for some time, but faced with a coal crisis and the Clean Air Act in the 1950s, it was seen as a part of the solution for British Rail. This beautifully illustrated book, written by an expert on rail history, charts the rise and decline of Britain's diesel-powered locomotives. It covers a period of great change and experimentation, where the iconic steam engines that had dominated for a century were replaced by a series of modern diesels including the ill-fated 'Westerns' and the more successful 'Deltics'.

Author : Anthony P. Sayer
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526762013
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clayton Type 1: Bo-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives—British Railways Class 17 written by Anthony P. Sayer and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative, illustrated guide to the British Railways locomotive series covers its full production lifespan, from 1962–1965. In the early 1960s, the Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotive known as The Clayton was conceived as the new standard for British Railways, superseding other Type 1 classes. While the early classes suffered from poor driver visibility, the Claytons were highly successful and popular with operating crews. However, the largely untested high-speed, flat Paxman engines proved to be highly problematic. As a result, the Claytons were eventually withdrawn from BR service by December 1971. Anthony Sayer draws on considerable amounts of archive material to tell the full story of these ‘Standard Type 1’ locomotives and the issues surrounding their rise and fall. Further sources provide insights into the effort and money expended on the Claytons in a desperate attempt to improve their reliability. Supported by over 280 photographs and diagrams, dramatic new insights into this troubled class have been assembled for both historians and modelers alike.

Author : R. M. Tufnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diesel Impact on British Rail written by R. M. Tufnell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony P. Sayer
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526742829
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2 Co-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives written by Anthony P. Sayer and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough history of the Metropolitan-Vickers locomotive, also known as “Class 28,” featuring 160 color and black & white photos. This book provides an in-depth history of the Metropolitan-Vickers diesel-electric Type 2 locomotives, more frequently known collectively as the “Co-Bo’s” due to their unusual wheel arrangement. Twenty locomotives were constructed during the late-1950s for use on the London Midland Region of British Railways. The fleet was fraught with difficulties from the start, most notably due to problems with their Crossley engines, this necessitating the need for extensive rehabilitation work during the early-1960s. Matters barely improved and the option to completely re-engine the locomotives with English Electric units was debated at length, but a downturn in traffic levels ultimately resulted in their demise by the end of 1968 prior to any further major rebuilding work being carried out. Significant quantities of new archive and personal sighting information, supported by over 180 photographs and diagrams, have been brought together to allow dramatic new insights into this enigmatic class of locomotives, including the whole debate surrounding potential re-engining, their works histories, the extended periods in storage, together with in-depth reviews of the various detail differences and liveries.

Author : Hugh Llewelyn
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445639572
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diesel Shunters written by Hugh Llewelyn and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of colour photographs showing the unsung heroes of Britain's railways, the diesel shunters, in superb detail.

Author : Kenny Barclay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445670058
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Rail in the 1980s and 1990s: Diesel Locomotives and DMUs written by Kenny Barclay and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenny Barclay documents the diesel locomotives and DMUs in the closing decades of the British Rail era.

Author : Anthony P. Sayer
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526761971
Total Pages : 765 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The B T H and North British Type 1 Bo-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives - British Railways Classes 15 and 16 written by Anthony P. Sayer and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Railways ‘Pilot Scheme’ orders of 1955 included ten BTH and ten NBL Type 1 locomotives, these being introduced during 1957-61 for use in East London, and on the Great Eastern and London, Tilbury & Southend lines. The BTH fleet subsequently expanded to forty-four, as a consequence of their light axle-loading and the availability of spare manufacturing capacity which BR chose to exploit in their quest to eliminate steam traction. Further construction of these two classes ceased after the fifty-four units, with preference being given to the highly reliable English Electric product which by mid-1962 had proliferated to 128 examples. The NBL fleet survived until 1968, being withdrawn after ten years of indifferent performance. The BTH locomotives followed by 1971, although four lingered on as carriage pre-heating units. Dramatic reductions in goods traffic during the 1960s/70s particularly impacted local trip and transfer freight duties, the ‘bread and butter’ work for the Type 1s, and it was inevitable that the less successful classes were retired from traffic first. This book looks at the short history of these two classes, making extensive use of archive sources, combined with the primary observations of numerous enthusiasts. Previously unpublished information, covering the introduction, appearance design and performance issues of the locomotives, form a central focus, and, allocations, works histories, storage and disposals, liveries and detail differences are covered in the same level of detail as previous volumes in the ‘Locomotive Portfolio” series.

Author : David Cable
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781473899698
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Type 3 Diesel Locomotives: Classes 33, 35, 37 and Upgraded 31 written by David Cable and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diesel Railway Traction written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Webb
Publisher : David & Charles Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780715375143
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sulzer Diesel Locomotives of British Rail written by Brian Webb and published by David & Charles Publishers. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: