London Midland Scottish

Author : David Wragg
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750969148
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The LMS Handbook written by David Wragg and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The London Midland & Scottish Railway was the largest of the Big Four railway companies to emerge from the 1923 grouping. It was the only one to operate in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as having two short stretches of line in the Irish Republic. It was also the world’s largest railway shipping operator and owned the greatest number of railway hotels. Mainly a freight railway, it still boasted the best carriages, and the work of chief engineer Sir William Stanier influenced the first locomotive and carriage designs for the nationalised British railways.Packed with facts and figures as well as historical narrative, this extensively illustrated book is a superb reference source that will be of interest to all railway enthusiasts.

Author : Geoff Plumb
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147386979X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Railways in the 1960s written by Geoff Plumb and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “profusely illustrated” and “impressively informative” look at the end of the steam locomotive era on one of UK’s Big Four railway lines (Midwest Book Review). After the Second War, Britain’s railways were rundown and worn out, requiring massive investment and modernization. The Big Four railway companies were nationalized from 1948, and the newly formed British Railways embarked on a program of building new Standard steam locomotives to replace older types. These started to come on stream from 1951. This program was superseded by the 1955 scheme to dieselize and electrify many lines and so the last loco of the Standard types was built in 1960 and the steam locomotives had been swept entirely from the BR network by 1968. This series of books, The Geoff Plumb Collection, is a photographic account of those last few years of the steam locomotives, their decline and replacement during the transition years. Each book covers one of the former Big Four, the Southern Railway, London Midland & Scottish Railway, Great Western Railway and London & North Eastern Railway, including some pictures of the Scottish lines of the LMS and LNER. Though not a complete history of the railways, the books bring a sense of occasion to the last run of a locomotive type or a stretch of line about to be closed down. Pictures are of the highest quality that could be produced with the equipment then available, but they do reflect real life and real times. In simple terms, a look at a period not so long ago but now gone forever. “An evocative collection of views of the twilight of BR steam.” —Railway Modeller

Author : London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Midland and Scottish Railway written by London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oswald Stevens Nock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Scots and Patriots of the LMS written by Oswald Stevens Nock and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bill Horsfall
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496981782
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book LONDON MIDLAND & SCOTTISH written by Bill Horsfall and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The London Midland & Scottish Railway, the LMS, Great Britain's largest from 1923-1947, has been extensively chronicled, but an update is long overdue. This unique work achieves it - and much more, combining detailed information scattered over books and magazines through decades, into a concise overview of what the company was about, and how it worked. Its analyses of locomotive-stock provide a further insight into methods of operation. The LMS pioneering work in both steam and diesel traction, plus that in other fields, put it ahead of Britain's other three railways, and for this it is here accorded the recognition it deserves. Fascinating, amusing, anecdotes give an insight into the staff's work-ethic and into contemporary social conditions. Key decisions by the LMS Executive to overcome the rivalry of its two largest constituents resulted in the appointment of an engineer who would create, not only modern, efficient locomotives and rolling-stock, but also an effective and unified design-team which would actually outlive the company and provide the spine of the four nationalized railways from 1948. The technical details, such as wheel notation (4-4-0 etc), boiler-pressures and valve-gears, are well within the ambit of railfans and complete the picture of this, Britain's greatest railway.

Author : Stanley C. Jenkins
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445668416
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume Five The London and Birmingham Railway written by Stanley C. Jenkins and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs shows how the London and Birmingham line has changed and developed during its long and distinguished life.

Author : Stanley C. Jenkins
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445698234
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume Seven From St Pancras to Sheffield written by Stanley C. Jenkins and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating selection of photographs exploring the history of the LMSR during its long and distinguished life.

Author : Stanley C. Jenkins
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445644134
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume Three Leeds to Carlisle written by Stanley C. Jenkins and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the LMS line between Leeds and Carlisle has changed and developed over the last century.

Author : Keith Langston
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473878551
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Steam Military Connections: London, Midland and Scottish Railway Steam Locomotives written by Keith Langston and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This British Railways history explores the long-held tradition of naming steam locomotives in honor of the military. The naming of steam locomotives was a beloved British tradition since the first railway locomotives appeared in 1804. Many of the names were chosen in honor of military personnel, regiments, squadrons, naval vessels, aircraft, battles, and associated historic events. This volume looks specifically at the steam locomotives with military-inspired names that were built by the London & North Eastern Railway, which joined the British Railways stock in 1948. A large number of the company’s Jubilee class locomotives were given names with a military connection, as were a small number of Black Five class engines. Famously the majority of the much-admired Royal Scot class of engines carried names associated with the military in general and regimental names in particular. Many of the nameplates were adorned with ornate crests and badges. Long after the demise of mainline steam, rescued nameplates have become prized collectors’ items. This generously illustrated publication highlights the relevant steam locomotives and explains the origins and social history surrounding their military names.

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ISBN 13 : 9781905014781
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Midland and Scottish Railway written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: