Tracking Down Steam: BR Steam in Action and on Shed, in Works, Industry and Preservation, and Awaiting Scrap - Hardcover

Nicholson, Peter

 
9780857332363: Tracking Down Steam: BR Steam in Action and on Shed, in Works, Industry and Preservation, and Awaiting Scrap
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0857332368 ISBN 13: 9780857332363
Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK, 2013

Synopsis

This book is a compilation of the author's personal experiences in the sixties and features hundreds of previously unpublished color and black & white photos of BR steam locos. Peter Nicholson sought out BR locos wherever they could be seen – starting from the usual spotters' locations on station platforms, progressing to engine shed visits and railway workshops, then on railtours and haunts away from the national networks such as the Isle of Wight and looking for former main line locos after disposal by BR – in museums, on the first preserved lines, in industrial service, and awaiting their fate in scrapyards. The quest culminated in the last days of scheduled BR steam in August 1968. All photos, black & white and color, were taken in the period up to the final day – 11 August 1968. In the author's case though, that last day was not on the lineside of the Settle & Carlisle with everyone else for the final special (a week after the end of regular scheduled steam services), but in the less-publicised private yard of Coral’s coal merchants, Southampton Docks, where an old London & South Western Railway dock tank was still at work! The subject is strictly ‘main line’ steam locos - those owned or formerly owned by British Railways or its constituent companies, the ‘Big Four (GWR, SR, LMS and LNER) and their predecessors. Surprisingly, perhaps, no other book has looked at BR steam locos in their differing environments as this would do.

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About the Author

Peter NicholsonÆs lifelong railway passion was nurtured as a youth through all the experiences he recounts and illustrates in this book. Throughout his adult life he has worked in publishing, variously as a writer, editor and publisher. He is a consultant on railway publishing to Haynes and is well-known throughout the railway world as a long-time columnist for The Railway Magazine.

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Publisher
Haynes Publishing UK
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0857332368
ISBN 13 
9780857332363
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
208