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British Industrial Steam Locomotives
The first steam locomotives used on any British railway, worked in industry. The use of new and second hand former main line locomotives, was once a widespread aspect of the railways of Britain. This volume covers many of the once numerous manufacturers who constructed steam locomotives for industry and contractors from the 19th to the mid 20th centuries. David Mather has spent many years researching and collecting photographs across Britain, of most of the different locomotive types that once worked in industry. This book is designed to be both a record of these various manufacturers and a useful guide to those researching and modelling industrial steam.
British Steam Locomotives Before Preservation
British Steam Locomotives Before Preservation, covers the history in pictorial form of steam locomotives that are now preserved as part of the national collection. Those which can be found in private collections and the ones which adorn the various heritage railways which operate throughout Britain. The book looks at each subject both in its working life and during its subsequent preservation. The pictorial content covers a wide swathe of Britain during the years before the heritage locomotives, were earmarked for preservation.
Steam Locomotive Projects & Ideas
Get the basics of modeling and operating steam locomotives! You'll learn to detail, kitbash, paint, and maintain steam locomotives of any scale. Includes information about the history of steam locomotive power and components of the prototype.
Steam Trains
The history of steam in Britain from the Rocket in 1829, through to the last main line locomotive in the 1960s.
Steam Engines and Steam Railways
A guide to steam engines and steam railways for young people.
Steam in the North West
When BR ran its 15 guinea Special in August 1968 many believed that steam locomotives would quickly become a thing of the past and that future workings would be restricted to the heritage lines which had begun to appear. Initially that seemed to be the case with the only exception being the famed A3 Class Pacific 4-6-2 Flying Scotsman whose owner had signed a contract with BR that allowed the locomotive to operate beyond that date.Change came in 1971 when BR trialled the operation of King Class 4-6-0 6000 King George V, then based at Bulmers Hereford site, on a tour of the UK which confirmed the value of steam operation as a valuable aspect of publicity which the railways of the day desperat...
The Duchesses
"Andrew Roden's book tells the full story of powerful locomotives' lives, through their time in British Railways service, during which their streamlining was removed; then, with the end of steam in Britain, the extraordinary saga of the saving of two of the class by none other than Billy Butlin, who put them on static display at his holiday camps. Finally he can tell the gladdening tale of how both Duchess of Hamilton and Duchess of Sutherland were eventually rescued, fully restored and returned to steam on the main line, and, in the case of Duchess of Hamilton, its remarkable and much-heralded rebuild to original streamlined form at the National Railway Museum."--BOOK JACKET.
British Steam: BR Standard Locomotives
A history of post second world war steam locomotive design and construction in Great Britain, the perfect gift for railroad history buffs. After WWII the existing railway companies were all put into the control of the newly formed British Transport Commission and that government organization spawned British Railways, which came into being on January 1st 1948. The railway infrastructure had suffered badly during the war years and most of the steam locomotives were “tired” and badly maintained and or life expired. Although the management of British Railways was already planning to replace steam power with diesel and electric engines, they still decided to build more steam locomotives as a ...
