LOCO REVIEW 2011 ED - Softcover

Buck, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0955827558 ISBN 13: 9780955827556

Publisher: Freightmaster Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

The latest edition of this highly popular photographic yearbook provides a look back at some of the many highlights of UK loco workings in 2010, including: - "Snow Patrol" - locos at work during another bad winter. - "Class 60 Journal" features the diminshing ‘Tugs’ working a variety of trains; stone / steel / iron ore / engineers / ECS, plus the heavy petroleum trains. - "Class 37 Turns" is full of action including No.37425 on ballast duties and double-headed DRS ‘tractors’ on scrap metal and intermodal traffic; the return of 37409 and ‘37’s on tour. - "The 70s" looks at the first six locos (Nos.70001 - 70006) to arrive in the UK, working a selection of coal trains, freightliners, ballast, plus a railtour too! - "Freight Flows" details all the new major flows .....GBRf on West Highland ‘Alcan’ alumina traffic ....‘large’ pipes from Hartlepool to Georgemas Jct....DBS ‘Stobart’ train / derailment of 66048 .... Sheerness Scrap Metal....Ribblehead Timber....DBS Wagonload ‘Review’....launch of the Bristol ‘Boozeliner’.... plus, a special portfolio on Fastline (‘RIP’), the Boston steel and the mothballing of Redcar steelworks and associated ‘Blast Furnace’ & Limestone trains. -"Golden Oldies" is another opportunity to celebrate some 50th ‘Golden’ Anniversaries .... this time, guest photographer Peter Tandy provides some great photos of Class 33 ‘Cromptons’ in action -"GWR 175" commemorates the 175th Anniversary of the Great Western Railway with some stunning images of GWR steam, plus the re-painting of Class 57/6 No.57604 ‘Pendennis Castle’. ...all in all, an essential book for anyone interested in the current UK railway scene.

Edition details

• Publisher: Freightmaster Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0955827558
• ISBN 13: 9780955827556
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224