The Railways of Britain

Simmons, Jack (editor); Biddle, Gordon (editor)

ISBN 10: 1871487498 ISBN 13: 9781871487497

Published by Sheldrake Press, 1968

Language: English

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Title

The Railways of Britain

Publisher

Sheldrake Press

Publication Date

1968

Language

English

ISBN 10

1871487498

ISBN 13

9781871487497

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

3rd Edition

Condition

As New

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Title: The Railways Of Britain

Author: Jack Simmons

Label: Book Promotions, Cat No: 1871487498, Year: 1986

The railway age began in Britain when steam was king. Now in the age of petrol and diesel, these once confident, rumbustious railways no longer dominate the transport system, and yet the fascination for trains and all their works seems to have grown more intense than ever before.

In THE RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN, Jack Simmons sympathetically tells their history and describes every major aspect of their equipment and operations: permanent way, buildings, locomotives, rolling stock, signalling and employment. He also makes journeys through the Pennines, Scotland, Essex and southern England on which he acts as observer and guide. Picking out the achievements of the engineers, directors and managers who created the system, and the locomotive crews and signalmen, station masters, clerks and porters who ran it during a century and a half of railway service, he creates a positive, occasionally inspiring, even moving portrait. His book is a pleasure to read: learned, succinct, packed with technical detail and yet entertaining and always admirably lucid.

This new edition of one of the outstanding works of railway literature published in this century has been substantially rewritten, revised and brought up to date by the author. For the first time it has been fully illustrated in colour and black and white with more than 200 photographs, maps and engravings, many of them previously unpublished. With its large and valuable reference section at the back, this book stands out as a railway achievement in its own right.

Front cover: in a painting by Peter Owen Jones, passengers at Manchester (Central) Station in the mid-1930s wait to board their train. It is headed by a 'Director' class 4-4-0 of the old Great Central Railway, now working on the London & North Eastern. To the right a driver lubricates an LMS 4-4-0 compound...

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