Crewe In The Days Of Br Blue
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Author | : Michael Hitchen |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2019-12-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1445692767 |
A fascinating collection of previously unpublished images of railways around this famous hub of British transport.
Author | : Stephen Owens |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2022-10-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1398115029 |
An evocative collection of photographs documenting the history of the days of BR Blue in the 1970s and 1980s.
Author | : Kenny Barclay |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1445670224 |
This book, a companion to British Rail in the 1980s and 1990s: Diesel Locomotives and DMUs, exhibits a selection of some of his finest photographs from this period.
Author | : Kenny Barclay |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2017-11-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1445670062 |
Kenny Barclay documents the diesel locomotives and DMUs in the closing decades of the British Rail era.
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Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Author | : Martyn Hilbert |
Publisher | : Fonthill Media |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2022-12-14 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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The British Rail corporate image and its Rail Blue livery was one of the longest-lived colour schemes carried by the trains of Britain in the forty-eight-year life of the nationalised railway network. Launched in 1965, after Beeching, the then new corporate image was an attempt by the BR design panel to raise the profile of the railway system countrywide and to sweep away the dull steam-era image as the swinging sixties got underway. By the mid-1970s, virtually all BR locomotives and multiple units were carrying Rail Blue livery, while most of the passenger coaches were in matching blue/grey. As the British Rail network was sectorised from the late 1980s in preparation for eventual privatisation, new bold, bright livery schemes for the fleet swept away the familiar, but by then somewhat jaded BR image. The BR blue era is now looked upon with affection as a golden age when the system was operated by an immense variety of locomotives and rolling stock, all now part of history in the same way that the steam era was viewed when the BR blue era ruled on Britain’s railways.
Author | : Stephen Owens |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2019-09-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 144568991X |
The author celebrates the era of BR blue, with a wealth of previously unpublished images. Illustrating perfectly why so many view the BR Blue period with such fondness.
Author | : Andrew Cole |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2017-09-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1445674033 |
A look at an iconic period in British rail history.
Author | : Colin J. Marsden |
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Express trains |
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Author | : David Mather |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword Transport |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1399042688 |
For as long as we could remember steam traction had been king on our railways. The resounding beat of exhaust from classic designs by Gresley, Stanier, Collett, Bulleid and many others had thrilled us all, while less prestigious ‘work-horses’ had kept commuters and freight moving throughout a vast network of major and minor routes. Mighty diesels had replaced them, notably the iconic Class 55 ‘Deltics’, setting new standards for speed and efficiency on the East Coast Main Line. Electrification became the ‘buzz-word’ as the need for speed increased and drove railway planning to a new level. The West Coast Main Line saw the wires go up by the mid-1970s and though other express routes would eventually follow the stage was set for the development and introduction of an alternative mode of traction for main lines not yet electrified, based on the concept of a powerful diesel locomotive at each end of a rake of newly designed carriages. The High Speed Diesel Train was thus conceived. Sleek and elegant. A modern design for a new age of rail travel. Capable of running at speeds of up to 125mph (201km/h) it was an immediate success and is still giving stalwart service some forty years later. A testament to its resilience. This is the story of the archetypal express diesel train – the Inter City 125.