East Midlands Railways from Steam to Modern Traction

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East Midlands Railways from Steam to Modern TractionEast Midlands Railways from Steam to Modern Traction 22. 50 Excellent photographs of locomotives on the railways in and around the East Midlands during the transitional period when modern traction worked alongside steam engines. Compiled with thoroughly researched, informative captions. Beautifully produced in hardback with rare and previously unseen images in colour and black and white. A transitional period existed following the announcement of

The early GWR scenes are a complete contrast to steam on the Western Region in its last five years from 1960 to 1965 and this production is appropriate for the 175th anniversary year of the GWR

Back to colour and footage of Bath Green Park station and views inside its famous train shed

The South-West corner of Britain still has many fascinating railway features and we see freight (and passenger) on all the Cornish branches which remain

The Western branches see steam on the Exeter to Tiverton

Archive film of steam along the East Coast Route from KINGS CROSS to YORK before it ended south of Peterborough in 1963

The photographs depict the once extensive stations and junctions

The archive film used is mostly in colour

128 pages with 72 B&W archive photographs and 121 colour archive photographs on high quality art paper

Another area seen in detail is the climb to Shap summit

including Lee-on-the-Solent and Stokes Bay branches

On the Cambrian main line we visit Welshpool

together with the story of the recent alterations

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