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British Steam Memories in Colour Bookazine

British Steam Memories in Colour Bookazine

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    Product code: MIC1Released: 11 December 2009130 pages

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    In 1907 a patent application by Mr .H. W. Garratt led to the building of the first articulated steam locomotive. Supplied to Tasmanian Railways in 1909, now 100 years later K1 is back and at work in the UK.

    A total of 1,636 Beyer – Garratt locos ran on 86 railways in 48 countries. ‘Garratt 100’ pays tribute to the articulated locomotives of Beyer Peacock & Company Ltd. The discontinued use of steam locomotives by British Railways was finalised in the summer of 1968, but by 1971 the practice of running steam special trains, had began. First limited to only a handful of selected routes, but in 1994 railway ‘open access’ changed all that. The ‘steam special years’ are celebrated. Opened May 1898, closed September 1935! Just over 19 miles of narrow gauge railway running through glorious Devon, the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway remembered!

    This publication, compiled and edited by Keith Langston, also chronicles the work of a modern railway artist, takes a look at industrial steam, highlights LMS streamliners, and looks back to Oxford in 1961. Plus ‘New build’ another GWR loco in prospect! 

    While compiling this publication preference has been given to the visual aspect and in order to include as many pictures as possible the accompanying text has been kept to a minimum. As those with a discerning eye will appreciate each of these wonderful pictures tells its own railway story. Memories in Colour is a tribute to the varying styles of the many photographers whose work is depicted, and also by way of a big thank you to RonWhite for having had the foresight to protect and catalogue so many historically important railway images.

    This volume contains over 190 colour images from the five regions of British Railways (post 1948) depicting steam locomotives at work in all parts of the British Isles.

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