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British Diesel Locomotives of the 1950s and ’60s


Greg Morse, "British Diesel Locomotives of the 1950s and ’60s"
English | ISBN: 1784420336 | 2017 | EPUB/MOBI | 64 pages | 7 MB/8 MB

After the Second World War, the drive for the modernization of Britain’s railways ushered in a new breed of locomotive: the Diesel. Diesel-powered trains had been around for some time, but faced with a coal crisis and the Clean Air Act in the 1950s, it was seen as a part of the solution for British Rail. This beautifully illustrated book, written by an expert on rail history, charts the rise and decline of Britain’s diesel-powered locomotives. It covers a period of great change and experimentation, where the iconic steam engines that had dominated for a century were replaced by a series of modern diesels including the ill-fated ‘Westerns’ and the more successful ‘Deltics’-iconic trains of the era.

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