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'Inside' Swindon Works - Rosa Matheson - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

'Inside' Swindon Works - Rosa Matheson - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

It was often joked that Swindon Works'' men came with ''GWR'' stamped on their bottoms, so much so that even in the BR era they considered themselves Great Western! Those who worked '' Inside '' as locals called it, possessed a fierce price in their work and in their worldwide reputation. Using material from numerous interviews with workshop men and women as well as official documents, Swindon expert Rosa Matheson examines the differences of each era - GWR / BR; conditions in the Works; the idiosyncrasies of work practices, such as odd names of jobs like ''holder-upper'' and generational family work histories. She also explores the relationships between the workers - men ad women, shopfloor and management, foremen and men and especially ''Loco'' versus Carriage and Wagon! Whilst many books have been written about the Works, few, if any, have given a chance to those who worked in its workshops to have their voices heard in the telling of that story. This beautifully illustrated book uses their words and experiences to tell the good, the bad and the ugly of working Inside .

DKK 161.00
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Rex Conway's Southern Steam Journey: Volume Two - Rex Conway - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Rex Conway's Southern Steam Journey: Volume Two - Rex Conway - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Rex Conway’s first book, Rex Conway’s Steam Album, was a wonderful miscellany of images that introduced a remarkable archive of railway photographs. This book takes the reader on a steam-hauled journey on the Southern Region throughout its journey around south-eastern England. Starting at Victoria in London during the golden age of steam, we encounter places such as Portsmouth, Brighton, Eastbourne, Folkestone, Ramsgate, Ashford and the Thames Estuary, with many diversions along the way. One of a series of books exploring each of the BR regions, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in the good old days of steam sadly no longer seen. All the photographs featured in this book have been specially selected from Rex’s phenomenal collection of over 65,000 images and the book is sure to appeal to railway enthusiasts far and wide.

DKK 198.00
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Scottish Steam 1948-67 - Brian J. Dickson - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Scottish Steam 1948-67 - Brian J. Dickson - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

At the nationalisation of Britian’s railways in 1948, the Scottish Region inherited 1,400 locomotives which had been constructed by the pre-grouping companies. The real veterans among these were a handful of ex-NBR and CR 0–6–0 tender locos dating from the 1880s. From the 1890s were a large number of 0–4–4s and 4–4–0s from the same sources. The rarest survivors were the ex-HR 4–4–0 ‘Loch’ and ‘Small Ben’ classes, totalling fewer than 10 examples that were allocated to the sheds in the far north of Scotland. From the late 1940s and ’50s enthusiasts from England would make the long journey north in what became known as the ‘Grand Tour’ to see these rare classes before they became extinct. Fortunately many of these intrepid souls carried cameras to record the locos and together with their Scottish counterparts were, by the early 1960s, witnessing rows of these veterans at sheds and dumps across Scotland awaiting the scrapyard. This new book is arranged chronologically, covers the whole of Scotland and shows the wide variety of steam power from the early examples mentioned above to more modern classes of the LNER, LMSR and BR Standard in operation. It is a must-have for all steam railway enthusiasts.

DKK 161.00
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