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Early and First Generation Green Diesels in Photographs (Hardcover)
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Early and First Generation Green Diesels in Photographs (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R528
Discovery Miles 5 280
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The 'Big Four' railways had experimented with diesel-powered
shunting locomotives from 1933 with the Great Western Railway
seeing the advantages of operating diesel-powered railcars, and
doing so successfully from the same date. The 1955 'Modernisation
Report' predicted the end of steam power and laid out the basis of
the 'Pilot Scheme' for the introduction of main-line diesel
locomotives to British Railways. A number of these hastily designed
classes of locomotives were found wanting in terms of power and
especially reliability, but pressure to forge ahead with their
introduction meant that the numbers constructed were unrealistic
and, in consequence, many had very short operating lives.
Fortunately, the 'Pilot Scheme' did bring forward some excellent
reliable classes of locomotives that were produced in large
numbers, with examples surviving into the modern railway operating
companies and the preservation scene. Early and First Generation
Green Diesels in Photographs brings together the work of four
photographers - Ron Buckley, Robert Butterfield, Andrew Forsyth and
Hugh Ramsay - charting the development of diesels in their
photographs from 1949 to 1966.
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