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Green Diesel Days (Paperback)
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The 1955 Railway Modernisation Plan provided for the introduction
of 2,500 new diesel locomotives, with initial orders for 171
examples, to replace steam locomotives on Britain's railways. The
Modernisation Plan was the death knell for steam traction, arguing
that dieselisation should take place as quickly as the new
locomotives could be built. In 1956, for the first time, more
diesel locomotives were built than steam. However, several of the
Pilot Scheme orders were for batches of ten or twenty machines,
without a prototype, a decision that BR would later come to regret.
Maintenance and reliability would be problems for these early
diesel locomotives. Most coaching stock in use in the late 1950s
did not allow for electrical train heating, so boilers had to be
fitted to the locomotives to heat the carriages, which in turn
caused weight problems. This book takes a look, in full colour, at
the green diesel days on Britain's railways as steam was being
phased out.
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