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Industrial Locomotives & Railways of Yorkshire (Paperback)
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Industrial Locomotives & Railways of Yorkshire (Paperback)
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This seventh volume in the series of regional books examining the
industrial railways of England, Wales and Scotland looks at
railways of the former Ridings of Yorkshire, a region that once
boasted widespread coal mining activities, which strongly
influenced the county's fortunes throughout the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. The numerous steel manufacturing complexes,
chiefly centred around the Sheffield and Rotherham area, and the
one-time highly polluting coal and chemicals by-products plants are
looked at, including the well-known Orgreave complex during the
1980s, a time when many coal mines and their supporting industries
and railways were rapidly dwindling in number, a fact sadly driven
home when examining the contents of this book. Other industries in
the county, once heavily reliant on railways, either internal
narrow gauge or standard gauge, included an extensive peat bog
railway system east of Doncaster, water treatment plants around
Leeds and Bradford, gas and electricity plants serving some of the
county's towns and cities, numerous scrapyards supporting steel
manufacturing, stone quarries in the rich limestone region to the
north of the county, and brick and block manufacturers in the Vale
of York, all contributing to the rich industrial railway heritage
of Yorkshire. With informative captions and an array of striking
and many previously unpublished historical colour and monochrome
photographs, author Gordon Edgar delivers a fascinating overview of
the industrial locomotives and railways of Yorkshire, essentially
covering the last six decades and striving to convey the attraction
of the many former industrial railways of this vast and
topographically varied county.
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