This was the year in which Winston Spencer Churchill resigned as
Prime Minister to be replaced by Anthony Eden, the year in which
James Dean was killed in a road traffic accident, and tragedy
struck at the Le Mans 24-hour race where a collision between two
cars led to the death of over 80 people and a least a further 100
injured. This was also the year that Vladimir Nabokov's
controversial "Lolita" was published in Paris and Juan Peron lost
power following a military coup in Argentina. Meanwhile, on the
railways of Britain, the "1955 Modernisation Plan" was published.
It is interesting therefore to see images within these pages of the
railways during 1955 as a backdrop to these far reaching proposals.
We start our journey in Northern Ireland where a degree of
modernisation is already under way with diesel railcars already
beginning to replace steam-hauled services, although ironically
steam in Northern Ireland was to outlast the rest of the UK. A hop
across the water finds us in the Isle of Man before we reach the
Cambrian Coast route, where 'Dukedogs' could still be seen. A visit
to Birmingham and the Midlands follows before we head north to
Scotland, the Lake District and the North East.
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