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Early and First Generation Green Diesels in Photographs

by Brian J. Dickson
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780750992657
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: History Press
  • Publisher Imprint: History Press
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  • Pages: 128
  • Original Price: GBP 20.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 658 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General

The four pre grouping companies all experimented with diesel-powered shunters. By the time the BR Modernisation Report was published in 1955 there were only seven mainline diesel locomotives in operation with the first of the projected pilot scheme locomotives not entering service until 1957. Then, 14 types of types were ordered from six independent manufacturers and two BR Works with an initial order tolling 174 locomotives. It was intended that these pilot scheme locomotives would undergo evaluation trials, but orders were increased rapidly, resulting in locomotives of varying reliability, which only became apparent after they had entered service. This photographic book reveals the progression of diesel power from shunting locomotives, ex GWR railcars and the early mainline diesels to the British railways pilot scheme successes and failures.

BRIAN J. DICKSON worked in the publishing and printing industries in Edinburgh and London for over thirty-five years before he retired in 2000. He now lives in Buckinghamshire and is an active volunteer locomotive fireman and driver at one of Britain's heritage railways. He is the author of the six-volume series of The Railway Photographs of R.J. Buckley, the last of which was London Midland Steam.

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