BR in the eighties

Author(s)

Bibliographic Information

BR in the eighties

David St John Thomas & Patrick Whitehouse

David & Charles, c1990

Available at  / 1 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Chronology: p. 188-190

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Few decades have seen greater or more dramatic changes in the railways than the 1980s. Closures, openings, changes in motive power and signalling, the return of the Pullmans, not to mention the Channel Tunnel, all served to make it a decade to remember, and all are covered in this volume. Written by the authors of the "150" and "Great Days" series, it is both a nostalgic look back and a definitive record of this eventful period. Helped by a team of distinguished contributors and photographers, Patrick Whitehouse and David St John Thomas have produced a wide-ranging study. There is a detailed investigation of BR's various sectors, a survey of the various closures and openings, a look at the changing world of special and charter trains and a profile of steam's tenuous hold on BR during the decade. The colour and black and white photographs complement the text, providing technical reference as well as an evocation of a decade which proved to be considerably more interesting and rewarding for railway enthusiasts than seemed possible when it began.

Table of Contents

  • The age of the train
  • memories of the 1980s
  • regions, sectors and PTEs
  • expresses ever faster
  • special and charter trains
  • network south east
  • provincial
  • catering
  • freight ever more specialist
  • coaches
  • closures and openings
  • a revolution in motive power
  • signalling, safety and control
  • the tenuous link with steam
  • the channel tunnel
  • chronology.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

Page Top