British Steam Sunset: A Vision of the Final Years 1965-1968 [Audiobook] download free by Jim Blake
- Listen audiobook: British Steam Sunset: A Vision of the Final Years 1965-1968
- Author: Jim Blake
- Release date: 2018/9/2
- Publisher: PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9781473857100
- Rating: 9.35 of 10
- Votes: 155
- Review by: Christina Houghton
- Review rating: 9.54 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/5
- Duration: 1H26M48S in 256 kbps (22.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-17
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AU, WMA, MPEG4, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3 (compression ZIP, TAR.LZO, RAR, CBZ)
- Total pages original book: 112
- Includes a PDF summary of 8 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 5M52S (1.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In this new album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a selection of pictures he took around the country in British steam's final years.British Railways withdrew their last steam engines with almost indecent haste in the mid- to late-1960s, many having seen only a few years' service before consignment to the scrapheap. Jim's pictures graphically show how not only the locomotives themselves were neglected in their final years, but also their working environment their motive power depots were also badly run down, particularly when slated for closure upon steam's demise.Most of Jim's pictures of steam locomotives, taken fifty years ago, are previously unpublished. In BR steam's last two years, they were based in two distinctly different areas on the London & South Western main line, and in the industrial north. However, their decline was just as sad and depressing in both areas once proud depots such as London's Nine Elms, with broken windows and roof open to the sky, not repaired after wartime, piles of ash and clinker everywhere, were just as derelict as those in such places as Wigan or Sunderland. Many scenes herein invoke the sad, eerie atmosphere of steam's last months. Ironically, it was London Transport who operated the last publicly-owned standard gauge steam locomotives in 1971, some three years after BR's had gone. These are included within these pages too.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Trains & Railways, British & Irish History
- Download servers: 4Shared, FreakShare, Torrent, 700 files, ownCloud, 1fichier, MEGA, FileServe, Microsoft OneDrive. Compressed in ZIP, TAR.LZO, RAR, CBZ
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 32.14 USD
- Dimensions: 216x282x17mm
- Weight: 950g
- Printed by: Pen & Sword Transport
- Published in: Barnsley, United Kingdom
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