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OverviewThis is a profusely illustrated account of the period from 1938 to 1953, containing over 90,000 words with 200 mostly unpublished illustrations, ranging from Thurso to Hayling Island, and from Dingle to Wisbech provides a stunning exploration of the fifteen years that shaped the future of Britain's railways. By using contemporary records, and exploring developments on British Railways, in Ulster and in Ireland, Robert Hendry has drawn parallels that shed new light on what really happened. We meet Robin Riddles, the last steam locomotive engineer, Col Eric Gore Browne, an outspoken railway chairman, Frank Pope, who closed more than half the system he ran in a few months, Bill Allen, a union man turned employer, and George Howden, who was in turn a civil engineer, a mechanical engineer, a manager, and railway board chairman. With the wealth of authoritative data that appears in this book, Robert Hendry questions the long accepted allegation that railway managers, who had done a superb job in time of war, lost touch with reality. He suggests this argument was a product of old company loyalties, political expediency, and a failure to study the facts, and that the Railway Executive, the men who ran BR from 1948 to 1953, were not the fools that some writers claim, but responsible men who had been put in an impossible position, and almost succeeded in doing the impossible. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert HendryPublisher: Dalrymple and Verdun Publishing Imprint: Dalrymple and Verdun Publishing Dimensions: Width: 22.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 29.00cm Weight: 1.082kg ISBN: 9781905414031ISBN 10: 190541403 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 26 January 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |